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Buzzfeed’s Trump report takes ‘fake news’ to a new level
The New York Post ^ | January 10, 2017 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 01/10/2017 9:19:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

So the website BuzzFeed decided to publish a series of memos that have been floating around for months alleging all kinds of terrible things about Donald Trump.

Some of those terrible allegations have to do with efforts to influence the American elections and Trump. Some of them have to do with Trump’s personal sexual conduct.

Readers of this newspaper know well not to include me among Trump’s supporters. But the scurrilousness of what BuzzFeed has done here is so beyond the bounds of what is even remotely acceptable it should compel even those most outraged by Trump’s political excesses to come to his defense and to the defense of a few other people mentioned in these papers whose names are also dragged through the mud.

There is literally no evidence on offer in these memos or from BuzzFeed that any single sentence in these documents is factual or true. What’s more, we know most major news organizations in America had seen them and despite their well-known institutional antipathy toward Trump, had chosen not to publish them or even make reference to them after efforts to substantiate their charges had failed.

BuzzFeed tells us that “the document was prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent.” Indeed, the memos are designed to read as though they were cables sent from the field to the home office. And they should set off the bull detector of every rational person who reads them....

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: antitrump; buzzfeed; donaldtrump; fakenews; internet; podhoretz; slander; smear; trump; trumptransition
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To: Fai Mao

There’s a 4chan “easter egg” in the report

It states Trump was in Russia in 2010 for Christmas ..and they had him to dress up in little kid pajamas and open presence of all Japanese anime porn ...4chan origin is as a Japanese anime website


41 posted on 01/10/2017 10:30:41 PM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: reformedliberal

Trump has been in Russia, he held the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow 2013, but Cohen has never been to Prague.


42 posted on 01/10/2017 10:35:26 PM PST by Valpal1 (I am enjoying the lamentations of their girly-men on social media.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I am laughing so hard right now I literally have tears running down my face.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5n8yd9/when_you_never_verify_anything_because_youre_fake/


43 posted on 01/10/2017 10:36:29 PM PST by Disestablishmentarian
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To: montag813

Bring back the investigations into his behavior during captivity. Didn’t I read that the senior POW officer wanted to court martial him?


44 posted on 01/10/2017 10:37:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Absolute nonsense. Enough proof that the author of this “report” is an American - not a British MI6 former agent.


45 posted on 01/10/2017 10:42:22 PM PST by indcons (Ajrawat lies, Americans die)
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To: bob_esb

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/10/fake-news-avalanche-caused-cnn-buzzfeed-targeting-trump/

It starts.


46 posted on 01/10/2017 10:42:29 PM PST by chris37 (It's time to burn the GOP down.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Google “songbird” with his name


47 posted on 01/10/2017 10:43:40 PM PST by hoosiermama (It is time to believe in the future: Time to believe in each other: Time to believe in AMERICA ! DT)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Hey Im still trying to figure out how McCain keeps on winning..

Part of it is the "Incumbent Protection Act" also known as McCain-Fingold.

48 posted on 01/10/2017 10:48:03 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Read the “Intelligence Report” it’s laughable stupidity.


49 posted on 01/10/2017 10:48:40 PM PST by heights
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s even more bizarre is Bernstein lending his credibility to this preposterously stupid fiction...


50 posted on 01/10/2017 10:53:06 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: tophat9000

Funny how in this fantasy Trump is Masturbating to Japanese anime, exactly what Rick Wilson accused Trump supporters of doing?


51 posted on 01/10/2017 10:54:34 PM PST by heights
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To: Vendome

Sen. Ron Wyden presses FBI director to investigate Donald Trump’s alleged, unverified ties to Russia
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/01/sen_ron_wyden_puts_heat_on_fbi_director_investigate_trump_russia_ties.html


52 posted on 01/10/2017 10:58:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Honestly, I wish Trump would use the Military and Rid us of the Traitorous Press. I’m not kidding..


53 posted on 01/10/2017 11:00:36 PM PST by heights
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To: Sarah Barracuda

He married a rich 2nd wife. Lot of power in AZ.


54 posted on 01/10/2017 11:16:19 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The documents produced by the Russian “spy”, read like a list of Twitter’s “Best of..Liberals” — all wishful thinking, allegations, lies, and some John Grisham.

Trump has been taking payola from the Kremlin for at least 7 years.

Trump’s representative Cohen visited Prague w/3 associates to discuss paying off hackers, operatives, and spies. (Cohen has never been to Prague.)

The absurd claims go on for 35 pages. It is impossible to believe that any intelligence community would sign off on any of this, much less release it to CNN, Buzzfeed, etc.

Everyone believes Rick Wilson is behind this. I believe it. The evidence against him is vast.

Why any GOP would hire that guy to work for them in any capacity, I don’t know. But he is close to Romney; McMuffin; McCain.

As old Freepers used to say: Connect the dots!


55 posted on 01/10/2017 11:22:46 PM PST by unsycophant
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To: Iowa Granny

Writer is a never trumper who smells a rat


56 posted on 01/10/2017 11:23:46 PM PST by Dog (..."I'm just a cook....")
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To: Sarah Barracuda

If you were looking in from anywhere else in the world, what would you be thinking about our intelligence community, at this point?

I’m just shocked more ppl don’t think it’s serious. It’s serious, in the context our own citizens are working to undermine our country; embarrass and discredit our president; influence our intelligence in other countries; potentially ruin our economy; etc etc.


57 posted on 01/10/2017 11:26:11 PM PST by unsycophant
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To: Fai Mao

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more.

https://twitter.com/trsprudence

Scroll this guy if you haven’t already. He’ll point the way.


58 posted on 01/10/2017 11:29:00 PM PST by unsycophant
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To: heights

After making those comments, Rick Wilson became a yuge target of those people. They doxxxed him, and allegedly caught his son posting as “Pimpfeet”, talking about golden showers, erotica, racism, slapping women around, etc.

Connect the dots.


59 posted on 01/10/2017 11:31:48 PM PST by unsycophant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

fake news peddler Megan McCain ran with the story


60 posted on 01/10/2017 11:40:01 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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