As expected the Buzzfeed reporting about Trump directing Cohen to lie is BS

This one didn't pass the smell test from the beginning. I don't personally believe much I'm seeing in the media these days. Future historians will regard this as the second major period of yellow journalism in the United States.

It needs to be fixed.

My personal response to the entire media lying to me day after day has been to stop paying for any media. Literally...

I don't care if it is conservative or liberal media, I'm not paying for any of it ever again. Am I just saying it or am I really doing it? I cut the cord during the Obama regime. If you are paying for cable or satellite service you are part of the problem.

I get about 35 broadcast HD channels with a set of rabbit ears. I use KODI to watch any movie known to mankind on my HTPC, so I do pay for broadband. I watch quite a few things on YouTube but use powerful ad blocking, script blocking and block all trackers and only hit YouTube from the web interface, never use the application. You can white-list sites like Elite Trader where you want ad revenue to flow.

Books are available in vast collections free on the usual sites. There are free streaming sites with Fox News who doesn't get paid either as they are as full of shit as CNN.
 
gwb-trading said:
And of course as usual it turns out to be bullshiat.
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Probably not exactly. As you may know, Cohen's lying to Congress was mentioned in documents submitted by Mueller to the court, but there was no mention of co-conspirator, "individual #1", in conjunction with that specific incident. The unusually guarded and circumspect statement from the Prosecutor's office just released in the past couple days was not just circumspect, it was VERY circumspect. It would not be wise to conclude on the basis of the Buzzfeed story alone that the President asked Cohen to lie to Congress; it would be equally unwise to conclude on the basis of Mueller's exceedingly circumspect statement, that he didn't. Therefore, let us, the public bystanders, remain, for the time being at least, as circumspect as Mueller in our assessments of what the statement from the Prosecutor's office means.

I read that statement from the Prosecutor's office as something being released because the prosecutors were concerned about inadvertent, premature exposure by Buzzfeed of information they were attempting to keep very close to their chests. I read the unusual and rare statement from the Prosecutors office as something designed to mislead.
 
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piezoe said:
Probably not exactly. As you may know Cohen's lying to Congress was mentioned in documents submitted by Mueller to the court, but there was no mention of co-conspirator, "individual #1", in conjunction with that specific incident. The unusually guarded and circumspect statement from the Prosecutor's office just released in the past couple days was not just circumspect, it was VERY "circumspect," shall we say. Just as it would not be wise to conclude that the President asked Cohen to lie to Congress, it would be equally unwise to conclude that he didn't. Therefore, let us, the public bystanders, remain circumspect in our assessments of what the statement from the Prosecutoir's office means.

I read that statement from the Prosecutor's office as something being released because the prosecutors were concerned about inadvertent, premature exposure by Buzzfeed of information they were attempting to keep very close to their chests. I read the unusual and rare statement from the Prosecutors office as something designed to mislead.
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We feel your pain, Bro.

Leftydom is completely flaccid this morning and your post is an attempt to make chicken soup out of chickenshit. But you and your post are flaccid too.

Better luck next time.
 
piezoe said:
I read that statement from the Prosecutor's office as something being released because the prosecutors were concerned about inadvertent, premature exposure by Buzzfeed of information they were attempting to keep very close to their chests. I read the unusual and rare statement from the Prosecutors office as something designed to mislead.
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And just how would that closely held information inadvertently get into Buzzfeed's hands?

Mr. Barr will find out, count on it.
 
TreeFrogTrader said:
We feel your pain, Bro.

Leftydom is completely flaccid this morning and your post is an attempt to make chicken soup out of chickenshit. But you and your post are flaccid too.

Better luck next time.
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You respond so quickly, seemingly at light speed, to many posts, hardly ever with anything germane to the post itself, but mostly with senseless ad hominem remarks, that it makes me wonder if you are hired full time to do nothing but troll posts that may reflect badly on the President. Are you perhaps working in St. Petersburg? You are rather professional at what you do! Stay warm my friend on these cold and dark January nights.
 
Tony Stark said:
Most of the media clearly stated they did not verify Buzzfeeds report.


https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...ongress-about-proposed-moscow-project.328976/


"CNN has not corroborated the BuzzFeed report."
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What do you mean they didnt corroborate it? I just saw a story that said that a guy from Buzzfeed called his college buddy and told his college buddy that it was true. His college buddy then told his uncle's boss' son's exgirlfriend that the story was true and the exgirlfriend was able to corroborate to the media that she had indeed been told the story was true. Don't you believe her?
 
piezoe said:
Probably not exactly. As you may know, Cohen's lying to Congress was mentioned in documents submitted by Mueller to the court, but there was no mention of co-conspirator, "individual #1", in conjunction with that specific incident. The unusually guarded and circumspect statement from the Prosecutor's office just released in the past couple days was not just circumspect, it was VERY circumspect. It would not be wise to conclude on the basis of the Buzzfeed story alone that the President asked Cohen to lie to Congress; it would be equally unwise to conclude on the basis of Mueller's exceedingly circumspect statement, that he didn't. Therefore, let us, the public bystanders, remain, for the time being at least, as circumspect as Mueller in our assessments of what the statement from the Prosecutor's office means.

I read that statement from the Prosecutor's office as something being released because the prosecutors were concerned about inadvertent, premature exposure by Buzzfeed of information they were attempting to keep very close to their chests. I read the unusual and rare statement from the Prosecutors office as something designed to mislead.
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While I respect a number of opinions you have posted over time — I can only say that this particular item only comes off as incredible spin on the situation.
 
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