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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 12:32 PM Oct 2019

Trump's latest tweet turns "projection" up to 11. Welcome to Trolling 101.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Hasn’t Adam Schiff been fully discredited by now? Do we have to continue listening to his lies?

12:06 PM · Oct 8, 2019·Twitter for iPhone


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Trump's latest tweet turns "projection" up to 11. Welcome to Trolling 101. (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 2019 OP
Yup... Newest Reality Oct 2019 #1
What's astounding is not the projection, but how simple such a statement is to make unblock Oct 2019 #2
Yup TheRealNorth Oct 2019 #3
Sing it Nigel! iscooterliberally Oct 2019 #4

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Yup...
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 12:35 PM
Oct 2019

All though that is a really easy one...

The Official, Trumpspeak Translator reads: "Haven't I been fully discredited by now? Do you have to continue listening to my lies?"

Score: 11 on a 1-10 basis.

unblock

(52,232 posts)
2. What's astounding is not the projection, but how simple such a statement is to make
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 12:48 PM
Oct 2019

yet the media can't bring itself to make this statement about Donnie, who has smashed all records in terms of lying and exaggerating.

Journalism 101 says to dump sources who repeatedly lie. I get that now that he's president what he says is newsworthy, but it has to be framed as coming from, exactly as that tweet suggests: a thoroughly discredited liar.

TheRealNorth

(9,481 posts)
3. Yup
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 12:55 PM
Oct 2019

The media has to stop giving access to politicians that regularly lie and repeatedly dodge questions. (I am thinking of Jim Jordan refusing to answer Stephenopolis this Sumday).

The media fails their consumers when we don't learn anything because they don't hold these people accountable for their lies by denying access.

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