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Trump faces backlash for celebrating layoffs at The Atlantic, calling it 'Great News'
Fox News ^ | May 26 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 05/26/2020 11:04:55 PM PDT by knighthawk

President Trump is facing intense backlash for celebrating the recent layoffs that took place at the liberal magazine The Atlantic.

Last week, The Atlantic became the latest of several news outlets that have cut its staff amid the coronavirus pandemic, detailing in a memo to staff that 68 of their colleagues were let go, resulting in a cut of roughly 17 percent of all of the magazine's employees.

Roughly 40 million Americans have lost their jobs since the beginning of the pandemic. On Tuesday night, Trump touted the layoffs from the magazine whose coverage has been largely critical of the president.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: layoff; media; msm; theatlantic; trump
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To: knighthawk

Trump’s tweet was slammed by critics, many of whom were journalists.

This is a lie. None of the clowns at Vox, et al, are “journalists”, they’re propagandists.


21 posted on 05/27/2020 12:03:04 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Laslo Fripp

Nope. I’m not General Kelly.

President Trump’s tweets play to his base. That’s his choice. I’m not questioning his right to tweet or even the point of this particular tweet (loss of fake news The Atlantic would not disappoint me). What I posted was my opinion that his tone is needlessly turning off some undecided voters, and you didn’t address that at all.

I hope this election isn’t close, but if it is, Trump’s tone could be a deciding factor. I’m sure he’d tell me he’s president and I’m not or some such, but why risk offending any voters who might be needed to re-elect him?


22 posted on 05/27/2020 12:12:54 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: CitizenUSA

With all due respect, I think people knew who he was when they voted for him before.

He’s always been on Twitter, saying things that push the envelope.


23 posted on 05/27/2020 12:14:44 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, Give me Liberty or Give me Death!)
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To: knighthawk

I was never interested in the Atlantic. Just didn’t seem interesting to me.


24 posted on 05/27/2020 12:16:17 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, Give me Liberty or Give me Death!)
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To: proud American in Canada
On rare (very rare) occasions, the Atlantic gets it right.

But as an overall leftist rag, hope they go out of business entirely.

25 posted on 05/27/2020 12:22:31 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: proud American in Canada

more reasons for Trump to criticise Twitter’s “FauxFactChecking”:

VIDEO: 26 May: Fox News: Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick bashes Twitter, Dems over mail-in voting: ‘If they get it, it’s the end of democracy’
by Victor Garcia
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick admonished Democrats for pushing mail-in voting Tuesday, telling “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday that such measures would be “the end of democracy” if they were ever enacted...
“Twitter owes the president an apology,” Patrick said. “They fact-checked him, Laura, for his opinion. And by the way, his opinion was based on fact, because the Democrats are trying to steal this election.

“I just tweeted out that the Democrat plan to have everyone vote by mail is an invitation for fraud and it’s a total scam,” Patrick told Ingraham. “And tonight, I would like all of your millions of viewers to tweet their own tweet out about how mail-in ballots are a scam by the Democrats.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dan-patrick-mail-in-voting-end-democracy

Patrick mentions investigation below by Colleen Vera:

22 May: TexasScorecard: Texas AG Launches Mail-Ballot Voter Fraud Probe in Harris County
Amid Democrat lawsuits to expand vote-by-mail, a local citizen’s complaint leads to an investigation of possible illegal mail-ballot harvesting in a Democrat primary.
By Erin Anderson
State officials are launching an investigation into alleged voter fraud after receiving a citizen complaint about mail-ballot harvesting in Harris County.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office notified local resident Colleen Vera earlier this week that they are taking action on her election complaint, which was filed with the Texas Secretary of State’s office in April.

Paxton’s probe comes as his office is fighting two lawsuits filed by the Texas Democrat Party using the coronavirus as an excuse to allow everyone to vote by mail.

Vera’s complaint documents that “people with prior forgery convictions picked up large batches of ballot by mail applications for local campaigns and a number of voted ballots were marked identically,” said SOS Director of Elections Keith Ingram when he referred the matter to OAG earlier this month.

A video first made public by watchdog group Direct Action Texas, showing what appeared to be illegal mail-ballot harvesting in Harris County’s 2018 Democrat primary, prompted Vera’s research.

