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« on: September 17, 2017, 04:04:31 am »


from The Washington Post....

Trump's ‘fake news’ attack lost its power this week

Trump can no longer cry “fake news” when the media report on a broken promise,
and count on his boosters to help keep the faith.


By CALLUM BORCHERS | 8:30AM EDT - Saturday, September 16, 2017

President Donald J. Trump answers a question from the media as he arrives at the White House on Thursday. — Photograph: Alex Brandon/Associated Press.
President Donald J. Trump answers a question from the media as he arrives at the White House on Thursday.
 — Photograph: Alex Brandon/Associated Press.


AN amazing thing happened this week.

News outlets that President Trump has branded “fake news” reported Trump agreed in principle to grant long-term legal status to DACA recipients — a big item on Democrats' wish list — without securing funding for a Southern border wall in return. Trump said the media and the Democrats who say they negotiated with him were mischaracterizing the situation.

Given a choice of whom to believe, reliably pro-Trump commentators, such as Tucker Carlson, Ann Coulter and Mike Cernovich chose the media, Charles E. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi over the president.

Mark it down: This is the week that Trump's “fake news” attack lost its power.

In the past, Trump's boosters would have rushed to assure his supporters that the president is totally committed to the wall and claimed that the media are trying to drive a wedge between Trump and his base by manufacturing a narrative about supposed flimsiness.

That was Breitbart News's contention last month, when The Washington Post published the transcript of a telephone conversation between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in which Trump said the wall is “the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important”.

“Very fake news: Trump didn't say the wall wasn't important,” read a Breitbart headline. The accompanying article asserted that “instead, the new president of the United States (POTUS) shows an indefatigable commitment to his ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda — which included toughness on immigration, crime, trade and the border wall.”

That was some astounding spin. Now, even Breitbart is echoing the mainstream media and reporting that Trump is, indeed, waffling on the wall.

About 4 p.m. Thursday, Trump's re-election campaign sent an email to supporters that was signed by the president.

“Let me set the record straight in the simplest language possible,” he said in the email. “We will build a wall (not a fence) along the Southern border of the United States of America to help stop illegal immigration and keep America safe. Apparently, liberals in Congress and the mainstream media need one more reminder that building the wall is nonnegotiable.”

On Friday afternoon, the Trump campaign sent this text message to supporters:




Notice that Trump didn't deny that funding for the wall is not part of a tentative DACA deal in either message. He merely said that he will build the wall at some point; in fact, he told reporters on Thursday that “the wall will come later.”

Breitbart was not assuaged by the president's words. This is what the site's homepage looked like on Friday:




On Fox News, Carlson led off his Thursday night show with a stinging rejection of Trump's position that allowing hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States does not amount to “amnesty”.

“It would be a massive amnesty,” Carlson said. “It would be the biggest ever granted in American history. This is thrilling news for Democrats and for open-borders advocates everywhere. In return for this concession, the president receives nothing — no reduction in overall immigration totals, no tightened restriction on foreign workers who take jobs from Americans, no E-Verify to prevent illegal immigrants from working under the table, no end to chain migration.”

“The president isn't even getting a border wall, though he insisted he will somehow get one later, possibly…. Well, the president seems confident it will all work out in the end, but there's no reason to be optimistic. The fate of DACA recipients is, by far, the best piece of leverage he has or ever will have. If he gives it away for free, none of his other immigration priorities — the priorities he ran on and won the presidency with — will even be considered.”

On Twitter, Coulter fumed that Trump was “easily rolled” by Democratic leaders. Cernovich, an Infowars host, tweeted that it was “insane” for Trump to let DACA recipients stay in the country without demanding money for the border wall.

In a truly head-spinning exchange, Cernovich fired back at a Trump supporter who dismissed a New York Times report by Maggie Haberman as “fake news”.

“Pretty much any Haberman-Trump story is good to go,” Cernovich tweeted. “That's reality.”

You read that right: An Infowars host told a Trump supporter that The New York Times is not fake news.

The Infowars website also highlighted MAGA hat-burning on Friday and questioned Trump's dedication to his “America First” agenda.




None of this means the term “fake news” is dead or that every single Trump booster is calling bullshit on the president's claim that he is as determined as ever to build the wall.

“There hasn't been a cave yet,” Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience on Thursday, urging patience, “but it looks like there might be.”

