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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 03:01 PM Jul 2017

Pro-Trump Media Can't Decide Which Part of the Donald Trump Jr. Bombshell Is Fake News

LOL NOTHING MATTERS
Pro-Trump Media Can’t Decide Which Part of the Donald Trump Jr. Bombshell Is Fake News

Pro-Trump media outlets can’t agree whether or not the president’s son’s email bombshell is true or not—but they also aren’t convinced it matters either way.

Ben Collins
BEN COLLINS
07.11.17 2:47 PM ET

Right wing websites believe that Donald Trump Jr.’s self-published emails showing he met with a Russian attorney in search of Hillary Clinton opposition research is fake news—but they haven’t settled on the reason why.

A variety of pro-Trump media outlets pushed separate—and often conflicting—conspiracies in the wake of Trump Jr.’s bombshell email release Tuesday. All of them, however, absolve Trump Jr. of any wrongdoing.

The disparate approaches from far-right websites and TV shows ranged from once again claiming it’s a “fake story,” despite Trump Jr. releasing the emails himself; to claiming the emails are true and that it’s a Democratic setup, or instead, pushing the idea that the meeting itself isn’t technically a crime.

Despite an explicit sentence sent to Trump Jr. detailing “very high level and sensitive information [that] is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump,” frequent InfoWars host and Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich said that Trump Jr.’s email correspondence “doesn't support the lying Times conspiracy.”

“.@DonaldJTrumpJr posted the full email,” he wrote on Twitter. “As suspected the lying NY Times fabricated another fake story!”

(In a May webcast, InfoWars founder Alex Jones said Cernovich’s sources are “(Trump’s) sons, especially Donald Jr.” and that “it’s no secret.”)

Sean Hannity, who on Monday night claimed Trump Jr.’s meeting “could have been a setup made to give the appearance of Russian collusion” on the part of a consulting group “connected to Democrats,” began to pivot to the idea that Hillary Clinton also met with foreign groups. Hannity tweeted a Wikileaks post from February, citing a hacked John Podesta email about a potential meeting with a Chinese ambassador.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-media-cant-decide-which-part-of-the-donald-trump-jr-bombshell-is-fake-news

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Pro-Trump Media Can't Decide Which Part of the Donald Trump Jr. Bombshell Is Fake News (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2017 OP
LOL! Hannity blaming Democrats! Squinch Jul 2017 #1
So many lies no one can keep up. C_U_L8R Jul 2017 #2
Too many lies to keep up Lindsay Jul 2017 #3
Hannity won't be any help on his show tonight. Paladin Jul 2017 #4
Ask them to explain this? BSdetect Jul 2017 #5

Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
3. Too many lies to keep up
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 03:11 PM
Jul 2017

has been the Republican modus operandi for years.

But it does look like they're tripping over each other these days more than ever.

Paladin

(28,254 posts)
4. Hannity won't be any help on his show tonight.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 03:15 PM
Jul 2017

He'll be too busy servicing fredo trump for his words to be intelligible.....

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
5. Ask them to explain this?
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 03:23 PM
Jul 2017


Drumph brags about Russian Wikileaks 2 days before June 9th. ALl the crap about missing emails etc

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