President Trump took aim at the Mainstream Press while in the Oval Office saying that they have become the “laughing stock of the world”.
He also called for them to look into Joe Biden’s various scandals surrounding
Trump: “I’ve had conversations with many [world] leaders. They’re always appropriate. … Anything I do, I fight for this country. I fight so strongly for this country. … I always look for the conversation that’s going to help the United States the most. That’s very important.” pic.twitter.com/PzGoHtBmA2
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 20, 2019
Trump tells the #FakeNews Media to build up the “whistleblower” story “as big as possible so you can have a bigger downfall.”
“You’ve had a very bad week, and this will be better than all of them. … So keep playing it up because you’re going to look really bad when it falls.” pic.twitter.com/VE0gOTNDn6
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 20, 2019
President Trump: “It’s another media disaster. The media has lost so much credibility in this country. Our media has become the laughingstock of the world.”
“I think this is one of the worst weeks in the history of the #FakeNews media. … You’re a joke.” pic.twitter.com/ISECxaJVOK
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 20, 2019
I’ll start by laying out the scandal the Press is asking about. A New York Times report claimed that a whistleblower within the intelligence community blew the whistle on a conversation between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Daily Wire Editor and Chief Ben Shapiro had a good thread on this:
Time for some thoughts on the Trump whistleblower story!
1. We simply don’t know whether the Trump administration is engaged in a cover-up until we know the underlying “promise” made by Trump.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 20, 2019
2. Trump’s team seeking information from the Ukrainian government on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden isn’t illegal. Hillary Clinton did the same about Trump in 2016. It may be ugly; it doesn’t violate the law. See, e.g., the analysis here: https://t.co/5jd0pHNBll
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 20, 2019
3. The thus-far-unsubstantiated allegation against Trump — a quid pro quo of American taxpayer dollars in return for Ukrainian activity to benefit a politician — is essentially the same as the allegation against Joe Biden with regard to Hunter Biden–
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 20, 2019
— namely that Biden held up $1 billion in US loan guarantees to get rid of a prosecutor targeting Hunter. Neither claim has yet been substantiated.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 20, 2019
4. In other words, WAIT for more information. Schiff’s claim of a coverup in absence of the underlying material is premature — but that’s what Schiff does.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 20, 2019
5. This story may end up harming Biden more than Trump. Trump’s the sitting president. If Biden is roped into discussion of Ukrainian government manipulation, Warren can easily claim to be the anti-corruption candidate in the race.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 20, 2019
Here is the Ukranian Scandal Trump is referring to:
Hey Fredo (@ChrisCuomo) @RudyGiuliani is right.
Biden: “I looked at them and said, ‘If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money”
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) September 20, 2019
“The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.”https://t.co/DMkproSQ6N
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) September 20, 2019
“Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don’t you want our evidence on Democrats?“
https://t.co/eWa7ZBba3Q pic.twitter.com/DH4eLR1i0I— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) September 20, 2019
“Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma prompted concerns among State Department officials at the time that the connection could complicate Vice President Biden’s diplomacy in Ukraine, former officials said.” https://t.co/ha3z2BRrz7
— Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@MattWolking) September 20, 2019
Why isn’t the Mainstream Press looking into these scandals?
Joe Biden’s son also has extensive ties to China:
“Hunter Biden, who arrived in China aboard Air Force Two alongside the vice president .. was at the time in control of a private equity firm that would go on to strike a deal with the state-owned Bank of China to create a $1 billion joint investment fund.” https://t.co/Y7e6fulSGS
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) September 20, 2019
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