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Another cnn exposed !?!?!??!
Hahahhaha #fakenews -
so no impeachment yet?
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So the Russian ? is fake
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Russian said it happened
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Another cnn exposed !?!?!??!
Hahahhaha #fakenews
So a journalist who has an extremely checkered past is outing CNN opinionists, not the journalists, but the opinionist!
Man if you don't take wack ? post back to reddit or stormfront! -
Shizlansky wrote: »So the Russian ? is fake
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Russian said it happened
Hell everyone in Cheeto's circle said something happened. Like one of the posters said, all you gotta do if follow the money trail -
Now we know why Havey Levin visited the W.H.
https://thinkprogress.org/tmz-quietly-became-americas-most-potent-pro-trump-media-outlet-bf703c24a68e
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max is a stupid uneducated troll dont mind him. -
Shizlansky wrote: »So the Russian ? is fake
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Russian said it happened
so trump blaming obama for not doin nothin cuz he knew russia hacked us but yet again he denied russia helped him by hacking lmao dude wants it both ways -
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Coming from a dude that posts blog posts daily from a left website with no credible source
I thought trump was pissn on russian hookers -
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-posts-project-veritas-cnn-videoPresident Posts Videos By Conservative Activist Known For Misleading Editing
President Donald Trump is on a mission to raise hell about CNN’s supposed bias against him. And in his latest salvo, the President posted on Instagram two new videos released by conservative activist James O’Keefe.
O’Keefe and his Project Veritas outlet are infamous for their selective and often misleading editing in expose-style “undercover” videos: interview subjects don’t know they’re being interviewed on tape, and their remarks are likely used out of context.
In O’Keefe’s recent “American Pravda” video series, an unidentified interlocutor speaks to CNN producer John Bonifield — who the Washington Post pointed out produces health and medical stories and would not know the details of CNN’s political coverage.
“It’s ratings,” Bonifield says at one point in a clip Trump posted on his Instagram page, explaining the network’s heavy coverage of the Russia investigations. “Our ratings are incredible right now.”
NBC News reported in October that the Trump Foundation donated $10,000 to Project Veritas in May 2015, just before Trump launched his presidential campaign. He later promoted O’Keefe’s work on the campaign trail.
Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., has also shared the videos on his Twitter page, and deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders encouraged all Americans to watch the videos in an on-camera press briefing Tuesday, though she noted: “Whether it’s accurate or not, I don’t know.”
She did not respond to TPM’s questions Wednesday about Trump’s endorsement of the videos.
Bonifield says separately in the video — asked if “the whole Russia ? is just like, ? ” — that the story “could be ? . I mean, it’s mostly ? right now. Like, we don’t have any big, giant proof.”
“I just feel like they don’t really have it, but they want to keep digging,” he adds later. “So I think the President is probably right to say, like, look, you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof.”
In another O’Keefe video posted by Trump, Bonifield is heard saying: “Even if Russia was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections — our CIA are doing ? all the time.” It’s a surprising charge for the President to endorse via a personal social media page.
Trump posted next to each video: “#CNN is #FakeNews. The video via #ProjectVeritas that EVERYONE is talking about!”
CNN responded to O’Keefe’s videos in a statement: “CNN stands by our medical producer John Bonifield. Diversity of personal opinion is what makes CNN strong, we welcome it and embrace it.”
O’Keefe and two accomplices pleaded guilty in 2010 to entering a federal building under false pretenses of disguising himself as a telephone worker in order to enter then-Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) office. One Project Veritas operative, Allison Maass, has repeatedly been caught attempting to infiltrate Democratic offices and liberal organizations in attempts to capture disparaging material. -
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cnn-reports-trump-russia-election-interferenceCNN: Trump Still Unconvinced Russia Interfered In 2016 Election
President Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election despite tweets and White House statements to the contrary, CNN reported Wednesday afternoon.
NSA director Mike Rogers expressed frustration during a private briefing with lawmakers over his inability to convince Trump to believe the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the election, CNN reported, citing an unnamed congressional source familiar with the meeting.
Another unnamed congressional source told CNN that Rogers expressed concerns about the White House’s lack of concern regarding the ongoing threat Russia presents.
Trump “can’t admit anything that may taint his election,” an unnamed Republican congressional source told CNN. “He is more hung up on how it affected the election outcome than what Russia did.”
The President last week appeared to express skepticism over whether Russian interference took place at all in a tweet referring to the Democratic National Committee’s reluctance to accept the Department of Homeland Security’s help when the former was hacked as “a big Dem HOAX!”
