"Are You F**king Kidding Me?": The New York Times Smears the President

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SIGNYM

Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:18 AM

By David Stockman

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The Donald has been on a red hot twitter rampage, and he's completely justified. Actually, we didn't think the Russian Collusion Hoax could get any stupider until we saw the New York Times' Friday evening bushwhack.

The trio of authors, apparently self-tortured victims of the Trump Derangement Syndrome, actually had the gall to print a story in the once and former Gray Lady of journalistic rectitude which was nothing more than an ugly smear on the sitting President of the United States—one that would have done Joe McCarthy proud:

In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as FBI director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.

The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.

It doesn't get lower than that. The only thing that they didn't mention was presidential Treason, but it's hard to say that "working in behalf of Russia against American interests" would constitute anything less.

So exactly what did the trio of wet behind the ears nincompoops at the New York Times—Adam Goldman, Michael Schmidt and Nicholas Fandos—dig up from the diarrhetic bowels of the FBI that warranted the above characterization?

Why, it is apparently the following, which is surely a red hot smoking gun. That is, one that condemns the FBI, not Trump; and shows that the NYT, which once courageously published the Pentagon Papers and had earned the above sobriquet for its journalistic stateliness, sense of responsibility and possession of high virtue, has degenerated into a War Party shill—not to say the journalistic equivalent of a comfort woman: Mr. Trump had caught the attention of FBI counterintelligence agents when...

...he called on Russia during a campaign news conference in July 2016 to hack into the emails of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump had refused to criticize Russia on the campaign trail, praising President Vladimir V. Putin. And investigators had watched with alarm as the Republican Party softened its convention platform on the Ukraine crisis in a way that seemed to benefit Russia.

Well, for crying out loud!

Any journalist worth his salt would know that Trump's July 2016 shout-out to the Russians was a campaign joke. At best, it was merely an attempt to cleverly state in one more way the running GOP theme about Hillary's missing 30,000 emails. How many times before that had Sean Hannity delivered his riff about Hillary's alleged hammer-smashing of 13 devices and acid-washing with BleachBit of the missing emails?

More importantly, how in the world of constitutional government, free speech, and contested elections does Trump's refusal to criticize a foreign leader that we we're not at war with constitute something worthy of a counter-intelligence investigation by the FBI?

Indeed, in the case of the Ukraine resolution at the GOP convention, the issue was about making the GOP's prior pro-Ukraine platform even more hawkish, which Trump thought was a bad idea on policy grounds.

Besides, the Democratic platform ended up more dovish than the GOP's final wording. And, no, the FBI didn't think to investigate the Dems for being squishy soft on support for the crypto-Nazi's who took control of Ukraine during an illegal, US funded/supported coup on the street of Kiev in 2014.

What we are saying is that the trio pictured here—one of whom graduated from Harvard in 2015 and the other two not much older—don't seem to even know that foreign policy is a debatable issue. Or that the American p

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:30 AM

Is this another one of your threads where you drop a big pile of sh*t and then disappear? It's almost like you're either too busy spreading crap elsewhere or you're just here to agitate.

SECOND

Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:53 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

By David Stockman

Since when is talking to the President a crime?

On page 27 of his indictment from yesterday, Manafort was complaining that he never talks to Trump anymore, except that is not true:

68. Manafort stated on several occasions that he never spoke to anyone in the Administration, either directly or indirectly. For instance, during an interview with the government on October 16, 2018, Manafort stated he had no direct or indirect communications with anyone in the Administration while they were in the Administration, and that he never asked anyone to try to communicate a message to anyone in the Administration on any subject matter. 94 Manafort stated that he spoke with certain individuals before they worked for the Administration and after they left, the Administration, but not while they were in the Administration.95

On page 28 Proof that Manafort’s Statements Were False and Misleading:
69. Evidence demonstrates that Manafort had contacts, and tried to have contacts, through others, with the Administration. Indeed, Manafort ultimately “redacted”

www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/read-manafort-kilimnik-grand-jury/inde
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THG

Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:37 AM

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REAVERFAN

Thursday, January 17, 2019 5:49 AM

Fuck off with your reichwing propaganda bullshit, Russian troll. You're an enemy of America.

