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kpete's Journal"The Pizzagate gunman surrendered when he discovered Pizzagate was a lie."
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https://twitter.com/maggieNYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/05/us/document-Edgar-Welch-Criminal-Complaint-Comet-Ping-Pong.html
Terrifying - This is where Trump gets his news:
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/trumps-information-universe?utm_term=.rnyM274MG#.wuV0NwL0J
Trump can't keep us distracted forever with Carrier-like stunts.
https://mobile.twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/805810911961317376
WTF? Al Gore walks through Trump Tower lobby to meet with Ivanka Trump on climate change
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/805810468619218944
Comet pizza owner:"I hope those involved in fanning the flames will take a moment to contemplate..."
Comet pizza owner: "What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories comes with consequences"
https://twitter.com/faizsays/status/805644625457348609
Dr. Seuss: "What this country needs"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dr-seuss-political-cartoon_us_5841e99ee4b09e21702ea1ba?ir=Politics&utm_hp_ref=politics
Fake News Weaponized
Thankfully, no one was hurt. But you may have heard that a man from Salisbury, North Carolina, Edgar Maddison Welch, shot up a pizza joint in Washington, DC today in an effort to 'investigate' the "Pizza Gate" conspiracy theory.
What on earth is Pizza Gate, you may ask? It's a Reddit-based far right conspiracy theory alleging a child sex trafficking ring run by Hillary Clinton and John Podesta out of a DC pizza shop.
Here's a tweet from the son of Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor.
Michael G Flynn🇺🇸 @mflynnJR
Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it'll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many "coincidences" tied to it. https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/805559273426141184 …
7:13 PM - 4 Dec 2016
1,350 1,350 Retweets 1,823 1,823 likes
https://twitter.com/mflynnJR/status/805611056009768960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
As CNN reported in mid-November, Flynn Jr routinely circulates conspiracy theories and makes racist comments of all sorts. Nor is this some tenuous guilt by association. The younger Flynn is not only his father's son. He is also his chief of staff and top aide at the security consulting firm Flynn has run since leaving the military. Indeed, in the fever swamps in which this conspiracy theory germinated and grew, Flynn has been cheered as the figure set to break open the truth about the (non-existent) Clinton/Podesta child sex ring.
Flynn will become the White House National Security Advisor in a month and a half.
MORE:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fake-news-weaponized
WaPo: China Treating Trump Like a "Small Child" in re phone call "stunt"
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial phone call with Taiwan’s leader was planned weeks in advance, according to a report from The Washington Post. Sources familiar with the matter said Trump’s advisory team had planned the phone as a provocative stunt to portray Trump as a radical change from previous presidents. In a Twitter tirade against China on Sunday, Trump accused Beijing of currency manipulations and military expansionism, just two days after his phone conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen threatened to ruin China-U.S. relations. “Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the US doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea?” He added: “I don’t think so!” Trump’s comments echo much of his campaign rhetoric, in which he vilified Chinese leadership and vowed to take the country down a notch, despite China being a major trading partner for the U.S. While Trump has repeatedly lashed out at China, China has mostly responded as if dealing with a small child. In the wake of Trump’s phone chat with Taiwan, China’s foreign minister said Trump had fallen victim to Taiwan’s “shenanigans.”
the rest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-taiwan-phone-call-was-weeks-in-the-planning-say-people-who-were-involved/2016/12/04/f8be4b0c-ba4e-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?source=CSAMedition&utm_term=.d152c8966a47&via=newsletter
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/5/1607440/-WaPo-China-Treating-Trump-Like-a-Small-Child-in-re-phone-call-stunt
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