A possible reason why Trump is trying to silence opposition media

[edward37]

do the russians know about this ?

Russia has ONE objective in mind........To ridicule our dominance as a world power; to make our friends distrust us (as the Trump administration certainly has)......

Russia likes to "fish in troubled waters" and Russia has no love for Trump and will use him to show how UN-unified our country has become.

And Sessions better recuse himself or there won't an ending to the investigation

 

[Rustic]

Most right wingers who are now stuck with the Trumpster have NO choice but to condone all of the excesses this clown is imposing on our democracy.....and that is too bad; brainwashing is never pleasant to watch.

However, the current administration is well aware that there are very damaging leaks about the Trump administration dealings with Russian thugs just waiting to be exposed in the upcoming weeks (and probably some of these leaks will be from the Russians themselves in their quest to ridicule the current status of U.S. standing in the world's eyes.)

Given these realities, the oval office has launched a preemptive strike against our own media outlets (labeling them fake news) in order to "cushion" the blow of what these media outlets will soon reveal.

Whenever any organization is beleaguered by an onslaught of controversy, the organization retreats into its bunkers hoping that the controversy will be overshadowed by a more important exigency.

Ultimately this sham of an administration will not be brought down by so-called liberals, but by sane republicans who would rather lose a battle than a more devastating war launched by a charlatan under their banner.

We will be facing very nasty and contentious springtime months..

.

what's he doing to "silence" them

oh yeah nothing

Thru brainwashing YOU to believe when the Intelligence committees and News Reports the TRUTH about his team's involvement with the Russians and the stolen email dump's timing of releases on to wikileaks....his team was in collusion with the Russian operatives to influence the outcome of this election in Trump's favor.

It's why he's denied Russian involvement from the get go....he KNOWS HE CHEATED and he doesn't want the World to find out....

He wouldn't be spending so much energy and time to have his peeps fight these investigations tooth and nail....

If he had NOTHING to hide, he would WELCOME the investigations to be open and thorough.

sorta like his hiding his tax returns too

Mind your own business

 

[edward37]

Most right wingers who are now stuck with the Trumpster have NO choice but to condone all of the excesses this clown is imposing on our democracy.....and that is too bad; brainwashing is never pleasant to watch.

However, the current administration is well aware that there are very damaging leaks about the Trump administration dealings with Russian thugs just waiting to be exposed in the upcoming weeks (and probably some of these leaks will be from the Russians themselves in their quest to ridicule the current status of U.S. standing in the world's eyes.)

Given these realities, the oval office has launched a preemptive strike against our own media outlets (labeling them fake news) in order to "cushion" the blow of what these media outlets will soon reveal.

Whenever any organization is beleaguered by an onslaught of controversy, the organization retreats into its bunkers hoping that the controversy will be overshadowed by a more important exigency.

Ultimately this sham of an administration will not be brought down by so-called liberals, but by sane republicans who would rather lose a battle than a more devastating war launched by a charlatan under their banner.

We will be facing very nasty and contentious springtime months..

.

what's he doing to "silence" them

oh yeah nothing

Thru brainwashing YOU to believe when the Intelligence committees and News Reports the TRUTH about his team's involvement with the Russians and the stolen email dump's timing of releases on to wikileaks....his team was in collusion with the Russian operatives to influence the outcome of this election in Trump's favor.

It's why he's denied Russian involvement from the get go....he KNOWS HE CHEATED and he doesn't want the World to find out....

He wouldn't be spending so much energy and time to have his peeps fight these investigations tooth and nail....

If he had NOTHING to hide, he would WELCOME the investigations to be open and thorough.

sorta like his hiding his tax returns too

Mind your own business

as he is the leader of our country with enterprises world wide it behooves him to make public his financial dealings so we can be sure he's on the up and up,,,,,,his past shows no such thing

 

[edward37]

Most right wingers who are now stuck with the Trumpster have NO choice but to condone all of the excesses this clown is imposing on our democracy.....and that is too bad; brainwashing is never pleasant to watch.

However, the current administration is well aware that there are very damaging leaks about the Trump administration dealings with Russian thugs just waiting to be exposed in the upcoming weeks (and probably some of these leaks will be from the Russians themselves in their quest to ridicule the current status of U.S. standing in the world's eyes.)

Given these realities, the oval office has launched a preemptive strike against our own media outlets (labeling them fake news) in order to "cushion" the blow of what these media outlets will soon reveal.

Whenever any organization is beleaguered by an onslaught of controversy, the organization retreats into its bunkers hoping that the controversy will be overshadowed by a more important exigency.

Ultimately this sham of an administration will not be brought down by so-called liberals, but by sane republicans who would rather lose a battle than a more devastating war launched by a charlatan under their banner.

We will be facing very nasty and contentious springtime months..

.

what's he doing to "silence" them

oh yeah nothing

Thru brainwashing YOU to believe when the Intelligence committees and News Reports the TRUTH about his team's involvement with the Russians and the stolen email dump's timing of releases on to wikileaks....his team was in collusion with the Russian operatives to influence the outcome of this election in Trump's favor.

