{"id":34672,"date":"2017-05-16T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34672"},"modified":"2017-05-16T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:50:39","slug":"lmfao-fox-news-must-wish-they-waited-before-lauding-trump-for-not-tweeting-about-russia-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34672","title":{"rendered":"LMFAO: Fox News Must Wish They Waited Before Lauding Trump for Not Tweeting About Russia Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True to form, Donald Trump took to Twitter after the Washington Post revealed his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador\/2017\/05\/15\/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">reckless disclosure<\/a><\/strong> of classified information to Russian officials. This occurred at a White House meeting with Russia&#8217;s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The fallout from the story has driven new demands for independent investigations of Trump&#8217;s unsavory connections to Russia. Trump&#8217;s tweets were typically self-serving and lacking relevant detail and substance:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tweet-russia-1.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33515\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1734939193187535\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/864436162567471104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS &amp; terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/864438529472049152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These tweets also contradicted previous responses from the White House dismissing WaPo&#8217;s story. First the administration claimed the story was false. Now Trump himself has abandoned that tack. He&#8217;s admitting that he divulged information, possibly classified, but that he&#8217;s allowed to do so. But even that is a transparent dodge. The problem here isn&#8217;t whether the President is acting legally with regard to classification status. It&#8217;s whether he&#8217;s acting prudently with regard to national security. Divulging information that could advantage hostile foreign nations (i.e. Russia), and alienate allies, could violate other laws.<\/p>\n<p>Following the story&#8217;s publication, Fox News went into Emergency Trump Defense Mode. The memo must have gone out to demean the Post and the contents of its story. Because everyone on Fox had the same message. They disputed the Post&#8217;s reporting and absolved Trump of any wrongdoing. But the pinnacle of flagrant Trump fluffing occurred, as usual, on Fox and Friends.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes ridiculed any notion that Trump had misspoken as mere hyperbole from the hysterically anti-Trump media. They began with a video from Tucker Carlson&#8217;s show wherein he complained that Trump&#8217;s critics <em>&#8220;regard him as the single greatest threat to Western civilization since atomic weapons.&#8221;<\/em> And then co-host Brian Kilmeade let this nonsense loose:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The also thing to keep in mind too is, Donald Trump didn&#8217;t tweet out last night. I thought that shows an additional discipline. Let&#8217;s listen, let my guys handle it and Dina Powell handle it. They were there, they can walk it back.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we already know, Trump did tweet about this. And it was only about an hour after Kilmeade lavished praise on him for not doing so. If Kilmeade thought Trump&#8217;s Twitter silence was evidence of his discipline, what does he think now? Will he correct the record on Wednesday&#8217;s program? Will he concede that Trump is lacking discipline? Even Carlson said it was fair to consider Trump <em>&#8220;undisciplined and impulsive&#8221;<\/em> before returning to his robotic exaltation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the problem that all Trump defenders have to face. Even after they come to his aid, he is likely to shift gears in a way that makes them look like fools. That&#8217;s always a risk of doing business with Trump. He is so erratic and focused solely on his own welfare that you stand to get run over by a fleet of buses. And if you pivot to avoid it, you&#8217;ll just get hit again when he shifts into reverse. So good luck, suckers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/embed\/216474\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True to form, Donald Trump took to Twitter after the Washington Post revealed his reckless disclosure of classified information to Russian officials. This occurred at a White House meeting with Russia&#8217;s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The fallout from the story has driven new demands for independent investigations of Trump&#8217;s unsavory connections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[870,554,33,1211,241],"class_list":["post-34672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-brian-kilmeade","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-russia","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-91e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56672,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56672","url_meta":{"origin":34672,"position":0},"title":"Why is a Russian Arms Dealer Advising Trump to Flee the U.S. and Take Refuge in Russia?","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/8\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"It is undeniable that Donald Trump is facing some serious legal peril as he embarks on his third candidacy for the presidency. 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