Posted on 12/06/2017 6:14:44 PM PST by markomalley
Bloomberg News corrected a major story that alleged the Justice Department had subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s past financial records.
Bloomberg’s Politics division reported early Tuesday that Robert Mueller, the special counsel for the Justice Department, had issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank that had “zeroed in” on the financial records of the Trump family.
The news caused major buzz, as Mueller's examination of Trump's financial records, or those of Trump's family, was considered a "red line" to the president, and one not related to Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian hacking during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, insisted the Bloomberg report was wrong at her Tuesday press briefing.
"We confirmed that the news reports that the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records related to the president are completely false," Sanders said. "No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources. I think this is another example of the media going too far and too fast, and we don't see it going in that direction."
At that point, Playboy correspondent Brian Karem tried to interrupt Sanders, to insist the media were just doing their job.
Reaction to the news that Trump's financial records had been subpoenaed was met with celebration from left-wing media outlets.
"The development seemed likely to send the already unraveling Trump into a tailspin," wrote reporter Bess Levin of Vanity Fair.
But by Wednesday afternoon, Bloomberg Politics corrected its story to note that the subpoena related to people "affiliated" with Trump.
Deutsche Bank has long been reported to have loaned The Trump Organization money. Bloomberg reports that before becoming president, the debt to Deutsche Bank ran as high as $300 million.
The 16th largest bank in the world, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, the German bank has assets of $1.7 trillion. The reason Deutsche Bank attracts so much attention from Trump critics is that the Justice Department looked into an alleged $10 billion Russian money-laundering scheme.
The bank reportedly settled with U.S. regulators sometime this year, CNN reported in November.
I was referring to my line of business. Sorry, should have said “in my line of business” back in the day. But now, and I’m not THAT old, it doesn’t matter much. Anywhere. In any line of work. Does that salve your ire?
This is an old tactic of trial lawyers. They ask a leading or argumentative question, or make some statement that is argumentative. The other side objects, the judge sustains the objection, directs the record to be stricken, and then tells the jury to disregard the remarks. Of course the jury can’t unhear what they heard.
The MSM tells the big, loud, front page lie. The lie echos around all the other MSM outlets. The lie gets exposed, but only the original liar has to retract. The others, after all, were only reporting that someone else had reported something.
Most of those casually connected to the news have been inoculated with the lie, and it is now part of the story.
These incidents need to be pursued. With lawsuits, prosecutions, and most of all with ridicule.
And, they wonder why they’re trusted by .005% of consumers!
Trolled, rolled, or smoking out leakers?
Might this important news do more good in Extended News (News/Activism), so more readers can see it? Only a suggestion. Great news, by the way!
And Maddow! Don't forget Rachel Maddow who went for Bloomberg's reporting hook, line and sinker.
Yesterday, Andrew Wilkow played a clip from her show where she was literally giddy that Bloomberg (up to that point) had stuck to its reporting despite the WH stating it was not true. She had Trump convicted.
Tomorrow's show will be almost as good as the clips of her on Election night 2016.
God help me, I love this so!
Yes, that’s true.
It wasn’t Trump or Trump family records.
Just a tad inaccurate huh.
“”The development seemed likely to send the already unraveling Trump into a tailspin,” wrote reporter Bess Levin of Vanity Fair.”
Uh, sure. trump “unraveling” and in a “tailspin” all because of a bunch of fabricated lies. these people are so demented they believe their fictional world is the same thing as reality.
I’m beginning to think the Trump administration is feeding them these stories to make them look even more foolish.
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