PGT: President-Elect Donald J Trump

[GGG]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

Yes because Carl Bernstein would put his name on a randomly sourced fabrication from a 4chan poster. Or as Trump would say, Carl "Watergate" Bernstein.

And as if the FBI/CIA/NSA directors would take up the Presidents time briefing him if the source were that flimsy.

Per the CNN report the memo was included because the Intelligence angency is investigating these claims not that they are true

However the guys that 4chan said they fed the story to, Rick Wilson, denies he got it from 4chan

[MrMastodonFarm]

God damn CNN is such a wonderful cartoon of a network. They have a twelve hour countdown clock until Trump's press conference tomorrow.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

God damn CNN is such a wonderful cartoon of a network. They have a twelve hour countdown clock until Trump's press conference tomorrow.

They had one today for Obama's speech too.

Everything gets its own countdown clock. Countdown clock to the next countdown clock.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

God damn CNN is such a wonderful cartoon of a network. They have a twelve hour countdown clock until Trump's press conference tomorrow.

I'm still amazed that he's actually holding a press conference. Are there going to be real life reporters there? Or is he just doing a video or Facebook Live thing? Because that would certainly be more in line with how Trump operates.

[Nufy]

True or not...
Twitter is awesome tonight.
#Goldenshowers

[Senator Clay Davis]

If Trump is going through with tomorrow, he might just spend the whole time chastising the media. But I guess we shall see what happens. Either way your know urine for something reality TV level good.

[Manhattanboy]

What is going on?? This is totally getting out of hand.

[driveway]

Anthony Weiner: At least no politician will have a more ridiculous sex scandal than me.

Trump: Hold my beer.

[Manhattanboy]

I always thought Huma was kinda hot.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Stephen Colbert ‏@StephenAtHome
Should we be worried about President-elect Donald Trump? Depends.

[zamler]

WikiLeaks says that the report published by BuzzFeed is "not an intelligence report" and that it is not consistent with the style of other reports.

lol no way looks totally legit.

[FunkMasterFlame]

Originally Posted by New Era

Really? A Zero Hedge link? They were busted so many times creating fake news during the election cycle it is sad. One of the guys behind Tyler Durden had a nervous breakdown and outed the whole mess, admitting they were making #### up in hopes of moving the needle.

Media literacy is so sorely needed in our culture.

Think what you will about ZH, but they aren't inventing this story. They are reporting that 4chan is taking credit for a hoax, thats it.

I mean really, do you honestly believe Trump hired a bunch of Russian hookers to piss on a bed Obama once slept in? It literally reads like a ####post off a message board.

Not to mention that the "report" is littered with grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and doesn't follow typical intelligence report standards.

Hell, even the Buzzfeeds editor won't stand behind this, calling it "unverified and unsubstantiated".

[Looch City]

Don't worry Trump, there's atleast one more person that can relate...

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

God damn CNN is such a wonderful cartoon of a network. They have a twelve hour countdown clock until Trump's press conference tomorrow.

I for one can't wait, I bet drunk Sarah Palin is writing it, right now.

[opendoor]

Seems like it'd be fairly trivial for intelligence to check border entry and exists to corroborate the stories that involve American citizens being in certain countries at certain times.

Michael Cohen for instance claims he was in Los Angeles on the date the document says he was in Prague. That shouldn't be hard for the FBI or CIA to figure out.

[Manhattanboy]

So what part of this is true? Was everything in the intelligence report that referred to Trump engaging in perverted sexual acts which may have been arranged or monitored by the FS traced to the fake source?

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by opendoor

Seems like it'd be fairly trivial for intelligence to check border entry and exists to corroborate the stories that involve American citizens being in certain countries at certain times.

Michael Cohen for instance claims he was in Los Angeles on the date the document says he was in Prague. That shouldn't be hard for the FBI or CIA to figure out.

Well he did post a picture of his closed passport on Twitter, so clearly that's good enough.

https://twitter.com/MichaelCohen212/...91277685567489

Honestly one of the better comment threads. Lots of really funny ones.

[Manhattanboy]

So the two page addendum on Buzzfeed is fake? I can't keep up.

[Swift]

Discussion of the ethics of Buzzfeed publishing the documents

Some prominent journalists and media executives excoriated BuzzFeed.



“Even Donald Trump deserves journalistic fairness,” tweeted David Corn, Mother Jones’ Washington bureau chief who reported in October on the existence of – but not the contents of – memos from a “former Western intelligence officer”.


“Rare that a story stinks from every possible angle: the source, the content, the consequence, the messenger, the target,” tweeted Wolfgang Blau, chief digital officer of Conde Nast International and a former Guardian executive.
“Not how journalism works: Here’s a thing that might or might not be true, without supporting evidence; decide for yourself if it’s legit,” tweeted Brad Heath, an investigative reporter for USA Today.


Adam Goldman of the New York Times blamed CNN for opening the can of worms. “Sequence of events: @CNN finds way to talk about report and @buzzfeed uses that as reason to publish. Media critics are gonna be busy,” he tweeted.


On the other hand, Richard Tofel, the president of investigative news organization ProPublica, applauded Buzzfeed, saying “citizens should have evidence to consider for themselves”.
And the blog Lawfare said the allegations, though unproven, needed to be taken seriously because intelligence chiefs appeared to be giving them some credibility. Trump, it noted, had consistently rejected intelligence reports that Russia had hacked the US election.


“All of which is to say to everyone: slow down, and take a deep breath. We shouldn’t assume either that this is simply a ‘fake news’ episode directed at discrediting Trump or that the dam has now broken and the truth is coming out at last. We don’t know what the reality is here, and the better part of valor is not to get ahead of the facts – a matter on which, incidentally, the press deserves a lot of credit.”


https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...hics-questions

[Senator Clay Davis]

^^The document with the allegations is real. The allegations themselves are, more likely than not, untrue. But as GGG said, it's Trump. The level you have to go to for it to be truly unbelievable is pretty ridiculous. And Trump's lawyer is denying he met with the Russians in Prague to coordinate efforts to attack Hillary. And the showers, let us not forget those golden showers.