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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon May 29, 2017, 10:09 PM May 2017

Analysis The fake news is coming from inside the White House

To believe Donald Trump, you must believe two largely contradictory things.

You must believe that there are a slew of leakers in the executive branch who are providing damning details to the press illegally, and who must be rooted out and punished.

You must also believe that the press makes up imaginary leakers simply to slowly and incrementally report false stories that are tangentially embarrassing to the president. The most recent examples of Trump making that case came on Sunday (“Whenever you see the words ‘sources say’ in the fake news media, and they don’t mention names,” he said on Twitter, “it is very possible that those sources don’t exist but are made up by fake news writers. #FakeNews is the enemy!”), but he’s been railing against this idea that some media sources are not real since the campaign.

The result is that we end up with a president who at 8:33 a.m. says that it’s his opinion “that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media,” and then at 10:43 a.m. says that the prime minister of the United Kingdom was mad about information that was leaked.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-the-fake-news-is-coming-from-inside-the-white-house/ar-BBBDfYR?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Analysis The fake news is coming from inside the White House (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 OP
It's like the horror movie where the phone call is coming from inside the house. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #1
Often figured it was Wellstone ruled May 2017 #2
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