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More petty insults and lies. Grow up.
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Bullshit!!!!!
Right before the New Year, the New York Times breathlessly reported that the drunken revelations of a former Trump campaign foreign policy aide to an Australian diplomat in May 2016 prompted the FBI to open an investigation into the campaign’s Russia ties.
The Times story has already been exposed as full of holes and contradictions. It is the latest indication that the mainstream media routinely hypes any bad news, real or imagined, for President Trump in the Russia probe.
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Just as disturbing, those who disseminate and explain the news continue to lack a basic understanding of the context and nature of Trump’s unconventional political campaign and often assume that the chaos, lack of organization, and opportunism that existed is synonymous with nefariousness, conspiracy, or broader illegality.
As the country awaits the final verdict of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, other common misperceptions deserve closer examination.
A nonpolitician’s campaign
Even before the Times story, the Trump foreign policy adviser in question, George Papadopoulos, had already become a marquee name in Mueller’s investigation. Last October, he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI regarding the “timing, extent and nature” of his contacts with foreign nationals connected to the Russian government.
Many have wondered how the under-qualified, unknown Papadopoulos made his way to the Trump campaign in the first place. Most have concluded that he was hired because the Republican foreign policy establishment shunned the Trump candidacy, and the campaign, desperate to show off a roster of advisers, signed Papadopoulos on despite his flimsy qualifications.
That sounds reasonable enough, but that is not the full story. In 2016, the foreign policy establishment was not just hostile to Trump, it was generally averse to risk, unable to think outside the box, and unenthusiastic about the promise of a completely re-envisioned Washington offered by an outsider candidate.
The reality was that most so-called experts (not just in foreign policy but in policy and politics in general) failed to recognize the 2016 electorate’s deep hunger for an authentic, nonpolitician candidate or the explosive ramifications of the Trump political revolution. In many ways, that failure continues today, as the media blows out of proportion stories about advisers like Papadopoulos.
Chaos and entrepreneurialism
Though President Trump has labeled Papadopoulos a low-level staffer, the media prefers to attribute to him greater authority and suggests that his contacts with the Russians were more than the errant efforts of a mere volunteer.
For instance, the New York Times claims that Papadopoulos “stayed influential throughout the campaign” and marvels at Papadopoulos’s refusal to stand down after then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Trump campaign’s national security advisory committee, rejected the young man’s proposal to arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Anyone who has ever attempted to turn an idea into reality in a campaign, a bureaucracy, or an organization knows that such efforts often require multiple attempts.
Volunteers and staffers who take the risk to sign on with an outsider’s campaign, especially the volatile Trump operation, are also likely to be more entrepreneurial, more persistent, and even more opportunistic in chasing after their goals. If Papadopoulos fit that mold and continued trying to make himself relevant, it is not a surprise, except perhaps to the New York Times.
Obviously, more details will emerge from the Mueller investigation in due time. Yet thus far, there is no evidence that Papadopoulos’s entrepreneurialism landed him as a key influencer in the campaign or that the campaign directed him to conspire with the Russians against the Hillary Clinton.
Foreign governments
It is worth remembering that, in 2016, the political environment was unique. Most observers, including foreign governments, were caught off guard by Trump’s emergence as the GOP’s standard-bearer in late April. Embassies in Washington and foreign ministries overseas realized that they knew precious little about the candidate and had few or no direct lines of communication to his campaign.
So they latched on to anyone who could offer insight. I saw a tiny glimpse of the frenzied outreach myself. During the general election, I served as the deputy director of a pro-Trump super PAC. One Washington-based diplomat of a friendly democratic government used to call, text, and email me constantly, weekends and evenings included, trying to persuade me to reveal and introduce to him people in the Trump camp. His approach was at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive, but the zeal of foreign governments to get to know the Trump camp was unmistakable.
As such, Trump’s named advisers, like Papadopoulos, were no doubt inundated with calls, requests, and inquiries. Wild assumptions in the press notwithstanding, it is not inherently illegal for a campaign staffer to talk to foreigners. In fact, plenty of other presidential campaigns have exchanged views with foreign governments about the candidates’ positions and policy agenda. Recall that as presidential candidates former President Barack Obama, then a senator from Illinois, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney embarked on foreign trips in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Certainly, they could not have avoided talking to foreigners then.
It is not even illegal for a campaign to collude with the Russians, some legal scholars argue. Regardless, although Moscow’s efforts to connect with people in the Trump orbit have now been shown to be ill-intentioned, the public has seen no evidence thus far that the campaign directed Papadopoulos, or anyone else, to do anything criminal.
