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AP FACT CHECK: Trump roars on Twitter about Russia probe
ap ^ | 2/18/2018 | CALVIN WOODWARD

Posted on 02/18/2018 2:38:00 PM PST by mdittmar

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s Twitter cannon roared over the weekend as the latest turn in the Russia investigation seemingly placed him on the defensive. He denied he had ever absolved Russia of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, despite his plentiful record of voicing doubts on that question.

Resurrecting an old tale from the campaign, Trump also described a diplomatic transaction between the U.S. and Iran during the Obama years as a dark plot that should have been investigated by U.S. authorities. The transaction actually was money the U.S. owed to Iran from decades ago and one in a series of claims that were addressed by an international tribunal set up by both countries.

Trump’s rash of tweets followed an indictment released Friday charging 13 Russians with running a massive social media trolling campaign and field operations in the U.S. aimed in part at helping him defeat his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. The case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller provided the most concrete evidence yet of Russian attempts to subvert the election.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ap; associatedpress; fakenews; lyinglibs; trumptweet; twitter
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1 posted on 02/18/2018 2:38:00 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

If I want facts, AP is the last place I go.


2 posted on 02/18/2018 2:41:53 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: mdittmar

“Fact check” means somebody’s gonna be called a liar because they’re not liked. When it’s the AP, we know who they don’t like.


3 posted on 02/18/2018 2:42:39 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: mdittmar

ap fake news


4 posted on 02/18/2018 2:43:55 PM PST by Professional
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To: mdittmar

Looks like a liberal propagandist

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-JXxy7Rk6zA/hqdefault.jpg


5 posted on 02/18/2018 2:45:18 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Arm_Bears

Right after Snopes.


6 posted on 02/18/2018 2:47:43 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: mdittmar

Daily dose of AP BS.


7 posted on 02/18/2018 2:48:45 PM PST by Lent
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To: mdittmar

You can’t have an “AP FACT CHECK” without the letters “F” and “AP”.


8 posted on 02/18/2018 2:50:53 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: mdittmar

If the payment was on the up-and-up, why did Iran demand it in cash?


9 posted on 02/18/2018 2:55:33 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: mdittmar
Associated Presstitutes Fake Fact Check don't ya know!
10 posted on 02/18/2018 2:56:24 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: bigbob

The only way Trump is going to get anywhere is if he can get Sessions to indict some people involved with FISAgate. Otherwise MSM will continue to spin this as a “Russia was helping Trump” narrative. We had some momentum now it’s gone.


11 posted on 02/18/2018 2:58:52 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: mdittmar

“twitter cannon roared”

That very phrase shows that the AP is not about “facts” — that is a highly tendentious METAPHOR concocted by the AP, it is not a “fact”..... hilarious that the MSM cannot see their own dishonesty and propagandistic intent.


12 posted on 02/18/2018 2:59:28 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: mdittmar
He denied he had ever absolved Russia of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, despite his plentiful record of voicing doubts on that question.

Look, everybody! More #FakeNews from AP.

Trump said he didn't collude with Russians he never said they didn't meddle in our elections.

13 posted on 02/18/2018 3:02:24 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: mdittmar

Everybody meddles in the elections. You have to be really stupid to think otherwise.


14 posted on 02/18/2018 3:04:31 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: mdittmar

AP = Always Pimping


15 posted on 02/18/2018 3:07:09 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: mdittmar

If Trump cured cancer tomorrow, AP would headline the story “Trump wears wrong colored socks to make cancer announcement”.....


16 posted on 02/18/2018 3:07:11 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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Mueller charged 13 Russians with running a massive social media trolling campaign
and field operations in the U.S. aimed at 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton.

A must avenue to explore.......

<><> how did the 13 Ruskis get into the US?

<><>under whose auspices?

<><>under Obama's sap-happy refugee-loving immigration policies?

<><> does ICE have any records?

<><> were any of the tax-funded refugee resettlement programs involved?

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<><>Who sponsored the Ruskis? Somebody at the DNC? In Congress? Hillary's campaign?

17 posted on 02/18/2018 3:10:40 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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AP is merely a collection of Partisan Media Shills.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/associatedpress/index

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18 posted on 02/18/2018 3:14:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SaveFerris

Big Bad Don

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7I_y5qCUPc


19 posted on 02/18/2018 3:33:08 PM PST by tflabo (Varmints)
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To: mdittmar

Is just me or nobody seems to care that the so-called “massive” Russian campaign narrative is just a bald-face lie by the Presstitudes?
The Russians’ disinformation budgets of in order of a hundred thousands $, less than an evening of bought add in just one state by the Hillary campaign. And the protests they set up involves about 3 dozens of protesters.
That even people on Fox let the “massive” meme run is beyond despicable.


20 posted on 02/18/2018 3:43:06 PM PST by miniTAX (a)
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