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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:51 AM Apr 2017

Trump tells NBC to stop covering Russia story

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Saturday called for NBC News to devote more attention to his unproven claims that President Obama spied on him and stop covering the investigations into Russia’s interference in the election.

“When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story?” Trump tweeted just before 9 a.m.

“It is the same Fake News Media that said there is ‘no path to victory for Trump’ that is now pushing the phony Russia story. A total scam!” he added shortly after.

* * *
FBI Director James Comey says he knows of “no information” validating Trump’s accusation. Trump has stood by the allegations, and the White House has said the comment refers to the Obama administration’s surveillance activities more broadly.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/326830-trump-tells-nbc-to-stop-covering-russia-story

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Trump tells NBC to stop covering Russia story (Original Post) TomCADem Apr 2017 OP
. NRaleighLiberal Apr 2017 #1
Сегодня вечером на "Новостях NBC" ... mwooldri Apr 2017 #68
"NBC tells Tinyhands to proceed with self-fornication...." lastlib Apr 2017 #72
Arrrrrghhhh... 47of74 Apr 2017 #76
Excellent! lark Apr 2017 #83
Thank you! lastlib Apr 2017 #85
! jpak Apr 2017 #2
WOW - case closed!! Laf.La.Dem. Apr 2017 #3
tRump, is a buffoon that thinks bullying/yelling/tweets is what the presidency is all about. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2017 #4
bullying yelling and tweeting got him to the White House NewJeffCT Apr 2017 #33
I've worked for CEOs that did that, and they went down, they could not change. That's what he RKP5637 Apr 2017 #36
You forgot deflecting FakeNoose Apr 2017 #86
... RKP5637 Apr 2017 #89
This kind of shit is just meant to brainwash and rile up deplorables dalton99a Apr 2017 #5
Ding, ding, ding! iluvtennis Apr 2017 #49
No, a calculated campaign to politicize criminal investigation, guilty guy wants evidence tossed. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #79
Sir, Yes Sir! SCVDem Apr 2017 #6
That is just perfect turbinetree Apr 2017 #22
("Dunsel--a part which serves no useful purpose") lastlib Apr 2017 #73
and while you're at it NBC, don't think about a pink elephant! vlyons Apr 2017 #7
I love it! LOL Lib Apr 2017 #30
I think maybe.. cannabis_flower Apr 2017 #43
I'd love to see him take on Rachel or Joy...he'll lose, BIGLY nt iluvtennis Apr 2017 #51
you know what they say about picking fights..... lastlib Apr 2017 #71
Trump doesn't watch shows that star lesbians and black women. nocalflea Apr 2017 #75
And you know NBC Faux pas Apr 2017 #8
Trump telling NBC what to do? They wouldn't even renew Celebrity Apprentice. no_hypocrisy Apr 2017 #9
Putin said "Watch my lips - NO." yallerdawg Apr 2017 #10
FBI now knows Trump is guilty because he used the old underthematrix Apr 2017 #11
good one.. stillcool Apr 2017 #48
Yep, the perp is so damned buggy because he's guilty and knows he's caught. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #80
Well, Well, Well...this one is swell..!!!!!!!!!!!!!?? Stuart G Apr 2017 #12
You make more sense than a sexual predator that committed TREASON turbinetree Apr 2017 #24
Keep reminding us who he really IS, at his core Alice11111 Apr 2017 #35
He is a sexual predator he got caught admitting it, it's on a video turbinetree Apr 2017 #41
Yeah, I would like to see the news start, "The Sexual Predator Alice11111 Apr 2017 #42
Putin's Having Fits (Trump Is Gonna Shit Version) Fantastic Anarchist Apr 2017 #46