The significance of this week is that Trump can no longer cry “fake news” when the media reports on a broken promise, and count on his boosters to help keep the faith. In a credibility war with the media, Trump's victory is not automatic, even in the eyes of his most ardent admirers.


• Callum Borchers covers the intersection of politics and media for The Washington Post.

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Related to this topic:

 • VIDEO: Trump on deal with Democrats: ‘DACA now and the wall very soon’

 • As congressional Republicans see influence slipping, they’re not sure what to do about it


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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2017, 04:05:28 am »


In other words....

“Even Trump's supporters are now starting to see right through his BULLSHIT!”

SNIGGER....the Emperor has NO CLOTHES!!
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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2017, 06:24:20 am »

...fake news is also rampant in nz..the mainstream media here is very left leaning if you are not a sheep🙄
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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2017, 04:03:40 pm »

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Are you sick of the bullshit from the sewer stream media spewed out from the usual Ken and Barby dickless talking point look a likes.

If you want to know what's going on in the real world...
And the many things that will personally effect you.
Go to
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« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2017, 04:04:37 pm »

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Are you sick of the bullshit from the sewer stream media spewed out from the usual Ken and Barby dickless talking point look a likes.

If you want to know what's going on in the real world...
And the many things that will personally effect you.
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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2017, 04:12:45 pm »

Good to see Hillary bounce back and accept the REALITY of the situation....hope the rail labourer can take a leaf out of her book😜
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« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2017, 05:28:48 pm »


It's good to see the New Zealand branch of the “RETARDS Society” frothing at the mouth, even though American RETARDS are at long last starting to see right through Trump's BULLSHIT, as graphically displayed by both Breithart and Infowars.com putting up pictures of “Make America Great Again” hats burning because of their disgust with Trump's self-interested sell-out from their misguided & demented cause. It's EXCELLENT NEWS that the stupid righties are falling out!

Mind you, the NZ branch are even dumber than their American heros, so it will take those NZ RETARDS years more to wake up!

Which means I get years more entertainment throwing shit at the stupid DUMBFUCKS.
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« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2017, 07:21:36 pm »

..mmm..think I'm going to need a translator for that one🙄
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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2017, 11:50:13 am »


EXCELLENT NEWS....the dumb righties in America are waging war on each other!!



from The Washington Post....

Establishment gears up for Steve Bannon's war on the GOP leadership

The Senate contest in Alabama is testing the power of moneyed interests against Trump's conservative base.

By MICHAEL SCHERER and MATEA GOLD | 8:50PM EDT - Saturday, September 16, 2017

Former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon has ties to a group taking on the establishment favorite in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama. — Photograph: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post.
Former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon has ties to a group taking on the establishment favorite in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama.
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IF “WAR” against the Republican establishment is what former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon wants, then war is what he will get.

Deep-pocketed supporters of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) and other GOP leaders have resolved to fight a protracted battle over the next year for the soul of the party in congressional primaries. “It's shaping up to be McConnell, the Senate Leadership Fund and the Chamber against Bannon,” said Scott Reed, the senior political strategist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “And we will take that fight.”

But the task will not be easy. Strategists from both sides of the party's divide say recent focus groups and polling have shown that the frustration within the Republican base has only grown since the 2016 election, stoked by an inability to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health-care law. President Trump, meanwhile, has continued to cast his presidency in opposition to the current ways of Washington, which could encourage primary voters to buck the system in a way that endangers House and Senate incumbents.

“Just as in 2008, the election did little to let the air out of the tires,” said Steven Law, the president of the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC allied with McConnell that plans to spend heavily on Senate primaries in support of incumbents. “The raw material of the electorate is just increasingly volatile.”

The first battle will conclude this month in Alabama, where the incumbent senator — establishment-backed Luther Strange — is fighting uphill against former state Supreme Court judge Roy Moore, a conservative evangelical jurist who has twice been removed from the bench for defying legal decisions. Known for his conviction that Christian teachings are the source of all government authority, Moore has twice been elected statewide to the Supreme Court, but he also lost two primary campaigns for governor, in 2006 and 2010. He bested Strange by a margin of 39 percent to 33 percent in the first round of Senate primary voting last month.

