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Pro-Trump groups take no prisoners in rush to help an embattled president
Reuters ^ | June 28, 2017 | By Ginger Gibson

Posted on 06/28/2017 11:03:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Flush with cash, political groups outside the White House are aggressively coming to President Donald Trump's aid as he battles low public approval numbers, questions about his election campaign's ties to Russia and a stalled legislative agenda.

Through television attack ads and online campaigns normally seen only during the tumult of an election, the groups are helping Trump to strike back against his perceived enemies and boost his agenda, adding to the firepower of his Twitter account and the bully pulpit of the White House.

On Tuesday, one of the groups, America First Policies, launched an attack ad against a senator from Trump's own Republican Party who had balked at a Senate plan to overhaul healthcare that would leave millions more Americans uninsured. The attack angered Senate leader Mitch McConnell, who is struggling to rustle up the votes for the plan.

It is the first time that a U.S. president has had Super PACs - political action committees that can raise unlimited amounts of money and typically operate during elections - or political non-profits, which do not have to disclose their donors or where they spend their money, actively working to support him after the dust of campaigning has cleared.

The pro-Trump groups are prohibited from coordinating with the White House, which declined to comment for this story. The New York Times reported that McConnell had complained to White House chief of staff Reince Priebus about America First Policies' ad. The group later pulled the ad.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; journalism; media; propaganda
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Fake news.
1 posted on 06/28/2017 11:03:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are infuriated that he is fighting back. He was supposed to roll over and die, like any other good Republican.


2 posted on 06/28/2017 11:05:32 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Geez, no media bias there at all...


3 posted on 06/28/2017 11:05:58 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These bimbos wish President Trump was embattled and in retreat. More whistling in the dark by Reuters. Its good that our President has allies to speed the process of reclaiming America.


4 posted on 06/28/2017 11:06:16 AM PDT by JayGalt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Low public approval numbers? Oh. Duh! Fake news. You know, of the 175 dementocrats asked about President Trump’s job performance, 175 respondents said he lost the popular vote YUGELY. Or was it BIGLY.


5 posted on 06/28/2017 11:10:42 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rooters is right up their with CNN, WaPo and NYT in the fake news department.


6 posted on 06/28/2017 11:11:03 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

WTH????

...as he battles low public approval numbers????? questions about his election campaign’s ties to Russia????? and a stalled legislative agenda?????

What?!?!?


7 posted on 06/28/2017 11:11:20 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It ain’t the president who’s “embattled,” it’s rooters and the rest of the very fake news. Another O’Keefe smoking gun today and more to come!


8 posted on 06/28/2017 11:12:41 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gee.... I missed the Reuters report on how political groups, flush with cash, “aggressively” came to 0bamas’ aid in ‘09.....


9 posted on 06/28/2017 11:13:51 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just the beginning.

This will be the Summer of Trump.


10 posted on 06/28/2017 11:13:59 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

Exactly! D@mn opinion pieces masquerading as news reports!


11 posted on 06/28/2017 11:14:02 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

opinion pieces suggest the thoughts are the authors

more like pure propaganda where a central command center writes the pieces and distributes to all media outlets for dissemination under a fraudulent journalism front

JMHO


12 posted on 06/28/2017 11:19:22 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Steely Tom
Limbaugh said as much today, from the bit I heard.

He added "...and they [media] don't know how to respond to Trump's pushing back and not taking their BS, instead of being hounded out of office like others in the past..."

13 posted on 06/28/2017 11:24:15 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reuters is the single most stupid fake news outlet there is. Oh, there’s plenty of competition, but they are the standouts.


14 posted on 06/28/2017 11:25:48 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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Rush is on freaking fire today.


15 posted on 06/28/2017 11:26:36 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What ELSE could it be,if it’s delivered by the SAME crowd that,(RIGHT UP TO THE END) consistently and energetically assured Hillary that she was a sure winner???


16 posted on 06/28/2017 11:28:01 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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Sounds like princess Ginger was having a slow day. Someone needs to fill her in on the Russki myth.


17 posted on 06/28/2017 11:35:32 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Swamp Strikes Back!)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

If you look into President Trump’s (I still love saying that)(ISLST) “low numbers” you will still see that Democratics (when did they change from the Democrat Party?) are over sampled by D+12 or so...


18 posted on 06/28/2017 11:35:41 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It is the first time that a U.S. president has had Super PACs - political action committees that can raise unlimited amounts of money and typically operate during elections - or political non-profits, which do not have to disclose their donors or where they spend their money, actively working to support him after the dust of campaigning has cleared.

Thats just it, the election campaign HASN'T stopped, because the Left refuses to give in. This is an unprecedented attack on a newly elected President, its only fitting that his defense is going to come from unprecedented sources.

19 posted on 06/28/2017 11:43:06 AM PDT by Paradox ("Donald Trump", the biggest Strawman ever created.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reuters needs to return to its core which was pigeons.


20 posted on 06/28/2017 11:46:04 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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