It's why he's denied Russian involvement from the get go....he KNOWS HE CHEATED and he doesn't want the World to find out....

He wouldn't be spending so much energy and time to have his peeps fight these investigations tooth and nail....

If he had NOTHING to hide, he would WELCOME the investigations to be open and thorough.

sorta like his hiding his tax returns too

Mind your own business

as he is the leader of our country with enterprises world wide it behooves him to make public his financial dealings so we can be sure he's on the up and up,,,,,,his past shows no such thing

Preibus goes to CIA FBI telling them to shut down investigation of drump russia?

then the 2 investigating republicans are trying to find news absolving drump? I thought those investigators were supposed to look at ALL evidence not just the evidence favoring their party

Wasn't it Nixon that tried to get investigators to bury news from his break in?

we need a non partisan investigation,,,,not one done by dumps scumbags

 

[nat4900]

Ultimately, Trump is concerned about these types of reports getting traction. His "best" chance of defusing the upcoming controversy is to label the media outlets as "fakes"......


Reports: U.S. Intercepted Calls Between Trump Campaign Staff And Russian Intelligence

Reports: U.S. Intercepted Calls Between Trump Campaign Staff And Russian Intelligence

Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/russia-intelligence-communications-trump.html

Report: Trump campaign aides were in contact with Russian intel officials

Report: Trump campaign aides were in contact with Russian intel officials

 

[Meathead]

It is a pity that we're talking about the "opposition media". This, of course, by the OP's admission.

Clearly, CNN, NYT and LAT are in fact opposition media who have abandoned all objective journalistic standards in their assault on a result of a democratic election.

 

[edward37]

It is a pity that we're talking about the "opposition media". This, of course, by the OP's admission.

Clearly, CNN, NYT and LAT are in fact opposition media who have abandoned all objective journalistic standards in their assault on a result of a democratic election.

Meat Did you get this Penn State study?
Trumpovitch did best in counties with high incidence rates of mental disease, alcoholism, drug overdoses and drug possession arrests.

Makes perfect sense to me.

 

[nat4900]

Clearly, CNN, NYT and LAT are in fact opposition media who have abandoned all objective journalistic standards in their assault on a result of a democratic election.

.......and exactly WHO the fuck are you or Trump to tell an American citizen as a consumer of news, which is "fake news" or "OPPOSITION news"?????

 

[Meathead]

Clearly, CNN, NYT and LAT are in fact opposition media who have abandoned all objective journalistic standards in their assault on a result of a democratic election.

.......and exactly WHO the fuck are you or Trump to tell an American citizen as a consumer of news, which is "fake news" or "OPPOSITION news"?????

I am an American citizen exercising my first amendment rights. Clearly that disturbs you. You, I believe, were the one who used the term "opposition media", and I agree. It is a pity we've come to this.

 

[Meathead]

Meat Did you get this Penn State study?
Trumpovitch did best in counties with high incidence rates of mental disease, alcoholism, drug overdoses and drug possession arrests.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Trump did terribly in cities.

 

[nat4900]

I am an American citizen exercising my first amendment rights. Clearly that disturbs you. You, I believe, were the one who used the term "opposition media", and I agree. It is a pity we've come to this.

NO, NO........I used the term, "OPPOSITION MEDIA" for a very specific purpose......If the media does not act as an opposition outlet, THEN they've become a mere PROPAGANDA machine.

 

[Meathead]

I am an American citizen exercising my first amendment rights. Clearly that disturbs you. You, I believe, were the one who used the term "opposition media", and I agree. It is a pity we've come to this.

NO, NO........I used the term, "OPPOSITION MEDIA" for a very specific purpose......If the media does not act as an opposition outlet, THEN they've become a mere PROPAGANDA machine.

Your purpose was as clear as your wording. The facade of objective journalism is clearly a thing of the past and you inadvertently acknowledged it.

 

[Care4all]

The press is another watchdog on our govt...leaks, are what provide us with the news OUR Gvt is hiding from us and not just the news the govt wants us to focus on....

this is not something new under President Trump.... there would have been no exposing of watergate and the corruption in the administration, there would have been no knowledge of Abu Garaib torture, no knowledge on what was going on in GITMO, no knowledge of FAST & Furious, no knowledge on what the NSA was listening in on...no knowledge of the Iran Contra Affair....the leaks in the Hillary Clinton email investigation were ALL unnamed sources.

These all began from someone unnamed leaking in most cases.

It's the risk govt takes every single day....will someone leak this to the media/public/voter....?

And I LIKE this...I think it is GOOD that our leaders know, that they will get caught, if they are doing something rotten, thru a leaker...so they better keep their noses clean..... it would be even worse than it's been on gvt corruption or nefarious actions, if we did not have the media as an opposition watchdog.

 

[Correll]

Most right wingers who are now stuck with the Trumpster have NO choice but to condone all of the excesses this clown is imposing on our democracy.....and that is too bad; brainwashing is never pleasant to watch.

