Jr.'s meeting a Democratic plot?
by Oliver Darcy
July 14, 2017: 2:52 PM ET
... pro-Trump media has employed a consistent strategy when responding to damaging reports about the President ... Instead of covering those revelations, pro-Trump media outlets often turn to entirely new stories or controversies ...
"All that right-wing media needs to do is just throw out some things that appear to be substantive that have some stray facts that the cult will hang on to, and the cult will do everything else themselves," John Ziegler, a conservative media columnist and former talk radio host, told CNN. "They don't need a full theory. No one ever provides a narrative that explains all this. It's just poking holes and pretending the whole story is fake news. It's a classic trick really. It's a shame that's what the right-wing media has been reduced to" ...
On Wednesday, conservative talk radio king Rush Limbaugh told his national audience that he believed Veselnitskaya was part of a "setup" targeting Trump. Fox News host Sean Hannity also questioned on his radio show why Veselnitskaya was seen pictured with McFaul, telling his audience there was a picture of the two "in existence," as if it was damning evidence.
But the truth, which those discussing the photo typically either played down or ignored altogether, was more innocent. The photo of McFaul and Veselnitskaya did not show the two "hanging out" with each other -- it's of a Congressional hearing, open to the public, at which McFaul testified. Veselnitskaya was sitting in the audience, in the row behind McFaul. McFaul told CNN this week that he had no control over who attended or where they were seated, that he had never met with Veselnitskaya and that he only learned her name this week ...
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/14/media/trump-russian-lawyer-veselnitskaya-theories-obama/index.html
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also plenty of posts you won't like to wade through. Since you're already fed up with that exercise, I'd like to suggest identifying early on a number of fellow DUers whose posts you consider worth reading and responding to. So we don't lose you too. 
To struggle4progress, rzemanfl, irisblue, and Hortensis. Thanks for the warm welcome. Hortensis I would welcome your suggestions on the fellow DUers whose posts I can read through. Trying to go through articles and posts about politics, getting something useful from it all is not my forte. 
My suggestion, as a start, would be to look through the posts on The Greatest Page. Those are the ones with the most recommendations by fellow DUers, ones that people here liked and/or thought were important. I'm sure you'll find your way around in no time. It's great to have you with us! 
