Pay-For-Play Illustrated ... Hey, MSM!

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https://twitter.com/JamilSmith

[deminks]

1. I regret that I can only rec this once.

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3. and where are the media?

still talking about Emails when we have an actual scandal

[volstork]

14. Here:

Snoozing, as usual.

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17. it's just pathetic

I've been switching back and forth between MSNBC and CNN and NOTHING! ZILCHO!

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2. CNN And Fox News Keep Mum About Trump Pay-to-Play Story. Why? (Update 2)

By Karoli Kuns
9/01/16

Last Friday, Washington Post reporter David Farenthold broke a blockbuster of a story about Donald Trump, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, and a clear-cut pay-to-play scheme. Our report on that is here. It's a blockbuster of a report that can leave no doubt about the fact that there was a quid pro quo between Bondi and Trump, with an equally clear effort to conceal it on the Trump Foundation reports.

In other words, it's truly a scandal. A REAL scandal. One that should have dominated today's Sunday shows and the newspaper headlines this weekend. Yet, there was no mention that I saw on any Sunday shows, and headlines are still dominated with bogus Clinton email stories. Curiously, only MSNBC has reported the story at all. Joy Reid did a lengthy segment while sitting in for Chris Hayes on All In last Friday night, a bit of which we've clipped above. In the words of Joe Biden, this is a BFD.

After sitting through all of the Sunday shows today, I wondered about where all of the stories on this were, so I went on a hunt. I searched the transcripts for Fox News, CNN and MSNBC to see where they had done any reporting on this. There are also huge questions about whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also dropped a Trump University investigation after receiving $35,000 from Trump, but for now let's focus on Bondi since the Trump Foundation admitted they sent her a contribution when they weren't supposed to.

The last mention of Bondi on Fox News was on August 24th, ahead of a Trump rally where she was slated to warm up the crowd. Before that, the last mention was during the Republican National Convention, where she was a speaker.

There have been no mentions of Bondi whatsoever on CNN since Wolf Blitzer interviewed a Gold Star parent who talked about a meeting Bondi facilitated with Trump.

read more: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/09/cnn-and-fox-news-keep-mum-about-trump-pay

[Yallow]

16. They Are Too Bush Pushing Fake Scandals To Report On Open Corruption

Because the polls are tightening!

Horserace!!!

$$$$$

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18. yep, I'm hearing about the tightening, and Trump's "turnaround"

And the Trump surrogates are out in force talking about the comeback.

"Trump has had a great two weeks! He went to Mexico! He's acting presidential! He reached out to African-Americans at a church! He's participating in a roundtable discussion with leaders of the community today!" blah blah blah

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23. Joy Reid covering the story now on MSNBC!

talking about there IS a SMOKING GUN!

Go Joy!!!!

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4. Trump Foundation Investigation | Joy Reid

[sheshe2]

5. K&R

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7. thank you sheshe

We need to get the media to cover this actual SCANDAL!

(Where are Hillary's surrogates? They need to be out there pushing the story.)

[sheshe2]

8. Welcome, napkinz.

I know, wish someone would attack him on this.

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9. this SCANDAL should be dominating the news cycle

(I'm hoping Rachel and Lawrence will cover it. I don't expect much from CNN, and of course we'll hear nothing from FOX.)

[annabanana]

6. rec, kick and GODDAMN!

I thought that the new media would make this kind of MSM willful blindness obsolete. Never again would 100's of thousands of people march right past media's corporate headquarters without acknowledgement . .

I guess they're going to try to pull it off some more..

[napkinz]

10. "MSM willful blindness"

inexcusable and deplorable dereliction!

(I'm watching MSNBC right now. What are they talking about? EMAILS!)

[Thinkingabout]

11. These are just a few of the times Trump did the "pay to play" game, he has admitted to using this

many times. I don't understand why the Trump camp would even try to bring up any pay for play.

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13. Trump accusing Hillary of "pay for play"

Trump: "Pay for play. You are not allowed to do it. It's illegal."

[Thinkingabout]

21. He will be the greatest loser EVER.

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22. he's going to lose BIGLY!

it's going to be YUGE!

[progressoid]

12. Rec!

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19. thanks progressoid!

[Yallow]

15. Zero Press Coverage - Dems Being Screwed Big Time

Time to attack the press just like Lying Republicans.

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20. wow! Trump surrogate on MSNBC is talking about HILLARY's pay-for-play scandal!

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49. Chuck Todd covering the story now on MSNBC

It's about time!

[Motley13]

24. Isn't that just a flat out BRIBE?

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26. whatever you call it, where are the f*cking media?

Where are the FLASHING “Breaking News” banners on CNN and MSNBC!

Where are the frenzied anchors and commentators feverish and gasping for air?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Trump threatens litigation against the media and does sue. They are cowed into submission. . nt

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27. that's what they do ...

Donald Trump Threatens to Sue Washington Post (Presidential candidate not happy with newspaper for publishing article detailing bankruptcy of his Atlantic City casino)

http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-threatens-to-sue-washington-post-over-casino-bankruptcy-story/

Melania Trump sues Daily Mail and US blogger for $150m over sex worker claims

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37253025

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28. Trump has called for special prosecutor to investigate Hillary. Well ...

