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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 05:03 PM Jan 2018

NYT: Clinton supporters donated $700K to help Trump accusers

Source: The Hill




BY JOHN BOWDEN - 01/01/18 03:07 PM EST

Prominent Democratic donors gave at least $700,000 to women's rights lawyer Lisa Bloom in the final stretch of the 2016 race as she sought to publicize sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump, according to The New York Times.

American Bridge, a group associated with Democratic operative and Hillary Clinton ally David Brock, gave $200,00 to the effort, sources told the Times. Fashion entrepreneur Susie Tompkins Buell, a longtime donor to Brock, gave Bloom another $500,000.

The efforts did not result in any women coming forward, according to the Times. Bloom told the paper that one woman requested as much as $2 million for her story, a sum she was unwilling to offer. Democratic donors familiar with Bloom's efforts say that Bloom kept the $200,000 from American Bridge but refunded the $500,000 from Buell.

In a statement, Bloom denied that the Clinton campaign had any knowledge of her efforts or that she had collaborated with Clinton's team "on any of this." She also denied that payments were needed before the women would come forward.



Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/366991-nyt-clinton-supporters-donated-700k-to-find-trump-accusers

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NYT: Clinton supporters donated $700K to help Trump accusers (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP
Great, this is going to be all over Fox News Dopers_Greed Jan 2018 #1
Fox and Breitbart were running this last night UpInArms Jan 2018 #16
Who cares? Let them have their phony outrage FakeNoose Jan 2018 #20
Exactly. So what? forgotmylogin Jan 2018 #23
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2018 #2
And Trump himself dalton99a Jan 2018 #9
So? DURHAM D Jan 2018 #3
+1,000 TheDebbieDee Jan 2018 #4
Lol! Right on! Raastan Jan 2018 #5
Yep. dalton99a Jan 2018 #10
And, why wouldn't they? BFD.. fucking putin Cha Jan 2018 #31
Dems need to play hardball like the repukes! wolfie001 Jan 2018 #6
Dems must realize how . . . Iliyah Jan 2018 #7
"women's rights lawyer Lisa Bloom" EL34x4 Jan 2018 #8
Ms Bloom was until she found out how big a creep he was and one of his victims TheDebbieDee Jan 2018 #17
Thanks for that, DebbieDee! Cha Jan 2018 #32
This has been the pattern of the NYTimes to push the false equivalency theme, and why I cancelled still_one Jan 2018 #11
Yep, and NYT breathlessly ran the pure propaganda "Clinton Cash" excerpts as an "exclusive" scoop! SunSeeker Jan 2018 #12
It is really pathetic that they allow themselves to be used as a propaganda outlet. Let's ask still_one Jan 2018 #15
Yep, I remember Knight Ridder debunking the WMD story. Unfortuately K.R. is no more progree Jan 2018 #19
Agreed. I bookmarked this thread for that post. calimary Jan 2018 #30
"Clinton Cash" was shown tonight on ONE AMERICA NEWS Channel Wwcd Jan 2018 #28
Brilliant OP, still_one! Cha Jan 2018 #33
Thanks, but I don't know about that Cha. I wasn't really happy when I cancelled my subscritipon still_one Jan 2018 #34
Yeah, why pay for fake news? Cha Jan 2018 #38
This post needs to be its own thread... sfwriter Jan 2018 #37
You don't think this is another roger stone/republican ploy to throw attention away from the actual still_one Jan 2018 #13
We didn't give them enough. With what they were up against, they needed more. nt SunSeeker Jan 2018 #14
+ 1000 Wwcd Jan 2018 #27
So, will NYT be running an expose on Bengazi next? Perhaps Whitewater? TomCADem Jan 2018 #18
Works for me Zorro Jan 2018 #21
I think the Dems wasted 700 thousand. dawn frenzy adams Jan 2018 #22
500,000 was refunded Bradical79 Jan 2018 #35
Trump donated $2.5 million to The Hill. LiberalFighter Jan 2018 #24
Good. truthisfreedom Jan 2018 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author Wwcd Jan 2018 #26
Money is free speech Cary Jan 2018 #29
The only outrage GaryCnf Jan 2018 #36

UpInArms

(51,252 posts)
16. Fox and Breitbart were running this last night
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 06:51 PM
Jan 2018

Smells of hatchet jobbing to me ...

Trying to distract from Russia investigation

FakeNoose

(32,328 posts)
20. Who cares? Let them have their phony outrage
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 07:46 PM
Jan 2018

After all the crap that's happened since the election, the one thing we know for sure is that rightwing outrage is completely FAKE. Nothing angers them if it's done by the GOP, and everything angers them if it's done by anybody else.

Dopers Greed - Happy BLUE Year 2018!

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
23. Exactly. So what?
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 09:07 PM
Jan 2018

Fundies have taught us: if you have or can raise the cash, you can promote any agenda.

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
4. +1,000
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 05:29 PM
Jan 2018

Big deal... This pales in comparison to the endorsement of an entire party for an accused child molester...

Cha

(295,899 posts)
31. And, why wouldn't they? BFD.. fucking putin
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 06:13 AM
Jan 2018

got trump hacked into the WH.. along with the putin pawn stein and the gd M$M.. so I ask again.. why the hell not?

Happy Healthy New Year, Durham!

wolfie001

(2,131 posts)
6. Dems need to play hardball like the repukes!
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 05:42 PM
Jan 2018

And dammit, explain it clearly so the average American idiot can understand! Of course I'm not talking about the DUers here.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
7. Dems must realize how . . .
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 05:44 PM
Jan 2018

hypocritical RWers, GOPers, billionaires that donate to GOPs, and the dumbass WH, including the idiot are.