Hope that is like waving a red cloth in front of a charging bull rurallib Apr 2017 #13
little Donnie is scared and doesn't know what else to do! n/t ginnyinWI Apr 2017 #14
"sleepy-eyes Chuck Todd" BuddyCa Apr 2017 #15
The name calling is interesting - pointing out LuckyLib Apr 2017 #26
He's a bully NastyRiffraff Apr 2017 #27
Projecting dhol82 Apr 2017 #62
Tuning TV to NBC CountAllVotes Apr 2017 #16
Hmm. Coincidence? Just yesterday Chuck Todd was lead writer on this stark scathing article underpants Apr 2017 #17
The hat and Mr. Peabody, see if there is a comparison turbinetree Apr 2017 #25
Lots of smoke there... Historic NY Apr 2017 #18
..... Tanuki Apr 2017 #19
That is great. Love it. Squinch Apr 2017 #23
It's "Trumpy!" GWC58 Apr 2017 #28
ha ha ha LiberalLovinLug Apr 2017 #55
OMG! llmart Apr 2017 #63
He's insane. He created that bogus Obama story The_Casual_Observer Apr 2017 #20
My late father rtracey Apr 2017 #21
WSJ: 'like a drunk to an empty Gin bottle.' deminks Apr 2017 #29
You'd think someone would tell him that writing "Trump/Russia" creates a subconscious Jonny Appleseed Apr 2017 #31
The boy who cried wolf... Blue Idaho Apr 2017 #32
Just fucking resign already Aviation Pro Apr 2017 #34
Oh hell no - if he resigns the GOP gets to wiggle out of it FakeNoose Apr 2017 #87
Just another hit at destroying the free press. Alice11111 Apr 2017 #37
And NBC is going to cancel SNL too. Liberalagogo Apr 2017 #38
Not! FakeNoose Apr 2017 #88
The Art of Lying: Just Keep Repeating it Until it is Taken as True. nt HopeAgain Apr 2017 #39
Snowball Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #56
Did NBC thank Darnold for the publicity? EricMaundry Apr 2017 #40
Oh yeah, like that's gonna work. calimary Apr 2017 #44
Well spotted. DTs has awakened 2 entities: the Dems, and the 4th Estate. nt Hekate Apr 2017 #58
Tell tRump To Stop Impersonating a 6yr. Old.... Grassy Knoll Apr 2017 #45
Republican is AFRAID to use the official @POTUS twitter account and face the press questions. Sunlei Apr 2017 #47
Oh STFU Hair Brain Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2017 #50
HeyChuck Todd DonCoquixote Apr 2017 #52
CNN Now Has Company In the "Fake News" Doghouse TomCADem Apr 2017 #61
I keep forgetting to get up early and see the tweets! trixie2 Apr 2017 #53
Haven't we already learned? Mr. Ected Apr 2017 #54
Every single time he says "Nothing to see here; look over there," you KNOW ... Hekate Apr 2017 #57
You gotta be kidding... Blue_Roses Apr 2017 #59
Tell a lie often enough Dyedinthewoolliberal Apr 2017 #60
Well, that should work... llmart Apr 2017 #64
Chuck Todd should have told his lying ... Stellar Apr 2017 #65
Sometimes I think he thinks he can really do this Cadfael Apr 2017 #66
He was shipped off to military school jmowreader Apr 2017 #74
Orangey McOrange Face warmfeet Apr 2017 #67
Loser BainsBane Apr 2017 #69
He's cracking under the pressure. He tries to look cool... Honeycombe8 Apr 2017 #70
Why Doesn't Trump Just Shut Up DallasNE Apr 2017 #77
In your fantasies, asshole Cha Apr 2017 #78
This means that they should do the opposite. Third Doctor Apr 2017 #81
I think they meant there is 'no path to victory for dRumpf, unless the Russkies Mc Mike Apr 2017 #82
NBC needs to clearly state tweets are from trumps personal account & NOT official gov. tweets. Sunlei Apr 2017 #84
I totally agree FakeNoose Apr 2017 #90

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
68. Сегодня вечером на "Новостях NBC" ...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 07:49 PM
Apr 2017

Рэйчел Мэддоу сообщает о прямом эфире из Москвы...
Майкл Флинн, ищущих убежища в России?
Крис Мэттьюс демаскирует Девина Нунеса...