However, the current administration is well aware that there are very damaging leaks about the Trump administration dealings with Russian thugs just waiting to be exposed in the upcoming weeks (and probably some of these leaks will be from the Russians themselves in their quest to ridicule the current status of U.S. standing in the world's eyes.)

Given these realities, the oval office has launched a preemptive strike against our own media outlets (labeling them fake news) in order to "cushion" the blow of what these media outlets will soon reveal.

Whenever any organization is beleaguered by an onslaught of controversy, the organization retreats into its bunkers hoping that the controversy will be overshadowed by a more important exigency.

Ultimately this sham of an administration will not be brought down by so-called liberals, but by sane republicans who would rather lose a battle than a more devastating war launched by a charlatan under their banner.

We will be facing very nasty and contentious springtime months..

.

Your russian hate is so funny, when I contrast it to the why you lefties were during the Cold War, when they were actually a threat.

 

[eflatminor]

Yes, I recall your outrage when the New York Times reported in 2015 how Obama met privately with liberal reporters and columnists frequently throughout his tenure in office — “more than a dozen” times.

Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal.

 

[Tresha91203]

Most right wingers who are now stuck with the Trumpster have NO choice but to condone all of the excesses this clown is imposing on our democracy.....and that is too bad; brainwashing is never pleasant to watch.

However, the current administration is well aware that there are very damaging leaks about the Trump administration dealings with Russian thugs just waiting to be exposed in the upcoming weeks (and probably some of these leaks will be from the Russians themselves in their quest to ridicule the current status of U.S. standing in the world's eyes.)

Given these realities, the oval office has launched a preemptive strike against our own media outlets (labeling them fake news) in order to "cushion" the blow of what these media outlets will soon reveal.

Whenever any organization is beleaguered by an onslaught of controversy, the organization retreats into its bunkers hoping that the controversy will be overshadowed by a more important exigency.

Ultimately this sham of an administration will not be brought down by so-called liberals, but by sane republicans who would rather lose a battle than a more devastating war launched by a charlatan under their banner.

We will be facing very nasty and contentious springtime months..

.

Trump Aide Reince Priebus Asked FBI to Knock Down Russia Stories

The RUSSIANS!!!!! Idiot left loon tries to keep the false narrative going...

Shady Left-Wing Operative Kicked Out Of CPAC For Handing Out Russian Flags

DC: A left-wing political operative with a history of shady activities was kicked out of CPAC on Friday after he distributed Russian flags to audience members ahead of President Trump’s speech there.

Some news outlets reported that CPAC attendees were waving the flags as if they were pro-Russia.

But the reports left out the fact that a veteran political hatchet man named Ryan Clayton actually distributed the flags, which bore the name “Trump” on them.

Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe first pointed out on social media that Clayton distributed the flags. The Daily Mail’s David Martosko confirmed that CPAC removed him from the venue.

Clayton is the head of Americans Take Action, a mysterious left-wing activist group that seeks to reform the electoral system. He is also the executive director of Wolf PAC, a progressive political action committee that was founded by Cenk Uygar, the founder of the popular online show, The Young Turks.

Clayton has a long history questionable political shenanigans.

Shady Left-Wing Operative Kicked Out Of CPAC For Handing Out Russian Flags – IOTW Report

Which would then make CPAC morons even MORE stupid in NOT recognizing the Russian flag and STILL waving it like the idiots that they are???????????...........LOL

Bullshit. Before this story, YOU didn't know what the Russian flag looked like.

Quick,without google or bing, what's the flag of Saudi Arabia look like? Unless you are a flag buff, most of the world doesn't know,

 

[nat4900]

Yes, I recall your outrage when the New York Times reported in 2015 how Obama met privately with liberal reporters and columnists frequently throughout his tenure in office — “more than a dozen” times.

Do you mean the VERY SAME NYT that is somewhat banned form the Trumpster media pool?? LOL

 

[jknowgood]

Is that why conservatives are happy, and your kind are losing your minds?

True....SOME conservatives are happy because they have found a perfect stooge in Trump. The problem will arise when Trump asks them to fund his "causes" while slashing taxes and be faced with a HUGE debt.

In the past eight years liberals didn't care about debt. Why all a sudden you care now?

lets put the shoe on the other foot dumpster Why would repubs want to raise debt now when they ground the country to a halt when Obama wanted to raise it?

Didn't know they are all a sudden wanting to raise the debt.

 

[nat4900]

Didn't know they are all a sudden wanting to raise the debt.

Go back to bed then.....

 

[jknowgood]

Cutting goverment, cutting programs, cutting foreign giveaways. Cutting taxes will also create jobs, so more money coming into our goverment.

Boy, are you EVER delusional.......
Did GWB cut taxes? Yes or No?
Did GWB experience 750,000 job losses per month? Yes or No?

Are you ready to openly state that you're an idiot? Yes or No?

LOL

When did those jobs start declining? Most of Bush's presidency has low unemployment. If I remember right it was right after the democrats won both houses back.