Together with Mr Trump, this controversy helps to illuminate how fast the media is changing – and how it affects all our lives. Then he ran for president. The relationship soured quickly. It appears that some media organizations are willing to risk everything in an effort to bring him down.
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Also, Trump has the right to be frustrated with the public release of an unverified cache of information by online media outlet BuzzFeed News. USA intelligence are also claiming that the alleged Russian blackmail is part of a five-year Kremlin plot to groom Trump for the presidency, which included offering him lucrative financial incentives.
FBI Director James Comey (C) arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a classified briefing on Russian Federation for all members of the House of Representatives January 13, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Trump states that the Russians themselves have said the information contained in the USA intelligence documents about him is false and they are not blackmailing him.
Buzzfeed, however, published the full 35-page dossier in its entirety.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesman and aide, Dmitry Peskov, said the BuzzFeed report is a “complete fabrication and utter nonsense”.
What is going on here is a classic “dirty tricks” operation to smear the incoming president and to intimidate him into toeing the policy line of the unelected powerful rulers of the U.S. the Deep State. Some are more specific, and some are less. His first shot was sacked at BuzzFeed. He’s a good lawyer in my firm. “They can kick us out onto Pennsylvania Avenue”. So all night long it’s Michael Cohen.
She told the BBC: “I believe it is very risky, particularly after death of my husband, because when you just approach very specific information, particularly when this information very close to very powerful people, you might be in this line and you just easily might be killed”. He brings his passport to my office. He didn’t leave the country.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who will be Trump’s national security adviser, led the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency until he was sacked by Clapper. It’s a disgrace what took place. I think he’s legitimate in fighting back on that just as Barack Obama fought back on what he considered biased reporting.
“Yes, Jim Acosta, CNN”, another actor says. And I’ll tell you why. Trump has dismissed the dossier as “fake news”, created by his political opponents.
Sean Spicer, who is set serve as Trump’s White House press secretary, offered a forceful condemnation of the report at a news conference last week.
One of the allegations is that President-elect Donald Trump paid prostitutes to perform “golden showers” when he was in Russian Federation.
Posted over a picture showing three question marks, it said the dossier, which claimed Mr Trump’s staff were in contact with Moscow in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, was “briefing both ways” – against Russian Federation and the president-elect.
SMITH: I wouldn’t say it was irresponsible to say we have a secret document and we’re not going to share it.
For weeks, Buzzfeed has been wringing its hands over the so-called epidemic of fake news, which some would like to blame for Donald Trump’s election victory. The trouble for the spooks was that the much-anticipated report into alleged Russian hacking went down like a lead balloon.
There is a difference, however, between Wikileaks, who do that sort of thing, and what most journalists understand their role to be: corroborating information before making selections as to what should be published. Perhaps they thought no one would notice.
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Christopher David Steele, 52, was seen hurriedly leaving his home southwest of London on Wednesday, apparently to avoid detection and escape possible retribution once his identity as the source of the salacious document became known, the New York Times reported.