Nope, nothing to see here... NBC isn't going to stop reporting on Russia.



lastlib

(23,239 posts)
85. Thank you!
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 11:43 AM
Apr 2017

(Somebody here on DU once challenged us to come up with a more "polite" phrasing of "go f*ck yourself," so I twiddled with it and came up with that line. Nobody ever really picked up on it, but I still use it once in a while. "Tinyhands" just kinda popped into my head a couple days ago. I'm liking that more and more! )

RKP5637

(67,109 posts)
36. I've worked for CEOs that did that, and they went down, they could not change. That's what he
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 01:15 PM
Apr 2017

reminds me of, what often causes one to rise to the top often is what takes them down. Many corporations align to the same rigid thinking pattern. Time will tell.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
6. Sir, Yes Sir!
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:57 AM
Apr 2017

Just who the fuck does dump think he is? He is not America's CEO!

President Dunsel needs to go.

(dunsel
A part on a ship that has no use.
"What the hell is that thing?" "A dunsel, sir."
"You're a dunsel."
"Congradulations, Captain Dunsel."
by Daelin June 12, 2003)

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
7. and while you're at it NBC, don't think about a pink elephant!
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:58 AM
Apr 2017

I find it interesting that Traitor Trump hasn't gone after Rachel Maddow or Joy Reid. If anyone cleans his clock it will be either Rachel or Joy. Wow taken down by a lesbian and a black women. No doubt that must be extra humiliating for him.

lastlib

(23,239 posts)
71. you know what they say about picking fights.....
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 10:08 PM
Apr 2017

...with people who buy ink by the barrel......

(I s'pose the same goes for people who buy bandwidth by the terabit......)

nocalflea

(1,387 posts)
75. Trump doesn't watch shows that star lesbians and black women.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:46 PM
Apr 2017

Doubt if he watched that tax return show.Someone probably did it for him.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
10. Putin said "Watch my lips - NO."
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:00 PM
Apr 2017

The two communicate right in front of our eyes - because WE are insignificant sheep beneath their contempt.

No collusion?

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
80. Yep, the perp is so damned buggy because he's guilty and knows he's caught.
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 02:35 AM
Apr 2017

He knows 100 FBI agents are on his case and he's shitting his silk undies.

Stuart G

(38,428 posts)
12. Well, Well, Well...this one is swell..!!!!!!!!!!!!!??
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:05 PM
Apr 2017

..." .....stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story"....says Trump...

looks like he is in a dump
Did he blow a fart?
Cause that ain't very smart.
.."A total scam!"..he says today
.. NBC News is in his way..
What will NBC News do?
While Trump is in his stew.....
What NBC should do, according to Stu
tell Trump.........................FU*K Y*U

ok, that one ain't the best...but..I am trying...

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
24. You make more sense than a sexual predator that committed TREASON
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:25 PM
Apr 2017

and he always shops around to find "enablers" of his BS




turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
41. He is a sexual predator he got caught admitting it, it's on a video
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 01:40 PM
Apr 2017

and why the media isn't running this is just amazing----------------they keep trying to normalize that behavior, they have now moved on to issue if he and his team is a traitor----------------duh, what is there number one clue-------------The Bank of Cyprus and the yahoo that is his Sec of Commerce, 2+2 = 4 in this movie. And this sexual predator is trying to make the movie as 2+2=5

Just maybe some or a lot of human beings are offended that someone occupying a house, is what he is a goddamn sexual predator and a traitor. He has or had a NSC member removed from his seat because of his foreign ties, and another ass**** had to recuse himself for LYING. Almost everyone in his cabinet is a LIAR---------------amazing.

I have not seen maybe you have but I haven't seen one piece of the brief history of this so called fiasco being put on the air, to fully explain, how dangerous this "team" really is, know one knows if up is trying to be made to look like its down or vice or versa

And finally they (the media) should have said do you trust this man and then show the video, and they should not have given him any interviews nothing. Then do it again, and again

He is a sexual predator in chief


Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
42. Yeah, I would like to see the news start, "The Sexual Predator
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 01:46 PM
Apr 2017

-in-Chief, today, walked out of a signing meeting when Michael Flynn's name was mentioned. The title should be used to describe whatever else the Sexual Predator in Chief is destroying at the moment...at the least on the comedy and late night channels. It would catch on.

