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The media (mainstream or social) has published "story" after "story" recently, designed to make Republicans in general and President Trump in particular, look like horrible ogres bent on destroying the country.
And they've managed it without ever actually saying they did anything ogre-like.
But they've been speculating for weeks, whether Trump would block James Comey's testimony. Never mind that Trump never said he was doing that, or even thinking about doing it.
When Comey's testimony came and went without incident, they switched to "Is Trump going to fire Mueller the Special Counsel?" Again with no indication from Trump that he ever even considered it.
And the screaming and speculation is going on and on, with planted stories from unnamed sources in and outside the country pretending he was going to do it, he was under investigation, etc.... all without the slightest evidence.
Has President Trump ever said he was even thinking about firing Mueller?
Or is it all another fake story made up by the media to bash Trump? Mind you, they never said Trump was going to fire him. But they asked if he was, and discussed endlessly how bad he would be IF he did.
And you can be sure that if you ask most ordinary people who aren't paying much attention (that's most ordinary Americans with actual lives), they will reply something like, "Yeah, I remember hearing something about Trump firing the Special Counsel. Didn't Nixon do that? Sounds pretty eeevil to me! By the way, did he block Comey's testimony like all those stories said? Who on Earth does Trump think he is, anyway???"
....which is exactly the impression the Fake News media wanted them to have. The mainstream and social media is deliberately creating false impressions among people, phrased carefully so that they aren't technically lying. But it is no different then deliberately lying. So why pretend otherwise?
If the recent "stories" don't work out (I.e. if Trump doesn't fire Mueller, like he already didn't block Comey), what will the next manufactured "controversy" be?
I can see the next media headline now:
"Trump will be Making a Major Mistake if he Robs the Bank on 13th St. and Constitution Ave!!!"
Complete with major controversies, Congressional investigations, testimony from sobbing mothers who have all their savings in that bank, and weeks of stories on the history of bank robbing and the damage it has done.
If anybody in the Trump administration says, "Hey, this is all baloney, he's not going to rob the bank and never was!", the media will be quick to announce "Trump surrogates deny allegations of planned bank robberies, Trump remains silent". Democrat Senators will insist "It's the seriousness of the charge that makes it necessary to investigate it!"
And if any news channel questions whether there is any evidence that Trump was planning to rob the bank, the rest will scream, "Partisan news 'reporters' try to cover up possible bank robbery plot". And "White House continues to deny bank robbery scheme as controversy mounts!". And "What are they trying to hide???"
After a few weeks of such unrelenting pounding, polls will be taken asking people, "Would a bank robbery by Donald Trump be a serious matter?" and, "If the President robs a bank, would that rise to the level of an impeachable offense?" The answers to both questions would come back heavily affirmative, as they should be of course for any President ever robbing any bank, or planning to.
It doesn't really matter what Trump does or says, or even if he never gave the first thought to robbing a bank. The media can generate huge controversy from thin air, and make a lot of people who aren't paying much attention, think that Donald J. Trump was planning to rob a bank... or at least that there must be good reason to think so.
Or there wouldn't be all this coverage and controversy, would there? Where there's this much smoke, there must certainly be some fire, right?
And all the while, the media technically never accused the President of planning to rob the bank. They merely speculated out loud, what might happen if he DID so plan.
The fact that Donald J. Trump never planned to rob any bank, has no relevance. The media can generate such a "controversy" from thin air, and keep it going for weeks. And millions of people can eventually fall for it, and pay attention to it instead of a successful European trip, a rising economy, or anything else that actually did happen.
How many times has the media created a "crisis" or "controversy" from thin air, when in fact none exists?
How many times will they do it again in the future?
Trumps' good friend Christopher Ruddy of Newsmax claimed that Trump is considering firing Mueller. Trump's lawyer Sekulow fed this narrative by saying Trump had not ruled out firing Mueller. The recent attacks on Mueller and the investigation by Trump partisans appeared to set the stage for this possibility.
Trumps' good friend Christopher Ruddy of Newsmax claimed that Trump is considering firing Mueller.
Sorry, not so.
Ruddy said that he (Ruddy) believed that it "was a consideration". Nobody, including Ruddy, ever gave the slightest evidence that Trump was planning or even thinking about it.
Try finding that fact in any of the breathlessly urgent "reports" about the firing of Mueller - a story line solely invented and pushed by the media, with no support from anything Trump has ever done or said.
Trumps' good friend Christopher Ruddy of Newsmax claimed that Trump is considering firing Mueller. Trump's lawyer Sekulow fed this narrative by saying Trump had not ruled out firing Mueller. The recent attacks on Mueller and the investigation by Trump partisans appeared to set the stage for this possibility.
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Originally Posted by Roboteer
Sorry, not so.
Ruddy said that he (Ruddy) believed that it "was a consideration". Nobody, including Ruddy, ever gave the slightest evidence that Trump was planning or even thinking about it.
Try finding that fact in any of the breathlessly urgent "reports" about the firing of Mueller - a story line solely invented and pushed by the media, with no support from anything Trump has ever done or said.
Well, 'believed it was a consideration' and 'considering' are really not all that far off, yes?
Perhaps this man who proclaimed himself Trump's good friend should not have gone on talk show after talk show blathering the above. THAT'S how it got started.
Ruddy floated this idea after admittedly being at the WH and talking to senior staff.
Trump leaked the story through Ruddy rather than have Trump say it directly. Trump never said "Fake News" when this story came out because it initiated from Trump.
Trump did the same thing Comey did by leaking the story through his friend rather than give the statement directly to the press.
Trump cast stones at Comey for leaking via a friend, although Trump does the same thing. Trump's a hypocrite.
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