Using Twitter to Divert Attention from a Scandal

[DonViejo]

February 15, 2017 By Taegan Goddard

Walter Pincus: “What did the President know, and when did he know it? For those of us who went through Watergate, that question, first posed by Sen. Howard Baker (R-TN), is the one most relevant today as the current White House drama unfolds … At 6:28 a.m. yesterday morning, Trump wrote from the White House: ‘The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N.Korea etc?’”

“That presidential tweet should make people uneasy, the way we felt nervous during Watergate about what military actions President Nixon might undertake as the truth began to threaten him personally. Trump was initiating what can only be described as a typical attempt to divert his roughly 25 million followers from paying attention to what he and his own White House has been caught doing.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/02/15/using-twitter-divert-attention-scandal/

[MFM008]

1. What did the President know, and when did he know it? "

should be the ONLY question to him.

[Nitram]

2. You may not have noticed, but the Twitter strategy stopped working some time ago.

In fact, every Tweet gets everybody looking for what it was meant to distract from.