Of course, he is telling a lie about it. He always does.
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Daniel Dale is respected fact checker- gig at The Star, fetched him the gig at CNN
Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8
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Me literally yesterday:
Biden is wrong to suggest Trump has never once condemned white supremacists
@parscale today: “Fact checker” Daniel Dale is silent on Biden being wrong
to suggest Trump has never once condemned white supremacists
6 hours ago
Trump's former best pal and media bro, downgraded into Texas racist trolling on interwebs
Brad Parscale ✓
Twitter › parscale
@CNN likes to pretend they put #factsfirst, but here is @AC360 letting Biden
get away with a disgusting lie about @realDonaldTrump with zero pushback.
I notice CNN's "fact checker" @ddale8 has been silent on it too.
They are political activists cosplaying as journalists!
6 hours ago
Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8
(graphic)
Me literally yesterday:
Biden is wrong to suggest Trump has never once condemned white supremacists
@parscale today: “Fact checker” Daniel Dale is silent on Biden being wrong
to suggest Trump has never once condemned white supremacists
6 hours ago
Trump's former best pal and media bro, downgraded into Texas racist trolling on interwebs
Brad Parscale ✓
Twitter › parscale
@CNN likes to pretend they put #factsfirst, but here is @AC360 letting Biden
get away with a disgusting lie about @realDonaldTrump with zero pushback.
I notice CNN's "fact checker" @ddale8 has been silent on it too.
They are political activists cosplaying as journalists!
6 hours ago
A long tradition of Trumpies telling lies about the vote- the Republicans had many
investigations, and for a final time- were answered. The only cases of instances
where people voted twice were Republicans, and very few, at that.
The very few cases of "illegal voting, by Democrats, had to do with differing rules
from state to state, concerning citizenship, and release from prison or jail.
Misunderstandings, or just mistakes.
Trump continues the lie that undocumented immigrants vote, illegally, and that Democrats
vote twice, and justifies his dishonest bid that Trumpies should vote twice ", because
Democrats do it."
Trump twice suggested that people should vote by mail and then attempt to also vote
in person. Intentionally voting twice is a felony in North Carolina.
Lies serve Trumpies, in so many ways, as does breaking the law- Now Trump is asking
American citizens to lie and break the law for him.
"I don't know what the law in the particular state says" --
Wolf Blitzer has to explain to the Attorney General of the United States
that it's actually illegal to vote twice
(pic)
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 2, 2020
This is farcical stuff from AG Bill Barr. Wolf Blitzer is taken aback
by how weak his arguments are.
(pic)
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 2, 2020
Meanwhile, Trump is promoting actions that directly and illegally interfere with the vote,
investigations, and for a final time- were answered. The only cases of instances
where people voted twice were Republicans, and very few, at that.
The very few cases of "illegal voting, by Democrats, had to do with differing rules
from state to state, concerning citizenship, and release from prison or jail.
Misunderstandings, or just mistakes.
Trump continues the lie that undocumented immigrants vote, illegally, and that Democrats
vote twice, and justifies his dishonest bid that Trumpies should vote twice ", because
Democrats do it."
Trump twice suggested that people should vote by mail and then attempt to also vote
in person. Intentionally voting twice is a felony in North Carolina.
Lies serve Trumpies, in so many ways, as does breaking the law- Now Trump is asking
American citizens to lie and break the law for him.
"I don't know what the law in the particular state says" --
Wolf Blitzer has to explain to the Attorney General of the United States
that it's actually illegal to vote twice
(pic)
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 2, 2020
This is farcical stuff from AG Bill Barr. Wolf Blitzer is taken aback
by how weak his arguments are.
(pic)
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 2, 2020
Meanwhile, Trump is promoting actions that directly and illegally interfere with the vote,
so many moving parts to this conspiracy fairy tale
Joe Scarborough was talking about Republican disinformation this morning after watching a Wolf Blitzer interview with Bill Barr.
“Well, we have more from the attorney general. Barr was pressed on President Trump’s claim this week that thugs boarded a plane for last month’s Republican convention –”
“Oh, yeah, the ninjas, dressed in all black.”
“He’d know if a plane of thugs commandeered a plane and went to the RNC with teenage mutant ninja turtles to threaten our democracy. Here’s the exchange,” Scarborough said.
BLITZER: The president claimed that he heard about a plane, in his words, loaded with thugs in dark uniforms from a certain city headed to the Republican National Convention here in Washington, in his words, ‘to do big damage.’ He didn’t offer specifics. He later the next day changed the story, the plane wasn’t coming to Washington, it was leaving Washington. Have you asked the FBI to investigate it?
BARR: I don’t have to ask the FBI. We received numerous reports of people coming from Portland, Seattle and other cities for the specific purpose of coming to Washington to cause a riot.
BLITZER: Were they wearing black uniforms and loaded?
BARR: We received many on planes. We received reports on this topic.
BLITZER: Was the president talking about information you provided the president?
BARR: I don’t know what he was referring to.
BLITZER: It was reported on Facebook there was a conspiracy reported weeks ago about this thing –
Crooks and Liars
Slimy Bill Barr
Joe Scarborough was talking about Republican disinformation this morning after watching a Wolf Blitzer interview with Bill Barr.
“Well, we have more from the attorney general. Barr was pressed on President Trump’s claim this week that thugs boarded a plane for last month’s Republican convention –”
“Oh, yeah, the ninjas, dressed in all black.”
