This last press conference was very strange. There where some very odd key words that President Trump said, a few that caught my attention where "you can just listen to the hateful tone of their broadcasts" and "fake fake news"
What I found very interesting is how certain media outlets where intent on pressing the "are you dealing with Russia" narrative. At first i assumed that they are trying to cater to their audience, but the reporters seemed quite sure that they know something, that they have a huge bombshell.
So what exactly is going on?
I believe that they have been sold a fake story, and the goal of the administration is to get them to drop this fake story, so that they can be both sued and shut down. Doing this will have some serious lasting political consequences.
Imagine if ted turner, George soros, and Jeff beezos where to be charged with disseminating propaganda? Imagine the utter chaos in the democrat party when their top donors are removed as traitors, and their networks are shut down.
Trump and the republicans are in a position to do this. If they can humiliate and route the democrats before 2018 mid terms, then they will gain the ability to modify the US constitution as they see fit. They can do this, and it will take 10-20 years to undo what they set in motion, if it gets undone at all.
preachergeneses ago
libel is illegall, hence why CNN uses "anonymous sources" so the can say they were just mistaken, instead of lying.
FuckYourSafespace ago
They're not doing anything illegal. Shits still wrong.
senpaithatignoresyou ago
https://www.scribd.com/document/339434896/Davide-M-Carbone-v-Cable-New-Network#from_embed
It is if it counts as liable/defamation.
No only would he destroy their reputations and those around them, but he would get money out of it too.
FuckYourSafespace ago
Good point.
itsafuckshitstack ago
he is playing them for fools and making it look easy (i'm sure it's not). little bit of justice porn imo. i would only add that this is not republican vs democrat this is sovereignty vs globalism and its happening in every caste, dept, what have you
senpaithatignoresyou ago
I believe that Trump's goal is to go down into the history books as a great reformer.
His plan is not just to reform government, but also both political parties.
Hence the insanity that is breaking out right now. Between the emails, pizzagate, and now the wiretapping scandal, this is too much for the media to juggle. This is not counting what will happen next week too.
Once they break, it will be the end of the establishment, everywhere. Trump and friends then get to rebuild the new establishment.
brandon816 ago
If you are correct, then you know that they will all wait for the first sheep to release the story (getting slaughtered by lawsuits), before pointing to that story in their own news in order to get around lawsuits and the "fake news" label. He's going to have to try harder to bait one of them into taking the first step.
senpaithatignoresyou ago
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=64040 I don't know how legit this source is, but it appears that they have started making their first move.
The law is very strange in this case. Libel in this incident would mean that Trump would have to prove it is false, and that they distributed the information with the intent to damage his name.
At the same time, they are also a media outlet, so the law also holds them to a higher standard then it would a private citizen.
I really think something is about to go down.
Drenki ago
You realize Ted Turner hasn't been in control of CNN since the 90s, right?
Otherwise, it looks like Flynn was being used as a decoy to uncover disloyal officials. By immediately dropping Flynn, it looks like wrongdoing took place. Democrats saw this, smelled blood, and predictably cried out for an investigation. Little did they know that investigation would only be able to uncover the Obama admin appointees responsible.
Hoisted by their own petard? Not yet, the investigation has to happen.
senpaithatignoresyou ago
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=64040
It does look like they have uncovered a disloyal official, and that they have now claimed the misinformation part.
Granted, i do not know how legit this source is. I suspect though that the fake news narrative is about to get very interesting real fast.
Drenki ago
This is the same story from the aame source as a few days ago and from the same source as gotnews.
If this is real then the story was killed, but it's more likely gotnews is a baseless rumor mill.
No reason it should have this many upvotes unless shill activity.
senpaithatignoresyou ago
I am suspecting as much, but it is very hard to tell now.
Why are the shills pushing this then? Are these pro trump shills, or anti trump shills?
Or is this a tabloid that is pushing a guess in the hopes that it will be correct and they get to pretend to be legitimate?
Drenki ago
They'd be trying to get a people who disagree with their stance on the issue to discredit themselves by gloating about it.
8toborrm ago
Nice theory OP this is exactly the kind of chess the Trump team has been playing.