{"id":33871,"date":"2017-02-12T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33871"},"modified":"2017-02-12T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T21:07:43","slug":"trump-floats-yet-another-crackpot-conspiracy-theory-bernie-sandersfake-news-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33871","title":{"rendered":"Trump Floats Yet Another Crackpot Conspiracy Theory: Bernie Sanders\/Fake News Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday morning Donald Trump was once again up early playing with his Twitter machine. Despite the best efforts of his handlers, they have failed to wrest his phone away and prevent these embarrassing episodes. The problem is that they are not just embarrassing for Trump, but for America.<\/p>\n

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The latest tweet-bleat from The Donald concerned an interview on CNN with Sen. Bernie Sanders (video below). The subject was Trump’s National Security Advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn, and his recently disclosed communications with Russia. In particular, Flynn’s having allegedly told Russia not to worry about the sanctions imposed for interfering with U.S. elections. Erin Burnett asked Sanders about Trump’s dubious claim to not know anything about the matter. That led to this amusing exchange:<\/p>\n

BURNETT:<\/strong> He says says he doesn’t know anything about it. Hasn’t seen any of the reports. Is that a problem?<\/p>\n

SANDERS:<\/strong> Well, I don’t know. Maybe he was watching CNN’s fake news. What do you think. [adding] That was a joke.<\/p>\n

BURNETT:<\/strong> I know it was a joke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whereupon, the signal was lost and CNN went to a commercial. On the basis of that, Trump contrived a nefarious plot to silence Sanders and any talk of CNN’s “fakery.”<\/em> He tweeted:<\/p>\n

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While on FAKE NEWS @CNN<\/a>, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n