More Fake News

[gotsnowgotslush]

"The White House is literally tweeting out fake news during a national disaster (and apparently sharing fake videos with the President)."


White House social media director Dan Scavino tweeted, then deleted an online video after claiming it showed how badly Hurricane Irma hit Miami International Airport.

As the storm continues to batter Florida, Scavino sent out this tweet earlier today, claiming it showed the airport taking on water.

Dan Scavino Jr.

@scavino45

"Shaing #HurricaneIrma on social media with (Angry Orange Garbage Pile in Chief) and (White Haired Christian Zombie Terror of the Midwest in Waiting) hourly. Here is Miami Airport.STAY SAFE!


The problem: that wasn’t Miami International Airport, and the airport said as much:


Miami Int'l Airport
Miami Int'l Airport @iflymia
·
3h
Replying to @Scavino45 and 2 others
This video is not from Miami International Airport


Scavino eventually took down his tweet and acknowledged his error:


Dan Scavino Jr.
Dan Scavino Jr. @Scavino45
·
2h
Replying to @iflymia and 2 others
Thank you. It was among 100s of videos/pics I am receiving re: Irma from public. In trying to notify all, I shared - have deleted. Be safe.


https://www.mediaite.com/online/fak...o-deletes-inaccurate-tweet-on-hurricane-irma/

Scavino deleted the tweet about 30 minutes after he posted it without ever publicly admitting that he tweeted out a fake piece of news.



Several people on Twitter were quick to point out that the video Scavino claimed showed flooding at Miami airport was actually footage of flooding at Mexico City’s airport from several weeks ago.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...n_scavino_jr_tweets_a_fake_irma_video_is.html

 

[Hypoxia]

This White House and its occasional occupant have a track record. Every statement they spew must be considered false until it is proven false -- er I mean true or whatever. Most presidential statements should be seen a pointers in the opposite direction.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Earlier this week, an ( "narcissistic blow-hard" Extremist Right Wing opportunist) made the disingenuous and dangerous claim that Hurricane Irma was a media-constructed hoax, designed to increase ratings and sell people on the idea of climate change.

"... it was announced that the talk radio host, who lives in Florida, would be evacuating after all. It's almost like the media wasn't perpetuating some liberal hoax, but rather was reporting things that were happening."

https://www.gq.com/story/rush-limbaugh-evacuates-irma


Weather Forecaster Al Roker appeared to take a shot at (Loud- mouthed, lunacy salesman's) statement on MSNBC, saying that “we have to be very vigilant.”

“There are some out there who say we should ignore this, that it's hype. That it's fake news,” Roker said. “That it's part of a climate change kind of conspiracy. It is not. This is life threatening. It could be devastating, and if anyone tells you otherwise, it is almost criminal.”

Once news of (Looney Loudmouth's) decision to evacuate circulated, many on social media took the chance to mock the radio host.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article172094687.html

The talk show host's decision to evacuate is noteworthy only because he had claimed days earlier that warnings about the Category 5 Hurricane only served "to advance the climate change agenda."


NBC weatherman Al Roker expressed his disappointment Wednesday morning on Twitter. He wrote, "To have @rushlimbaugh suggest the warnings about #Irma are #fake or about profit and to ignore them borders on criminal. #ShameOnRush."

On Friday, when another Twitter user reported that another host was doing the radio show because Limbaugh had decided to leave, Roker tweeted, "Wait. What?"

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/09/hurricane_irma_rush_limbaugh.html

 

[Iceprincess12]

Bait-n-switch!!!

I thought it was your fake news

 

[Hypoxia]

Bait-n-switch!!!

I thought it was your fake news

It's a bag of shit.

But it's really GOOD shit!

 

[Iceprincess12]

It's a bag of shit.

But it's really GOOD shit!

I'll add it to my reading list .

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Trump declares Nov. 9 a National Day of Remembrance for his great Electoral Victory.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Emperor Carrot boarded the Ship of State, and all of the rats that squeaked approval, and loyalty, and came aboard, too.

