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REPORT: White House Lied to Journalists About Trump Speech in ‘Misdirection Play’
Mediaite ^ | 1 Mar 2017 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 03/01/2017 3:09:05 PM PST by mandaladon

CNN reported Wednesday on a senior administration official admitting that the White House intentionally misled reporters ahead of President Donald Trump‘s congressional address in order to get generate positive press coverage as part of a “misdirection play.”

Multiple reports Tuesday indicated that Trump would embrace a more moderate tone on immigration and would announce that he was willing to negotiate granting millions of illegal immigrants legal status. Most of those reports, cited to a “senior administration official,” came immediately after anchors lunched with Trump. Some of those outlets then just attributed the claim to the president himself.

But when it was time for Trump to actually give the speech, he said nothing of the sort. CNN’s Sara Murray complained the next day about “the bait and switch that the president pulled when it came to immigration yesterday. He had this meeting with the anchors, he talked about a path to legal status.”

“Basically they fed [them] things that they thought these anchors would like, that they thought would give them positive press coverage for the next few hours. A senior administration official admitted that it was a misdirection play,” she reported.

Host John King wondered why reporters should even trust the White House going forward. “It does make you wonder; so we’re not supposed to believe what the senior-most official at the lunch says — who then they allowed it to be the president’s name says — we’re not supposed to believe what they say?” he asked. “Maybe we shouldn’t believe what they say.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jointcongressspeech; media; msm; trump; trumpschumps; trumpspeech
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To: mandaladon

Don’t you just love it?

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I do. I certainly do. Unfortunately many FReepers believed this Fake News from the enemedia and blasted Trump 15 different ways from Sunday.

Sheesh. You’d think they’d learn by now how Trump ALWAYS tricks the idiot press.


21 posted on 03/01/2017 3:18:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: mandaladon

Perhaps it wasn’t a lie. Maybe it was feeding information to find out who is the leaker?


22 posted on 03/01/2017 3:18:34 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: mandaladon

Misdirection, while the quarterback executes a Quarterback Sneak right up the middle on national TV. Fine gamesmanship.


23 posted on 03/01/2017 3:18:39 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: mandaladon

I thought that is what politics is.


24 posted on 03/01/2017 3:18:48 PM PST by Jolla
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To: mandaladon

‘Misdirection Play’.

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Yep. It’s called a head fake. Trump is playing the shell game with these whores in the press.

They don’t know whether to (bleep) or wipe up.


25 posted on 03/01/2017 3:20:15 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: GraceG

Howie Carr said the same thing earlier in his show... he got the text of the speech - described it as “embargoed” - about an hour before the speech began...

Are we sick of winning yet??


26 posted on 03/01/2017 3:21:07 PM PST by bryan999
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To: Responsibility2nd

I seriously think that more than a few FReepers WANT Trump to stab us in the back, just so they can say that they told us so.


27 posted on 03/01/2017 3:22:38 PM PST by Luircin (Dancing in the streets! Time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: mandaladon

28 posted on 03/01/2017 3:22:39 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: mandaladon

LOL Id say that Trump played the Commie media for fools but the media already are FOOLS


29 posted on 03/01/2017 3:22:42 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: mandaladon

CNN writers attempting to stay relevant and failing.

30 posted on 03/01/2017 3:22:59 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m proud to say that I smelled the foul, rancid stench of fake news right out of the gate!

Yes, someone give me a medal... Or at least a participation trophy...


31 posted on 03/01/2017 3:24:08 PM PST by bryan999
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To: Defiant

That’s the ticket. The MFM tends to frown on misleading unless they are the ones doing the leading. FAKE NEWS is their domain. No one can do FAKE NEWS better than they.

It’s the pits when you’ve been played for a fool. People tend to laugh at you. A severe case of giggles has just set in.


32 posted on 03/01/2017 3:24:22 PM PST by V K Lee (If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?)
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To: mandaladon

Collateral damage? Drudge. He’ll have to get more sophisticated about what he links to.


33 posted on 03/01/2017 3:25:15 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: mandaladon

To borrow a line from the great Charlie Daniels:

Trump has em out there steppin’ and fetchin’
Like their heads are on fire and their asses are catchin’

Well played President Trump!


34 posted on 03/01/2017 3:25:30 PM PST by KyCats
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To: Luircin

Of course they do, they’re never Trumpers, you don’t think they all left or got booted, do you.


35 posted on 03/01/2017 3:27:40 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: Luircin

Hopefully it’s just a few.. I can’t say I blame them though.. conservatives are so used to getting a bum deal all the time.. Almost a natural reaction to fall into the trap of bad news.

Hopefully Trump brought in a decent segment of the NeverTrump crew into the fold last night.


36 posted on 03/01/2017 3:28:29 PM PST by bryan999
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To: mandaladon; Pinkbell

Yet the CNN article claiming Trump had caved on Dreamers was posted here, on FR. The gloom and doomers predicted...gloom and doom. The handwringers wrung their hands.

It’s one thing when Trump’s strategy confounds liberals. It’s another thing when, again and again, conservatives fall for it too.


37 posted on 03/01/2017 3:30:02 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: bryan999

I don’t believe this story and knew yesterday’s was pure garbage as well! But if it’s true that they set it up and as a result had a much wider audience, well... once again Trump plays chess while they all play checkers!


38 posted on 03/01/2017 3:31:15 PM PST by GizzyGirl
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yeah, and they SUCK at it! lol


39 posted on 03/01/2017 3:31:51 PM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: mandaladon

What this actually does is tell people to watch Trump’s actions not fake news from the media.


40 posted on 03/01/2017 3:32:14 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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