Posted on 01/15/2017 4:44:01 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
Glad you brought it up trump will take no crap from cNN or anyone else that lies and then trys to monopolize the press conference.We have a real president who fights back and doesn’t need the DBM.He has the bird, flips it often and makes it tweet almost daily.
Trump battles CNN reporter in heated exchange at press conference: ‘You are fake news’
Maxwell Tani
Jan. 11, 2017, 12:55 PM 34,414
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President-elect Donald Trump at a press conference in Manhattan.REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday shut down a CNN reporter who attempted to ask a question at Trump’s first press conference in months.
Speaking in Manhattan, the president-elect first blasted BuzzFeed for its decision Tuesday to publish a memo containing unverified claims that Trump both was compromised by and collaborated with Russian intelligence agents who the memo said passed information to his campaign, claims that Trump denied at Wednesday’s news conference.
Trump also blasted CNN, which on Tuesday was the first of numerous news outlets to report that top US intelligence officials presented Trump with a summary of the memo as part of a briefing last week, though CNN did not publish the full memo as BuzzFeed did.
“As far as BuzzFeed, which is a failing pile of garbage, writing it, they’re going to suffer the consequences, they already are,” Trump said, before going off on a tangent defending his lawyer, Michael Cohen, who was also named in the memo. “As far as CNN going after their way to build it up — and by the way, we just found out, Michael Cohen, who is a very talented lawyer, a good lawyer at my firm. It was just reported that it wasn’t this Michael Cohen that we’re talking about.”
Moments later, when CNN reporter Jim Acosta attempted to ask a question, Trump refused.
“Not you. Not you,” Trump said. “Your organization is terrible. Your organization is terrible. Quiet, quiet. She’s asking a question, don’t be rude.”
“Since you’re attacking our news organization, can you give us a question?” Acosta asked repeatedly
“I’m not going to give you a question. You’re fake news,” Trump replied, only later taking a question from a different CNN reporter.
CNN stood by its reporting.
Shortly after the news conference, CNN anchor Jake Tapper read a statement from the network defending its story and distancing its reporting from BuzzFeed’s decision to publish the 35-page memo.
“CNN’s decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than BuzzFeed’s decision to publish unsubstantiated memos,” the statement said. “The Trump team knows this. They are using BuzzFeed’s decision to deflect from CNN’s reporting, which has been matched by other major news organizations.
“CNN made it clear that we are not publishing any details of the 35 page document because we have not corroborated the report’s allegations. Given that members of the Trump transition team have so vocally criticized our reporting, we encourage them to identify, specifically, what they believe to be inaccurate.”
Thanks for clarifying.
Leahy, like you said, is still a scum bucket.
ping for later
Pence is doing a great job against NeverTrump Wallace. Pence was a great choice for VP.
Accusing Trump of contacting Putin to hack DNC. Pretty pathetic.
Some over at the American Sp-ectatot want to know what is going on with Marco Rubio,why the hell is he grilling Rex Tillerson.Even Tillerson had to remind the banda de los ocho Senator that they were on the same side.So sad to see especially since he could be so much more.
Rubio appears to have been co-opted by the rino wing.
//spectator.org/what-is-rubio-up-to/
Watching the Rex Tillerson confirmation hearings before the Senate yesterday, one thing was clear: Marco Rubio don’t much like Tillerson’s kind. As Senator Rubio listed the atrocities being perpetrated by bad actors around the world, he’d give Mr. Tillerson a steely look and ask leading questions:
Is Mr. Putin is a war criminal?
Do you sanction human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia?
Will you redo a blockade in Cuba?
At a certain point, Mr. Tillerson says,”Our interests are not different, Senator” implying that Mr. Rubio was acting like they were.
Some political commentators are musing that Mr. Rubio is attempting to extract some piece of the power pie by being tough on Tillerson–perhaps a one-on-one sit down with him and a concession on some priority and then he’ll vote to let the nomination out of committee. Maybe. His tone and demeanor were oddly personal and aggressive.
I was left to wonder if Mr. Rubio didn’t like Mr. Tillerson personally, if he didn’t like business people in the diplomatic world generally, or if he was spiteful because Mr. Tillerson was a very tangible consequence of his own loss to a man he feels is grossly ignorant of the world.
