Robert Mackey of The Intercept reports that the White House plants far-right journalists in Trump’s press conferences and he makes sure to call on them. In the past, these fringe media never had White Gouse press credentials.
He writes:
IN AN APPARENT effort to make his daily news conferences even more like campaign events than they already are, the White House press office has been packing the briefing room with supporters of President Donald Trump from far-right media outlets who can be relied on to toss him softball questions and initiate attacks on his political rivals.
Clearly in on the plot, Trump solicited a question each day this week from one of the guests invited by his press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, to stand at the back of the room — where representatives of One America News, The Epoch Times and Gateway Pundit compromised the health of reporters by violating social distancing and mask-wearing guidelines.
On Monday, Trump called on Chanel Rion, a far-right Republican operative and conspiracy theorist now working as a correspondent for One America News, a San Diego cable channel dedicated to spreading lies about Joe Biden and elderly protesters battered by the police.
Rion gave Trump the opportunity to unleash a familiar riff from his pre-pandemic rallies by suggesting to him that Biden might have been considering President Barack Obama’s former national security adviser, Susan Rice, as his running mate because, “she can best cover up a lot of the Obamagate surveillance crimes that have taken place during your campaign.” Trump responded by accusing Obama and Biden of “probably treason.”
The next day, Rion triggered another familiar Trump diatribe by asking for his take on the resignation of Carmen Best, the first Black woman to lead Seattle’s police force, after the city council voted to cut her department’s budget. “What does this say about our country?” Rion asked Trump. “And what does this say about the Defund Police movement?” The president replied by repeating the lie that Seattle’s Democratic mayor had let “a radical left group, Antifa and others, take over a big portion of the city.”
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In reaction to Steve Bannon’s being arrested for massive defrauding of Trumpanzees to divert money supposed to be used to build the border wall, Trump said, “I feel badly.”
I will take Don the Con’s toddler English prima facie. Yes, he does “feel badly.” He is incapable of feeling for others, so he doesn’t do “feeling” well.
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Here’s the indictment of the We Build the Wall conspirators: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/bannon-indictment/index.html
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Bannon and his coconspirators were indicted by federal prosecutors. I recently read that Trump calls and talks to Bannon every day. Does that mean Trump will pardon Bannon?
To protect the justice system, everyone linked to Trump that is arrested for a crime must be indicted by the states, not the feds.
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Well, can he pardon him before this ever goes to trial? I wonder. Perhaps the trial will take place after he is gone from the Offal Office.
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This scheme of Bannon’s is indicative of the entire Trump maladministration, isn’t it? A fraud on the very people who support them.
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These are the sort of people who have no principles, who would eat their own young.
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This malignant narcissist, pathological liar is destroying our country. It gets worse every day.
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Donald Trump, Jr. is as creepy as his father.
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John Oliver did a feature on One America News Network; that was the first I’d heard of this news outlet, which asks the president such hard-hitting questions as: “Mr. President, why do you think democrats hate America?”
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Trump is totally crazy. He is making sure that people know our polling places are rampant with fraud. Notice that he spoke this nonsense to Hannity. One more lie to make Trump look good in the eyes of Fox watchers.
BUT, if you mail in your absentee ballot, that it might not be counted because of the looney DeJay that he put in charge of the U.S. Postal Service.
This country is totally phucked if we don’t get rid of Trump.
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Trump Makes Empty Threat to Send ‘Sheriffs’ to Polling Places
Tom Sykes
Published
Aug. 21, 2020
4:05AM ET
President Donald Trump has threatened to send “sheriffs” and “law enforcement” to polling places on election day to guard against voter fraud—even though he lacks the authority to do so. “We’re going to have sheriffs, and we’re going to have law enforcement, and we’re going to have, hopefully, U.S. attorneys,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity. Marc Elias, an election lawyer at the forefront of Democrat lawsuits on voting, tweeted in response: “Not without a legal fight he won’t!” According to CNN, election law experts say Trump has no authority to deploy law enforcement officials to monitor elections, but his campaign could hire off-duty police as “poll watchers.” The Trump campaign is seeking to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers for their largest ever poll-watching operation in November. Poll-watching is a common practice, and both parties use it. Observers monitor how ballots are cast, the testing of equipment, and counting procedures.
Read it at CNN
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