Clinton also responded on Twitter, sharing footage of her press conference after the Commander-in-Chief Forum, and making a dig at Trump and the RNC, stating: Last night Trump chose to talk about his deep admiration and support for Putin.
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No, the biggest story of the night was how NBC host Matt Lauer allegedly failed at his job as a journalist. Lack was in his first tenure as president of NBC News when Lauer began his stint as co-anchor on “Today” in 1997. Trump’s campaign followed suit, with Trump spokesman Jason Miller telling CNN that the campaign would suspend normal campaign activities.
“Well, I think the dishonesty of the media”.
And it’s not letting up.
In response, Esquire pushed back, noting first that “Trump’s big point throughout the speech and this entire campaign has been that he was always opposed to the war – even before it began”, then that “This claim has been debunked (over and over again), by multiple fact-checkers, magazines, and newspapers”, and finally that “Trump came out against the war in Esquire nearly a year and a half after the invasion began, when the situation on the ground had begun to deteriorate and popular support for the war was sinking”.
Both of these beliefs stun and appall foreign policy experts in both parties, as readers of the Washington Post or the New York Times know.
“There will be many issues to explore at the three presidential debates”, the board wrote.
Throughout the interview, Pence compared Trump and Reagan, saying he believes they are similar leaders. Clinton told agents that she could not recall every briefing she received following a concussion she suffered in a 2012 fall, the documents show.
The Republican nominee had a golden opportunity, certainly, the more so because of moderator Matt Lauer’s decision to spend fully a third of Clinton’s segment on her email controversy that went nowhere prosecutorially, but has proved Miracle-Gro for right-wing conspiracy theories. It has also been an election with myriad examples of hypocrisy always emanating from the Republican side and always targeting Hillary Clinton. The email then chastised “many outlets in the press” for lacking “the wherewithal” to call Trump out. They’re lashing out at each other. Lauer’s performance was not merely a failure, it was horrifying and shocking.
Desperate to hold up their historically awful candidate (second only to Trump himself), the media is now using Lauer as a scapegoat and sending a warning to debate moderators that if they don’t step in and do everything they can to sink Trump’s candidacy, they will be pariahs in their profession. “We have to step up and do it ourselves”. In 2012, Candy Crowley helped President Obama during a debate against Mitt Romney. But only one of them had anything meaningful to say. Monday, while in Cleveland speaking before a group of men, Trump said with sarcasm, “and she looks presidential, fellows”. Depending on what questions they ask to what candidates, their biases show.
“The bullshitter may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, either about the facts or about what he takes the facts to be”.
In reality – as Buzzfeed first reported in February, Stern asked “Are you for invading Iraq?” and Trump answered, “Yeah, I guess so”, adding, “I wish the first time it was done correctly”.
Let the fact checkers do the fact checking.
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Disclosure: Donald Trump is the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, the publisher of Observer Media.
