Felix Sater, Trump Associate, Boasted That Moscow [...] ‘Will Get Donald Elected’ (NYT Click-bait)

New York Times ^ | Aug 28, 2017 | Apuzzo Haberman

[ifinnegan]

There is no evidence in the emails that Mr. Sater delivered on his promises, and one email suggests that Mr. Sater overstated his Russian ties. In January 2016, Mr. Cohen wrote to Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, asking for help restarting the Trump Tower project, which had stalled. But Mr. Sater did not appear to have Mr. Peskov’s direct email, and instead wrote to a general inbox for press inquiries.

The project never got government permits or financing, and died weeks later.

“To be clear, the Trump Organization has never had any real estate holdings or interests in Russia,” the Trump Organization said Monday in a statement.

[ifinnegan]

I post this only to show just how low the NY Slimes has sunk and how it is posting Click-bait.

Russia-headlined articles like this are click-bait that works for their audience. So the Times publishes known non-stories with Russia-Trump headlines. The Times does this for two reasons, 1) for the clicks, and 2) to get their fake news out there and make broad unfounded statements in an authoritarian manner, as if true.

The New York Times knows all this. They know this is a non-news story and the lurid click-bait headline is belied in the article itself.

The excerpt above is buried in the middle and discredits this specific Russia-collusion accusation and shows their own headline to be not true. The Times article reports that nothing ever happened such as is implied in the headline, there was no collusion with Russia in this instance and the accused Trump associate didn't even have the connections he claims.

Normally that means end of story, bad tip, dead end. So why publish the story?

The New York Times needs clicks because it is failing and knows sensational Russia headlines bring in the clicks.

Bat Boy, Lose Weight Overnight, What Kind of Tree Are You?

Russia Russia Russia.

You Won't Believe What Jan Brady Looks Like Now!

So, NYT gets clicks and they get to insert their unfounded talking points. Notice these empty, non-specific and meaningless sentences included in this fake story:

"American intelligence agencies have concluded that the Russian government interfered with the 2016 presidential election to try to help Mr. Trump. Investigators want to know whether anyone on Mr. Trump’s team was part of that process."

The above passage was presented in the article well prior to the section of the article that discredited these claims of Russian collusion.

To summarize, the NYT publishes an article with a sensational and lurid headline claiming and implying a "smoking gun" on Trump and Russia, yet the article itself openly and knowingly discredits the headline's claims, details how this is a red herring, and all the while includes political talking points, half truths and broad generalizations not relevant to the specific report.

Classic Yellow Journalism.

[stanne]

Do the Russians go in and hire all the people who go to Trump’s rallies?

[Jim W N]

***WARNING***

NYT = Not Yielding to Truth

Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.

We should be mostly publishing the truth on FR, not the lies, and as much good news as possible to bolster morale. We should find and post reliable sources that have already deconstructed the lie and replaced it with the truth and with a headline that says the truth. We need much more of that on FR IMO. The key is the headline and the first few sentences because not everyone has time to drill down. The endless stream of negative, lying headlines sabotages our purpose IMO.

[BobL]

“Do the Russians go in and hire all the people who go to Trump’s rallies?”

OR...

1) Keep Hillary out of Wisconsin
2) Make her say “Deplorables”
3) Drug her so she collapsed getting into the SUV
4) Help her steal the nomination from Bernie

I’d be hiring the Russians too, if they could do all that to my opponent...but something tells me they cannot.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for your clear analysis of the fake News piece from the NY Slimes.

Beware of Click bait warning is all over this fake news bs.

[ifinnegan]

Yeah.

The real title of an article like this should be something like:

“Trump-hanger-on Falsely Boasted of Russian Ties”.

[x]

According to Wikipedia, Felix Sater has all kinds of connections to the Russian mafia.

P.S. He's not the guy who wrote Bambi. Far from it.

[ifinnegan]

I thought of the Bambi author as well because of the similar name.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Hey NYSlimes. Pssssst. H O U S T O N

[adorno]

The New York Times needs clicks because it is failing and knows sensational Russia headlines bring in the clicks.

There comes a time when we all must realize that, the NY Times and Washington Post and most other liberal media, are not in it to be successful at fact-based reporting and informing people and making money.

The left-wing media crossed the line between reporting/informing and becoming tools for assisting certain political groups attain their agendas.

Many of those media organizations have not made enough in profits to make continuing in business worthwhile. So, they now have ownership that is in it to use them as tools towards achieving their liberal goals. So, we have the NY Times, which doesn't care at all about retaining or even gaining conservative readers. Same with the Washington Post. Same with networks such as CNN and MSNBC. The OTA networks' news divisions exist for the sole purpose of advancing the liberal agenda. Google and Yahoo and MSN and other "go to" places on the internet, are mostly agents for the left-wing agendas and viewpoints.

If one were to be honest and label each story from the liberal media as being factual or talking points or fantasy or biased, one would immediately notice that, the vast majority of stories and articles are NOT truthful or fact-bases. Thus, we have stories as that of the NY Times digging up a non-story about Trump and a Russian Trump Tower. It's irrelevant and worthless and meant to serve an agenda item, "collusion", for the liberals. I've often wondered why there isn't a web-site dedicated to gathering "news" stories and labeling them in order to warn readers about what they're going to be encountering within the content. No need to gather the whole story; just a link would suffice.

[Fedora]

Plus this is a recycled story from months ago that led to nowhere at that time as well.

[ifinnegan]

“Plus this is a recycled story from months ago that led to nowhere at that time as well.”

Classic click-bait operation.

[ifinnegan]

Very well said, thanks.

“I’ve often wondered why there isn’t a web-site dedicated to gathering “news” stories and labeling them in order to warn readers...”

This site is that to some degree.

Newsbusters does something like that.

[Verginius Rufus]

Felix Sater.

Not to be confused with Felix Salten.

[ifinnegan]

Disney used his books for two other movies in addition to Bambi.

“His stories Perri and The Hound of Florence inspired the Disney films Perri (1957) and The Shaggy Dog (1959).”

[Verginius Rufus]

Of course Disney would never have made the movie Bambi if Whittaker Chambers--that Whittaker Chambers--had not translated the novel from German into English.

[adorno]

This site is that to some degree.

This site is ok, but, it's not a website which everybody knows about, and it's also known as a conservative discussion site, which means that, not everybody is even going to hear about it, and democrats/liberals will avoid it.

Newsbusters does something like that.

That again, is a selective process, where only the stories that "matter" to the website "newsbusters" will be chosen for critique.

[ifinnegan]

That is an interesting fact.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, they’re “sort of” right: Hillary’s corruption with her Russian (and all other international sales and bribery) condemned HILLARY to losing. It’s just that every other republican candidate of the 16 was going to lose anyway to her and her democrat-socialist-communist press corpse ... except Trump.

[piasa]

Update... Felix Sater is suing over attacks on him via the Clinton-funded Russian-fed Steele Dossier. The case involves Kazakhstan and Hunter Biden.