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highplainsdem

(48,993 posts) Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:35 PM Feb 2018

Stelter: Trump MISquoted two different @FoxNews reports tonight.

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Trump MISquoted two different @FoxNews reports tonight. Either he truly misunderstood what he heard on TV, which is worrisome, or he purposefully misquoted it, which is also worrisome.

This is the first misquote Stelter's referring to, Trump's tweet and Stelter's response:

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“Russians had no compromising information on Donald Trump” @FoxNews Of course not, because there is none, and never was. This whole Witch Hunt is an illegal disgrace...and Obama did nothing about Russia!

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He's completely misquoting Fox here. Fox hosts pointed out that there's nothing *in the Dem memo* about the Russians having compromising info about Trump. But what he quoted was never said on Fox. Maybe he misunderstood the TV coverage?

And this is the second, which got a "Holy moly" response. Trump's tweet first, and Stelter's two tweets afterward, which were followed by the tweet quoted in the subject line:

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“Congressman Schiff omitted and distorted key facts” @FoxNews So, what else is new. He is a total phony!

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Holy moly. The @FoxNews anchor said "Congressman Schiff, he ARGUES the REPUBLICAN memo omitted and distorted key facts." Trump just deleted 5 words from the quote to allege the opposite meaning.

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SCHIFF is the one who's alleging the Republicans -- quote -- "omitted and distorted key facts." That's the exact quote from @RepAdamSchiff's Twitter feed.

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Stelter: Trump MISquoted two different @FoxNews reports tonight. (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2018 OP

Just two more lies from Trump today. He is the best liar. SharonClark Feb 2018 #1

Now Shitler is manufacturing lies with malicious intent and obviously so? He needs some lessons Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #9

Wow. cilla4progress Feb 2018 #2

I'm not sure it's lying. It's possible Trump misunderstood or misremembered. highplainsdem Feb 2018 #4

Trump hears what he wants to hear... dchill Feb 2018 #6

This lying SOB needs to be addressed. He is fucking dangerous. poboy2 Feb 2018 #3

He only hears what he wants to hear. Kablooie Feb 2018 #5

If its misremembering cilla4progress Feb 2018 #7

President Shit-For-Brains.💩💩💩💩💩 oasis Feb 2018 #8

I really hope Donald spends more time with his wife and young son, before struggle4progress Feb 2018 #10

contradicts himself in the same tweet Takket Feb 2018 #11

Stolen from Twitter: OilemFirchen Feb 2018 #12

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

1. Just two more lies from Trump today. He is the best liar.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:38 PM

Feb 2018

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

9. Now Shitler is manufacturing lies with malicious intent and obviously so? He needs some lessons

Reply to SharonClark (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 10:39 PM

Feb 2018

in how to do that and cover your tracks from Manafort and Putin.

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)

2. Wow.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:39 PM

Feb 2018

Thanks to you and Stelter for putting this together.

Eerie, watching the lies in real time.

highplainsdem

(48,993 posts)

4. I'm not sure it's lying. It's possible Trump misunderstood or misremembered.

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:50 PM

Feb 2018

Which, as Stelter said, is also worrisome.

Stelter just retweeted comments from NBC's Benjy Sarlin, starting here:

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I joke, but this is a pretty good window into how the president processes news in general

How many times have we seen the president walk out of a meeting somehow convinced that a participant told him he was the greatest leader since Solomon, for example https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900009238/trump-the-greatest-president-ever-hatchs-office-clarifies-senators-praise.amp …

Hear someone mention his name, delete a few words here and there, and wow they really love me! It’s the same thing here.

Similarly the president heard about indictments last week that contradicted almost everything he had said about Russia for a year — and was surprised people didn’t all fixate on one ambiguous element he interpreted as positive