Fantastic Anarchist

(7,309 posts)
46. Putin's Having Fits (Trump Is Gonna Shit Version)
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 02:21 PM
Apr 2017

From this thread.

Because I had nothing else to do ...

Putin's Having Fits (Trump Is Gonna Shit Version)

If your blue and you don't know who to talk to
why don't you go where Congress sits
Putin's having fits

Different lies out there all day one chants
with stripes and alternative facts as Trump has shits
Putin’s having fits

Dressed up like a billion dollar pooper
Trying hard to not be in a stupor
Blooper-Blooper!

Come lets mix where Russians
walk with poison umbrellas
when making hits
Putin’s having fits

Have you seen the well to do
Up and down Park Avenue
Melania's nose is in the air
Trying real hard not to care

Fourth floors with lots of fallers
Golf trips cost lots of dollars
Wasting every dime
To avoid doing time


If your blue and you don't know who to talk to
why don't you go where Putin sits
Trump is gonna shit
Trump is gonna shit
Trump is gonna shit
Trump is gonna shit

Repeats
 

BuddyCa

(99 posts)
15. "sleepy-eyes Chuck Todd"
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:11 PM
Apr 2017

Trump is well past normal retirement age. In all of our culture, fiction, non fiction, TV, movies, one of our most immature characters is the President of the United States. That's including kids shows.

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
26. The name calling is interesting - pointing out
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:31 PM
Apr 2017

indirectly that Todd is on drugs? Why else would he use such a silly descriptor?

underpants

(182,823 posts)
17. Hmm. Coincidence? Just yesterday Chuck Todd was lead writer on this stark scathing article
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:16 PM
Apr 2017
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028878566

Trump Teeters on the Brink

MAR 31 2017, 8:42 AM ET
by CHUCK TODD, MARK MURRAY and CARRIE DANN

... President Trump's approval rating is stuck in the 30s and 40s. His health-care effort failed. The travel ban is tied up in courts. Congress and the FBI are investigating his campaign's possible links to Russia. He's calling out fellow Republicans for failing to help him on health care. His White House tried to cover up (for a while at least) his aides providing information to House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes. And now his ousted national security adviser says he'll cooperate with the FBI and Congress in exchange for immunity.
 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
20. He's insane. He created that bogus Obama story
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:21 PM
Apr 2017

Everybody knows he made it up, and now he continues to push it as a distraction. He's out of his mind.

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
21. My late father
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:22 PM
Apr 2017

My late father used to know how to tell if someone was lying..... He would say to me...just remember the old saying "Doth Protest too much"

Fuckump...if you want people to stop doing something, shut your fucking mouth... when you say to someone "do this because this is not a thing" well, that means the second thing, is a thing......

Shut the fuck up

 

Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)
31. You'd think someone would tell him that writing "Trump/Russia" creates a subconscious
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:55 PM
Apr 2017

association no matter the party.

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
32. The boy who cried wolf...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:58 PM
Apr 2017

Each tweet become less important, less impactful, and less newsworthy. The joker is slowly desensitizing America to what he thinks is his greatest weapon.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
87. Oh hell no - if he resigns the GOP gets to wiggle out of it
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 01:52 PM
Apr 2017

The Republican Party has to own this disaster, lock stock and barrel.

They knew about Trump's connection to Putin and the Russian Mafia for at least a year.
Maybe longer, but they nominated him anyway. So what does that tell you about the GOP?

I say impeach them all and destroy the Republican Party, for good.
We can't let these a-holes off the hook now. Then they'll keep on doing this.


Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
37. Just another hit at destroying the free press.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 01:19 PM
Apr 2017

He does it daily. It's an obsession. Fake NYTimes, Fake News, CNN, etc.

For the hard core ignorant trumpsters, it's worked. They don't watch real news anyway.

For many, it's elevated the newspapers or stations.