“He’d know if a plane of thugs commandeered a plane and went to the RNC with teenage mutant ninja turtles to threaten our democracy. Here’s the exchange,” Scarborough said.
BLITZER: The president claimed that he heard about a plane, in his words, loaded with thugs in dark uniforms from a certain city headed to the Republican National Convention here in Washington, in his words, ‘to do big damage.’ He didn’t offer specifics. He later the next day changed the story, the plane wasn’t coming to Washington, it was leaving Washington. Have you asked the FBI to investigate it?
BARR: I don’t have to ask the FBI. We received numerous reports of people coming from Portland, Seattle and other cities for the specific purpose of coming to Washington to cause a riot.
BLITZER: Were they wearing black uniforms and loaded?
BARR: We received many on planes. We received reports on this topic.
BLITZER: Was the president talking about information you provided the president?
BARR: I don’t know what he was referring to.
BLITZER: It was reported on Facebook there was a conspiracy reported weeks ago about this thing –
Crooks and Liars
Slimy Bill Barr
Interesting statement, found by accident-
Looking back at my five-year-old column, I came across something more resonant now
than it was then. I was arguing that John le Carré had in a sense set the stage for The
Americans (TV series) by cutting the cold war down to size. Instead of the forces of
good and evil/ meeting in an eschatological showdown the whole world dreaded,
the cold war was to le Carré merely "an elaborate and deadly game played by their
cynics and our cynics." I went on, "and because cynics, even if they don't care who
else gets hurt, have no intention of getting hurt themselves, he made the world feel
safer."
I quoted le Carré reflecting on the novel that made him famous:
"The merit of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, then—or its offense, depending
where you stood—was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible." Even if
that novel didn't depict the spy game exactly as it was, it depicted it in a way that
readers readily—perhaps gratefully—accepted. Authenticity is something we leave
to the experts to write essays about; credibility is what our hearts tell us is true.
Merely a point to be made in passing in 2013, it's a much more urgent distinction now.
We have a president who says a lot of things that to his flock feel credible. If credible,
they don't need to be true. Truth is something of a side issue.
Truth, belief, and The Americans
- Michael Miner
2018/06/04/
https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/06/04/truth-belief-and-the-americans
Looking back at my five-year-old column, I came across something more resonant now
than it was then. I was arguing that John le Carré had in a sense set the stage for The
Americans (TV series) by cutting the cold war down to size. Instead of the forces of
good and evil/ meeting in an eschatological showdown the whole world dreaded,
the cold war was to le Carré merely "an elaborate and deadly game played by their
cynics and our cynics." I went on, "and because cynics, even if they don't care who
else gets hurt, have no intention of getting hurt themselves, he made the world feel
safer."
I quoted le Carré reflecting on the novel that made him famous:
"The merit of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, then—or its offense, depending
where you stood—was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible." Even if
that novel didn't depict the spy game exactly as it was, it depicted it in a way that
readers readily—perhaps gratefully—accepted. Authenticity is something we leave
to the experts to write essays about; credibility is what our hearts tell us is true.
Merely a point to be made in passing in 2013, it's a much more urgent distinction now.
We have a president who says a lot of things that to his flock feel credible. If credible,
they don't need to be true. Truth is something of a side issue.
Truth, belief, and The Americans
- Michael Miner
2018/06/04/
https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/06/04/truth-belief-and-the-americans
Donald Trump lies like a rug. We used to be outraged, but now we just shrug
We weren’t going to normalize this.
Remember that?
Remember the way many of us solemnly vowed we would always maintain the ability
to be outraged, hold on to our capacity for shock?
A normal presidency in normal times would have been indelibly marked by any one
of the thousands of whoppers Trump has excreted. Ask Bill Clinton or Richard Nixon
about that.
But Trump’s mendacities — more numerous and more brazen than those of any president before him — are different.
Forget dominating history, they often fall short of even dominating a news cycle.
Again: There is so much. One’s ability to be indignant — or even to pay attention —
is simply overwhelmed. (...) It becomes a challenge to even keep track. All lies matter,
so no lies matter.
He told Woodward in contemporaneous interviews that the virus was far more deadly
than he was letting on.
“I wanted to always play it down,” he said. “I still like playing it down,
because I don’t want to create a panic.”
One imagines the captain of the Titanic sending worried passengers
back to their cabins. “Just a little bump. Nothing to worry about.”
But one doubts any of us will be surprised, or even truly outraged.
We have lost something — the ability to expect recognizably adult, human behavior
in our leader.
Worse, we’ve also lost what we said we wouldn’t: the ability to feel disappointed
and indignant when it does not come. There is an element of exhaustion here.
Fury feels rote, less a feeling than the memory of one.
Even if Trump is defeated in November, it’s an open question whether we’ll get that ability
back — and what kind of people we will be if we don’t.
After all, Trump’s “strategy” — assuming one wants to dignify it with that word —
has left dead 190,000 Americans, and counting.
He is guilty of lethal incompetence, of failing his sacred obligation to safeguard the country
Yet saying this does not suck all the air out of the room as it should.
We said weren’t going to normalize this.
Turns out we had no say in the matter.
- Leonard Pitts Jr.
September 11, 2020
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article245636255.html
We weren’t going to normalize this.
Remember that?
Remember the way many of us solemnly vowed we would always maintain the ability
to be outraged, hold on to our capacity for shock?
