Posted on 08/12/2019 11:12:02 AM PDT by rktman
This is how CNN’s State of the Union began on Sunday:
JAKE TAPPER: Hello. I’m Jake Tapper in Washington, where the state of our union is appalled. We begin this morning with a retweet from the president of the United States, not a message about healing or uniting the country one week after two horrifying massacres, not about the victims of those tragedies.
Instead, President Trump using his massive Twitter platform, 63 million followers, to spread a deranged conspiracy theory, tying the death of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in prison to the president's former political rivals the Clintons.
I’m not going to show you the tweet, but the spokesperson for former president Bill Clinton responded to the president retweeting it, saying — quote — “Ridiculous and, of course, not true, and Donald Trump knows it. Has he triggered the 25th Amendment yet?” . . .
President Trump has also given voice to the lie that the migrant and refugee crisis at the southern border of the U.S. is a plot by Jewish billionaire George Soros to fund a — quote — “invasion.”
That is a conspiracy theory that was the motive for mass slaughter in Pittsburgh and El Paso.
This is no longer just irresponsible and indecent. It is dangerous.
Joining me now from his hometown of El Paso, after having canceled his campaign events for the week to deal with the mourning citizens in his city, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I once posted an article on a liberal site (about four years ago) about a “coming civil war”. I didn’t agree with the article but I thought some points were worthwhile, even though I didn’t come to the same conclusion as the author. I also thought it would stimulate a good conversation.
To this day, on that site, I’m the guy that predicted a race civil war.
i.e. the post is just doing what liberals do - intentionally miss the point and create a straw man.
did the tweet just ask, “Did the Clintons kill Epstein?”
seems like a legit question.
I’m not going to show you the tweet, but the spokesperson for former president Bill Clinton responded to the president retweeting it, saying — quote — “Ridiculous and, of course, not true, and Donald Trump knows it. Has he triggered the 25th Amendment yet?” . . .
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Remember the good old days when the press reported both sides of a story?
What’s ridiculous and not true? Tapper can’t even present the Tweet, but only the criticism. FUT
CNN ratings are lower than shark shit in the Marianna Trench. Keep up the good work Jake Off.
I could have fun dissecting that bullshit, but I don’t have time. “The state of the union is “appalled” [sic].” You mean appaling, dumbass?
I’m afraid under new guidelines the liberals have imposed, Hillary will have to prove her innocence.
US Presidents do not indulge in conspiracy theories. They have real information, and when a president says something specific like this, ANY PRESIDENT, it is because he knows who is responsible. The US president is not an unemployed drop-out, lazy, know-nothing slob living in his mom’s basement making up conspiracy theories on YouTube!
Like the three years (and still ongoing!) conspiracy theory about Russia your network has had orgasms over, Jake?
CNN = Fake News & Conspiracy Theories.
Oh, and today is 8/12:
That means Heil Alas Babylon!
and I’m a steaming pile of fake news.
From the same people who believe that the Russians stole the election from their messiah Hillary
Trump lives rent free in Jens pea brain. TDS is a debilitating disease.
“The [CURRENT] US president is not an unemployed drop-out, lazy, know-nothing slob...”
The President said that Russian collusion was a hoax and he was proved right. CNN has been shown repeatedly to be flat out fabricators of fake news. I’ll stick with Trumps take on the subject over CNN’s any day.
This is good writing. It is.
But then I’ve always liked dark comedy. Sarcasm is best when delivered in a deadpan style like this.
It ain’t lunacy, it’s a likely scenario, given how much the Clintons and other elites stood to lose by Epstein’s confessions to the Feds.
Must have struck a nerve there.
In the second place, anyone who has seen the tweet in question would know it is a joke, which explains why the media isn't showing the whole story.
exactly. Clinton has not been exonerated.
Jebbifer (spelling intentional) is still butt-hurt that her heartthrob Yeb! did not get to be the Designated Loser in 2016 like was planned.
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