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
17. Ms Bloom was until she found out how big a creep he was and one of his victims
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 06:52 PM
Jan 2018

produced an audio of his simpering begging for sex on about the 4th day of the crisis. Then Lisa Bloom quickly dumped Harvey Weinstein's crisis management case and grabbed on to her mother's (Gloria Allred) crusade against sexual harassers and attempted child molesters...

still_one

(91,937 posts)
11. This has been the pattern of the NYTimes to push the false equivalency theme, and why I cancelled
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 06:05 PM
Jan 2018

my subscription to them back in May of 2017, and now subscribe to the Washington Post.

It started when the NY Times first hired climate denier Bret Stephens at a time when the trump administration and the republicans want to undo any gains made to curb green house gases, pollution, and exit the Paris Accords. No NY Times we don't need anymore fake information from the likes of Bret Stephens push Climate Change as a myth.

Perhaps one of their most outrageous was when the NY Times blamed the Democrats, and specifically President Obama for being responsible for pushing republicans to be climate change deniers because of the "Democratic hubris in the Obama years":

"The Republican Party’s fast journey from debating how to combat human-caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favoring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over cooperation and conciliation."

They then proceeded in the article to make excuses for the republicans by saying "most republicans do not believe climate change is a hoax"

“Most Republicans still do not regard climate change as a hoax,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist who worked for Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. “But the entire climate change debate has now been caught up in the broader polarization of American politics.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0


In another instance they did the false equivalency garbage between the republicans and Democrats through a video by Mark Scheffle and Shane O'Neill telling us how both republicans and Democrats have flip-flopped on Comey. It is so out of context it is pathetic. This is what the NY Times has become.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005090191/comey-fired-democrats-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Another example was when one of the Democrats on the FEC stepped down, the Times built the false equivalency argument that how there is deadlock because both sides won't budge. That was NOT the case at all, and was a gross distortion again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/fec-elections-ann-ravel-campaign-finance.html

In fact that report was so messed up, that the Democrat who resigned from the commission wrote a rebuttal to state the reality of the situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/dysfunction-and-deadlock-at-the-federal-election-commission.html

They have been doing the false equivalency schtick all through 2016, and they were right out there with the rest of the media outlets with headlines implying how Comey reopened the email investigation, while hidden between the ether that the email investigation was not reopened. One has to wonder if that was their attempt at sensationalism, rather then putting it in proper context

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/30/ny-times-floods-front-page-fbi-letter-stories-while-acknowledging-it-didn-t-reopen-clinton-server/214202

There are plenty more examples, but suffice to say, the NY Times isn't even in the shadow of the newspaper it used to be

still_one

(91,937 posts)
15. It is really pathetic that they allow themselves to be used as a propaganda outlet. Let's ask
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 06:18 PM
Jan 2018

Judy Miller and the NY Times why the full story of the WMDs were not reported at the time?

As far as I am aware, one newspaper outlet that got the WMD story correct was Knight Rider, not the NY Times

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/the-reporting-team-that-g_n_91981.html

progree

(10,864 posts)
19. Yep, I remember Knight Ridder debunking the WMD story. Unfortuately K.R. is no more
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 07:03 PM
Jan 2018

they got bought out by McClatchy.

P.S. your #11 is a superb piece of work. Thanks for taking the time to put it together

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
28. "Clinton Cash" was shown tonight on ONE AMERICA NEWS Channel
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 02:12 AM
Jan 2018

Lovely pro-trump propaganda mouthpiece like FOX.

Here's a link. This is who OAN is:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016199100


still_one

(91,937 posts)
34. Thanks, but I don't know about that Cha. I wasn't really happy when I cancelled my subscritipon
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 07:43 AM
Jan 2018

to the NY Times and pondered it for some time, but on non-editorial pages, there were too many stories creeping in that had a lot of distortions and misleading information, and it was making my blood pressure go up

Cha

(295,899 posts)
38. Yeah, why pay for fake news?
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 05:19 PM
Jan 2018

The only way the NYT would keep the news real is if it affects their bottom line.

I see where I should have said "brilliant post" instead of "OP".

 

sfwriter

(3,032 posts)
37. This post needs to be its own thread...
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 07:58 AM
Jan 2018

This needs to be its own thread. It is really insightful on its own.

still_one

(91,937 posts)
13. You don't think this is another roger stone/republican ploy to throw attention away from the actual
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 06:13 PM
Jan 2018

accusations?

As an aside, I find it quite strange that no further accusers have come forward against Al Franken. Pure coincidence I am sure


TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
18. So, will NYT be running an expose on Bengazi next? Perhaps Whitewater?
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 06:59 PM
Jan 2018

Also, I am sure that Paula Jones and all of Bill Clinton's accusers just ended up at Clinton/Trump debate.

dawn frenzy adams

(429 posts)
22. I think the Dems wasted 700 thousand.
Mon Jan 1, 2018, 08:41 PM
Jan 2018

Last edited Mon Jan 1, 2018, 11:15 PM - Edit history (1)

Lisa Bloom went after Weinstein's accusers when she represented him. I never bought Lisa's or her mother's, Feminist bona fides.

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GaryCnf

(1,399 posts)
36. The only outrage
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 07:48 AM
Jan 2018

Is that the money was spent to pander to the ASSUMED sensitivities of white suburban female voters instead of to send Democratic surrogates with actual credibility in the black community to Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida to talk about direct aid to cities and criminal justice reform.

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