SHINYGOODGUY

Thursday, January 17, 2019 1:15 PM

The article is from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, which has such articles as:

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Silver Lining in the Government Shutdown

A shocker article in the Daily Caller this week blew the lid on what it's really like among all those "public servants" working in the Federal bureaucracy: about 85 percent of them do nothing at all related to their jobs. With thousands of "workers" furloughed, the government offices are actually working better than ever. Is there a lesson in this somewhere? Tune in to today's Liberty Report...

RUFKM!? (SGG)

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The Obama/New York Times Plot to Overthrow Trump

Another "blockbuster" report on Trump's "ties" to Russia has fizzled into nothingness, as the New York Times' piece over the weekend on an FBI counterintelligence investigation opened against the president was riddled with holes and absurdities. What came through loud and clear, however, was that Obama appointees and loyalists in the FBI and elsewhere in the deep state were determined to do everything in their power to overthrow a legally elected US president. Our take in today's Liberty Report...

What!? Obama and the Deep State, still!?

Others include:

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Bolton's radical reshaping plan for Mideast included "Mind Boggling" strikes on
Iran, Syria and Iraq

The Syria outcome will haunt those who started this war

Democrats prepare hearings on Rightwing Extremism

Top 10 reasons not to love NATO

Please TSA workers, don't come back

Pompeo at it again: Calls for Venezuela Coup

Back to the USSR: Howw to read Western news

MMV - Mixed Media Views

One day, when I'm feeling particularly adventerous, I'll take a peek at the news outlet known as RPIfP&P. That should prove an interesting read.

SGG

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Is this another one of your threads where you drop a big pile of sh*t and then disappear? It's almost like you're either too busy spreading crap elsewhere or you're just here to agitate.

SECOND

Thursday, January 17, 2019 5:02 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
By David Stockman

. . . Or that the American people actually voted into office a candidate who took the other side of Imperial Washington's unwarranted demonization of Putin and made no bones about his desire for a rapprochement with Russia.

Actually, as to pursuing rapprochement, so did:

• JFK, after the near catastrophe of the Cuban Missile Crisis;

• Lyndon Johnson, after the Seven Days War during his meeting with Kosygin at Glassboro NJ;

• Richard Nixon, with the ABM Treaty, detente and his visit with Brezhnev in Moscow;

• Jimmy Carter, when he signed the SALT-II agreement;

• Ronald Reagan, when he went to Moscow to virtually end the Cold War; and

• Bill Clinton, when he sent a multi-billion IMF aid package to Yeltsin to help him get re-elected in 1996.

The fact is, all of the above presidential policy initiatives were heatedly debated in Washington during a period when the US and Soviet Union each had roughly 9,000 nuclear warheads pointed at the other. But that did not lead to FBI counter-intelligence investigations of politicians—to say nothing of sitting Presidents—who took the "wrong" side of these thoroughly democratic debates.

www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/january/15/th
e-new-york-times-smears-the-president/

Why doesn’t Donald Trump’s cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin worry his supporters? Jefferson Davis’s treason case holds a clue.
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/15/trump-russia-putin-jefferson-davis/

Southern whites had supported the Confederacy and wanted Davis to be its president. Those Americans wanted slavery to continue. Davis gave them what they wanted. How could that be treason? One of the concerns looming in the minds of some in the government in Washington at the time was whether Davis’s prosecution might have the unintended effect of leading the Supreme Court to rule that secession was legal.

With political support for the prosecution waning, Davis’s case came to an anti-climactic conclusion. He was freed from prison after his bail was paid by a wealthy group that included Horace Greeley and Cornelius Vanderbilt. On Christmas Day in 1868, Johnson issued a pardon for treason for Confederates, and the case against Davis was dismissed in February 1869.

Many Trump supporters have no problem with his alliance with Putin because they see both men as conservative guardians of white power. Russia is increasingly popular among Republican voters, who approve of Putin’s authoritarianism. Trump is giving Americans what they want. How could it be wrong?

That leads to a provocative question: Do a significant number of Americans today want a president who defies the nation’s ideals in the name of white power, just as they wanted Jefferson Davis so many decades ago?

More at https://theintercept.com/2019/01/15/trump-russia-putin-jefferson-davis/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THG

Thursday, January 17, 2019 5:30 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
By David Stockman

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The Donald has been on a red hot twitter rampage, and he's completely justified. Actually, we didn't think the Russian Collusion Hoax could get any stupider until we saw the New York Times' Friday evening bushwhack.

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Did Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani just move the goalposts when it comes to the Trump campaign, collusion, and the Mueller investigation?

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