Throughout this past year, we have heard Trump proclaim that any criticism or negative story about him or his administration is “fake news.”
His criticism of the various news outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post and particularly CNN is unending and, frankly, juvenile.
He labels the New York Times as the “failing” New York Times even though it is, by all accounts, quite healthy.
His distaste for CNN apparently knows no bounds.
A proposed merger between AT&T and Time-Warner appears to be in jeopardy owing to a Justice Department lawsuit to block the merger.
The opposition by the Justice Department is, at first blush, baffling since the Administration prides itself on and trumpets the fact that it is “anti-regulatory.
Moreover, the Chief of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division is on record as declaring that there is nothing about the merger that troubles him.
One of the considerations in approving the merger is to require Time-Warner to divest itself of CNN.
While the Justice Department is not supposed to be at Trump’s beck and call, it appears that Sessions is about to bow to Trump’s pressure as penance for recusing himself in the Russian Election Meddling probe that resulted in the appointment of a Special Prosecutor.
Apparently, they have embarked upon a strategy that if you cannot beat CNN than kill it.
Trump surrounds himself with an assortment of “communications” staff.
Kelly Anne Conway should have a polygraph machine permanently grafted on to her.
Sara Huckabee-Sanders is paid handsomely by the American taxpayers to lie to them every day.
As the Roy Moore campaign for the Senate seat from Alabama continues to unfold, we get to witness an ever evolving Trump.
First, he was content to let the people of Alabama decide.
Next, he and Kelly Anne declared that Moore’s Democratic opponent is a liberal who was “soft on crime.” An interesting assessment of a man who successfully prosecuted the KKK leadership for bombing a church and murdering four little girls decades before and Eric Rudolph who bombed a women’s health clinic and the Centennial Olympic Park in Georgia.
Confronted with the pedophilia accusations Moore faces, Trump dismisses them because “he denies them.”
The same way he denied the admissions he made about his own conduct on the Access Hollywood Tape and the scores of women who accused him of sexual assault.
Indeed, in his latest iteration of the tape, Trump now claims it’s not really his voice on the tape, notwithstanding the fact he admitted it was last year and apologized for it.
Don’t be surprised if you see Trump on the campaign trail with Moore before the December election.
Into this cauldron, now comes James O’Keefe, a right-wing gadfly who specializes in making false and misleading videos to embarrass various organizations and public officials.
O’Keefe rose to fame by publicizing a heavily edited video of interviews he had with Acorn officials in an effort to damage and undermine the work of that anti-poverty organization.
He pled guilty to a crime when he unsuccessfully attempted to tamper with the telephone system in Senator Mary Landrieu’s office, trying to substantiate a claim that she ignored constituent phone calls.
He unsuccessfully attempted to tie National Public Radio officials to Islamic terrorism with another heavily edited and doctored tape.
This week he attempted to discredit the Washington Post’s investigative reporting of Roy Moore, by sending an employee to meet with reporters from that paper with a false story about Roy Moore impregnating her at age fifteen and then arranging for an abortion.
O’Keefe’s strategy was fairly simple and straightforward.
If the Post reported the story and it proved to be false, then the Post would be discredited, Moore’s accusers would be undermined and O’Keefe and Trump’s preferred pedophile candidate would be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Unfortunately for O’Keefe, the Washington Post reporters were suspicious of his phony plant’s story and uncovered O’Keefe’s plot to discredit their reporting.
The name of O’Keefe’s organization is Project Veritas.
He should consider changing the name to Project Falsitas.
Where does this organization get its funding?
Well, we could start with the ten-thousand dollar contribution it received from the Donald J. trump Foundation.
That is not “Fake News.”
I’m betting you won’t hear Trump talk or tweet about it.