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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: Luircin

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.

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Perhaps.

But every time the MSM prints some Fake News that these FReepers believe, they ALWAYS blame the GOP-e, Never Trumpers, Cucks and so on.

Truth is, Trump is doing a fantastic job. The few glitches like Flynn were way overblown by the enemedia.


41 posted on 03/01/2017 3:32:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: mandaladon
Funny, Mark Levin just took credit for Trump changing the speech at the last minute because of his complaints on yesterday's show.

-PJ

42 posted on 03/01/2017 3:33:00 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the first question.)
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To: mandaladon

LOL. Live by anonymous sources, die by anonymous sources.


43 posted on 03/01/2017 3:34:01 PM PST by Hugin (Conservati, not tsm without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: mandaladon

Where was the “lie” was or misdirection? I’m sure Trump would s willng to negotiate. But would the Dims accept the terms and conditions? The media jumped to conclusions that were not proffered by Trump. I heard nothing in Trump’s speech that contraindicated negotiations. The idiots misdirected themselves by thinking Trump was about to get rolled like a Bushie.


44 posted on 03/01/2017 3:35:17 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: mandaladon

I was wondering about those reports. Why would Trump just give up a huge card without negotiating the point? It just didn’t add up.


45 posted on 03/01/2017 3:36:31 PM PST by Religion and Politics (It's Morning in America)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Mark is delusional.


46 posted on 03/01/2017 3:38:02 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: gubamyster

47 posted on 03/01/2017 3:38:48 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Political Junkie Too

Could have been a trial balloon...and trump saw that we are not going to accept it.


48 posted on 03/01/2017 3:38:51 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.>>>. yes they did i tried to show that the only quote in the articles were not anything like the headline. got to go directly to the source.


49 posted on 03/01/2017 3:39:50 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: mandaladon
Watched Cnn & Nbc yesterday before the speech. Knew Trump was playing them for fools.

Ed

50 posted on 03/01/2017 3:45:45 PM PST by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: mandaladon

Interesting how some accept the premise of this so-called story. No way a WH official admits to misdirection. That alone tells me the story is garbage.

Then .. even if Trump told them he intends to compromise on immigration and then doesn’t put it into the speech ... so what? That doesn’t determine whether he will ultimately compromise or not.

Fake garbage story.


51 posted on 03/01/2017 3:49:26 PM PST by plain talk
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To: mandaladon

Total bullshit. An article I read yesterday said their posted transcript was received by the media before the speech. This it definitely fake news.


52 posted on 03/01/2017 3:50:30 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: mandaladon
In the modern cultural vernacular, CNN and the other major news media GOT PUNKED!
53 posted on 03/01/2017 3:50:32 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: mandaladon

Politics is a series business.
Very series.
Suckers. Tee Heeeee!


54 posted on 03/01/2017 3:53:48 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: mandaladon

55 posted on 03/01/2017 3:56:10 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: RummyChick
That was a thought I had. Take this from the NYT:

He told the anchors it was time for a bill that would grant legal status to many of those in the country illegally as long as both sides compromised, similar to the legislation sought but never passed by George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Mr. Trump said he recognized that it would cause him political problems with his conservative base voters, according to people in the room, but added that he thought he could keep them happy since they had stuck with him throughout last year’s Republican primaries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/trump-speech.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

As soon as this hit, a look at FR, Breitbart, and Twitter, showed this went over like a lead balloon with his base with people on Breitbart in particular saying they would not vote for him in 2020. Anne Coulter and Mark Krikorian essentially said it would be the end of his Presidency. It sounds like Levin went nuts over it to. The whole thing was odd and didn't make sense if light of the fact that there is a lot that can be done to encourage self deportation with e-verify, cutting benefits, ending sanctuary cities, etc. Couple that with getting the criminals out, build the wall, and then assess.

56 posted on 03/01/2017 3:57:54 PM PST by Pinkbell (http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/11/cnn-lies-multiple-times-to-help-hillary.html)
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To: RummyChick

Should’ve known better, Rummy...

A lot of us tried to tell those in here that were panicky that the press was taking this thing to try and turn Trump support against him....


57 posted on 03/01/2017 4:01:28 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Cicero

I think your right .
they heard what they wanted to hear or hoped to cook up and trusted they could corner Trump into the fatal mistake .

Lies and spin .


58 posted on 03/01/2017 4:03:31 PM PST by ncalburt
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To: Political Junkie Too
Yeah, whatever he needs to tell himself.
Levin needs to do a major apology that he does not possess the humility to give.
There are several that I respected so much who are in the same boat. To me it is a moral weakness.
59 posted on 03/01/2017 4:03:44 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: mandaladon

Junk and fake news from CNN!


60 posted on 03/01/2017 4:04:53 PM PST by Grampa Dave (We are winning every day, while the Dems and Never Trumpsters are whining every day!!!)
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