- Joined
- Apr 20, 2014
- Messages
- 9,583
- Reaction score
- 5,866
- Points
- 113
When did it become ok for all these spooks to talk about ****?
What favors? The media is out to destroy him, in case you haven't noticed over the last year. He is fighting back. The game has changed.I don't get how behaving like a bully to the press is going to win Trump any favors.
.
I don't get how behaving like a bully to the press is going to win Trump any favors.
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on Wednesday criticized President-elect Donald Trump for his shouting match with a CNN reporter.
Trump refused to take a question from CNN's Jim Acosta during a Wednesday news conference, berating him and accusing his network of reporting "fake news." The confrontation came after CNN reported that intelligence officials briefed Trump about Russia having compromising information on him — a report Trump denied.
"President-elect Trump today told CNN's Jim Acosta the his organization amounts to fake news. CNN's exclusive reporting on the Russian matter was separate and distinctly different from the document dump executed by an online news property," Smith said during his closing monologue.
"Though we at Fox News cannot confirm CNN's report, it is our observation that its correspondents followed journalistic standards and that neither they nor any other journalists should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States," Smith added.
During the press conference, Trump continuously refused to let Acosta ask him a question.
"You're attacking us, can you give us a question?” Acosta asked.
"Don't be rude. No, I'm not going to give you a question. You are fake news," Trump responded, before taking a question from a Breitbart News reporter.
The applause that came after Donald Trump belittled reporters at his press conference came from staffers the President-elect paid for their presence.
Politico reported Wednesday afternoon that before President-elect Trump gave his first press conference in seven months, he packed both sides of the room with paid staffers who were there specifically to jeer at reporters and applaud at Trump’s attacks on the media.
“Do you honestly believe that Hillary Clinton would be tougher on Putin than me?” Trump asked at another point. Some staffers in the room responded to the rhetorical question, yelling out, “No!”
And they cheered again when Trump jeered sarcastically at a reporter who asked if he planned to release his tax returns. “Oh gee,” the president-elect said, employing a verbal eye roll, “I’ve never heard that before. The only ones who care about my tax returns are the reporters. I became president.”
The staffers can also be heard laughing and clapping at the 30-second mark of the below video when Trump refused to answer a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta, saying, “You’re fake news.”
According to Politico, the surrounding of reporters by zealous Trump supporters also bolstered one of the chief narratives of Trump’s campaign — that members of the media were liars who fundamentally opposed him.
“The Greek chorus of loyal, paid staffers in the back of the room boosting Trump with their hoots and cheers also served as a reminder, of sorts, of the movement of Trump backers happy to take him at his word and jeer the media as the out-of-touch liars,” wrote Politico’s Annie Karni.
The President-elect also remarked that his lack of press conferences over the past seven months was due to negative media coverage, rather than an unwillingness to talk to reporters.
“We stopped giving [press conferences] because we’re getting quite a bit of inaccurate news,” Trump said early in his press conference.
The news of Trump paying staffers to intimidate journalists is another indicator of his savvy when it comes to media manipulation.
Trump did something similar for his campaign announcement in June of 2015, when it was revealed he paid actors $50 apiece to show up at his campaign kickoff press conference.
“This is an event in support of Donald Trump and an upcoming exciting announcement he will be making at this event,” read an email sent by Extra Mile Casting, first published by the Hollywood Reporter.
“We are looking to cast people for the event to wear t-shirts and carry signs and help cheer him in support of his announcement… The rate for this is: $50 CASH at the end of the event.”
In addition to calling CNN “fake news,” Trump called BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage” that would “suffer the consequences,” and sarcastically referred to BBC News as “another beauty.”
Steeltime - spare me the superlatives and point out what is fake news that I've posted? Are you suggesting Trump didn't have operatives cheering him on at today's news conference?
Are you suggesting there's no report on Russia's possible blackmailing of Trump?
Russian tech expert named in Trump report says US intelligence never contacted him
A Russian venture capitalist and tech expert whose name and company are mentioned in the now-notorious document alleging connections between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian hackers says no intelligence officers have ever contacted him about the accusations, which he says are false.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article125910774.html
There is no "report," Tibs. There is horseshit innuendo with not one named source
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he delivered a dossier to FBI Director James Comey late last year containing unverified claims that Russia had gathered compromising information on President-elect Donald Trump.
“Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public,” McCain said in a statement on Wednesday. “Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgement about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI. That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.”
The statement comes on the heels of reports that President Obama, Trump and congressional leaders were briefed on the allegations made in the dossier.
former MI6 officer who produced a dossier making lurid allegations about Donald Trump is “terrified for his safety” after he was unmasked by a US publication.
Christopher Steele, 52, fled from his home in Surrey on Wednesday morning after realising it was only a matter of time until his name became public knowledge.
A source close to Mr Steele said on Wednesday night that he now fears a prompt and potentially dangerous backlash against him from Moscow.
The CIA and the FBI would not have briefed the president and the president-elect on claims that Russia has compromising information on Donald Trump if they did not take the allegations seriously, said former CIA operatives and analysts who spoke to Business Insider.
"Most of the information that passes across the CIA's desk throughout the day ends up on the cutting-room floor because it's not deemed to be credible or relevant," said Evan McMullin, a former CIA operations officer who ran as an independent during the 2016 presidential election.
McMullin, who served as a chief policy director for the House Republican Conference and a senior adviser on national security issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, entered the presidential race as a conservative alternative to Trump and has remained harshly critical of the president-elect.
"The agency only brings information to the president or president-elect that they believe is highly relevant and that has some level of credibility," McMullin told Business Insider in an interview on Wednesday. "So they knew the information they had was relevant."
Classified briefing materials provided to President Barack Obama and Trump by US intelligence officials last week indicated that Russian operatives claimed to have potentially compromising personal and financial information on Trump, CNN reported Tuesday.
Sorry man, but that's laughable. The “I have never been to Prague in my life” guy. Yeah, he really rested his case posting a photo of the outside cover of his passport.Dude tweeted a photo of his passport, showing he has never been to the Czech Republic or Soviet Union.
A Russian venture capitalist and tech expert whose name and company are mentioned in the now-notorious document alleging connections between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian hackers says no intelligence officers have ever contacted him about the accusations, which he says are false.
Oh ok, thanks for pointing that out. If you say so, I'll have to take your word for it. I can finally have some peace of mind. Whew, what a relief. I was worried there for a second our president-elect may be compromised by the Russians.None of it is credible Piss Boi. It's all FAKE NEWS.
They made it up, and we need to KEEP USING IT AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.
It should be RELENTLESS.
Fake news.
Fake news.
Fake news.
Fake news.
Ok, sorry to be a nuisance in your propaganda threads everyone here seems to lap up. Have a nice day.