The rats are squeaking a different tune, today.

September 16, 2017

Speaking to the Washington Examiner, one former Trump campaign adviser, Michael Caputo, said he was paying a substantial amount in legal costs.“It's very expensive and nobody’s called me and offered to help,” he said.Mr Caputo added that he had cashed in his children’s college fund to help pay the lawyer and also provide extra security for his family following “death threats”.


Another aide, who spoke anonymously to the Examiner, strongly attacked the President for having “hung us out to dry

The Republican National Committee declined to comment on helping ex-staffers with legal bills, but a source “familiar with the situation” told the Examiner that they were “on their own”.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...hung-out-to-dry-hillary-clinton-a7950246.html

Which rats have been judged, as deserving of rescue ?

September 14, 2017

White House Ethics Office Now Allows Anonymous Gifts to Staffers’ Legal Funds

Thanks to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, lobbyists now have the opportunity to donate to a very needy cause: Trump staffers’ legal defense.

Politico reports that the ethics watchdog quietly reversed its internal policy that banned lobbyists from making anonymous donations to White House staffers’ legal defense funds.

“It’s unseemly for the ethics office to be doing something sneaky like that.”

-U.S. Office of Government Ethics(OGE) director, Walter Shaub


The question of who pays White House staffers’ exorbitant legal fees has been an issue in many previous administrations, and it has plagued the non-millionaires in the Trump White House as the Russia probe expands. Vanity Fair reported in June that top white-collar lawyers in D.C. charge around $750 to $1,000 an hour, which means a White House staffer could wind up owing $30,000 to $54,000, even if they’re just interviewed by the FBI as a witness.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ows-anonymous-gifts-to-staff-legal-funds.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Ethics Office Director Walter Shaub Resigns, Saying Rules Need To Be Tougher

July 6, 2017

He did not elaborate on what is so wrong with the "current situation," but Shaub has been sharply critical of Trump's approach to ethics compliance since the election.

Divestiture Issue

Jan. 11, shortly before Inauguration Day, Shaub spoke out at the Brookings Institution, causing a stir when he said Trump's plan for avoiding conflicts of interest "doesn't meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every president in the past four decades has met."

Waivers Issue

His departure now — effective July 19 — leaves a leadership hole at a tough time. The agency must work with a new administration that has been hiring unprecedented numbers of former lobbyists, lawyers and industry consultants. The White House also has been giving many of those appointees waivers to get around ethics rules.

(His five-year term was set to expire in January 2018.)


After weeks of back-and-forth, the administration did start to post the waivers online and Shaub said public disclosure of "the waivers is critical to ensuring that agencies and individual appointees are adhering to ethics requirements."



http://www.npr.org/2017/07/06/53578...shaub-resigns-saying-rules-need-to-be-tougher

 

[sr71plt]

This news is over two months old.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Emperor Carrot Rethinks ‘Attack the Lead Investigator’ Approach to Russia Probe

June 28, 2017

Two weeks ago, it looked like Robert Mueller’s job — and, arguably, the rule of law in the United States — was in serious jeopardy.


The New York Times and Washington Post had just confirmed that the special counsel was investigating the president for obstruction of justice — and exploring the possibility that Trump and/or his associates engaged in money laundering or other financial crimes with Russian officials as their co-conspirators.


Obstructing an investigation into charges that you obstructed an investigation isn’t a great look. And Trump’s previous attempt to fire his way out of the Russia story had done him no favors.

"So, it was entirely plausible that Trump would decide to test the GOP’s appetite for debasing itself and the republic — especially if he or his son-in-law had ever happened to dabble in a wee bit of money laundering."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...trying-to-antagonize-the-special-counsel.html


The Comey Memo- Surprise! Trump Lied

Emperor Carrot maneuvered Comey into a private meeting, under false pretenses. He tried to persuade Comey to drop an investigation of national security adviser Mike Flynn.

"Comey took notes because he thought Trump might lie"


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ames-comeys-testimony/?utm_term=.30307baa51d4


"The notes taken by Comey appear to contradict testimony offered last week by his temporary successor, acting FBI director Andrew McCabe."

