That's interesting speculation. Similar with the state tax returns mailed to NYT. NBC was working on pussygate, but was scooped by WaPo who got a copy of the tape. Knowing that hits are going to come, there is great advantage to being able to control the timing of them.
This is Trump's great genius. If you expose the mine before it is fully emplaced -- before the careful set-up questions are laid, before the enemy has all their pre-scripted talking points memorized -- you can take advantage of the Press's overriding greed and selfishness to have the scoop, to get them talking over each other. And in the cross talk, you can pick out the admissions of coordination and bad faith and connections to the political fixers who were driving things.
And this is all dissected on the web, which is why the press is no longer having the monumental effects it used to have.
- Someone I know suspects that Trump leaked the tape himself. —
That’s interesting speculation. Similar with the state tax returns mailed to NYT. NBC was working on pussygate, but was scooped by WaPo who got a copy of the tape. Knowing that hits are going to come, there is great advantage to being able to control the timing of them.
This is Trump’s great genius. If you expose the mine before it is fully emplaced — before the careful set-up questions are laid, before the enemy has all their pre-scripted talking points memorized — you can take advantage of the Press’s overriding greed and selfishness to have the scoop, to get them talking over each other. And in the cross talk, you can pick out the admissions of coordination and bad faith and connections to the political fixers who were driving things.
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I think Occam’s razor might be the best answer. The MSM let it out to juice the debate viewership, etc.
I think they want Donald’s war chest now!
Good analysis of Trump playing one media off against the other.
What’s y’all’s take on the dcwhispers story rodguy linked to in his post?
Was it just a ‘new media’ site going after the story?
Timing would be interesting to know...
Figure back two weeks for the p tape, and when for the wikileaks?
Assange said he’d let docs out each week up to the election, but not which ones...