Before everyone joins the Times and other anti-Trump media sources in their excitement about the Russia probe, perhaps some sanity should be in order.
The Trump revolution
In 2017, the Russia investigation became a convenient storyline to discredit Trump’s electoral victory. The public has no idea what findings Mueller will ultimately reveal, but the involvement of Papadopoulos in many ways offers a window into Trump’s chaotic, unlikely, and historic political triumph as an outsider in 2016. Too bad the press is not spending more time studying that.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...ia-collusion-probe-into-trump/article/2645468
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Are you sure about that? I don't believe that is accurate.
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There have already been indictments; there are certainly meetings that were conducted that were suspicious at best & warranted further investigation.
There was other intel besides the dossier, you keep forgetting how all these pieces fit together.
Think of of all the good tips throughout history that have been given through conversations over drinks, or pillow talk. It is the FBI’s duty to follow ALL leads.
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None of the indictments involved Trump and none of them had anything to do with collusion.
Meeting Gate was a bust. If anything, it’s suspicious of being a setup by our friends over at Fusion GPS. They were looking to sell their Dossier and Junior bribing the Russian lawyer would help in that regard. But Junior didn’t bite.
Maybe Mueller should look into it.
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Unless it is anything to do with Ma Clinton, then the vag badge gets taken out and burnished
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As long as they lead to Trump lol?
We have no idea where this is leading, it may vindicate Trump, why are you guys so nervous about this investigation? Afraid your guy is dirty? I would think you would welcome the investigation to clear him?
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What other Intel?
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You'll have to wait a bit whilst she pulls it out of her rectum.
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It is not an investigation, it is a witch hunt. Or have you forgotten the emails saying go after Trump?
Media Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
This week’s press conference featuring the White House physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, ostensibly was about President Trump’s health. In reality, it was a physical and mental check-up on the White House press corps, whose jejunity, mental impairment, and ideological blindness bespoke a dangerous warning sign for both the White House and the nation. These people are sick, and getting sicker. And until they’re all in quarantine, we’re all in danger of catching what’s obviously now a deadly communicable disease.
According to Dr. Jackson, the president’s health is excellent, especially for a 71-year-old man who subsists on little sleep and an old-fashioned American diet. But that wasn’t what the media was there to hear. In fact, they weren’t there to hear much of anything at all, or indeed even to listen (since they had already mentally discounted anything the doctor was going to say). Rather they had come to speak, using Dr. Jackson as the foil for “questions” that stated and restated the same Leftist-narrative talking point: that Trump is physically and mentally unfit to lead the nation that elected him—much to their shock and anger—fifteen months ago.
You can watch the whole thing here. But do note a few things going in, including the relative youth of the media folk, especially the women—who seem to be, like the Eloi in The Time Machine, chosen for their freshness and beauty rather than the penetrating quality of their minds. The men, meanwhile, skew slightly older, although no less primped and blow-dried.
Their “questions”—which were not phrased to elicit information but to score political points—almost all contained an underlying premise: that the president is manifestly unsuited to his high office, and the burden of proof is on the doctor to prove otherwise. Even when he stated in unequivocal terms that there is nothing physically or mentally wrong with Trump, the press corps practically sneered in his face, like small children demanding to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the sun will, in fact, rise in the east tomorrow. “Some people just have great genes,” said Dr. Jackson. But in the mechanistic world-view of “progressivism,” there can be no mysteries; everything must have a cause and effect, tied directly to diet, exercise, sex, race, and climate change. Things cannot simply just be.
More Media #Resistance
The circus inside the White House briefing room was all part of the ongoing and increasingly brazen and dishonest “resistance” movement against the American people and our constitutional electoral system. Since themoment it dawned on them, late on the evening of Nov. 8, 2016, that Hillary Clinton’s triumphant waddle into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was not going to happen, the Democrat-Media Complex has waged all-out war on Trump and his administration. And not just the Democrats, but their allies-of-convenience, the “NeverTrumpers,” whose ranks not only include “conservative” columnists exposed as ideologically impotent, but also nominal members of the GOP as well, including soon-to-be-former senator, Jeff Flake, currently accepting the plaudits of the Left on his farewell tour of the Senate.
In Flake’s view, articulated in his Wednesday speech, it’s not the administration that’s under attack by a pack of howling media wolves—in fact, it’s just the opposite. “No longer can we compound attacks on truth with our silent acquiescence. No longer can we turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to these assaults on our institutions,” he said. “An American president who cannot take criticism—who must constantly deflect and distort and distract—who must find someone else to blame—is charting a very dangerous path. And a Congress that fails to act as a check on the President adds to the danger.”
