Trump's Sinister Tweets -- Victimizing and Intimidating the Media

A friend sent me this email opening my eyes to the sinister intentions behind Trump's tweets. Trump intends his supporters to harass his latest victims. He's  using his tweets as weapons, fighting back in the only way he knows. 

When Trump uses his tweets to go after the principals of “Morning Joe,” not only is he grossing out the world.  He’s also—as he well knows—calling down death threats on the targets of his wrath and derision.  Megyn Kelly writes in detail, in her book, Settling for More, about the terror visited on her and her young daughter when she got crosswise of Trump and his more unruly followers.  I’m sure Judge Curiel could tell similar stories, were he not bound by a code of judicial silence.

All this has to be well known among journalists and jurists.  So Trump’s targets extend well beyond those he expressly names.  He’s trying to instill physical fear in whole professions.  Alas, pointing this out publicly would probably make matters even worse.  It’s no small matter.

The NYT  reminded readers of  what spurred Trump's ire: He was reacting to being called stupid, a goon, a thug, mentally ill and that he has dementia. Trump's tweets are more than unpresidential. They're the mark of the thug, the criminal.

‘Morning Joe’ Row Is Fresh Sign of TV’s Iron Grip onTrump

 On Thursday, during an interview on Fox News, the Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said of Mr. Scarborough and Ms. Brzezinski: “They’ve said he has dementia. They’ve said he’s stupid. They’ve called him a goon. They’ve called him a thug. They’ve said he’s mentally ill.” And they have said all that.

Mitch McConnell: The Health Care Bill May Lose

I was pleasantly surprised to see the NYT actually reporting news.
 I gather Trump/McConnell care only about the tax cuts they want to pass after their health care "reform" goes down.
 I suppose they're pretty confident they have the votes for that.

Moon of Alabama exposes example of AP's fake news.

As if we didn’t know, the major purveyors of FAKE NEWS are the major media. Here Bernhard points out a recent example of fake news from AP --which we used to think was reliable. The route that the fake news takes is that AP prints it and then others run with it and don't bother correcting it even after AP does. In the second paragraph below, Bernhard informs readers of the political slant of AP's Moscow correspondent.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/06/when-ap-spreads-fakenews-a-forensic-appraisal.html#more

 

For the record: Russia (and Syria and its other allies) have fought ISIS whenever and wherever they possibly could. It was the U.S. that did not fight ISIS but used and uses it for its own purpose. Obama and Kerry publicly admitted such (scroll down for their quotes). Only after Russia pointed out that thousands of tanker trucks moved oil from ISIS areas to Turkey without U.S. interference did the U.S. join in to destroy them. Cruickshank is using the fake news from AP to spread his own false claim that Russia and Syria did not and do not fight ISIS.

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Note that the original AP report, seen in the AP screenshot above, has "Moscow" as the dateline. The corrected one is datelined from "Beirut". The original author of the AP fake news was its Moscow correspondent Vladimir Isachenkov. It is certainly fair to say that Isachenkov's other reporting from Moscow is rarely sympathetic to the Russian viewpoint on the issues in question. His reporting is always a reflection the unquestioned predominant U.S. view - be that right or wrong. The Russian standpoint is never analyzed for its own value but always in relation to the U.S. position which is a-priori taken as the ultimate truth.

Xymphora on CIA Cache

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-- the go-to guy for links.This time on the CIA. As he notes, the supporters of the CIA are busy trashing the messenger. (His end quotation mark is confusing. I assume he wrote the last sentence.)

The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache". "WikiLeaks CIA cache: Fool me once". Army of CIA minions scurry to secure the honeypots. The sad truth is that the CIA is the direct cause of massive insecurity: "The CIA are the real ‘threat to national security’; leaks show they treated software exploits like toys". If the United States was functioning properly, the CIA would be immediately wound up, and there would be mass trials of all involved, with long, long, long jail sentences."

Yes, if there were justice and if the good guys were in the saddle. It turns out we lost our chance when LBJ offed all three --with help from the CIA, DoD and all the rest: JFK (1963) MLK (April 1968) and RFK (June 1968) -- not to mention Malcolm (1965) -- all on LBJ's watch!

Responses to my post on Trump's reversal? of Obama's bloody policie

Friends:

Several  people have registered confusion regarding my last post and at least two have explicitly asked if I'm a fan of Trump.

People are confused since most readers understand  that I've long been a progressive, a Democrat, a liberal, etc.

I voted for Jill  Stein hoping Clinton would win despite everything I believe about her.

But we live in strange times.

No I don't support Trump.

As I wrote,  we have probably not ever seen anyone so unprepared and so unqualified to be president as Donald Trump.

Nor do I think Trump actually won -- and certainly not fair and square.

As  the unadjusted exit polls suggest, Clinton won the electoral college as well as the popular vote.