"The conversation between Trump and Comey took place after a national security meeting. The president asked to speak privately to the FBI director, and the others left the room, according to the Comey associates, who, like other officials, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal internal discussions."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.eb151c35c9b4

Comey said that he had tried to make the parameters of their relationship clear. He had explained to the President how important it was that the F.B.I. be independent. In an extraordinary move, Comey had also visited the Attorney General (Comey's direct boss, Jeff Sessions) to “implore” him to never again leave him alone in a room with the President.

It was a Trump tweet, suggesting that the President might have taped their meetings, that prompted Comey to make his version public, because he thought that recordings would corroborate his story. “Lordy, I hope there are tapes,” he told the committee.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/the-only-man-in-the-room-with-trump


The Comey Tape

Emperor Carrot Admits There Were No Tapes

"With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are “tapes” or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” he said


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-white-house-fired-fbi-director-a7803516.html


Trump Is Crazy Enough to Fire the Special Prosecutor

June 12, 2017

Several of Trump’s associates have obscured or lied about their meetings with or financial ties to Russia, Trump has taken a curiously pro-Russian approach to a series of diplomatic issues (including handing over sensitive information to Russian diplomats), and his son-in-law tried to establish a secret communications line to Moscow. Even if Trump and his inner circle turn out to be innocent of the underlying crime, he is obviously guilty of obstructing justice: demanding loyalty of the FBI director and asking him to halt an investigation into a presidential crony, asking other intelligence officials to make this request as well, firing the director, and then publicly admitting he did it to quash the Russia investigation is comically transparent fact pattern.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...too-crazy-to-fire-the-special-prosecutor.html

 

[Hypoxia]

September 14, 2017
<snip>
The question of who pays White House staffers’ exorbitant legal fees has been an issue in many previous administrations, and it has plagued the non-millionaires in the Trump White House as the Russia probe expands. Vanity Fair reported in June that top white-collar lawyers in D.C. charge around $750 to $1,000 an hour, which means a White House staffer could wind up owing $30,000 to $54,000, even if they’re just interviewed by the FBI as a witness.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ows-anonymous-gifts-to-staff-legal-funds.html

I recall one Obama staffer saying the difference between Team Tromp and Team Obama was that Obama's people hadn't had to lawyer-up. I recall that Dubya's gang had many individual legal woes. I don't recall that from the Obama years (but I didn't really pay close attention.)

The question: How many Obama aides lawyered-up during his terms?

 

[phrodeau]

I recall one Obama staffer saying the difference between Team Tromp and Team Obama was that Obama's people hadn't had to lawyer-up. I recall that Dubya's gang had many individual legal woes. I don't recall that from the Obama years (but I didn't really pay close attention.)

The question: How many Obama aides lawyered-up during his terms?

I suppose Hillary did.

 

[Hypoxia]

I suppose Hillary did.

Hillary wasn't 'staff'.

 

[phrodeau]

Hillary wasn't 'staff'.

Secretary of State.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

September 14, 2017


Emperor Caligula Carrot called Attorney General Jeff Sessions an "idiot" to his face and said he should resign in May, The New York Times reported Thursday

Trump berated Sessions, the Times said, during a May 17 meeting with his top advisers to consider replacements for former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump had fired earlier that month.


Trump has publicly blamed Sessions for the appointment of the special counsel. In July, the President went as far as saying he would not have chosen Sessions to be the attorney general had he known Sessions would recuse from matters related to the campaign.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/14/politics/jeff-sessions-donald-trump/index.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Fuck

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliciamelvillesmith/trump-golf-ball-rt?utm_term=.hal6Dz54L#.gw6vwZ6na

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029602922#post8

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ty-s-post-This-is-what-her-profile-looks-like


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...back-with-a-golf-ball/?utm_term=.10c69df26c86

 

[Hypoxia]

Fuck

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliciamelvillesmith/trump-golf-ball-rt?utm_term=.hal6Dz54L#.gw6vwZ6na

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029602922#post8

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ty-s-post-This-is-what-her-profile-looks-like


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...back-with-a-golf-ball/?utm_term=.10c69df26c86

You expected better?

