"I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy..."

[Miles Archer]

Link to tweet

Here’s what we know about Donald Trump and his ties to Russia

[BayouBengal07]

1. What prompted this?

If anything, I was beginning to worry the Russia issue was fading from the headlines. Thanks for reviving it, Don!

[bdamomma]

12. Russia

is going full steam ahead with their plan of bombing East Ukraine.

http://www.bbc.com/news

[Hortensis]

14. Don't know, but of course Trump follows Alex Jones/Infowars,

as well as some other hard-right "alternate-fact" pushers, and sometimes his statements follow directly upon and copy theirs. Which, also of course, they know very well and use to manipulate him.

[Hortensis]

18. Just checked: Here we go--Infowars/Alex Jones it is!

Or at least the most recent influence, because Republican "alternative facters" have been pushing this idea for some time, according to the WaPo.

InfoWars is behind President Trump’s idea that the media is covering up terrorist attacks

...As @UrbanAchievr noted after Trump's comments, InfoWars has been barking up this tree for a while now. A sampling of its headlines:

"FAKE NEWS: MAINSTREAM MEDIA WHITEWASHES ISLAMIC TERROR IN BERLIN: Propagandists desperate to hide the obvious" -- Dec. 20
"SCANDAL: MASS MEDIA COVERS UP TERRORISM TO PROTECT ISLAM" -- July 29
"GERMANY COVERING UP TERROR PLOTS TO PROTECT MUSLIM MIGRANTS" -- June 24
"MEDIA CAUGHT COVERING UP ISLAMIC TIES IN MUNICH ATTACK" -- July 24
"VIDEO: TERROR IN GERMANY – THE TRUTH THEY HIDE: Mass media deception to conceal what's really happening" -- July 25
Former congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) has also pushed this idea, posting a video from InfoWars back in August under the headline, "TERROR ATTACK: Massive media cover-up." And it's a theme that has cropped up on other conspiracy theory and right-wing websites from time to time.

The idea of the media covering up or not fully covering terrorist attacks was around before InfoWars picked it up, though. Conservatives have long accused the media of obscuring the details and motivations of radical Islamic terrorists in an effort to downplay the role of religion. After Benghazi, the media were often accused of not sufficiently covering the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost -- or refusing to label it terrorism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/trumps-suggestion-that-the-media-is-ignoring-terrorist-attacks-has-a-familiar-source-infowars/?utm_term=.45277887694f

[Cha]

2. Why are you defending someone you don't know, stupid?

[PA Democrat]

4. He really is a stupid impulsive CHILD isn't he?

It's like going through the terrible twos with a toddler who has the nuclear codes.

[Cha]

6. Yes, and the only way I can deal with

this is to throw it back in his face.. if only on this message board. He's a danger to our Planet.. And, he has not one damn clue how utterly idiotic he sounds.. no one in his damn circle will tell him. They're all fucking liars like their maniacal boss

It's cathartic.

[bdamomma]

9. I am waiting for McConnell to start saying something

he will support this POS it will be McConnell's end too.

[bdamomma]

10. right on Cha!

good point.

[Cha]

16. Hi

bdamomma I know right.. trapped in his own damn lie.. a-gain

[dalton99a]

19. Most excellent question.

[Cha]

21. Do you think he could answer it? With something other than..

"Haters!!!!"?



Wonder what putin is thinking of his Trojan horse now? "Useful idiot"?

[Botany]

3. Now what did Edgar Allen Poe write about this?

"The Tell Tale Heart."

TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

[spanone]

5. this tweet is proof this man knows nothing about 'deals' or terror.

a sad, uninformed man.

[gordianot]

7. Who is promoting terror? As always obsessed tormented in the morning.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. He must have some really horrible dreams, what with everything he thinks about while awake.

[bdamomma]

8. Keep on lying

more evidence how mentally ill you are.

[Bengus81]

13. He ADMITS in a 2013 video he knows Putin....

23 seconds into the Vid....

[bdamomma]

17. doesn't he realize there is evidence out there

implicating him. What a sick dangerous man he is.

[spanone]

15. well don, if you were a rational person in the presidency, you too could make deals too

but you shouldn't wake up every morning and lie on your twitter account

[Bradical79]

20. You just talked to Putin on the phone, dummy

You're the POTUS now. Now knowing Putin is part of your job. Can't even figure out which lies to tell