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Lawsuit: Fox News concocted Seth Rich story with oversight from White House

Actually, your boy was the worst of the worst. Obama never even hit 3% GDP. Trump is approaching that 7 months in. ;) And that's in spite of the relentless hammering by your comrades in the media. ;);)
GWB has he all time record of consecutive 3 percent growth quarters and the highest percentage of home ownership. We know how that worked out. Be careful when bragging on economy because it goes up and it goes down. It is all about how one prepares for the down cycle.

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That's not what this thread or article is about. It's about Wheeler's assertion that Trump himself pushed for Fox to fabricate details about the story to implicate the DNC and distract people from the Russia investigation.

However, a word to all liberals and conservatives: Wheeler can't be trusted. Conservatives trusted Wheeler when he went on Fox and told this story. That was a mistake. Wheeler has no credibility. The same is true now. As a liberal, I don't trust what Wheeler's saying without concrete evidence. If it comes down to just him saying that this happened without any additional evidence, I think he's just aiming for more attention from the media and trying to get a nice payday from Fox in a lawsuit. I don't know if I'm right, but I sure wouldn't put all my chips on Wheeler right now.
Agreed. One never knows with law suits. One thing in his favor is that he came out immediately after Fox ran the story and said they made it up as far as what they attributed to him.

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Let's say this is true. This is 24/7/365 for the mainstream media for the past 40+ years. It's a coordinated scam.

Here's the only thing you need to know: the media has entirely ruined its credibility forever, and nobody will believe in the reporting of this or any story. They made that bed, and it's forever.

The media is the most distrusted entity on the planet to Americans. They're the same as ISIS and MS-13.

This is specifically about FOX news and their coordination with the Trump Whitehouse to spread a fake story. Are you demanding that they fire the perps or not? Or like so many times before do Trump supporters prefer to look the other way because it was done to help Trump.
 
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GWB has he all time record of consecutive 3 percent growth quarters and the highest percentage of home ownership. We know how that worked out. Be careful when bragging on economy because it goes up and it goes down. It is all about how one prepares for the down cycle.

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Yeah, we do know how that worked out. Housing bubble caused by democrats crashed the economy.
 
The "Seth Rich Was Murdered By Hillary" story popped up about, oh, 30 seconds after his body was found.

Trump's White House didn't invent the story. It existed months before the election... in fact, it predated the Russian Collusion story (in its current form).

This lawsuit is about how the Whitehouse helped FOX news resurrect that fake news story in an attempt to mislead the public. The story was run on FOX in May 2017, Will you demand that FOX fires those responsible like when CNN did for it's mistake?
 
The lies that you cite, with no references - did they contain all this drama:
1. Presidential collaboration with a news agency and a wealthy Republican donor to fabricate a story.
2. Collaboration involved fabrication of a lie to blame a DNC murder victim for leaked Democratic emails.
3. Misquoting the investigator of the DNC murder.
4. Intent of story is to divert focus to the murder victim's involvement and away from the Trump / Russia investigation.

Seriously dude. Pick up a history book. Some are more tame. Some are far more egregious. You realize many presidents collaborated with organized crime essentially to get elected? Read up on the Gilded Age. It isn't my fault you were failed by the education system.


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Actually, your boy was the worst of the worst. Obama never even hit 3% GDP. Trump is approaching that 7 months in. ;) And that's in spite of the relentless hammering by your comrades in the media. ;);)

More evidence of the gullibility of you Trumpers. GDP growth has been higher then 2.6% for 8 of the last 18 quarters. When are you going to learn? Trump is a liar. and you can't believe a thing he says.
President Trump wrongly described the estimated 2.6% growth in the nation’s gross domestic product for the second quarter as “a number that nobody thought they’d see for a long period of time.”

In fact, real GDP growth was higher than 2.6% in eight of the last 18 quarters, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That includes a 2.9% increase in the third quarter of 2016, which the Trump campaign dismissed at the time as “modest.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/01/fact-check-donald-trumps-puffery-gdp-growth/529064001/
 
Seriously dude. Pick up a history book. Some are more tame. Some are far more egregious. You realize many presidents collaborated with organized crime essentially to get elected? Read up on the Gilded Age. It isn't my fault you were failed by the education system.


