Adam Entous, National Security Reporter for Washington Post wrote:“But we really haven’t addressed… Our reporting has not taken us to a place where I would be able to say with any confidence that the result of it is going to be the president being guilty of being in cahoots with the Russians. There’s no evidence of that that I’ve seen so far.
“We’ve seen a lot of flirtation, if you will, between them but nothing that, in my opinion, would rank as actual collusion. Now that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist, it just means we haven’t found it yet. Or maybe it doesn’t exist.”
Dan Lamothe, National Security Reporter wrote:“Woah, I work for that place?” referencing the excessive bias from the Editorial section. He continued:
“They definitely don’t like Trump. I mean here’s the thing though. There’s the news side that’s just trying to critically call bullshit when there’s bullshit, but also give him credit where there’s credit, you know? When something is good, and he’s doing more things bad, but he’s doing some of the things good.”
Lamothe admitted that The Post receives a lot of criticism for their Trump coverage:
“Yeah, that would be a criticism. You’re spending a ton of time on this thing that’s sensational, versus… Some sort of policy thing that would affect everybody.”
He also attacked CNN and The New York Times for their biased coverage of Trump, calling them worse than The Washington Post:
“Some of the New York Times reporters are way over the top. CNN is always over the top. Wall Street Journal is very conservative, all that stuff. Some of it’s just like the, who’s in charge of your newspaper.”
The Washington Post exposed a fraud Monday, but some don't think it will make a difference. They are wrong.
Exposing a fraud is a public good, in and of itself, and exposure will pay dividends politically, even if we can't see how.
After the Post reported on a woman pretending to be a victim of Roy Moore, a senate candidate in Alabama's coming special election, on behalf of an organization called Project Veritas, many otherwise smart people lamented that exposing the group's fraud would not sway the president's supporters. They said its leader, James O'Keefe, will spin failure into success, solicit greater donations to perpetrate greater frauds, and go happily on his way.
The real story here is just how carefully the Washington Post scrutinizes sexual-assault stories before publishing them. Project Veritas seems to have been caught hiring a woman to falsely accuse Roy Moore of sexual assault to the Washington Post — presumably in order to prove how it’s just so easy to get away with fabricating these stories — only to find that, well, it isn’t. The woman, who identified herself as Jaime Phillips, approached the Post with a horrifying story: She had a sexual relationship with Moore when she was only 15, and it resulted in a pregnancy that he persuaded her to abort. The assumption, presumably, was that the Post would be so entranced by this politically perfect story that they’d just run with it — without verification — revealing once and for all that all a woman has to do to be believed by the Libturd Snowflake Fake News Post is simply say she was assaulted by a conservative man, and that all of Moore’s accusers were just a bunch of gold-digging fakers out for fortune and fame. Of course, that’s not what happened. No, what happened was Phillips was easily outed as a fake, through inconsistencies in her story, background details that didn’t check out, and a GoFundMe account that she’d created — under her own actual name — announcing that she was moving to New York because she’d found “work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceit of the liberal MSM.” I can’t believe I even have to explain this this, but posing as a sexual-assault victim is a despicable thing to do. It hurts actual victims by making the public even less likely to believe their stories, while many are already too afraid to come forward because they’re worried they’ll be written off as liars. I know the president of Project Veritas, James O’Keefe; he’s always been kind to me, and yet I still have to say that I’m absolutely horrified by these actions.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... -backfires
rob2 wrote:Project Veritas receive funds from the Trump Foundation, so could be equally accused of bias
oragami_itto wrote:Also, project veritas? Slightly less credible than the onion.
Michael wrote:oragami_itto wrote:Also, project veritas? Slightly less credible than the onion.
They're on tape saying there's no evidence to Russia-Trump collusion, but the attention and revenue it brings is massive.
President Donald Trump's ex-national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI in January.
Mr Flynn was forced to resign the following month after misleading the White House about meeting the Russian ambassador before Mr Trump took office.
The charges were brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, as part of his investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.
Mr Flynn arrived at court on Friday.
He admitted to one count of knowingly making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements".
According to an AFP reporter, Mr Flynn was asked by Judge Rudolph Contreras if he wished to plead guilty and responded with the words "Yes, sir". The judge continued: "I accept your guilty plea. There will be no trial and there will be probably no appeal."
Ahead of Friday morning's court session in Washington DC, he turned himself in to the FBI.
The former aide is the most senior member of the Trump administration so far to have been indicted by the Mueller investigation.
In October, Mr Trump's former presidential campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was accused of conspiring to defraud the US in his dealings with Ukraine. It also emerged that another ex-aide, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents.
Michael wrote:Most of what you're saying would be better in PMs because it's totally off-topic.
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