Representative Mo Brooks (Republican-Alabama), who came in third in the first round of primary voting, threw his support behind Moore at a rally on Saturday. “It is truly amazing the audacity, the ego of the special-interest groups and the political action committees as they try to buy this United States Senate race thinking that with impunity they can run over the people of the state of Alabama,” Brooks declared.

In a sign of fights to come, the two Republican candidates are now competing to demonstrate their disgust with Washington politics. Strange, who was appointed this year to take the seat of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, begins one of his most recent television ads looking at the camera and announcing that he is “mad at Washington politicians.”

Moore describes his campaign as an effort to hurt McConnell, drain the swamp and bring more radical policies to the Senate, including a possible effort to impeach sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices for affirming the constitutionality of same-sex marriages.

Although Trump has endorsed Strange, Bannon is backing Moore — and using the conservative website he runs, Breitbart News, to hammer the incumbent as a “swamp monster”.

Allies of McConnell have been blanketing the Alabama airwaves to shrink Moore's polling lead. After spending nearly $4 million on ads before the first primary vote in August, the Senate Leadership Fund plans to blitz the state with another $4 million before the September 26th runoff. So far this year, the super PAC has raised more than $11 million, including a $1 million infusion from hedge fund manager Paul Singer last month, federal filings show.

The Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have also sunk money into the race to defend Strange. The Business Council of Alabama, working with the U.S. Chamber, plans a major employee get-out-the-vote operation to support Strange by arguing that he will be better for the state's industry and jobs. The chamber has also paid for a statewide mailer and an ad campaign that will include a spot during Saturday's Alabama and Auburn college football games. “There is no taking it back,” Reed said. “Alabama is the big enchilada.”

The Senate Leadership Fund is also taking aim at Bannon himself in an effort to tarnish his position as a champion of the Trump political movement. Law released a statement on Tuesday calling Bannon “dead wrong” for using a recent “60 Minutes” interview to criticize Trump's decision to fire former FBI director James B. Comey.

At the Chamber, Reed echoed the criticism of Bannon for breaking with Trump. “He is turning into a rallying point for the alt-right, which is kind of bizarre because half of what he does is damage his former client and friend, whom he served as chief strategist for,” Reed said.

Bannon declined to comment. But a person familiar with his thinking described the pushback by McConnell allies as “the corrupt and incompetent political class” taking on Trump's base.

Bannon's allies scoffed at the notion that the McConnell-allied groups could drive a wedge between Trump's supporters and Bannon. “At the end of the day, folks like that think the president’s base is stupid,” said a person close to the conservative media executive. “It shows the arrogance of the Republican political class in Washington.”

To counter the onslaught against Moore, the conservative advocacy group Great America Alliance, which is now overseen by Bannon protege and former deputy White House political director Andy Surabian, released a digital ad on Tuesday featuring a montage of grainy photos of McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (Democrat-New York) that argues over a rock-n-roll score that Strange was “appointed by the swamp.”

The group and its allies do not intend to match the volume of anti-Moore ads on television, but there are plans for a bus tour of the state by conservative activists in the next couple of weeks to support the Moore campaign, culminating in a major rally before the election. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who has endorsed Moore, is expected to travel to Alabama to appear as part of the tour.

And Moore allies have hope that their side will see an infusion of big money, too. Great America and its sister super PAC have new links to Bannon and his political patrons, the wealthy Mercer family. The former White House strategist does not have a formal role with the organizations, but he helped install Surabian as the top strategist at the advocacy group, according to a person familiar with his role.

Ed Rollins, the veteran GOP strategist who leads Great America PAC, said he has recently “exchanged some ideas” with Bannon, for whom he said he has “great respect.” And he has also been in talks with the Mercers, influential but idiosyncratic donors who often buck the GOP party establishment.

“We are having discussions but no formal ties at this point,” Rollins said of the family. “The more we can get going in the same direction, the better. We certainly have had some conversations.”

If they decide to put serious sums into groups taking on establishment candidates, hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer and his middle daughter, Rebekah, could help fuel the GOP's latest internecine battles. Before supporting Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign, they gave $13.5 million to a super PAC that backed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Trump's longest-lasting challenger for the nomination.

A spokeswoman for the Mercer family did not respond to a request for comment.