The video shows a woman identifying herself as a campaign worker for State Rep. Harold Dutton (D–Houston) and telling an elderly voter how to fill out her ballot, adding “we’ve done over 400 already.”...

Vera, a retired school teacher, spent two years reviewing thousands of public documents, including mail-ballot applications, carrier envelopes, and eventually the ballots themselves (state law made her wait 22 months to see those)…
https://texasscorecard.com/local/texas-ag-launches-mail-ballot-voter-fraud-probe-in-harris-county/


26 posted on 05/27/2020 12:25:42 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: CitizenUSA

Alinsky #8 - Hit them again, harder!


27 posted on 05/27/2020 12:34:01 AM PDT by gasport (Andrew Cuomo is a serial killer AND mass murderer.)
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To: thoughtomator

I hope he knows what he’s doing.

I know it’s anecdotal, but I have extended family who definitely voted for Trump. I was shocked to hear them glowingly speak of Obama as compared to Trump who they said was mean and angry. I tried to explain Trump is “angry” for a reason, that the press asks gotcha questions that imply he’s a racist, sexist, whatever. Regardless, they were thinking of voting for Biden.

Trump needs to understand there are still millions of well meaning voters out there who tune in to the network nightly news. They don’t go searching the internet for alternate, conservative opinions. If NBC, CBS, and ABC news are their primary news sources, is it any wonder why they are rethinking their Trump support?

I get that Trump is going to be attacked regardless of what he tweets, but in cases like The Atlantic, they can quote the tweet and it comes across as very “mean” when he’s supposed to be concerned about unemployment.

I’m not the only Trump supporter who sees his tweets as a negative. Maybe we are wrong. I hope we are.


28 posted on 05/27/2020 12:34:16 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: knighthawk

Facing intense backlash from who? Most people don’t even know there was a The Atlantic. The Titanic maybe.


29 posted on 05/27/2020 12:36:57 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: proud American in Canada

People did know what they were getting. Correction: many people found out Trump was even better than expected. I also agree he’s not going to change. I just know there are voters in the middle who will hopefully compare “mean” Trump to the creeper on the left and make the right decision. It should be an easy choice, but I know firsthand that some people find Trump’s tweets to be very off-putting.


30 posted on 05/27/2020 12:42:26 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: wardaddy

What’s your point there? As if I didn’t know. But let’s hear you say it out loud.

CC


31 posted on 05/27/2020 12:43:51 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: knighthawk

All this means is that the Atlantic commentators will not be voting for him from the unemployment line rather than not voting for him while being employed. Same sh*t, different day.Too bad.


32 posted on 05/27/2020 12:57:39 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: SmokingJoe

I challenge FOX to name JUST one positive Trump article in the Atlantic.

Trump won’t lose ONE SINGLE VOTE because of this. NO ONE, I mean NO ONE, associated with the Atlantic would support Trump.

This is called WINNING.

MO GREEN(Levine) and Hyman(Roth) just got Corle-OWNED!


33 posted on 05/27/2020 1:28:40 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: knighthawk

Trump’s way of saying ‘karma is a mofo’. GG.


34 posted on 05/27/2020 1:31:13 AM PDT by cranked
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To: knighthawk

Intense Backlash = Mika, Joe, Madcow, Lemon, Pelosi and Schmucky Schumer throwing Hissy-Fits?


35 posted on 05/27/2020 1:53:28 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("All men and women created by - go - you know, you know, the thing" Joe Biden)
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To: knighthawk
Maybe those 'journalists' can go over to Billy Kristol's new Globalist magazine or they could restart MAD magazine... 😋
36 posted on 05/27/2020 2:43:36 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: knighthawk

As a political figure there are certain fights you want to pick. This is one of them.


37 posted on 05/27/2020 2:52:45 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: CitizenUSA

More truth, not less against the Dem Media Complex.
They are not letting up, helloooooo.

He’s winning the fight. They are more exposed than ever.


38 posted on 05/27/2020 3:04:11 AM PDT by romanesq (Flubro, from the people who brought you the stupidity of grifters & the letter Q)
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To: knighthawk

So which writers got the ax?


39 posted on 05/27/2020 3:28:15 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: knighthawk

Backlash from who? Muckraking needs to stop. Very few real reporters today. Tucker Carlson and Chanel Rion are two who report facts. The others are all selling something.


40 posted on 05/27/2020 3:50:10 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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