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What you failed at is justifying criminal behavior because someone else did it in "the Gilded age". You would be laughed out of any courtroom for that defense.
 
Seriously dude. Pick up a history book. Some are more tame. Some are far more egregious. You realize many presidents collaborated with organized crime essentially to get elected? Read up on the Gilded Age. It isn't my fault you were failed by the education system.


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I guess you have to have the same label as you in your profile - Conservative- to understand all these underhanded dealings. It takes one to know one.
 
What you failed at is justifying criminal behavior because someone else did it in "the Gilded age". You would be laughed out of any courtroom for that defense.

Fortunately this isn't a courtroom and the argument I was countering was that Donald trump is any different than other presidential candidates. Watergate, teapot dome, Lewinsky. There Are plenty to chose from. And until you can provide me with a conviction of Donald trump...he is no different. Period. Any other line of thinking is naive at best...and more likely deliberately being a blinded partisan hack. And this is coming to you from someone AS A REPUBLICAN...REFUSED...to vote for Donald trump the Hillary campaign donor.

You want to talk about being a laughing stock? It is the liberal inability to contend with this buffoon. It may be sad that the republicans elected him...but what is more pathetic is the democrats LOST to Donald ****ing trump.


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Holy crap. Trumpers are absolutely unraveling in this thread. I think the cognitive dissonance is beginning to shut down cranial regions before they explode.

Guys, you can relieve the pressure simply by accepting that Trump is a bad dude and needs to leave the White House.
 
Fortunately this isn't a courtroom and the argument I was countering was that Donald trump is any different than other presidential candidates. Watergate, teapot dome, Lewinsky. There Are plenty to chose from. And until you can provide me with a conviction of Donald trump...he is no different. Period. Any other line of thinking is naive at best...and more likely deliberately being a blinded partisan hack. And this is coming to you from someone AS A REPUBLICAN...REFUSED...to vote for Donald trump the Hillary campaign donor.

You want to talk about being a laughing stock? It is the liberal inability to contend with this buffoon. It may be sad that the republicans elected him...but what is more pathetic is the democrats LOST to Donald ****ing trump.


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We all can only hope that Trump will be impeached and that the Russians will never be able to meddle with our election again like they did in 2016. But since the Republicans hold the votes it is up to your party to do that. Democrats can only watch in horror as a once great party goes down in flames. Sen. Jeff flake is sounding the alarm now. His take on why Trump won is spot on.

1. "Who could blame the people who felt abandoned and ignored by the major parties for reaching in despair for a candidate who offered oversimplified answers to infinitely complex questions and managed to entertain them in the process?"
This is as cogent -- and brief -- an explanation for the rise of Trump as I have seen. Trump capitalized on frustration and alienation with the two-party system. And he took advantage of that most basic part of human nature: When faced with the utter complexity of the world around us, we look for simple solutions to make us feel better. Trump's promise to immediately make everything better with a snap of his fingers appealed to all of the people in the country who felt overwhelmed/angry/anxious about the ever-mounting problems they faced on a daily basis.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/01/politics/jeff-flake-trump/index.html
 
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We all can only hope that Trump will be impeached and that the Russians will never be able to meddle with our election again like they did in 2016. But since the Republicans hold the votes it is up to your party to do that. Democrats can only watch in horror as a once great party goes down in flames. Sen. Jeff flake is sounding the alarm now. His take on why Trump won is spot on.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/01/politics/jeff-flake-trump/index.html

Can you please prove the Russian interference? Specifically what did they do? I am just curious. There is a reason I am asking. Let's see if you can get there.

Whitewater. Another example.

Oh. And you can't give a simple explanation as to why he won. There aren't plenty of reasons. In no particular order.

1) democrats put forth one of the most detestable establishment candidates imaginable. Hillary rotten Clinton. Someone who stood for everything obama did...only smellier and more involved in scandal for much longer. A perennial loser as well.

