circular illogic
Posted on 11/06/2019 6:19:05 PM PST by Helicondelta
U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor, during his deposition last month, identified the New York Times as the sole source of his claim that President Donald Trump wanted Ukraine to help him get dirt on Joe Biden, transcripts released Wednesday show.
Besides a New York Times article, “I have no other information from what the [U.S.] president was thinking,” he declared under questioning by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) during his October 22 deposition, given behind closed doors.
The transcripts of his testimony described the Zeldin-Taylor exchange as follow:
Zeldin: What was the goal of requesting investigations into 2016 election and [Ukrainian company that employed Hunter] Burisma?
Taylor: As I understand it from one of the maybe the article in the New York Times about [Trump’s private lawyer] Mr. [Rudy] Giuliani’s interest in Burisma, in that article, he describes, and I think he quotes Giuliani at some length, that article indicates that Giuliani was interested in getting some information on Vice President Biden that would be useful to Mr.Giuliani’s client. I think that’s what he says. He says he’s got one client, and he’s useful to the client.
Zeldin: And then it’s your inference that Mr. Giuliani’s goal would be the President’s goal?
Taylor: Yes.
Zeldin: And your source is the New York Times?
Taylor: Yes.
Zeldin: So do you have any other source that the President’s goal in making this request was anything other than the New York Times?
Taylor: I have not talked to the president. I have no other information from what the President was thinking.
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No you don’t understand see soon we will learn that it was a story by Michael Issikoff that forms the source for the NYT story so its solid.
It's okay. I'm used to it now.
(Snicker, snicker)
Schiff’s bogus hearings ought to be on the Comedy Channel. You can hardly make this stuff up.
circular illogic
They have no new ideas so they reuse old ones. This is how they did the FISA >> Spy >> Meuller thing. It’s bound to work this time.
Well then that’s settled. There are no US tanks in Baghdad. CNN reported Bob saying it, so..... Peach Fowtyfibe!
And this moron is their big star witness in next week’s open hearings.
I hope he’s asked the same question early so everyone will hear his answer.
Are we scraping the bottom of the barrel for diplomats?
Dems demonstrate what desperate fools they are every day.
I never bought Neil Boortz’s impression of Dupree being a non-biased journalist. On every interview Neil had with Dupree he sounded exactly the same as any lazy lame stream court stenographer.
I never bought Neil Boortz’s impression of Dupree being a non-biased journalist. On every interview Neil had with Dupree he sounded exactly the same as any lazy lame stream court stenographer.
Im just getting started. Its good!
Now...Let me get this straight...Taylor is the “source” that leaks a story to the Times and the Times becomes his “sole” source of the claim?
What am I missing here?..../s
> U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor, during his deposition last month, identified the New York Times as the sole source of his claim that President Donald Trump wanted Ukraine to help him get dirt on Joe Biden, transcripts released Wednesday show.
What a dope.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nancy-pelosi-explains-wrap-smear-technique-amanda-prestigiacomo
WATCH: Nancy Pelosi Details ‘Wrap-Up Smear’ Technique. It Sounds Exactly Like The Kavanaugh Smear.
OCTOBER 8TH, 2018
A video of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) detailing a political tactic called the “wrap-up smear” to reporters in 2017 has resurfaced online in light of the nasty smear campaign launched against recently sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Pelosi described the smear as a common “diversionary tactic” of the Republicans, unsurprisingly.
“It’s a diversionary tactic,” she starts. “It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy, you demonize and then — the ‘wrap-up smear.’ You wanna talk politics? We call it the ‘wrap-up smear.’”
“You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest,” Pelosi detailed, “and then you merchandise it. And then you (gesturing to the media) write it, and then they say, ‘See, it’s reported in the press that this, this, this, and this.’ So they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it’s called the ‘wrap-up smear.’”
“And now I’m going to merchandise the press’s report on the smear that we made,” she repeated. “It’s a tactic. And it’s self-evident.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfqGQ9JDeyo
Say what? The NYT is a credible source?
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