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WP with a new report that Trump personally dictated Don Jr'.s initial statement that his meeting with the Russians was just to talk about adoptions (later shown to be a blatant lie). Don Jr. apparently wanted to be more open about what took place.
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Key quote in that story:
“The thing that really strikes me about this is the stupidity of involving the president,” Zeidenberg said. “They are still treating this like a family-run business and they have a PR problem. . . . What they don’t seem to understand is this is a criminal investigation involving all of them.”Comment
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The trump clan is just a boatload of Fredos waiting to happen.
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Trump perspective from the National Review.
Sent from my iPad using TapatalkGrammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.Comment
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Anyone read Peter Hessler's latest in the NYer? Wiuld be a great discussion topic.
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The 'investigator' at the center of the Seth Rich conspiracy theories is suing Fox News and the Trump booster who pushed the theory for defamation of character.
This is an important story, very detailed, for understanding this garbage story and how it got traction; evidence could be revealed as well that Fox works directly with the White House to bury negative news with Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories.
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It's a clown show."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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No."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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RudeComment
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Agreed.Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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love to hear what rich said during the 2 hours he lived while having two holes in his back
nothing says robbery like being shot in the back twice
and if he was alive for 2 hours surely somebody there took a statement since by all accounts he was awake and talking surely he would have told police he was being robbed
btw word on the street is trump was aware of rich leaking Hillary's emails to wikileaks and had him killed. Then approached wheeler through spicer to fabricate the story --I read it in the Washington post!--pretty sure Hannity and the mooch are in on this alsoComment
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I was gonna say No myself, but AA handled it. Seriously. It's worth your time.Comment
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Tell us about the pizza parlor porn ring, crash
Typical Trumpster. The truth hurts, so deny it and claim conspiracy.
Those damn Clintons!Last edited by CGVT; August 1, 2017, 12:22 PM.I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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I read it ...... It's long and complex. By the 10th paragraph I started skimming so, I might have missed something.
The author's premise is that Trump's tone is more important to his supporters than his politics/accomplishments as President. The more he is vilified in the press, the more his supporters like him. The article concludes with one of DJT's supporters saying, if it turns out that he's a failure in terms of doing great things, he'll take responsibility for that.
There are a couple of other issues he touches on: Importance of the press/how Trump supporters, in contrast, buy DJT's "fake news" meme and tend not to trust the press.
Using a local Grand Junction, CO. paper, he demonstrates how vulnerable the paper is when it criticizes Trump's actions/positions and then loses readership. He also argues that rural news is much more vulnerable to this circumstance than big city news (e.g., the NYT and WaPo have gained readership during the Trump administration's time in office.)
All-in-all, the piece reflects on the risk to accurate, fact based journalism in the face of a changing tone, a negative dismissive one rather than an inquiring one, that seems to the author as being acquired by, in particular, rural Trump supporters.
My view is that this phenomena isn't something new. Once individuals become emotionally invested in something, the facts and reason don't matter. What is new is the scope of it and that this phenomena has the potential of blinding a sizable portion of an influential portion of the electorate to Presidential incompetence and malfeasance.
OTH, he offers that the counter to this may be the disaffection of Republicans holding political office at every level who will distance themselves from Trump potentially carving out a different form of rational political conservationism (or maybe I'm just reading into the article what I hope will happen).Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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