A normal presidency in normal times would have been indelibly marked by any one
of the thousands of whoppers Trump has excreted. Ask Bill Clinton or Richard Nixon
about that.
But Trump’s mendacities — more numerous and more brazen than those of any president before him — are different.
Forget dominating history, they often fall short of even dominating a news cycle.
Again: There is so much. One’s ability to be indignant — or even to pay attention —
is simply overwhelmed. (...) It becomes a challenge to even keep track. All lies matter,
so no lies matter.
He told Woodward in contemporaneous interviews that the virus was far more deadly
than he was letting on.
“I wanted to always play it down,” he said. “I still like playing it down,
because I don’t want to create a panic.”
One imagines the captain of the Titanic sending worried passengers
back to their cabins. “Just a little bump. Nothing to worry about.”
But one doubts any of us will be surprised, or even truly outraged.
We have lost something — the ability to expect recognizably adult, human behavior
in our leader.
Worse, we’ve also lost what we said we wouldn’t: the ability to feel disappointed
and indignant when it does not come. There is an element of exhaustion here.
Fury feels rote, less a feeling than the memory of one.
Even if Trump is defeated in November, it’s an open question whether we’ll get that ability
back — and what kind of people we will be if we don’t.
After all, Trump’s “strategy” — assuming one wants to dignify it with that word —
has left dead 190,000 Americans, and counting.
He is guilty of lethal incompetence, of failing his sacred obligation to safeguard the country
Yet saying this does not suck all the air out of the room as it should.
We said weren’t going to normalize this.
Turns out we had no say in the matter.
- Leonard Pitts Jr.
September 11, 2020
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article245636255.html
Trump Tweets Out Four-Year-Old Photo To Show How Popular He Is
September 13,2020
We all know that Trump is full of shit, with virtually everything that comes out
of his mouth a lie, a misrepresentation of facts, or a con. So when Alec MacGillis
of ProPublica called him out in real time it wasn’t especially surprising, but it did
elicit a small bit of schadenfreude in this otherwise dreary time.
Mediaite link
Trump Tweets Four-Year-Old Photo Like It’s Current, Gets Called Out
by Original Photographer
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-tru...lled-out-by-original-photographer-on-twitter/
As he prepared for a campaign rally in Nevada, President Donald Trump tweeted several
photos showing homes and vehicles decorated with his name and logo by his supporters -
one photo was from 2016, and the original photographer quickly called him out for the
apparent deception.
Trump’s tweet Saturday evening showed a home with dozens of Trump yard signs
in rows covering the entire lawn. “WOW — THANK YOU! #MAGA,” tweeted Trump.
ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis tweeted an hour later that the photo was “from four years ago”
— a date he knew because he was the original photographer. “Where’s my credit??”
he tweeted.
Crooks and Liars
Donald J. Trump ✓
Twitter › realDonaldTrump
WOW — THANK YOU! #MAGA
(pic)
7:11 PM September 12, 2020
September 13,2020
We all know that Trump is full of shit, with virtually everything that comes out
of his mouth a lie, a misrepresentation of facts, or a con. So when Alec MacGillis
of ProPublica called him out in real time it wasn’t especially surprising, but it did
elicit a small bit of schadenfreude in this otherwise dreary time.
Mediaite link
Trump Tweets Four-Year-Old Photo Like It’s Current, Gets Called Out
by Original Photographer
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-tru...lled-out-by-original-photographer-on-twitter/
As he prepared for a campaign rally in Nevada, President Donald Trump tweeted several
photos showing homes and vehicles decorated with his name and logo by his supporters -
one photo was from 2016, and the original photographer quickly called him out for the
apparent deception.
Trump’s tweet Saturday evening showed a home with dozens of Trump yard signs
in rows covering the entire lawn. “WOW — THANK YOU! #MAGA,” tweeted Trump.
ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis tweeted an hour later that the photo was “from four years ago”
— a date he knew because he was the original photographer. “Where’s my credit??”
he tweeted.
Crooks and Liars
Donald J. Trump ✓
Twitter › realDonaldTrump
WOW — THANK YOU! #MAGA
(pic)
7:11 PM September 12, 2020
Something nagging Trump, at the back of his mind, that is throwing him off balance ?
Trump says Biden won Nobel Peace Prize. President brags of Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ward-joe-biden-nobel-peace-prize-b435647.html
Trump says Biden won Nobel Peace Prize. President brags of Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ward-joe-biden-nobel-peace-prize-b435647.html
arrghhh
Two liars, two lies ?
Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8
Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy says the show has not actually committed to doing
a weekly interview with Trump, like Trump claimed it had twice on air today:
“You may want to do it every week, but Fox is not committed to that.
We’re going to take it on a case-by-case basis."
9 hours ago
Trump Claims He Will Appear on Fox & Friends Every Week Until Election
“You may want to do it every week, but Fox is not committed to that we’ll take it on a case-by-case basis..."
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-r...iends-every-week-great-to-be-with-my-friends/
OTOH, cannot imagine that FUX TV would reject another phone-in, with Trump-
Rupert Murdoch is not about to give equal air time to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Are there Democrat campaign ads running on FUX TV ?
Two liars, two lies ?
Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8
Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy says the show has not actually committed to doing
a weekly interview with Trump, like Trump claimed it had twice on air today:
“You may want to do it every week, but Fox is not committed to that.
We’re going to take it on a case-by-case basis."