But there are already indications the Mercers plan to use their money to take on GOP incumbents this cycle. In late July, Robert Mercer gave $300,000 to a super PAC allied with former Arizona state senator Kelli Ward, who is challenging Republican Senator Jeff Flake in the state's primary, federal filings show.

Mercer also contributed $50,000 this summer to a new super PAC, Remember Mississippi, set up by an aide to state Senator Chris McDaniel, who is considering challenging GOP incumbent Senator Roger Wicker in the state.

Meanwhile, the pro-Trump super PAC America First and its sister advocacy group — which have emerged as the president's officially approved outside groups — have largely stayed out of the intraparty fights. Since making a small digital ad buy for Strange in early August, before the first round of voting in the Alabama special election, the PAC has not invested any money in the contest.

Trump's own apparent ambivalence over the Alabama race hints at the complicating factor he is likely to play in the coming fights. Although he endorsed Strange, he has not yet cut any political advertisements.

After the first round of primary elections, he tweeted congratulations to both men who made it through to the runoff, notably listing Moore's name first. “Congratulation to Roy Moore and Luther Strange,” the tweet said, adding, “Exciting race!”

White House legislative director Marc Short said this week that Trump “continues to stand by” his Strange endorsement. Trump announced late on Saturday on Twitter that he would visit Huntsville, Alabama on Saturday to campaign for Strange.

Republican strategists aiming to defend incumbents say they expect Trump to be an unreliable partner in the coming season. The president tends to approach questions of political loyalty on a case-by-case basis instead of as a party leader. And he is intent on keeping some distance from Republican congressional leadership, which has so far failed to deliver on his promise of Obamacare repeal.

In many ways, the coming 2018 contests will be a rematch of high-stakes primary fights that have taken place every two years since the 2008 election, when self-branded Tea Party challengers began trying to unseat incumbent Republicans. Flake and Senator Dean Heller (Republican-Nevada), who both face re-election next year, expect populist primary challenges this year. Several primary contests will be for seats with no Republican incumbent, such as those in Michigan, Montana and possibly Utah, where party insiders worry that the more anti-establishment candidates could jeopardize Republicans' general-election hopes.

“2018 is going to be a wave election, and it is going to be an anti-incumbent wave election,” said Eagle Forum Fund President Ed Martin, who has been traveling the country to hold events to pressure moderate Republicans to support the Trump agenda. “Any Republican that is in office as an incumbent is on the line.”

After the 2010 and 2012 elections, which saw Republicans lose Senate races in Missouri, Delaware, Indiana, Colorado and Nevada with Tea Party candidates, both the Chamber and McConnell decided to be more aggressive in Senate primaries. Since then, the insider powers have tended to have the upper hand, winning the Senate elections they have contested in the primary. McConnell himself survived a tough Tea Party challenge in 2014, and a huge influx of television spending helped Senator Thad Cochran (Republican-Mississippi) hold off a strong primary challenge that same year.

Reed said the Chamber got involved in eight House races and one Senate contest in 2016, and won each. He expects to outperform expectations again over the coming months.

“I think it's going to be an epic challenge, and we are seeing it in Alabama to start,” he said. “The polls look bad. We've got two weeks. We know what we need to do. That's why we are in this business.”


• Michael Scherer is a national political reporter for The Washington Post. Michael has been TIME's Washington Bureau Chief since 2013, overseeing political coverage in the magazine and online. He joined TIME in December 2007 as a campaign reporter covering Republicans during the 2008 election. He was named White House correspondent in January 2009, and traveled to more than a dozen countries with President Obama. He won the National Press Club's Lee Walczak Award for Political Excellence for his articles on the 2012 Obama re-election effort, and the 2014 New York Press Club Award for Political Coverage for a cover story on the 2013 government shutdown. He served on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association from 2010 to 2013. He has previously authored more than 20 TIME cover stories, including Person of the Year in 2012 and 2016

• Matea Gold is a national political reporter for The Washington Post, covering money and influence.

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Related to this topic:

 • VIDEO: 5 takeaways from Bannon's ‘60 Minutes’ interview

 • Trump to campaign with Luther Strange in Senate race in Alabama

 • The rise of GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer

 • Bannon's ‘epic’ defense of Trump doesn’t extend to all his moves, or all his aides and allies


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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2017, 03:28:50 pm »

Sorry..ain't got time to read it...please just summarise it in your own words...Obviously you are well researched in the issue😁
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