Tromp is pissed he can't just have Hillary hauled off to Leavenworth so he expresses his frustrations and humiliations symbolically. Take THAT, bitch! Just what we'd expect from a whining luzer.
_____

Back to my question: How many Obama staffers (not department heads) had to lawyer-up during those eight years?

 

[John Blackhawk]

You expected better?

Tromp is pissed he can't just have Hillary hauled off to Leavenworth so he expresses his frustrations and humiliations symbolically. Take THAT, bitch! Just what we'd expect from a whining luzer.
_____

Back to my question: How many Obama staffers (not department heads) had to lawyer-up during those eight years?

i'll say most of the ones that were middle to high on the pecking order.

 

[sr71plt]

i'll say most of them

If you think so, cite and source them. Apparently you didn't recognize that it was a leading question.

If you still think so after you're researched the matter and haven't found any--or more than a couple--perhaps you should take that as evidence that you've made yourself in fool in what you choose to let yourself believe.

 

[phrodeau]

Fuck

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliciamelvillesmith/trump-golf-ball-rt?utm_term=.hal6Dz54L#.gw6vwZ6na

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029602922#post8

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ty-s-post-This-is-what-her-profile-looks-like


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...back-with-a-golf-ball/?utm_term=.10c69df26c86

Trump had to sign that resolution on supremacists three days ago. This is what happens when people make him do things he doesn't like to do.

 

[Hypoxia]

i'll say most of the ones that were middle to high on the pecking order.

Former Obama aide: None of us needed lawyers

A White House Cabinet secretary under former President Barack Obama took an implicit swipe at Trump administration officials on Friday, saying he didn't know of anyone in the Obama White House that needed to hire a lawyer.

"I served 4 years in the Obama White House. I never hired a lawyer, and I don't know anyone who did," Chris Lu, who also served as a deputy secretary of Labor under Obama, wrote on Twitter. "Just thought I'd point that out."

 

[Trumpire]

If you think so, cite and source them. Apparently you didn't recognize that it was a leading question.

If you still think so after you're researched the matter and haven't found any--or more than a couple--perhaps you should take that as evidence that you've made yourself in fool in what you choose to let yourself believe.

"...Made yourself in fool..."? I can't recall precisely, but I think I've seen proof previously you've been one for a while, regardless of who or what should be blamed.

If you think... At all, PM every member & let us know where the Earth has shattered, or when the fool contest (next election?) happens between you & Donald Duck Trump.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

DACA Protest at Trump Tower

September 19, 2017

Protesters, including City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and New York Congressman Adriano Espaillat, were arrested outside of Trump Tower in Midtown on Tuesday.

Chicago Congressman Luis Gutierrez was also arrested, according to organizers with Make The Road New York, as well as Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona.


An estimated 70 police officers outnumbered protesters at the intersection.

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/19/mark_viverito_arrested_trump.php

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/19/trump_un_address_north_korea.php#photo-1

Trump was not there

September 14, 2017

What to watch in Trump’s first meeting with the UN General Assembly

Where will Trump stay? Rather than at nearby Trump Tower, President Trump is expected to stay at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The question is whether world leaders will make the hour drive to see him, Patrick said.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates...-first-meeting-with-the-u-n-general-assembly/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Reps. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan), Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Mark-Viverito were among about 10 people who sat down in the street on Fifth Ave. near the tower, and got cuffed after refusing to move.

“We are here to defend our immigrant communities,” Mark-Viverito said before the arrest, in which her hands were secured in plastic cuffs and she was loaded into a Department of Correction bus with other protesters.


Grijalva, the Arizona congressman, said “all acts of pressure are appropriate right now” in defense of the thousands of immigrants whose fate hangs in the balance.


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...-cuffed-trump-tower-protest-article-1.3506498