2) free press...not the 1st amendment. But the $3 billion in free press given to trump. Who needs to spend a dime on campaign adds when the democrats and their partisan press can do it for you?

3) a lack of any compromise from the left for the past 8 years. Doesn't matter what happens it is Republican fault. The constant attempt to blame the republicans and refusal to accept any position from republicans may come from a legitimate stance.

4) really could be with 3...but a constant undermining of republican values as "evil" and so on...just think Anti fa. And then remember that republicans are just normal people.

5) liberals wet their pants when Donald took the republican spot. Enough reason for many to vote trump. Just to give the left the middle finger. Something they felt they got for the past 8 years.

6) Supreme Court.

7) there are plenty of other reasons.


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Such a sad state of affairs. The ONE guy we can trust, the one beacon of truth, DJT. The tireless crusader against fake news and the stalwart of justice is behind yet another lie and more #fake news. Shame shame.

From the OP source...

The plaintiff is Rod Wheeler, a Fox News contributor and former homicide detective hired to investigate Rich's death, who alleges that he was misquoted as part of the effort to put the story together. Douglas Wigdor, who is representing current and former Fox employees in other lawsuits against the network, is Wheeler's lawyer.
So the guy now suing Fox is the same guy who was roundly rejected and denounced as a fraud for bringing the story to Fox in the first place?(Recall the scuttlebutt surrounding Sean Hannity for running with the Seth Rich story a couple of months ago?) So now the same guy is trying to sue Fox News and is claiming that Trump signed off on this story and we are supposed to believe him?

Welcome to La La Land, folks.
 
From the OP source...


So the guy now suing Fox is the same guy who was roundly rejected and denounced as a fraud for bringing the story to Fox in the first place?(Recall the scuttlebutt surrounding Sean Hannity for running with the Seth Rich story a couple of months ago?) So now the same guy is trying to sue Fox News and is claiming that Trump signed off on this story and we are supposed to believe him?

Welcome to La La Land, folks.

The media is joke


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Can you please prove the Russian interference? Specifically what did they do? I am just curious. There is a reason I am asking. Let's see if you can get there.

Whitewater. Another example.

Oh. And you can't give a simple explanation as to why he won. There aren't plenty of reasons. In no particular order.

1) democrats put forth one of the most detestable establishment candidates imaginable. Hillary rotten Clinton. Someone who stood for everything obama did...only smellier and more involved in scandal for much longer. A perennial loser as well.

2) free press...not the 1st amendment. But the $3 billion in free press given to trump. Who needs to spend a dime on campaign adds when the democrats and their partisan press can do it for you?

3) a lack of any compromise from the left for the past 8 years. Doesn't matter what happens it is Republican fault. The constant attempt to blame the republicans and refusal to accept any position from republicans may come from a legitimate stance.

4) really could be with 3...but a constant undermining of republican values as "evil" and so on...just think Anti fa. And then remember that republicans are just normal people.

5) liberals wet their pants when Donald took the republican spot. Enough reason for many to vote trump. Just to give the left the middle finger. Something they felt they got for the past 8 years.

6) Supreme Court.

7) there are plenty of other reasons.


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Russian Interference...
1). Manage a network of paid Internet trolls.
2). Direct Internet trolls to create fake social media profiles and "infiltrate" target communities
3). Pay writers to fabricate stories
4). Use Internet trolls to share/promote fabricated stories. (Social media platform algorithms now auto share them as "trending")
5). Have Trump cite fabricated trending stories.

At this point, most Americans in these targeted communities would not be able to separate a fake story from genuine news.

Your post is ample proof of the effectiveness of this approach.
 
Russian Interference...
1). Manage a network of paid Internet trolls.
2). Direct Internet trolls to create fake social media profiles and "infiltrate" target communities
3). Pay writers to fabricate stories
4). Use Internet trolls to share/promote fabricated stories. (Social media platform algorithms now auto share them as "trending")
5). Have Trump cite fabricated trending stories.

