Leftist corporate media is lying: a daily diary

[IAMX 3,055]

2 hours ago, JimandChristy said:

It appears to be a tactic the RNC has been using for a while now and it has worked. By putting Pelosi in these ads in very Republican areas, voters will immediately think California. So anyone who is considering voting for the Democratic candidate will be deterred. So they aren't voting for Handel they are just voting against Ossoff/Pelosi.

 

However one thing Republicans should be concerned about is in all of these special elections they have won, they've not won any of these races convincingly in strong Republican areas. If you took an average of these results, it'll show a 7 point swing toward the Democratic candidate and if that happens across the country in 2018 midterms the Democrats will take back the House.

Moral victories don't change who sits in Congress. But it was a nice try.

[CaliCat 3,957]

2 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I live not too far

 I heard his adds. Free stuff and no jail time for criminals 

 

I am sure you do, I am sure you did, and I am sure those were the words he used. My friends live in the district, so I will kind of go with their version of events, since they were actually there.

[IAMX 3,055]

Washington Post Contradicts Most Infamous Claim In ‘Peeing Russia Prostitutes’ Anti-Trump Dossier

 

TEL AVIV — Information contained in a Washington Post article may disprove perhaps the most infamous claim made in the already discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump.

The dossier in question was authored by former intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who was reportedly paid by Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans to investigate Trump. Steele recently conceded in court documents that part of his work still needed to be verified.

One of the most widely reported claims inside the document was that while Trump was staying in the presidential suite at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Moscow in 2013, he hired “a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him.”

The dossier claims that Trump wanted to “defile” the bed because he learned that President Obama had used the same suite during a trip to Russia.

The document claims that the hotel “was known to be under FSB control” and that that there were concealed cameras and microphones throughout the property, suggesting Russia possessed damaging photos or videos on the current U.S. president. The FSB is the principal Russian security agency.

Trump reportedly stayed at the Ritz Carlton when he was in Moscow to judge the Miss Universe contest, which he partially owned at the time.

On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that while he was in Russia, Trump spent time with Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire real estate tycoon, and Argalorov’s son, singer Emin. Trump was reportedly discussing the possibility of building a tower in Moscow with the elder Argalorov. The Argalorovs attended the Miss Universe contest.

Buried inside the article, the Post quoted “a person with knowledge” of Trump’s 2013 trip saying that Trump’s bodyguard rejected an offer from Emin Agalarov to send prostitutes to Trump’s hotel room.

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The article is titled, “Unlikely middlemen: Trump Jr. emails point to father-son duo.”

The newspaper reported:

A person with knowledge of the 2013 trip to Moscow said Emin Agalarov offered to send prostitutes to Trump’s hotel room, but the repeated offers were rejected by Keith Schiller, Trump’s longtime bodyguard. The person with knowledge of the trip insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized by Trump to publicly discuss the matter.

This would have been the same hotel where the dossier claims Trump engaged in a “golden shower” escapade with Russian prostitutes.

Major questions have been raised as to the veracity of the dossier, large sections of which have been discredited.

Citing a “Kremlin insider,” the dossier, which misspelled the name of a Russian diplomat, claimed that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen held “secret meetings” with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/07/13/washington-post-contradicts-infamous-claim-peeing-russia-prostitutes-anti-trump-dossier/

 

As you can see, this includes BBC and CNN.. 

 

Who's surprised another fake news story turns out false?

[smilesammich 10,727]

and again, the whole peeing story was a joke from the get go, all reporting on it was prefaced with "none of this is verified" 

 

 

lol, breitbart.

[Bugs 455]

Why is the right always focused on what the media says? I say quit whining, quit self-obstructing, and, instead, shut up, get to work, and give them something better to report.  It's not like the opportunity hasn't been there, half a year now and still going, with control of both chambers and the Oval Office.

[jg121783 3,909]

16 hours ago, smilesammich said:

and again, the whole peeing story was a joke from the get go, all reporting on it was prefaced with "none of this is verified" 

 

 

lol, breitbart.

Now that it has been disproven it was "just a joke". Before that democrats fell for it hook, line and sinker.

[Dashinka 24,438]

1 hour ago, jg121783 said:

Now that it has been disproven it was "just a joke". Before that democrats fell for it hook, line and sinker.

I think the FBI was deceived as well.  Didn't they base part of their investigation into Trump on the fake dossier?

[jg121783 3,909]

Pretty much the whole Russia investigation is based on information that hasn't been verified. It's all one big joke. Except no one is laughing.

[smilesammich 10,727]

4 hours ago, jg121783 said:

Now that it has been disproven it was "just a joke". Before that democrats fell for it hook, line and sinker.

no, i didn't say that. the r kelly-esque part in the dossier was a joke in every report i heard from your feared msm and also from what i saw it was stated that the dossier itself had not been verified. 

but whatever, yeah democrats bought the whole dossier hook line and sinker..if it makes you feel better. trump supporters should be worried with bigger issues but, tow that line.

