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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump tweeting this morning, ranting that "the enemy" "Fake News" makes up sources, stories
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It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media.
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Whenever you see the words 'sources say' in the fake news media, and they don't mention names....
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....it is very possible that those sources don't exist but are made up by fake news writers. #FakeNews is the enemy!
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Trump tweeting this morning, ranting that "the enemy" "Fake News" makes up sources, stories (Original Post)
highplainsdem
May 2017
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riversedge
(70,093 posts)1. Has Fox news or InfoWars been reporting the same?? Serious.
latinaliberal
(102 posts)2. This man
Is so pathetic.so predictable. So sad.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)3. "Fake News" to Trump is any media who doesn't
back his every dictate and kiss his backside.
In this topsy-turvy DysTrumpian world that we have now to Trump and his nutters...
"fake news" is 'real' and "real news" is 'fake'.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. But his investigators in Hawaii never found Obama's birth certificate
kentuck
(111,056 posts)5. That's as good a strategy as any, I suppose?
After all, if his base believes him, that is all that matters.
bresue
(1,007 posts)6. bodyslammed?
When reporters are trying to get the 'real' news? Dump cannot have it both ways....
C_U_L8R
(44,992 posts)7. Maybe he'd prefer...
"Informants say", "Whistleblowers say", "Upstanding Citizens say", "Patriots say", "Americans say"
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)8. Shades of Tricky Dick ca. 1962 (video below):
Seminal moment comes at 1:20-1:30.
If it weren't for self pity, he'd have no pity at all!
JHB
(37,157 posts)9. Whelp, so much for "lawyers vetting his tweets"
Maeve
(42,271 posts)10. And his 'opinion' is worth exactly squat eom