If the posturing was pure politics, it seems like stupid politics. First off, Mr. Rubio didn’t give John Vietnam Kerry this difficult of a time and one could reasonably argue that Kerry’s behavior regarding the Vietnam war was disloyal or treasonous. Second, does Mr. Rubio want to start off with the new president from a position of hostility, and who is giving him this genius advice? Third, if he sets up a purely adversarial role now, how will later concessions look to his loyal fans?
Taking Mr. Rubio literally, and assuming that he is genuinely concerned that we have a potential Secretary of State who doesn’t care about human rights, war crimes, and is a completely driven instead by profit, what did he expect Mr. Tillerson to say?
Exactly you hit it. Nothing the drivebys try works on Trump and it’s driving them all crazy.
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Wall Ass trying to play gotcha with Pence who won’t play.
How nice to be rid of the Chicago Thugocracy not a minute too soon.
What a great choice Mike Pence was. He handled all the questions extremely well and called out the fraud of the attempt to delegitimize President Trump.
Geez! You’d think with the fake news out there about PE Trump, McNuts, Grahamnesty and the indignant Little Marco, would be all over the shows! After all, isn’t McNuts just a “concerned citizen”?
I don’t recall exactly who this Piecznik guy is.
Now Brennen is taking umbrage at Trump calling the release something Nazi Germany would do.
The American people care about the economy and how health care costs are going to be paid. Silly Fake news is entertainment and has little meaning. The Democratic Party blew it and wants to blame others for their failures. Trump has superior communications skills, which will always trump the News Media. We all learn from conflict. The media’s bias has been exposed.
Morning all..Pence was great (making pancakes this morning, so I was listening while talking to deplorable kids.
Not to mention that the Wikipedia photo of Buzzfeed co-founder Jonah Peretti makes him look like Rachel Maddow. Has anybody ever seen them together in the same room at the same time? Their child would look like Pajama Boy.
I have a friend, real nice guy, who loves MArco.
Now we all know that Rubio turned out to be a big zero although he had big ambitions.
But he is never going to go far and he damn near lost his Senate seat in Florida. There’s also some serious concerns about Rubio’s sexual leanings.
Well at least I am concerned. We got a slew of legislators playing both sides of the fence and yeah, like they demand their tax returns I want to know whether they like girls or boys.
And if they don’t want to tell me, okay. But I will keep my suspicions in that case.
So this friend got on Facebook praising Rubio all the hell over the place for “speaking truth to power”.
What? Tillerson is right now a nominee, he does not have any power.
This was all just loser Rubio trying to re-gain his lost creditability.
I told my friend off, very publicly on Facebook, that he shouldn’t allow a fondness for a candidate forever keep him defending losers.
It’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
By me Rubio showed the world his deceit and selfishness by how he acted.
Too bad Brennan never gave Obama some of the advice he is giving Trump.
I wish the real estate developer had won the GOP primary instead of Little Marco.
Why did Rubio even run for re-election, when he said he was bored with the job?
Him being part of the Gang of Eight should forever brand him an enemy of American sovereignty.
Rush could not have been more wrong when he called Rubio “a full throated conservative” during the primary season.
Former CIA operator Dr. Steve Pieczenik has surfaced from the shadow world to warn American citizens about a clandestine coup instigated by the Clinton campaign. Steve Pieczenik, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist, former United States Department of State official, author, and publisher. He Studied at Cornell, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; his credentials are unimpeachable. He alsonibiru worked as a spook, a psychological intelligence officer, with the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week, he published a YouTube video asserting that he—and other former intelligence operatives—is currently involved in an electronic counter-coup to prevent Hillary Clinton from reaching the White House. According to Pieczenik, he and his associates provided WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with the controversial emails that have mired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Moreover, our Washington source, a former Federal agent and friend of Dr. Pieczenik, provided alarming information on yet unreleased Clinton emails. He spoke privately with Dr. Pieczenik, and learned a truth that could shake the world to its core.
Hes not helping us hardly at all with Fla. Bay either. Don’t know what happened to him.
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