9 hours ago
Trump Claims He Will Appear on Fox & Friends Every Week Until Election
“You may want to do it every week, but Fox is not committed to that we’ll take it on a case-by-case basis..."
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-r...iends-every-week-great-to-be-with-my-friends/
OTOH, cannot imagine that FUX TV would reject another phone-in, with Trump-
Rupert Murdoch is not about to give equal air time to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Are there Democrat campaign ads running on FUX TV ?
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Trump’s ABC News town hall: Four Pinocchios, over and over again
September 16, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ws-town-hall-four-pinocchios-over-over-again/
September 16, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ws-town-hall-four-pinocchios-over-over-again/
Today, Trump's brag is empty words-
Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8
Trump claimed twice on Fox Sports Radio today that he has shot in the "low 70s"
at Winged Foot, which I cannot definitively fact check
but uh
(link to BBC Sport)
9 hours ago
US Open 2020: Tiger Woods says Winged Foot among world's three hardest courses
Woods will be joined by fellow Americans Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa on the
first two days in New York.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/54165591
Trump is prone to exaggerating his prowess on the links. He claims to be a
2.8 handicap — meaning he averages 2.8 strokes over par per round.
(He could attempt to qualify for the U.S. Open if his handicap were 1.4.)
But veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly, who wrote a book about Trump’s golfing,
doesn’t buy it.
“If Trump is a 2.8, Queen Elizabeth is a pole vaulter,” Reilly wrote.
Reilly, in his book, chronicled numerous incidents of Trump cheating on the links.
“He cheats like a mafia accountant,” Reilly said on CNN. “He cheats crazy.
He cheats whether you’re watching or not. He cheats whether you like it or not.”
All of that to say, Trump’s claims of shooting in the “low 70s” at one of the toughest golf
courses on the planet should be taken with a grain of salt.
https://www.mediaite.com/sports/tru...good-enough-to-contend-in-this-weeks-us-open/
US Open 2020: New York course Winged Foot hosts 14 years after Montgomerie
and Mickelson beaten by Ogilvy
https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/54146011
In an exclusive interview with UK newspaper The Guardian, the former model
has come forward about the incident that she says took place at the US Open tennis
tournament in 1997
'It felt like tentacles."
Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8
Trump claimed twice on Fox Sports Radio today that he has shot in the "low 70s"
at Winged Foot, which I cannot definitively fact check
but uh
(link to BBC Sport)
9 hours ago
US Open 2020: Tiger Woods says Winged Foot among world's three hardest courses
Woods will be joined by fellow Americans Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa on the
first two days in New York.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/54165591
Trump is prone to exaggerating his prowess on the links. He claims to be a
2.8 handicap — meaning he averages 2.8 strokes over par per round.
(He could attempt to qualify for the U.S. Open if his handicap were 1.4.)
But veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly, who wrote a book about Trump’s golfing,
doesn’t buy it.
“If Trump is a 2.8, Queen Elizabeth is a pole vaulter,” Reilly wrote.
Reilly, in his book, chronicled numerous incidents of Trump cheating on the links.
“He cheats like a mafia accountant,” Reilly said on CNN. “He cheats crazy.
He cheats whether you’re watching or not. He cheats whether you like it or not.”
All of that to say, Trump’s claims of shooting in the “low 70s” at one of the toughest golf
courses on the planet should be taken with a grain of salt.
https://www.mediaite.com/sports/tru...good-enough-to-contend-in-this-weeks-us-open/
US Open 2020: New York course Winged Foot hosts 14 years after Montgomerie
and Mickelson beaten by Ogilvy
https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/54146011
In an exclusive interview with UK newspaper The Guardian, the former model
has come forward about the incident that she says took place at the US Open tennis
tournament in 1997
'It felt like tentacles."
Trump Senior Adviser for Strategy, Steve Cortes is a rat that squeals when nailed for a lie
(Assistant to Ministry of Mis-Information ? He left his job at a pro-Trump propaganda show)
Trump campaign adviser shut down by MSNBC anchor: ‘Prepare for this interview next time’
October 1, 2020
Steve Cortes, the Trump campaign’s brand new “senior adviser for strategy,” said-
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/yo...fter-hes-fact-checked-on-biden-ear-piece-lie/
The Biden campaign has said that isn’t true. So, Mohyeldin asked Cortes who made the
agreement with the Biden team. Cortes fumbled around, saying it was “the campaign,”
but Mohyeldin demanded to know what the name was of the campaign official who made
the agreement. Cortes said there was a “debate negotiating committee” who made all the
demands. He ultimately couldn’t name the name.
When Biden spokesperson, Kate Bedingfield, came on after the interview, she explained that
the reason Cortes couldn’t come up with the name is that it was all a lie and he knew it.
Cortes was faced with screen captures of ads the Trump campaign is running where they
doctored a photo of Biden wearing an Apple headphone in his ear and lying about the
investigation of his ears.
(Assistant to Ministry of Mis-Information ? He left his job at a pro-Trump propaganda show)
Trump campaign adviser shut down by MSNBC anchor: ‘Prepare for this interview next time’
October 1, 2020
Steve Cortes, the Trump campaign’s brand new “senior adviser for strategy,” said-
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/yo...fter-hes-fact-checked-on-biden-ear-piece-lie/
The Biden campaign has said that isn’t true. So, Mohyeldin asked Cortes who made the
agreement with the Biden team. Cortes fumbled around, saying it was “the campaign,”
but Mohyeldin demanded to know what the name was of the campaign official who made
the agreement. Cortes said there was a “debate negotiating committee” who made all the
demands. He ultimately couldn’t name the name.
