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Reince Priebus reportedly advised Donald Trump to drop out of the race

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Reince Priebus reportedly advised Donald Trump to drop out of the race after leaked audio tape

Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman picked by President-elect Donald Trump to be White House chief of staff, once reportedly tried to talk Trump out of seeing his campaign through to Election Day. Citing "a person briefed on the conversation," New York's Gabriel Sherman reported Thursday that Priebus told Trump he should drop out of the race after the Access Hollywood tape of Trump making lewd comments about women was leaked in early October.
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and the rest is history.

But, the election was rigged anyway, right?
 
Sure is a lot of fourth hand stuff flying around as gospel lately.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Possibly. It's on Yahoo news, though, not one to generally promote fake news.
and it is plausible at least.
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Sure it's plausible.
Politics is nothing if not competitive ... even internally.
I just keep thinking of stories published by left leaning sources this election season, especially about Trump, that went for days talking about transition strife until it was shown that the speed of his appointments was actually ahead or tied with others like Obama's.
Now we have a similar story from a similar source by a similar writer (or two in that one post, actually) that seems to carry forward the same theme.
Kind of makes one wonder about media motivation.
 
bubbabgone said:
Sure it's plausible.
Politics is nothing if not competitive ... even internally.
I just keep thinking of stories published by left leaning sources this election season, especially about Trump, that went for days talking about transition strife until it was shown that the speed of his appointments was actually ahead or tied with others like Obama's.
Now we have a similar story from a similar source by a similar writer (or two in that one post, actually) that seems to carry forward the same theme.
Kind of makes one wonder about media motivation.
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Left leaning sources weren't exactly Trump supporters, and that's for sure, despite his own left leaning ideas. Right leaning sources weren't so sure about him either, until he won the nomination.

Most sources were surprised when he won the election.
 
bubbabgone said:
Sure it's plausible.
Politics is nothing if not competitive ... even internally.
I just keep thinking of stories published by left leaning sources this election season, especially about Trump, that went for days talking about transition strife until it was shown that the speed of his appointments was actually ahead or tied with others like Obama's.
Now we have a similar story from a similar source by a similar writer (or two in that one post, actually) that seems to carry forward the same theme.
Kind of makes one wonder about media motivation.
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When the media starts using the exact same phrases then you know the DNC talking points have been distributed.

I saw it with "Hillary is so pragmatic"
I saw it with "Did Hillary KNOWINGLY use the unsecured server" (emphasis on "knowingly")
I saw it with "these protests after Trump's election are so organic"

So keep that in mind.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Left leaning sources weren't exactly Trump supporters, and that's for sure, despite his own left leaning ideas. Right leaning sources weren't so sure about him either, until he won the nomination.

Most sources were surprised when he won the election.
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I sure can't deny that.
But what's happening now is a continuation of that battle between Trump and the media.
With facts and truth the casualties.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Hence the term, "post truth."
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Yeah, but the notion that may be taking hold is that there should be someone in charge of identifying it and doing something about it.
Frankly, it's more scary to try that.
 
bubbabgone said:
Yeah, but the notion that may be taking hold is that there should be someone in charge of identifying it and doing something about it.
Frankly, it's more scary to try that.
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Someone in charge of identifying and doing something about the truth?

Maybe a Ministry of Truth. Yep, that's what we need.
 
I love these type of stories - according to an anonymous source that says he knows someone that was told what happened by a guy that swears he knows someone that's related to a guy by marriage that reportedly stood outside the locked door and listened closely over the noise of the floor waxing machine until he was removed from the area by security which only proves the importance and validity of the information he thinks he may have overheard.
 
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