At this point, most Americans in these targeted communities would not be able to separate a fake story from genuine news.

Your post is ample proof of the effectiveness of this approach.

Lmao! So basically...Russians interfered with the election by using the internet. And getting rid of trump will somehow make that not happen? And democrats are somehow immune to being tampered with? LMAO!


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The Trump apologists are pretty hilarious.

Yes. And sadly, brainwashed beyond belief. Just when I think that something so vile has transpired that there is no way anyone of sound mind could make excuses, I am proven wrong. Sad!
 
Yes. And sadly, brainwashed beyond belief. Just when I think that something so vile has transpired that there is no way anyone of sound mind could make excuses, I am proven wrong. Sad!

Here is the problem...we have no idea if something actually transpired. The media has cranked the noise up to 11 and the interference is ridiculous. It has become impossible to tell what "anonymous" tipster is a hoax and which isn't. You want to blame anyone for the distrust? Talk to the MSM.

Anyone who takes their word on matters now is just gullible. It is going to take a lot of independently verified sources for anyone to actually listen anymore. This is just one more story to me. I just stopped paying attention. And I hate Donald trump. But my hate isn't based on partisan ass hattery


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I don't follow Fox News.

Right.

But I can recognize when Russia has entirely blown up in your face, so by all means, let's run another load of BS up the flagpole.

America is on to you and your ilk.

Weird pivot, dude. Your favored news source is crap, and it's your fault for being an uninformed consumer. Rather than go for quality, you opted for news that fits your world view.

Blaming the entire media for Fox News' poor quality is like blaming all food because you ordered a bad hamburger at a cheap diner with an F cleanliness rating on the front door.

Edit: going through your thread history, it's just nothing but a train wreck of citing Daily News, Fox, Twitter, Project Veritas...just the worst crap in the universe. Your news feed sucks, dude. The problem isn't the media, it's your incredibly poor judgment.
 
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Yeah, we do know how that worked out. Housing bubble caused by democrats crashed the economy.


Where in ****'s name do you get your news???? I facepalmed myself so hard, I now have the brain of a 15 year-old NFL player.
 
Here is the problem...we have no idea if something actually transpired. The media has cranked the noise up to 11 and the interference is ridiculous. It has become impossible to tell what "anonymous" tipster is a hoax and which isn't. You want to blame anyone for the distrust? Talk to the MSM.

Anyone who takes their word on matters now is just gullible. It is going to take a lot of independently verified sources for anyone to actually listen anymore. This is just one more story to me. I just stopped paying attention. And I hate Donald trump. But my hate isn't based on partisan ass hattery


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I don't believe everything I read at face value as well. But common sense helps one wade though the mounds of bull****.
 
Right.



Weird pivot, dude. Your favored news source is crap, and it's your fault for being an uninformed consumer. Rather than go for quality, you opted for news that fits your world view.

Blaming the entire media for Fox News' poor quality is like blaming all food because you ordered a bad hamburger at a cheap diner with an F cleanliness rating on the front door.

Edit: going through your thread history, it's just nothing but a train wreck of citing Daily News, Fox, Twitter, Project Veritas...just the worst crap in the universe. Your news feed sucks, dude. The problem isn't the media, it's your incredibly poor judgment.


Wish I could thank this a million times.
 
You REALLY need to go back to the history books and see some of the whoppers that have been told. As well as the scandals. Again...naive. You want to know the biggest difference? He might as well have the media in his ass. Not just around him. He gets 24/7 coverage. Most others didn't. Even bush and obama weren't as heavily scrutinized


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What a crock of ****. Trump's lies are compulsive. So much so he is never to be trusted. You cant say that about Obama, Bush, etc. Yes most politicians lie at some point. But Trump is so blatant, it's not even close. But he has slurpers that think he walks on water regardless

As to scrutiny, what you fail to comprehend is that Emperor Tweeto brings it on himself.

Get back to me when Trump EVER demonstrates an ounce of personal accountabilty. How ironic since right wing nuts claim the left never demonstrates any.
 
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