When Biden spokesperson, Kate Bedingfield, came on after the interview, she explained that
the reason Cortes couldn’t come up with the name is that it was all a lie and he knew it.
Cortes was faced with screen captures of ads the Trump campaign is running where they
doctored a photo of Biden wearing an Apple headphone in his ear and lying about the
investigation of his ears.
CLAIM: Video shows bikers praying for Trump outside Walter Reed National Military
Medical Center.
THE FACTS: The video actually shows bikers in South Africa praying during an event
to protest against the attacks against farmers in the area.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavi...raying-for-trump-this-is-where-they-were.html
Medical Center.
THE FACTS: The video actually shows bikers in South Africa praying during an event
to protest against the attacks against farmers in the area.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavi...raying-for-trump-this-is-where-they-were.html
The Trump liars have been busy. I am crushed underneath a mountain of Trump lies.
(even Daniel Dale @ddale8 gets overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the Trump lies.)
my hand holds up a note:
Yup, Trump 'Supporters' At The White House Were Paid To Be There
Crooks and Liars
Grifters gotta grift.
Given the opportunity to promote her “brand” illegally (breaking the Hatch Act
as Trump2020 has done eleventy thousand times) on the White House lawn,
Candace Owens put out the call and paid attendees to cheer Donald Trump.
Never forget that Candace Owens once said “Hitler,” in a nice way, at a public event.
The featured speaker at the White house today is Candace Owens who last year
LITERALLY defended Hitler saying “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great
and have things run well, OK, fine.” These are the people trump loves
(link)
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) October 10, 2020
According to ABC News, "Some guests for Saturday’s White House event on the
South Lawn, which will be President Donald Trump’s first since testing positive for
the coronavirus, had their travel and lodging paid for by controversial conservative
activist Candace Owens’ group BLEXIT…”
Candace Owens responded to the story not at all: (link to Crooks and Liars)
(even Daniel Dale @ddale8 gets overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the Trump lies.)
my hand holds up a note:
Yup, Trump 'Supporters' At The White House Were Paid To Be There
Crooks and Liars
Grifters gotta grift.
Given the opportunity to promote her “brand” illegally (breaking the Hatch Act
as Trump2020 has done eleventy thousand times) on the White House lawn,
Candace Owens put out the call and paid attendees to cheer Donald Trump.
Never forget that Candace Owens once said “Hitler,” in a nice way, at a public event.
The featured speaker at the White house today is Candace Owens who last year
LITERALLY defended Hitler saying “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great
and have things run well, OK, fine.” These are the people trump loves
(link)
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) October 10, 2020
According to ABC News, "Some guests for Saturday’s White House event on the
South Lawn, which will be President Donald Trump’s first since testing positive for
the coronavirus, had their travel and lodging paid for by controversial conservative
activist Candace Owens’ group BLEXIT…”
Candace Owens responded to the story not at all: (link to Crooks and Liars)
Nobody cares about Hillary's emails, and Hunter Biden's emails are a non-issue.
Why is Rudy Giuliani cluttering the headlines with this trash ?
Jonathan Chait ✓
Twitter › jonathanchait
The central claim of Rudy's (probably Russian-hacked) emails is a lie.
Biden did not give Burisma what he wanted. He did the opposite.
(link to NY magazine via Intelligencer)
1 hour ago
The real scandal here is that Trump's lawyer is apparently colluding with Russia
on another hack-and-leak campaign operation
(link to NY magazine via Intelligencer)
2 hours ago
The chance Rudy got his hacked Hunter Biden emails from Russians
seems extremely high
(link to NY magazine via Intelligencer)
3 hours ago
Intelligencer ✓
Twitter › intelligencer
@jonathanchait writes on the New York Post's not-very-plausible account
of how Rudy Giuliani came across purported Hunter Biden emails
(link NY magazine)
4 hours ago
Why is Rudy Giuliani cluttering the headlines with this trash ?
Jonathan Chait ✓
Twitter › jonathanchait
The central claim of Rudy's (probably Russian-hacked) emails is a lie.
Biden did not give Burisma what he wanted. He did the opposite.
(link to NY magazine via Intelligencer)
1 hour ago
The real scandal here is that Trump's lawyer is apparently colluding with Russia
on another hack-and-leak campaign operation
(link to NY magazine via Intelligencer)
2 hours ago
The chance Rudy got his hacked Hunter Biden emails from Russians
seems extremely high
(link to NY magazine via Intelligencer)
3 hours ago
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@jonathanchait writes on the New York Post's not-very-plausible account
of how Rudy Giuliani came across purported Hunter Biden emails
(link NY magazine)
4 hours ago
October 14, 2020
No Durham report, no unmasking revelations?
There are plenty of other fake scandals in the works. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans
to release some Clinton emails before the election, because … his boss wants him to.
Wednesday even saw the release of a bizarre story about Hunter Biden, courtesy of Rudolph
Rudy"W. Giuliani, that reeks of disinformation — no, I won’t link to it — as though
a significant number of undecided voters is just waiting to hear more about Hunter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...rs-bogus-investigations-keep-coming-up-short/
RayneToday@raynetodayRT
@ChrisMegerian: I asked Rudy Giuliani how long he’s had the copy of this hard drive.