Just another example, he believes he's a dictator.

calimary

(81,297 posts)
44. Oh yeah, like that's gonna work.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 02:06 PM
Apr 2017

That's nothing but a big green light to keep going, keep digging, keep unearthing new dirt. All that does is let 'em know they're onto something.

Visions of Pulitzers, Emmys, Peabodys, big-ticket TV jobs, bestselling books, movie rights, and the title of "the NEW Woodward&Bernstein" dance in their heads... ("wonder who'll be playing me on the big screen!?&quot .

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
47. Republican is AFRAID to use the official @POTUS twitter account and face the press questions.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 02:25 PM
Apr 2017

coward.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
61. CNN Now Has Company In the "Fake News" Doghouse
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 05:13 PM
Apr 2017

Before long, only Fox, Infowars and Brietbart will be granted access to the Trump administration.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
54. Haven't we already learned?
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 02:44 PM
Apr 2017

Pay attention to nothing that comes out of the White House. Every single thing that emanates from it is deceptive, hyperbolic subterfuge.

Hekate

(90,704 posts)
57. Every single time he says "Nothing to see here; look over there," you KNOW ...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 02:56 PM
Apr 2017

...that "here" is where investigators should be digging deep. It's a Trump Tell. Bigly.

llmart

(15,540 posts)
64. Well, that should work...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 07:04 PM
Apr 2017

about as well as him telling the GOP congress critters they better vote for the AHCA or else!

Everyone's just shaking in their boots I'm sure.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
65. Chuck Todd should have told his lying ...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 07:21 PM
Apr 2017

oss when he stop lying on Obama and move to Russia with the love of his life Putin and take his famiy and friends with him.

We have a first amendment rights here in America and our right is to f**k with him as long as he remain in office.

btw: We will be bugging him for his tax return much longer than he bugged Obama for his birth certificate.

Cadfael

(1,297 posts)
66. Sometimes I think he thinks he can really do this
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 07:30 PM
Apr 2017

I don't think he was paying attention in civics class or whatever passed for that in the no doubt high priced prep school he attended. Wait... he did go to school, right?

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
74. He was shipped off to military school
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:03 PM
Apr 2017

I wonder if this dumbass realizes he's only encouraging the press to really jump in his shit?

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
70. He's cracking under the pressure. He tries to look cool...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 09:24 PM
Apr 2017

looking cool is hard for Trump, but he's trying. It's not working. He looks 10 years older than in November, his scowl is deeper and longer, the bags under his eyes have grown. He's saying weirder and weirder things.

The walls are closing on.

But don't expect him to resign. People like him never resign, never admit fault, and go to their graves denying everything and blaming others for wrong deeds or persecution.

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
77. Why Doesn't Trump Just Shut Up
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 11:56 PM
Apr 2017

It is a distinction without a difference. There is still no information validating Trump's accusation even if it is broadened to Obama administration surveillance activities. Yes, there was surveillance of the Russians under court supervision but none of Trump's team was under direct surveillance so Trump is still wrong. Wildly wrong.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
82. I think they meant there is 'no path to victory for dRumpf, unless the Russkies
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 08:47 AM
Apr 2017

pull espionage based felonies to put him in.' So let's get back to that 'Russian interference' story and stop talking about your Obama surveillance lie.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
84. NBC needs to clearly state tweets are from trumps personal account & NOT official gov. tweets.
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 11:26 AM
Apr 2017

Major networks need to report more off official government record on the Russia issue. Networks need to place much less emphasis on personal opinion tweets, tabloid news and other propaganda/fake issues intended to muddy the investigations. Press has to push the issue with direct questions to trump spokesman Spicer & everyone else they can question. If they won't answer questions, report that!

Like Obama admin told the press corp, its up to YOU to ask questions. Don't let them silence Americas free press.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
90. I totally agree
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 02:00 PM
Apr 2017

... Actually they should just ignore all tweets and be done with it.

Tweets aren't news, and the President can't use tweeting to avoid contact with the legitimate news media.
As long as the news media continue to report tweets like they're news, they're letting him off the hook.

This nonsense has to stop. Make Trump show up at press conferences and answer their f*cking questions.


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