There are actually a lot of reasonably intelligent and responsible journalists at Fox News, they just aren't the ones who get prime time TV programs.
Speaking of Trump doubling down...
In the weeks after Donald Trump was elected, bad things started happening to senior Russian officials. Two of Russia’s leading cybersecurity figures were arrested and charged with treason in December 2016. Over the following months, Russian officials worldwide abruptly began dying in suspicious numbers and suspicious ways. A 61-year-old former FSB general was found dead in his car in Moscow on December 26, 2016. On December 20, 2016, a senior Russian diplomat was found dead in his apartment with a pillow over his head, and a fatal gunshot wound beneath the pillow. A lawyer for Sergei Magnitsky—for whom the U.S. sanctions law is named—tumbled from his fourth-floor apartment and nearly died from his injuries. And so the tally runs.
Are these coincidences? Or something more sinister? Trump inadvertently disclosed at least one high-level U.S. secret to the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office in 2017. How secure are other secrets in his trust?
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a television interview broadcast Friday that President Barack Obama was “a total patsy” for Russia, as he touted his own efforts to forge a better relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Getting along with President Putin, getting along with Russia, is positive, not a negative,” Trump said during the interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, which was recorded Thursday shortly as the White House announced it was inviting Putin to Washington in the fall for another meeting with Trump.
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In the CNBC interview, Trump also faulted his predecessor for an incident in March 2012 in which Obama told then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that he would “have more flexibility” after the U.S. presidential election to negotiate on missile defence. The exchange was captured on a live microphone.
“Look at the statement he made. He thought the mics were turned off, OK, the stupid statement he made,” Trump told CNBC. “No one makes a big deal of that.”
During the interview, Trump brushed aside suggestions that Putin might hold some leverage over him because of his past business dealings in the country or for other reasons.
“It’s called the Democrat hoax,” Trump said. “It’s a big fat hoax.”
“Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) — almost unheard of,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client — totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!”
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While the president suggested that Cohen’s recording may have been illegal, New York law allows one party to a conversation to tape it without the other knowing. Over the years, Cohen, in his dealings on Trump’s behalf with journalists, opposing lawyers and business adversaries, frequently taped his conversations, unbeknown to the people with whom he was speaking. Trump himself also has a history of recording phone calls and conversations.
“Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance,” Giuliani told The New York Times of the taped conversation about the payment.
“In the big scheme of things, it’s powerful exculpatory evidence,” he added.
One month before the conversation, AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, bought the rights to McDougal’s story for $150,000, then shelved it. Trump’s attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said in a statement Friday that the recording is “powerful exculpatory evidence,” because it does not contain anything suggesting that Trump knew about that payment in advance.
But the recording does show that Trump was considering buying the rights to McDougal’s story from AMI — despite the fact that Trump’s spokeswoman at the time, Hope Hicks, called McDougal’s claims “totally untrue” and said Trump had “no knowledge of any of this.”
Crimson847 wrote:In other words, transgender-friendly privacy laws don't molest people, people molest people.
(Presumably, the only way to stop a bad guy with a transgender-friendly privacy law is a good guy with a transgender-friendly privacy law, and thus transgender-friendly privacy law rights need to be enshrined in the Constitution as well)
jbobsully11 wrote:”What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” — Donald J. Trump, at a VFW national convention this past Tuesday.
In other news, we have always been at war with Eurasia Eastasia.
Marcuse wrote:jbobsully11 wrote:”What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” — Donald J. Trump, at a VFW national convention this past Tuesday.
In other news, we have always been at war with Eurasia Eastasia.
The big difference being we're reasonably sure the Party actually does on some level know what is really happening.
Aquila89 wrote:In light of this, I find it even harder to understand why Trump bothered with paying off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. I've written about this before; when multiple women accused him of sexual assault, he just said they're all liars and his supporters either believed him or didn't care. Why did he try to suppress a claim about a consensual affair?
In fact, the Wall Street Journal broke the story about the National Enquirer buying McDougal's story in 2016, days before the election. Hope Hicks, Trump's spokesperson at the time said that it's fake news and the story had no consequences. Why couldn't they just deny the affair in the first place?
Crimson847 wrote:In other words, transgender-friendly privacy laws don't molest people, people molest people.
(Presumably, the only way to stop a bad guy with a transgender-friendly privacy law is a good guy with a transgender-friendly privacy law, and thus transgender-friendly privacy law rights need to be enshrined in the Constitution as well)
jbobsully11 wrote:A spokesperson clarified that he was referring specifically to buying alcohol. Because that’s what comes to mind when I think of groceries.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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