He responded, “Your interested in the wrong thing.…3 hours ago
14 October 2020
emptywheel@emptywheel
Here's a question, lawyer people. The people behind today's NYPost stunt are
1) under indictment for fraud 2) under investigation
37 minutes ago
14 October 2020
(AG) Billy Barr has largely shot his wad in drumming up accusations against
Trump’s critics. And along the way, he has proven how flimsy any such claims
were in the first place.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/10/...n-already-made-clear-that-durham-wont-indict/
No Durham report, no unmasking revelations?
There are plenty of other fake scandals in the works. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans
to release some Clinton emails before the election, because … his boss wants him to.
Wednesday even saw the release of a bizarre story about Hunter Biden, courtesy of Rudolph
Rudy"W. Giuliani, that reeks of disinformation — no, I won’t link to it — as though
a significant number of undecided voters is just waiting to hear more about Hunter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...rs-bogus-investigations-keep-coming-up-short/
RayneToday@raynetodayRT
@ChrisMegerian: I asked Rudy Giuliani how long he’s had the copy of this hard drive.
He responded, “Your interested in the wrong thing.…3 hours ago
14 October 2020
emptywheel@emptywheel
Here's a question, lawyer people. The people behind today's NYPost stunt are
1) under indictment for fraud 2) under investigation
37 minutes ago
14 October 2020
(AG) Billy Barr has largely shot his wad in drumming up accusations against
Trump’s critics. And along the way, he has proven how flimsy any such claims
were in the first place.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/10/...n-already-made-clear-that-durham-wont-indict/
October 14,2020
A federal prosecutor has found no evidence of wrongdoing in an investigation into
allegations that former Obama administration officials illegally “unmasked” the names
of Americans whose communications were swept up in foreign surveillance.
Attorney General William Barr ordered the investigation after President Trump and some
Republican lawmakers accused the Obama administration of a political conspiracy.
No report on the investigation has been made public.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1...nspiracy_with_no_charges_and_no_public_report
The attorney general’s office elected not to release them publicly, the people familiar with
the matter said. The Washington Post was unable to review the full results of what Bash
found.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...63fd2e-0d67-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html
Oct 5, 2020
John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas that includes Austin, announced his resignation
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/05/john-bash-us-attorney/
Oct 5th, 2020
Attorney General Bill Barr announced on Monday that he was appointing his former
counselor, Gregg Sofer, as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas—
a jurisdiction that spans from El Paso to Waco and includes Austin and San Antonio.
Sofer replaces John Bash as U.S. Attorney. Notably, Bash was “tapped” by Barr as recently
as May to “support” John Durham in investigating the so-called “unmasking” of former
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Flynn’s criminal case is ongoing to this day
despite DOJ’s motion to dismiss.
In a statement saying that he is leaving for a job in the private sector after eight years
in the DOJ, Bash thanked everyone from President Donald Trump to Sen. Ted Cruz
to former White House counsel Don McGahn for their support.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...2c6ddc-a089-11ea-9590-1858a893bd59_story.html
- Devlin Barrett
May 27, 2020
Attorney General William P. Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney in Texas to scrutinize Obama-era officials who sought to identify anonymized names in government documents that turned out to be people connected to then-President-elect Trump, a Justice Department official said Wednesday.
A federal prosecutor has found no evidence of wrongdoing in an investigation into
allegations that former Obama administration officials illegally “unmasked” the names
of Americans whose communications were swept up in foreign surveillance.
Attorney General William Barr ordered the investigation after President Trump and some
Republican lawmakers accused the Obama administration of a political conspiracy.
No report on the investigation has been made public.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1...nspiracy_with_no_charges_and_no_public_report
The attorney general’s office elected not to release them publicly, the people familiar with
the matter said. The Washington Post was unable to review the full results of what Bash
found.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...63fd2e-0d67-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html
Oct 5, 2020
John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas that includes Austin, announced his resignation
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/05/john-bash-us-attorney/
Oct 5th, 2020
Attorney General Bill Barr announced on Monday that he was appointing his former
counselor, Gregg Sofer, as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas—
a jurisdiction that spans from El Paso to Waco and includes Austin and San Antonio.
Sofer replaces John Bash as U.S. Attorney. Notably, Bash was “tapped” by Barr as recently
as May to “support” John Durham in investigating the so-called “unmasking” of former
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Flynn’s criminal case is ongoing to this day
despite DOJ’s motion to dismiss.
In a statement saying that he is leaving for a job in the private sector after eight years
in the DOJ, Bash thanked everyone from President Donald Trump to Sen. Ted Cruz
to former White House counsel Don McGahn for their support.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...2c6ddc-a089-11ea-9590-1858a893bd59_story.html
- Devlin Barrett
May 27, 2020
Attorney General William P. Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney in Texas to scrutinize Obama-era officials who sought to identify anonymized names in government documents that turned out to be people connected to then-President-elect Trump, a Justice Department official said Wednesday.
Hunter Biden email rumor from NY Post
Smells like Trump fuckery!
October 14, 2020
Facebook, Twitter Put Restrictions on New York Post’s Hunter Biden ‘Smoking Gun’ Story
UPDATED:
Facebook and Twitter took action Wednesday to limit distribution of a New York Post story
citing emails purportedly revealing evidence of influence-peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter
— a disputed allegation that has never been corroborated.
No verification ?
The emails cited in the Post’s article have not been verified by other news organizations.