[IAMX 3,055]

4 hours ago, jg121783 said:

Now that it has been disproven it was "just a joke". Before that democrats fell for it hook, line and sinker.

Its also funny watching the left try and distance themselves from Russian conspiracies while peddling other ones. TDS is rife. 

[Ban Hammer 13,283]

28 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

no, i didn't say that. the r kelly-esque part in the dossier was a joke in every report i heard from your feared msm and also from what i saw it was stated that the dossier itself had not been verified. 

but whatever, yeah democrats bought the whole dossier hook line and sinker..if it makes you feel better. trump supporters should be worried with bigger issues but, tow that line.

can i use my truck?

[smilesammich 10,727]

4 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

can i use my truck?

yes, here's your first haul:

 

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Veracity of the dossier

Observers and experts have had varying reactions to the dossier. Generally, "former intelligence officers and other national-security experts" urged "skepticism and caution" but still took "the fact that the nation's top intelligence officials chose to present a summary version of the dossier to both President Obama and President-elect Trump" as an indication "that they may have had a relatively high degree of confidence that at least some of the claims therein were credible, or at least worth investigating further."^[42]

Vice President Biden told reporters that while he and President Obama were receiving a briefing on the extent of Russian hackers trying to influence the US election, there was a two-page addendum which addressed the contents of the Steele Dossier.^[43] Top intelligence officials told them they "felt obligated to inform them about uncorroborated allegations about President-elect Donald Trump out of concern the information would become public and catch them off-guard."^[44]

According to Paul Wood of BBC News, the information in Steele's report is also reported by "multiple intelligence sources" and "at least one East European intelligence service." They report that there is "more than one tape, not just video, but audio as well, on more than one date, in more than one place, in both Moscow and St. Petersburg."^[45][33] He added that "the CIA believes it is credible that the Kremlin has such kompromat—or compromising material— on the next US commander in chief" and "a joint taskforce, which includes the CIA and the FBI, has been investigating allegations that the Russians may have sent money to Mr Trump's organisation or his election campaign."^[46][47][45] On March 30, 2017, Wood revealed that the FBI was using the dossier as a roadmap for its investigation.^[48] On April 18, 2017, CNN reported that corroborated information from the dossier had been used as part of the basis for getting the FISA warrant to monitor former Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page during the summer of 2016.^[49]

Former Los Angeles Times Moscow correspondent Robert Gillette wrote in an op-ed in the Concord Monitor that the dossier has had at least one of its main factual assertions verified. On January 6, 2017, the Director of National Intelligence released a report assessing "with high confidence" that Russia's combined cyber and propaganda operation was directed personally by Vladimir Putin, with the aim of harming Hillary Clinton's candidacy and helping Trump.^[50] Gillette wrote: "Steele's dossier, paraphrasing multiple sources, reported precisely the same conclusion, in greater detail, six months earlier, in a memo dated June 20."^[51]

Susan Hennessey, a former National Security Administration lawyer now with the Brookings Institution, stated: "My general take is that the intelligence community and law enforcement seem to be taking these claims seriously. That itself is highly significant. But it is not the same as these allegations being verified. Even if this was an intelligence community document—which it isn't—this kind of raw intelligence is still treated with skepticism."^[42][52] Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes wrote that "the current state of the evidence makes a powerful argument for a serious public inquiry into this matter."^[52]

Former CIA analyst Patrick Skinner said that he is "neither dismissing the report nor taking its claims at face value," telling Wired: "I imagine a lot more will come out, and much will be nothing and perhaps some of it will be meaningful, and perhaps even devastating."^[42]Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov writes that while "many of the report's elements appear hastily compiled", and there were many "shaky" claims, the document "rings frighteningly true" and "overall ... reflects accurately the way decision-making in the Kremlin looks to close observers."^[53] Soldatov writes: "Unverifiable sensational details aside, the Trump dossier is a good reflection of how things are run in the Kremlin – the mess at the level of decision-making and increasingly the outsourcing of operations, combined with methods borrowed from the KGB and the secret services of the lawless 1990s."^[53]

Newsweek published a list of "13 things that don't add up" in the dossier, writing that the document was a "strange mix of the amateur and the insightful" and stating that the document "contains lots of Kremlin-related gossip that could indeed be, as the author claims, from deep insiders—or equally gleaned" from Russian newspapers and blogs.^[54] Former UK ambassador to Russia Sir Tony Brenton stated that certain aspects of the dossier were inconsistent with British intelligence's understanding of how the Kremlin works, commenting: "I've seen quite a lot of intelligence on Russia, and there are some things in [the dossier] which look pretty shaky."^[55]

On February 10, 2017, CNN reported that some communications between "senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals" described in the dossier had been corroborated by multiple U.S. officials. Sources told CNN that some conversations had been "intercepted during routine intelligence gathering", but refused to reveal the content of conversations, or specify which communications were detailed in the dossier. CNN was unable to confirm whether conversations were related to Trump. U.S. officials said the corroboration gave "US intelligence and law enforcement 'greater confidence' in the credibility of some aspects of the dossier as they continue to actively investigate its contents".^[56]

