Posted on 07/15/2017 9:44:01 PM PDT by Helicondelta
The revelation that Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law and campaign manager met with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer promising information that would “incriminate” Hillary Clinton was a true bombshell in an era when we have become almost inured to them. Here was proof that members of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign had, at the very least, been eager to collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
No one could gainsay the facts: Mr. Trump’s own son published them on Twitter.
As recently as five or 10 years ago, every major news outlet would have treated this set of facts as front-page news and a dire threat to Mr. Trump’s presidency.
Not anymore. Look to the right now and you’re apt to find an alternative reality in which the same set of facts is rearranged to compose an entirely different narrative. On Fox News, host Lou Dobbs offered a representative example on Thursday night, when he described the Donald Trump Jr. email story, with wild-eyed fervor, like this: “This is about a full-on assault by the left, the Democratic Party, to absolutely carry out a coup d’état against President Trump aided by the left-wing media.”
Mr. Dobbs isn’t some wacky outlier, but rather an example of how over the last several years the conservative underworld has swallowed up and subsumed more established right-leaning outlets such as Fox News.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Point well taken. The American people are coming to realize that a nationalist Russia emerging from nearly ninety years of soul crushing debilitating communism that values its culture and heritage has more in common with an america with similar values than the one world/no borders free migration globalists that dominate the EU, the State Department and UN bureaucracy.The globalists view a nationalist Russia and America as the greatest threats to their schemes.
I invite them to run on Hate Trump in 2018 and let’s see how far they get.
Its clearly not working for them.
I agree. They will promise to impeach him for votes/seats.
This means TPTB will be trying to tank our economy early next year.
“I invite them to run on Hate Trump in 2018 and let’s see how far they get.”
The article has this interesting bit of news:
“Earlier this month, a congressional source told me, Democratic strategists looking at a Republican-held swing district that is expected to be in play in next year’s midterm elections were shocked when a private poll they conducted showed that Republican support for Mr. Trump in the district is even stronger now than it was on Election Day.”
The Establishmedia hates the internet. It makes them and their opinions irrelevant.
Who enriched themselves by dealing in US uranium with the Russians?
The Clintons received direct payments thru exorbitant speaking fees after approving a deal for Putin to control US uranium while Hillary was Secretary of State.
Donald Jr. talked about baby adoptions.
These stupid liberals have put all thier eggs in the Russia basket. The problem is.....Trump is more influental than the fake news media.
“If the Russian lawyer offered allegations about Trump taking Russian money without evidence to the Dems, the Dems would have run with it.”
The Trump dossier that started the whole Russian collusion narrative was put together by a British spy (Christopher Steele) and the democrats have been running with it for a year.
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I’m enjoying this sudden patriotic cold war spirit on the left! LOL
Collusion infers Crime.
Talking to someone who says they have evidence your Political Opponent has committed a Crime is not Collusion.
In a righteous world, every Journalist out there citing “anonymous” sources to backup their Slander against President Trump would be in Jail.
They are colluding in their attempts to institute a Coup.
collusion, Collusion, COLLUSION ! !
Is it not a capital offense? or worse, a mortal sin ?
(btw is “collusion” the same as meddling ?)
What the media is crying about is that the days when even a hint of scandal was enough to cause us to abandon a conservative are gone. This time, we are not abandoning President Trump, and that leaves them with nothing. We know he isn’t a perfect man, but he fights for us harder than any president in my lifetime. As long as he keeps fighting, I am with him.
30 years ago, Ted Kennedy colluded with the Soviet Union to stop the re-election of Ronald Reagan.
That wasn’t considered colluding with an enemy state.
Flash forward to the present and an innocent meeting between Trump’s son and a Russian lawyer is taken as evidence to thwart the election of Hillary Clinton.
Leftist hypocrisy about foreign meddling knows no bounds.
I am amazed that these people can say these things with a straight face. If Chelsea Clinton had met with... well... ANYONE who offered dirt on Trump, there would be no talk at all of treason, or colluding, or anything. There’d be nothing. Nothing but mourning that the source didn’t come through.
The New York Slimes and their ilk “created” this world with their continual lies, propaganda and Dim party cheerleading. The dinosaur media has zero credibility.
The Democrats and the media were able to drive Nixon out of office because they were able to depict as someone who went beyond constitutional bounds for his own gain and he couldn’t fight back - we didn’t have Twitter and Facebook back then. And the Big Three controlled everything.
Today, its much more balanced and Trump can put forward his view without having to go through the media. They don’t like it but they can do nothing about it. And people no longer accept their narrative as established fact.
I heard 2 instances today, where the persons on Fox laughed at the Russia thing the media’s been talking about on tv.. they joked and laughed, making it simple and not worthy of serious thought... it sounded like something the media would give a second thought on, when their pet subject is being considered laughable... joking... it might stop them..
Gorka said President Trump and those working for him, do not talk about the russia fiasco.. they are going about their business as if russia is not in their world. I think we all should also... and conservatives on Fox, talk about something else... not russia... just laugh about it as if it IS a joke... and joke it out of existence.
Or pee-pee fetishes.
In all the Fake News reports about the Donald Trump Jr. meeting one fact is ignored.
Isn’t it a good thing if factual information about a candidate’s wrongdoing is made public?
They think it is just great that they have gathered soem factual information about the Trump family.
So why is it a bad thing that Trump Jr. was seeking to gather factual information about Hillary?
If he had actually found out some information about her underhanded dealings and made it public he would have been doing the country a service.
That said, this entire situation with the Trump Jr. meeting stinks.
It sure seems like a sucker scam to put him in a situation that could be spun to sound underhanded.
He was baited with an offer of information about Hillary that didn’t exist and the people involved have connections to the Obama administration and other democrat.
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