Last edited Wed Sep 7, 2016, 03:33 PM - Edit history (1)

[Adrahil]

29. The meme is good, but...

it needs to read ILLEGAL $25,000 donation.

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31. I agree, they should have added ILLEGAL

good catch!

(still, where are the MSM on this REAL scandal?)

[world wide wally]

30. We need something like a 4th estate

Maybe a free press or something like that.

[napkinz]

32. that's a great idea!

[gratuitous]

33. Nope, too easy

What the media understand is a stove-piped Rube Goldberg-style machine of disparate causes and effects. Wealthy donor A gives money to the Clinton Foundation in 2007. Someone on A's behalf contacts the Secretary of State's office in 2011 looking for a service thousands of people contact State for every year. State turns down the supplicant, because he didn't fill out the proper paperwork. By the time State's rejection gets to A, he's already figured out another way to get what he's looking for done without intervention from the State Department.

See, now THAT's a pay-for-play scandal the popular media can really appreciate and understand.

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37. that was brilliant, gratuitous !

well done!

[CajunBlazer]

34. K&R

[FrenchieCat]

35. Kick!

[KewlKat]

36. K&R

[Motley13]

38. Trump said he never met Pam Bondi

and he has "the greatest memory" but then he forgot he said that.

Some of those pictures look like they are standing side by side.

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39. they never met :)

[malaise]

40. K & R

for truth

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41. thanks malaise

This REAL SCANDAL should be dominating the news cycle.

Other than Joy Reid's coverage of the story, nothing from MSNBC and CNN.

And yesterday, there was a Trump surrogate on MSNBC talking about HILLARY'S pay-for-play scandal.

[malaise]

42. The corporate media is beyond corrupt

and that's a major problem

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44. yep

I want to call it gross negligence but what they are doing, or rather not doing, is INTENTIONAL.

They are holding back because they want a horse race. It's all about ratings and profit.

Almost nothing on the rape lawsuit, his racist past, his outsourcing of labor for his brands, his hiring illegal immigrants for his building projects, his financial ties to Russia.

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47. on Andrea Mitchell right now

She's talking about EMAILS and Hillary's "COUGHING FIT"

[UCmeNdc]

43. The FBI needs to investigate. Put them under oath!

How is this not bribery? Pay for play?

[napkinz]

45. because the media have to sustain the narrative pushed by the GOP ...

Trump Demands Special Prosecutor to Investigate Clinton's State Department Tenure

Donald Trump on Monday called for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, as questions emerge over whether foreign donations to the non-profit Clinton Foundation influenced her decision-making while in office.

The GOP nominee demanded an "expedited investigation by a special prosecutor" into Clinton's ties to the Clinton Foundation during her time at the State Department. "The Clintons made the State Department into the same kind of pay-to-play operation as the Arkansas government was," Trump said.

The comment was Trump's first explicit call for direct legal action against his Democratic rival beyond his common stump-speech claim that Clinton should be jailed for her use of a private email server while secretary of state. The Justice Department declined to bring charges against Clinton over her email server.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-demands-special-prosecutor-investigate-clinton-s-state-department-tenure-n636281

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46. Lock Him Up!

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48. Trump Surrogate Admits To Joy Reid: Trump Did 'Pay-For-Play'

September 5, 2016

In what can only be described as an epic failure, a Trump spokesman first admits that Trump participates in "Pay for Play" deals, but then tries to justify it because he is a private citizen and *everyone* does it.

Clearly, Steve Cortes has no idea that donating money (paying off) officials to get favors or special access is patently illegal, for any citizen. His spin comes so fast and so hard, you can see his eyeballs nearly roll back in his head as he tries to say that Trump plans to end it. Yes, you have to hear it for yourself:

CORTES: Donald Trump is a private yes, he has admitted that to citizen. Some degree there was pay to play that he tried to get access from politicians Which, by the way, significant business people do all the time.

REID: Wait a minute. wait a minute. Steve, are you saying that significant business people regularly engage in pay to play and that that's okay because they're private citizens?

read more: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/09/trump-surrogate-admits-trumps-pay-play

[uponit7771]

50. So we're going to have 1.6 years of investigations and coverage on this issue too? Jus sayin

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51. nah ... I think it's more likely we'll start hearing about impeaching Hillary the morning of Nov 9

that's IF the Republicans keep the House

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52. Joy Reid covering the scandal again on MSNBC tonight

[MADem]

53. But WAIT......there's MORE!!!!!

:large


The fundraiser that happened AFTER Bondi called off the Trump University dogs.

Check out WHERE it was held--Mar-al-Lunatic!


Check out the special guests!!!! Rudy the Vampire and the Con-ald!!!!

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54. Trump Uses Jedi Mind Trick On The MSM ...

Trump campaign today: Nothing to see here. Move along.

[kentuck]

55. Is that Rudy Giuliani's name next to Donald Trump's ???

Very interesting !

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56. required video ...

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57. ...