Now Flake is a mendacious fool, who never would be have been re-elected in Arizona. Still, when he compares the sitting president to Josef Stalin and calls Trump’s derision of a manifestly dishonest media “an assault as unprecedented as it is unwarranted,” he’s also an ahistorical, ignorant fool.
Sarah Sanders provided a little pushback when she observed, “he’s criticizing the President because he has terrible poll numbers and he is looking for some attention. I think it’s unfortunate,” but a “more in sorrow” response is exactly wrong. This is a war that only one side can win—and which only one side is fighting in earnest at the moment. The notoriously inept White House communications shop has, from the outset, played by Marquess of Queensberry rules, treating the ladies and gentlemen of the press as if they were, well, ladies and gentlemen, instead of credentialed but poorly educated, ideologically committed propagandists. It’s no accident that 90 percent of the press coverage of the Trump administration so far has been negative, with the media determined to present everything in the worst possible light.
How Do “Conservatives” Counter This?
Note the profusion of headlines these days that now include “sources say,” “seems to suggest,” “may,” “reportedly,” and other weasel words whose plain meaning isnot. The great scheisshole flap originated with exactly one individual, the proven fabulist Dick Durbin of Illinois, but now has been accepted as gospel by (as Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, says) the Democratic operatives with bylines. And the great “Russian collusion” hoax—which I pointed out from day one was a disinformation operation facilitated by rogue, but high-ranking, members of the intelligence community, the Democrats, the Clinton campaign, and their hacks and fellow-travelers in the media—has now gossamered away in the wind, having largely been supplanted by 25th Amendment fantasies, Michael Wolff’s book, and temper tantrums over Norway and the new tax tables.
And yet, they never stop, they never sleep, they never quit. To counter this, what do our so-called “conservatives” have? A White House press operation that issues hopeful but random talking points with wan pleas for influential columnists and bloggers to cite them? Sarah Sanders’ media follies? If the White House comm shop really wanted a game-changer, it could start by discontinuing the briefings and dispersing the correspondents back to covering the police beat in Dubuque and town meetings in western New York State, where they might actually learn to recognize and report news, instead of shoehorning it into the Narrative.
Trump himself showed the way yesterday with his “Fake News” Awards, which went to doom-‘n-gloomer Paul Krugman for his prediction that the stock market (now at 26,000) would “never” recover from Trump’s election; ABC’s hacktastic Brian Ross, demoted after sending markets briefly plummeting with a false report about when Trump had instructed former national security advisor Mike Flynn to make contact with the Russians; CNN’s “sourced” blunder (“confirmed” by two other news organizations) about when the Trumps got access to the Wikileaks dump; and eight more, including, at No. 11, the entire “Russian collusion” fantasy.
All Trump, All the Time
Still, the sad truth is that all news these days has become Washington political news—theNew York Times can hardly issue a tweet or a news alert without some mention of Trump—and for journalistic order to be restored, a refusal to indulge this monomania and the children who embody and promulgate it would be a good starting point both for Washington and for the profession. Meanwhile, the Left’s media machine goes 24/7—“Trump unfit, Trump unfit, this just in: Trump unfit”—and even when some of their number fall victim to the pervnado, they simply replace them and keep churning.
This perfectly sums up the first year of the administration. Starting with the president himself, who still believes he can charm the Beltway media the way he did the Manhattan media in his former life (“You have to understand,” one White House insider told me last summer, “the president likes Maggie Haberman”), the administration still largely ascribes good intentions to a group of politically and culturally deadly opponents who scoff at the notions of fair play, balance, common decency, and dispassion in the furtherance of their policy objectives.
Not smart enough to get into law school, they decided to “change the world” through the medium of journalism—the rooster graduate students and chicken teaching assistants of the Frankfurt School; after their long march through the institutions, they have come home to roost at the highest levels of academe, entertainment, the Democrat Party, and the media. Going forward, confronting and defeating these domestic sappers should be one of our highest priorities. The fate of the nation depends on it
https://amgreatness.com/2018/01/18/media-chickens-frankfurt-school-come-home-roost/
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I don't want her to answer the question then.....
Lol, the man was removed from the investigation, next
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I stopped at 'old fashioned American diet'. What about fast food/junk food is 'old fashioned'?
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Remember - we're not talking about 100% proof of collusion. We're just looking at it in terms of determining whether there was enough there to warrant an investigation in the 1st place.
Not sure how anyone could say no to the latter.
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Why don't they ever mention the Hillary bashing in those texts?
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