 I believe that  critical vote totals were reversed by  computer fraud -- never mind, in addition the massive voter suppression, etc.

 I think the same organized computer manipulation of the vote totals is what changed in the outcome in 2000 and 2004. 

In a previous post I mentioned that Karl Rove was caught out on national TV revealing that he intended the same thing in 2012. (Not to mention the dozens of such instances changing the outcomes in state-wide elections going back at least to the late 90s.)

At the same time there is room for nuance.

Trump's "victory"  has already had some major benefits; namely burying the political career of the most criminal and most corrupt candidate of just about anyone who has ever been U.S. president.

Trump  has also, for the moment at least, taken the TPP, the corporate giveaway pushed by Obama, off the table.

And also, before he takes office, he has called out the CIA for the liars and manipulators that they are and have been since WWII.

My intention was to post a message before Trump takes office when there is still hope that he will actually make a dent in the fake news and powerful propaganda --- especially the anti-Putin propaganda  -- emanating from the White House, from the Democratic Party, the CIA and the mainstream media.

A tiny  example of how I view the Orwellian world in which we are living --- vide  the JFK assassination and 9/11 --  is the  New York Times Quotation of the Day" for 1.12.17, quoting Donald Trump.

"If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia."

I can only guess that the Times highlighted that quote hoping to further smear Trump's reputation  by associating him with U.S. enemy number one!

But Trump is right!. Our relationship with Russia is horrible, exactly as President Obama and the CIA intended..

As I indicated, at the end of my post, I don’t think the chances are good that Trump will actually change policy.

If nothing else, the forces against him are too strong and Mike Pence is waiting in the wings to take over.

But days before he takes office, we can still hope.

Will Trump reverse Obama's bloody CIA Middle East and European Destabilizaiton?

We still have a week or so  before the inauguration to hope that the most unqualified person to become president will actually change U.S. Middle East/Anti Soviet policy by rejecting the sixteen years of CIA/White House policy.  

See below for some of the details regarding Obama's parting shot: punishing Syria and the Assad regime by cutting off utilities, water, gas, electricity to millions of people in  government-held areas. Presumably he ordered such punitive actions against the Syrian people out of revenge for the success of Assad's forces (with crucial Russian and Iranian and other help) in ridding Aleppo of Jihadist control.

I believe that Obama has been using the Moslem Brotherhood -- who are still active -- and all the brutal jihadis like ISIS, al-Qaeda al-Shams and others who want to overthrow secular rule in Syria as they have done in Iraq and Afghanistan -- as pawns to wage perpetual war against Syria. By tactically limiting their weapons supply, Obama revealed that  he doesn't actually want regime change, in part, because it would expose the chaotic, and brutal aftermath, as in Libya. Together with Israel he just wants continued and endless destabilization and destruction. He's succeeded in keeping the war going for more than five years.

Had Clinton won there would have been less chance of a change in the status quo. .

Here's the opening sentences from an email sent by one  Feroze Mithiborwala....

I still cant believe that there are people out there who are
supporting the Imperial-Zionist-Political Islamist agenda.
That there are people out there who are tacitly, rather openly
supporting the ISIS-Qaeda-Nusra-Ahrar al Sham agenda of converting
Syria into an Islamic theocracy.

Here Feroze  might have mentioned Amy Goodman's Democracy Now (DN) as one of those supporting Obama's destructive agenda. It would be instructive to understand what forces are operating to keep DN in the jihadist camp. I noticed,  though, on at least two occasions,  that Amy's co-producer, Nermeen Shaikh, had the temerity to raise the question of whether or not attacks on civilians were also perpetrated by the  "rebels."

We’ll soon see if Trump continues President Obama's destructive and ruthless CIA  policy. We still don't know what Trump knows. Does he know for example that Zionists are cheering on  Obama's bloody eight year program of destroying the Middle East?: If Trump actually intends to attack ISIS,  then those like the Zionists, hawks, and the CIA will be unhappy. And if Trump  actually changes policy, the pressure to remove him in favor of Pence will only grow. The prospects for positive change aren't rosy.

Here's an opening paragraphs from Bernhard's January 9, 2017 blog.

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  http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/01/isis-al-qaeda-and-the-us-airforce-wage-war-on-syrias-public-utilities-.html#comments

 

Currently a campaign is waged by the Takfiri [jihadi] forces opposing the Syrian government and by the U.S. to deprive the people under its protection of all public utilities - water, gas and electricity. After the start of the current blocking of the water supplies to Damascus and its 5-6 million inhabitants we noted:   This shut down is part of a wider, seemingly coordinated strategy to deprive all government held areas of utility supplies. Two days ago the Islamic State shut down a major water intake for Aleppo from the Euphrates. High voltage electricity masts on lines feeding Damascus have been destroyed and repair teams, unlike before, denied access. Gas supplies to parts of Damascus are also cut.