According to Business Insider, the dossier alleges that "the Trump campaign agreed to minimize US opposition to Russia's incursions into Ukraine".^[57] In July 2016, the Republican National Convention made changes to the Republican Party's platform on Ukraine: initially they proposed providing "lethal weapons" to Ukraine, but the line was changed to "appropriate assistance". J. D. Gordon, who was one of Trump's national security advisers during the campaign, said that he had advocated for changing language because that reflected what Trump had said.^[57][58]

Responses

Donald Trump called the dossier "fake news" and criticized the intelligence and media sources that published it.^[59] During a press conference on January 11, 2017, Trump denounced the unsubstantiated claims as false, saying that it was "disgraceful" for U.S. intelligence agencies to report them. Trump refused to answer a question from CNN's senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta on the subject and called CNN "fake news." In response, CNN said that it had published "carefully sourced reporting" on the matter which had been "matched by the other major news organizations," as opposed to BuzzFeed's posting of "unsubstantiated materials."^[60][20] James Clapper described the leaks as damaging to US national security.^[61] This also contradicted Trump's previous claim that Clapper said the information was false; Clapper's statement actually said the intelligence community has made no judgement on the truth or falsity of the information.^[62]

Russian press secretary Dmitry Peskov insisted in an interview that the document is a fraud, saying "I can assure you that the allegations in this funny paper, in this so-called report, they are untrue. They are all fake."^[63] The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, called the people who leaked the document "worse than prostitutes"^[64] and referred to the dossier itself as "rubbish."^[65] Putin went on to state he believed that the dossier was "clearly fake,"^[66] fabricated as a plot against the legitimacy of President-elect Donald Trump.^[67]

Some of Steele's former colleagues expressed support for his character, saying "The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false – completely untrue. Chris is an experienced and highly regarded professional. He's not the sort of person who will simply pass on gossip."^[68]

Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, in a denial of some allegations, said "I'm telling you emphatically that I've not been to Prague, I've never been to Czech [Republic], I've not been to Russia. The story is completely inaccurate, it is fake news meant to malign Mr. Trump."^[69] Cohen said that between August 23–29 he was in Los Angeles. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, "A Czech intelligence source told the Respekt magazine that there is no record of Cohen arriving in Prague by plane, although the news weekly pointed out he could have traveled by car or train from a nearby EU country, avoiding passport control under Schengen zone travel rules."^[70]

Among journalists, Bob Woodward called the dossier a "garbage document," while Carl Bernstein took the opposite view, noting that the senior-most U.S. intelligence officials had determined that the content was worth reporting to the president and the president-elect.^[71]

Ynet, an Israeli online news site, reported on January 12 that U.S. intelligence advised Israeli intelligence officers to be cautious about sharing information with the incoming Trump administration, until the possibility of Russian influence over Trump, suggested by Steele's report, has been fully investigated.^[72]

Aleksej Gubarev, chief of technology company XBT and a figure mentioned in the dossier, sued BuzzFeed for defamation on February 3, 2017. The suit, filed in a Broward County, Florida court,^[73] centers on allegations from the dossier that XBT had been "using botnetsand porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct 'altering operations' against the Democratic Party leadership."^[74] In the High Court of Justice, Steele's lawyers said that their client did not intend for the memos to be released, and that one of the memos "needed to be analyzed and further investigated/verified."^[75]

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer responded to CNN's report of February 10, of a partial corroboration of the dossier, by saying, "We continue to be disgusted by CNN's fake news reporting."^[56]

On March 2, 2017, media began reporting that the Senate may call Steele to testify about the Trump dossier.^[76]

On March 27, 2017, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley asked the Department of Justice to initiate an inquiry into Fusion GPS, who initially retained Steele to write the dossier.^[77] Fusion GPS was previously associated with pro-Russia lobbying activities due to sanctions imposed by the Magnitsky Act. Grassley's committee made direct inquiries of Fusion GPS: "When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics."^[78] The other basis for Grassley's concern is the fact that Fusion GPS was working as a pro-Russia lobbyist at the same time it had retained Steele to research and write the Trump dossier.^[79] Grassley was concerned that the FBI was improperly using the dossier as the basis for an investigation into Russian influence of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.^[77]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump–Russia_dossier

[jg121783 3,909]

3 hours ago, IAMX said:

Its also funny watching the left try and distance themselves from Russian conspiracies while peddling other ones. TDS is rife. 

Common tactic for the left. Look at global warming for example. First it was global cooling. Then they said no it's global warming. Then they say no it's climate change.

[Dashinka 24,438]

11 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

Common tactic for the left. Look at global warming for example. First it was global cooling. Then they said no it's global warming. Then they say no it's climate change.

You mean those on the Left change or modify their narratives to fit the changing political environment?  I am shocked!

 

Edited July 14, 2017 by Bill & Katya

[IAMX 3,055]

1 hour ago, jg121783 said:

Common tactic for the left. Look at global warming for example. First it was global cooling. Then they said no it's global warming. Then they say no it's climate change.

It took the left a few tries to understand how prophetic marketing works.