Two former Biden advisers told Politico they had never heard of the Burisma exec named
in the New York Post story, and one of them, Michael Carpenter, called the story
“a Russian disinformation operation.”
Twitter disabled the Post’s original tweets linking to two Hunter Biden stories.
In an editorial, the New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp,
lashed out at Facebook and Twitter’s decisions to curb distribution of the story.
The newspaper (New York Post) said it was unable to confirm the laptop
actually belonged to Hunter Biden.
(bodysong comment-
We are expected to trust Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and believe
what he has to say about random laptop supposedly found in a computer repair shop ?
As if Hunter Biden would have done something so careless, as to abandon a key source
of information, after the shitstorm the Trump Alliance caused his father to go through!)
In September, a report issued by two Senate Republican committees found no evidence
that Biden engaged in wrongdoing related to his son’s business dealings.
https://variety.com/2020/digital/ne...st-hunter-biden-smoking-gun-story-1234805177/
Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop: An explainer
The Washington Post · 2 hours ago
In a statement to Politico, the campaign also said it has no record of a meeting between
Joe Biden and the representative of Burisma, despite what was insinuated by the New York
Post.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/twi...nsoring-new-york-post-report-on-hunter-biden/
Does Trump's hand picked favorite, FBI Director Christopher Wray, have a copy, and the
laptop ?
Smells like Trump fuckery!
October 14, 2020
Facebook, Twitter Put Restrictions on New York Post’s Hunter Biden ‘Smoking Gun’ Story
UPDATED:
Facebook and Twitter took action Wednesday to limit distribution of a New York Post story
citing emails purportedly revealing evidence of influence-peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter
— a disputed allegation that has never been corroborated.
No verification ?
The emails cited in the Post’s article have not been verified by other news organizations.
Two former Biden advisers told Politico they had never heard of the Burisma exec named
in the New York Post story, and one of them, Michael Carpenter, called the story
“a Russian disinformation operation.”
Twitter disabled the Post’s original tweets linking to two Hunter Biden stories.
In an editorial, the New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp,
lashed out at Facebook and Twitter’s decisions to curb distribution of the story.
The newspaper (New York Post) said it was unable to confirm the laptop
actually belonged to Hunter Biden.
(bodysong comment-
We are expected to trust Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and believe
what he has to say about random laptop supposedly found in a computer repair shop ?
As if Hunter Biden would have done something so careless, as to abandon a key source
of information, after the shitstorm the Trump Alliance caused his father to go through!)
In September, a report issued by two Senate Republican committees found no evidence
that Biden engaged in wrongdoing related to his son’s business dealings.
https://variety.com/2020/digital/ne...st-hunter-biden-smoking-gun-story-1234805177/
Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop: An explainer
The Washington Post · 2 hours ago
In a statement to Politico, the campaign also said it has no record of a meeting between
Joe Biden and the representative of Burisma, despite what was insinuated by the New York
Post.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/twi...nsoring-new-york-post-report-on-hunter-biden/
Does Trump's hand picked favorite, FBI Director Christopher Wray, have a copy, and the
laptop ?
oh, yes! Most definately reeking of Trump fuckery
“Metadata on the PDF files suggest they were created on a Mac laptop on Sep. 29 and
Oct. 10...The timing of the creation of those PDF files—several months after Biden
allegedly dropped off his laptop at the PC repair store in April 2019—raises questions.”
(link)
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 15, 2020
Bill Kristol ✓
Twitter › BillKristol
Trump is reduced to pleading for suburban women to like him, mocking senior citizens,
insulting Navy Seals, relying on efforts to suppress the vote, and hoping for an October
bump from Russian disinformation laundered through outlets like the NY Post."
( link to Morning Shots @ The Bulwark)
3 hours ago
“Metadata on the PDF files suggest they were created on a Mac laptop on Sep. 29 and
Oct. 10...The timing of the creation of those PDF files—several months after Biden
allegedly dropped off his laptop at the PC repair store in April 2019—raises questions.”
(link)
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 15, 2020
Bill Kristol ✓
Twitter › BillKristol
Trump is reduced to pleading for suburban women to like him, mocking senior citizens,
insulting Navy Seals, relying on efforts to suppress the vote, and hoping for an October
bump from Russian disinformation laundered through outlets like the NY Post."
( link to Morning Shots @ The Bulwark)
3 hours ago
the fabulous imaginary tale earns headlines, feeds into a standing imaginary fiction,
and waters down any impact that some real information or new facts might have-
(and amuses Trump fans on many different levels)
Fact Hunter-seeking the truth involves sifting through fictions that are presented
Judd Legum ✓
Twitter › JuddLegum
1. I'm going to go through a few issues with the NY Post article on Biden,
which I won't link to, but you will probably see on Twitter today.
Follow along if interested.
1 day ago
2. First the information comes from a laptop that was allegedly "dropped off
at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware" and never picked up.
The "shop owner," who is not identified, "couldn’t positively identify the customer
as Hunter Biden"
3. The "shop owner" thinks it was Hunter Biden because of a Beau Biden s
ticker on the laptop.
This makes no sense. You drop off an expensive Mac laptop at a repair shop
and don't leave your name or contact information?
4. But then, after claiming the shop owner couldn't identify the customer,
the piece includes a receipt that was issued to "Hunter Biden" and includes
an email and phone #
So why would the shop owner produce a receipt for Hunter Biden if he didn't know
the ID of the customer?
