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The Washington Post - The wheels are coming off Trump’s spin machine
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Campaigns and White Houses always seek “message discipline,” the state of having everyone repeat the same carefully chosen phrases and arguments over and over to pound their ideas through the skulls of the electorate.
It’s something the Trump campaign and the Trump administration have never achieved, for a few reasons:
- First, as a group, the people who work for President Trump are not particularly smart or skilled at politics.
- Second, because they work for Trump, they are often called upon to defend the indefensible, whether it’s disastrous negligence, shocking corruption or farcical lies
.- And third, Trump is so erratic and self-contradictory that it can be almost impossible for them to keep track of which brand of lickspittlery they’re supposed to perform at any given moment. ...
... what we’re seeing now is a chaotic stew of fantasy and lies in which brief eruptions of candor from administration officials are quickly punished, but not before they highlight how ludicrous the prevailing line of spin is.
And behind the spin is a reality of horror.
But with each passing day, the spin is less capable of distracting from that reality.
“Nobody likes me,” the president recently moaned. He may be on to something.
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The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix (newsletter)
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Less than three months before the election, President Trump has solidified an approach to the coronavirus: only focus on the good news, deny the bad news. ...
Reality hasn’t changed his strategy:
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- He continues to claim the U.S. death rate is lower than that of most other countries.
- He says [COVID-19] is under control.
- He lashes out at any public health official who calls it like it is.
- He leans hard on conspiracy theories designed to undermine modern medicine and science.
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This could be interesting.
Deutsche Bank have finally turned over the Trump files subpoenaed by the NY DA.
"In court filings this week, the Manhattan lawyers said they were investigating possible bank and insurance fraud, referencing “public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization."
Now this - a "Major National Announcement":
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BBC News - Facebook removes Trump's 'Covid misinformation' post
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Facebook says it has removed a post from US President Donald Trump's page because it contained false claims about the coronavirus.
The clip was from an interview the president gave to Fox News earlier on Wednesday in which he said children were "almost immune" to Covid-19.
Facebook said the post violated its rules around "harmful Covid misinformation".
It is not the first time Facebook has struck content from Mr Trump's page.
A Facebook spokesperson told US media on Wednesday evening: "This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation." ...
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