{"id":39177,"date":"2018-09-17T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39177"},"modified":"2018-09-17T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:51:44","slug":"trump-is-in-a-panic-sweat-as-he-binge-watches-fox-news-for-leaked-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39177","title":{"rendered":"Trump is in a Panic Sweat as He Binge Watches Fox News for Leaked Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning we have been treated to a new episode in the continuing series of Donald Trump&#8217;s epic saga <em>&#8220;How Can I Make Myself Look Even More Guilty?&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s the tale of a traitorous president who thinks that by repeatedly lashing out against the valiant guardians of the law he will escape accountability for his treasonous crimes. In this outing we see our lead character colluding with Fox News to weave a narrative that mocks reality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-news-channel.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34118\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2337967196218062\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend there was a dearth of Trump tweets for an extraordinarily long seventeen hour span. The only plausible reason for this was that Fox News was covering Hurricane Florence non-stop and couldn&#8217;t engage in their usual advisory role for the President. Since Trump doesn&#8217;t have the foggiest notion what he actually believes, he was left dumb by the absence of his brain trust. But now that the hurricane has been demoted to old news by Fox, the pundits are back fulfilling their duties to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet dripping with the panic sweat of a caged rat, Trump once again portrays the investigation of his activities as a <em>&#8220;totally illegal Witch Hunt.&#8221;<\/em> Proving that he doesn&#8217;t know the meaning of the words <em>&#8220;witch hunt&#8221;<\/em> or <em>&#8220;illegal.&#8221;<\/em> Furthermore, Trump acquired his latest paranoid delusion from his senior White House advisers at Fox News. Here is what he posted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLisa Page Testimony- NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION BEFORE MUELLER APPOINTMENT.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a> by Catherine Herridge. Therefore, the case should never have been allowed to be brought. It is a totally illegal Witch Hunt!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1041694123382726656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Fox News story, as reported by Catherine Herridge (video below), did assert that former FBI attorney Lisa Page testified in a closed-door session of Congress that that there was no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia. Herridge said that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;A transcript reviewed by Fox News shows that during her recent closed-door interview on Capital Hill, Page testified that collusion was still unknown nine months into the FBI&#8217;s Russia case when the special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed. Quote: &#8216;I think this represents that even as far as May 2017, we still couldn&#8217;t answer the question.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Herridge later characterized Page&#8217;s testimony as an <em>&#8220;admission that there was no evidence of Russian collusion.&#8221;<\/em> But that is not what Page said. According to Herridge&#8217;s own reporting Page merely said that it was an open question. If anything she was saying that, while there was evidence, there wasn&#8217;t hard proof. What <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/406881-lisa-page-bombshell-fbi-couldnt-prove-trump-russia-collusion-before-mueller\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Page actually said<\/a><\/strong> was that <em>&#8220;it still existed in the scope of possibility that there would be literally nothing.&#8221;<\/em> That means there was a chance nothing happened, not that nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to Trump&#8217;s assertion that <em>&#8220;the case should never have been allowed to be brought,&#8221;<\/em> this is exactly the sort of scenario that calls for a special counsel to conduct a more in depth and independent investigation. Still, the Justice Department, acting with an abundance of caution, didn&#8217;t request a special prosecutor until after Trump fired FBI director James Comey, signalling the possibility of obstruction of justice. And it cannot be reiterated enough that it was a Trump appointee (Rod Rosenstein) who named a life-long Republican (Robert Mueller) for the job.<\/p>\n<p>So Trump is, once again, demonstrating that he spends an inordinate amount of time watching Fox News and regurgitating the nonsense he learns from it. That&#8217;s no longer in question. What isn&#8217;t being asked is how Fox News got Page&#8217;s testimony from a closed session of Congress? Who leaked it and why only parts that help Trump (if they are deliberately misinterpreted)? What about the rest of her testimony? Shouldn&#8217;t that be released now to insure that the leaked portions are viewed in their proper context?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t hold your breath waiting for the remainder of Page&#8217;s testimony to be made public. The Republicans in charge of that information don&#8217;t want a fair reading of what took place. That&#8217;s why they cherry-picked some ambiguous comments and delivered them exclusively to Fox News. And it was tailor made for their number one viewer to validate his already preposterous fantasy that there is a nefarious <em>&#8220;deep state&#8221;<\/em> cabal working to destroy him. What a coincidence.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/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><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZCkNqxSdHI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning we have been treated to a new episode in the continuing series of Donald Trump&#8217;s epic saga &#8220;How Can I Make Myself Look Even More Guilty?&#8221; It&#8217;s the tale of a traitorous president who thinks that by repeatedly lashing out against the valiant guardians of the law he will escape accountability for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34118,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[1090,554,33,1179,1344,1247,1211],"class_list":["post-39177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-catherine-herridge","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-james-comey","tag-lisa-page","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-abT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45842,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45842","url_meta":{"origin":39177,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Apologizes for &#8216;Mistakenly&#8217; Cropping Trump Out of Epstein Photo","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/6\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The mission of Fox News from its inception has been to unreservedly promote right-wing propaganda and the agenda of the arch-conservative Republican Party. 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