5. The piece claims the shop owner then alerted the FBI to the existence of the laptop
and it was later subpoenaed by a grand jury.
But the grand jury subpoena shown does not connect the laptop to Hunter Biden.
6. Then things get very weird. The shop owner says, before turning over the computer
to the feds, they made a copy of the contents of the computer and gave them to Rudy
Giuliani's lawyer
Mmmmhmmmm
7. The New York Post allegedly learned about this copy of the laptop through Steven Bannon.
Both Giuliani and Bannon are regular sources of disinformation
8. But this is the important point. Pretending, for a moment, that everything
in the story is true (very doubtful) it is totally inconsequential.
Supposedly one "email" recovered on the laptop "proves" that Hunter
once introduced a Bursima exec to his father.
9. This is a scandal? There is no word on the length of the meeting or what
was discussed.
The New York Post says its significant because Biden then called for the ouster
of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Bursima.
FALSE
The prosecutor was not investigating Bursima
10. The prosecutor was corrupt, which is why the entire international community
was calling for his ouster.
Replacing the corrupt prosecutor brought more scrutiny on Bursima, not less
11. Allegedly, the laptop Hunter "forgot" to pick up also contains a 12 minute video
of him smoking crack and having sex with an unidentified woman.
12. Nevertheless, this incredibly sketchy, totally unverified, and ultimately
irrelevant story is being promoted by mainstream journalists who don't work
for the New York Post.
Don't be fooled by that.
13. I should clarify that, assuming the email is legit, it doesn't establish that a meeting
took place. Just that Hunter offered an "opportunity" to meet his father.
14. As of 9:50AM, the New York Post piece has been shared more than 26,000 times
on Facebook
Daily Kos
and waters down any impact that some real information or new facts might have-
(and amuses Trump fans on many different levels)
Fact Hunter-seeking the truth involves sifting through fictions that are presented
Judd Legum ✓
Twitter › JuddLegum
1. I'm going to go through a few issues with the NY Post article on Biden,
which I won't link to, but you will probably see on Twitter today.
Follow along if interested.
1 day ago
2. First the information comes from a laptop that was allegedly "dropped off
at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware" and never picked up.
The "shop owner," who is not identified, "couldn’t positively identify the customer
as Hunter Biden"
3. The "shop owner" thinks it was Hunter Biden because of a Beau Biden s
ticker on the laptop.
This makes no sense. You drop off an expensive Mac laptop at a repair shop
and don't leave your name or contact information?
4. But then, after claiming the shop owner couldn't identify the customer,
the piece includes a receipt that was issued to "Hunter Biden" and includes
an email and phone #
So why would the shop owner produce a receipt for Hunter Biden if he didn't know
the ID of the customer?
5. The piece claims the shop owner then alerted the FBI to the existence of the laptop
and it was later subpoenaed by a grand jury.
But the grand jury subpoena shown does not connect the laptop to Hunter Biden.
6. Then things get very weird. The shop owner says, before turning over the computer
to the feds, they made a copy of the contents of the computer and gave them to Rudy
Giuliani's lawyer
Mmmmhmmmm
7. The New York Post allegedly learned about this copy of the laptop through Steven Bannon.
Both Giuliani and Bannon are regular sources of disinformation
8. But this is the important point. Pretending, for a moment, that everything
in the story is true (very doubtful) it is totally inconsequential.
Supposedly one "email" recovered on the laptop "proves" that Hunter
once introduced a Bursima exec to his father.
9. This is a scandal? There is no word on the length of the meeting or what
was discussed.
The New York Post says its significant because Biden then called for the ouster
of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Bursima.
FALSE
The prosecutor was not investigating Bursima
10. The prosecutor was corrupt, which is why the entire international community
was calling for his ouster.
Replacing the corrupt prosecutor brought more scrutiny on Bursima, not less
11. Allegedly, the laptop Hunter "forgot" to pick up also contains a 12 minute video
of him smoking crack and having sex with an unidentified woman.
12. Nevertheless, this incredibly sketchy, totally unverified, and ultimately
irrelevant story is being promoted by mainstream journalists who don't work
for the New York Post.
Don't be fooled by that.
13. I should clarify that, assuming the email is legit, it doesn't establish that a meeting
took place. Just that Hunter offered an "opportunity" to meet his father.
14. As of 9:50AM, the New York Post piece has been shared more than 26,000 times
on Facebook
Daily Kos
emptywheel
Twitter › emptywheel
Here's a question, lawyer people. The people behind today's NYPost stunt are
1) under indictment for fraud 2) under investigation for FARA.
The data behind the story is already beginning to fall apart.
AND there's a claim (possibly false) of FBI involvement.
1 day ago
The ever-changing laptop story narrated by Rudy Giuliani
https://www.mediaite.com/radio/rudy...ory-now-claims-hunter-biden-left-it-at-store/
Twitter › emptywheel
Here's a question, lawyer people. The people behind today's NYPost stunt are
1) under indictment for fraud 2) under investigation for FARA.
The data behind the story is already beginning to fall apart.
AND there's a claim (possibly false) of FBI involvement.
1 day ago
The ever-changing laptop story narrated by Rudy Giuliani
https://www.mediaite.com/radio/rudy...ory-now-claims-hunter-biden-left-it-at-store/
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But these dumbass Trumpers believe these two put America first.
No the hell they don't!
No the hell they don't!
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