Pressed on his statement, deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump thinks “it probably was Russia” that hacked the DNC’s systems.
Over the weekend, Trump acknowledged Russian meddling in the election and criticized former President Barack Obama’s administration for not doing more to respond to it in a series of tweets.
“Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action?” he tweeted.
An unnamed senior administration official told CNN said they have “seen no evidence” that Trump has organized meetings or devoted any time to Russian meddling. -
http://www.mediaite.com/online/russia-probe-now-expands-trump-aide-and-bodyguard-keith-schiller/Russia Probe Now Expands to Trump Aide and Bodyguard Keith Schiller
On Thursday news emerged that Keith Schiller, one of President Trump’s closest aides, would face questioning over the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, ABC and others reported.
“Keith Schiller is now on the list of witnesses that House Intelligence Committee investigators want to talk to as part of their probe into possible ties between team Trump and the Russians,” Cecilia Vega reported on Good Morning America. Schiller declined requests from ABC for comment but Vega reported that “sources close to the investigation” said “people on that witness list have been notified.”
Schiller is one of Donald Trump’s closest confidants. The former NYPD officer previously served as the real estate magnate’s personal bodyguard and has had a personal relationship with Trump for 20 years. Today he maintains a White House office, just next to the Oval Office.
Known to be fiercely loyal — never a bad attribute in Trumpland — Schiller was a ubiquitous presence on the campaign trail, where he protected the candidate from protestors at his rallies, and escorted Jorge Ramos out of a press conference when he became too combative for Trump’s liking.
When the president made the call to fire James Comey, he gave Schiller the task to personally deliver the letter of dismissal to the FBI director.
The expansion of the Republican-led House probe suggests the president’s Russia woes will not be abating any time soon. -
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-mika-brzezinksi-twitter-attackTrump Lobs Vicious Tweet Attack At Mika Brzezinski, Claiming She Had ‘Face-Lift’
President Donald Trump was particularly upset with the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday morning, publishing particularly nasty tweets attacking Mika Brzezinski for going to his Mar-a-Lago resort after what he said was a “face lift.”
Though Trump has continuously attacked the media now that he’s occupying the Oval Office, his Thursday morning attack on Brzezinksi was atypically personal and vicious.
It’s unclear exactly what prompted the tweets, but Trump has a longstanding feud with Brzezinski and “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough. The two spoke with Trump regularly during the 2016 campaign, forcing them to defend their initially cozy coverage of Trump. However, the co-hosts have become increasingly critical of the President since.
The Thursday tweets were somewhat reminiscent of Trump’s attack on former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. Trump blasted Kelly after a debate moderated by Fox News, saying he thought she must have had “blood coming out of her wherever.”
In an apparent response to Trump’s rage-fueled tweet, Brzezinski tweeted a picture of a Cheerios box with the tag line “made for little hands.”
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Mika the homie , wonder if Joe gonna tool up for his wife ?
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stringer bell wrote: »http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-mika-brzezinksi-twitter-attackTrump Lobs Vicious Tweet Attack At Mika Brzezinski, Claiming She Had ‘Face-Lift’
President Donald Trump was particularly upset with the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday morning, publishing particularly nasty tweets attacking Mika Brzezinski for going to his Mar-a-Lago resort after what he said was a “face lift.”
Though Trump has continuously attacked the media now that he’s occupying the Oval Office, his Thursday morning attack on Brzezinksi was atypically personal and vicious.
It’s unclear exactly what prompted the tweets, but Trump has a longstanding feud with Brzezinski and “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough. The two spoke with Trump regularly during the 2016 campaign, forcing them to defend their initially cozy coverage of Trump. However, the co-hosts have become increasingly critical of the President since.
The Thursday tweets were somewhat reminiscent of Trump’s attack on former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. Trump blasted Kelly after a debate moderated by Fox News, saying he thought she must have had “blood coming out of her wherever.”
In an apparent response to Trump’s rage-fueled tweet, Brzezinski tweeted a picture of a Cheerios box with the tag line “made for little hands.”
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smh. will it ever stop
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Huckabee said trump "fights fire w/ fire"...
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DHS is going after sanctuary cities
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problem is most of his base thinks that twitter beef ? is coo. smh. so if the ppl dont care, it doesnt matter.
and if a reporters happens to ask him about it he will say "no one is talking about that anymore."...smh