Deadline White House @DeadlineWH
“The notion that they were doing all these things behind the scenes in order to please their viewers, not to give them the truth, that’s called reckless disregard for the truth. That’s called we are only going to tell the truth if it makes us money”- @clairecmc w/@NicolleDWallace
[….] 5:20 PM · Mar 6, 2023
[General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]: …One example is I received a written document on the 11th, I think it’s — no, it’s the 12th, I think it is, the 12th of November, 3 days after Secretary Esper is relieved, I get called up into Acting SecDef Miller’s office. And it’s Miller, me, and Patel. Patel hands me a piece of paper and I testified this to Congress a couple, 3, 4 weeks ago hands a piece of paper to me signed by then President Trump. And it basically has two sentences in it.
And it says: You are hereby ordered to withdraw all U.S. military forces from Somalia no later than 31 December. The second sentence says: You are directed to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by 15 January. That’s it. And there was another line that said something like inform all allies or something like that. And I looked at Patel and I said: Who gave the President the military advice for this? Did you do this, Kash? And he said: Oh, no, no, I had nothing to do with it.
looked at Acting Secretary Miller and I said: Did you give the President military advice on this? Oh, no, no, not me. I said: Okay, well, we got to go over and see the President then to make sure that he’s fully informed — going back to the constitutional responsibilities — to make sure he’s fully informed. It’s a legal order, but I want to make sure. I’ve got duties to do here, constitutional duties that I’ve got to make sure he’s properly advised. So we go over to the White House. We walk into the National Security Advisor’s office, Robert O’Brien, hand him the order, said: Robert, where’s this coming from and is this true? And O’Brien says: I’ve never seen it before. Said okay. Kellogg is — Keith Kellogg, the National Security Advisor to the Vice President, is there. Kellogg says: Let me see this piece of paper. Kellogg takes the piece of paper, looks at it. He says: Something is really wrong here, this doesn’t look right.
And I looked at Kellogg and I said: You’re telling me that thing is forged? That’s a forged piece of paper directing a military operation by the President of the United States, that’s forged, Keith? And he said: I don’t know, I don’t know. So O’Brien and Kellogg then say: Give us a few minutes.
And they go away. I assume, I don’t know factually, but I assume it was to see the President. They come back 10 or 15 minutes later and they say: It’s rescinded. It’s over. It never existed. I said: Okay, fine. So it doesn’t exist. So I’ve seen reversals, like the little story about Gina, I’ve seen that before in that administration, these immediate reversals when challenged on specific things if they’re not rigorously thought out, et cetera. So that’s an example.
[….]
Forged?
It appears that General Milley took his oath seriously.
Too many people bear responsibility for all of this.
Go to the transcripts. Pick one, any one. You will and should be horrified.
Emily A. @emzorbit
If you see me hanging out in diners wearing camo and a trucker hat, it’s because I’m hoping to get interviewed by a mainstream media political pundit. 12:40 PM · Oct 23, 2022
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
It’s a cult made up of paranoid stupid people. Unfortunately that makes the supply of potential members close to infinite.
A search warrant has right wingnuts all atwitter. Some of them came here.
As usual, we don’t allowing ignorant comments out of moderation to be linked with an original post, but we will present them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit. We see fit:
Trump should have had a representative there or himself they could put anything they want to in there with nobody looking they insisted everybody leave so to me the warrant is invalid
Ah, right wingnut media propaganda has permeated our cultural substrata. Welcome to 21st Century America.
The Kansas City Star @KCStar
Over more than 11 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and six before that in the Missouri House, Vicky Hartzler has always attempted to run God’s way.
With plenty of free advertising like this it could.
Some of the responses:
Not sure God’s way is for everyone to own 12 guns.
Profit!
Ha. God’s way. I’m sure god wants her to seek personal power by publicly attacking the struggles (her word) of others. So sad.
How could she possibly k ow what “God’s way” is? Does he talk to her? Because you should probably ask if she hears voices.
This coverage is as disgusting as the candidate. #HartzlerIsDangerous #HartzlerIsWrong4MO
Oh sure. Trump is the epitome of “God’s way”
What a ridiculous headline. Since when is it “God’s way” to have the population armed with semi-automatic weapons and have the government work only for the wealthy while refusing healthcare to the millions? #hypocrisy
Can’t believe you gave this bigot a front page feature. Say good bye to my subscription. #Hartzlerisabigot.
Great Easter message Star [….] Maybe give your hate a day off
Michael Bersin @MBersin
@LesterHoltNBC I missed the point in your interview with William Barr (r) where you asked him why he waited to speak out until he was ready to sell his “tell-all” book. 5:52 PM · Mar 3, 2022
Earlier:
Mr. Newberger @jeremynewberger
I wouldn’t buy Bill Barr’s book, but I wouldn’t rule out paying to see him shove it up his ass. 12:12 PM · Feb 27, 2022
Yep.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
There will be no rabid nutjob crowd literally smearing feces on the walls in Florida. Though, you can bet the former guy will be throwing shit against the wall just to see what sticks.
The responses are priceless:
Re “A Split Screen:”
No Sir, no split screen for me.
I’m focused on President Biden and not on a past president who was impeached twice, never won the popular vote in two general elections, and is under investigation by New York, And Georgia for possible crimes committed.
Garrett, it’s only split screen if the media allows it. It is not necessary to broadcast the former guy live.
No. There shouldn’t be a split screen and any news outlet that treats it as such is doing a disservice to the country.
Don’t cover him
STOP THE MADNESS
Under no circumstances should MSM cover TFG on January 6th.
This is why half the country stop watching the cable news. This is just infuriating. No words for the constant attack and trauma the media is always putting us through for the sake of ratings. Not getting it from me. I’ll be watching an outlet not carrying DT’s water.
Do you understand the person at Mar-a-Lago has no actual power or bearing on the direction of the country and should not be broadcast as if he is equal to the actual president? What’s not clicking here?
Do NOT give him any oxygen. Are you kidding me??
Split screen? NO. No no no no. Do NOT give him any screen. What the heck are you thinking? If you split screen that, you are fanning the flames.
Why the split screen Garrett? Why any screen at all? Why would this be covered as a comparable news event? At the very least why wouldn’t it be taped and aired (if at all) only with the utmost editorial discretion?
Dude, what side of right are you on?
They’ve all shown their hand in helping our democracy hang on by a thread! It’s sickening
Reminds of the Holocaust and how for years American news refuse to cover it the atrocities- till the war. It’s why till this day, millions say the Holocaust never happened. Thank the media
There is NO REASON for the networks to cover anything that TFG has to say, especially on that day. The network’s blanket coverage of him in 2016 is what got us into this mess.
The country isn’t “divided”. There are those that want to overthrow our government and those that don’t.
You don’t need to cover this in real time, and it’s probably best that you don’t.
It is only a split screen if the media covers it that way. He has the right to free speech; he does not have the right to press coverage.
You, the media, has a choice in who to cover. Make the right one
Maybe don’t cover the dude that lost?
Single screen. “The former guy” is about as played out as disco.
Split screen? Won’t watch any media that does this. Why would they? It only adds to the division giving TFG air time he doesn’t deserve.
It better not be a split screen. TFG shouldn’t get any air time…the media is complicit in giving him too much oxygen as it is.
It’s only a split screen if you give it to him like he wants.
No split screen. He isn’t potus and should have to pay for airtime.
The times will not clash. Nothing really happens at Mar-a-Lago, anyway. When you live in a supper club and wedding venue and get photographed with almost every customer, nothing happens.
yeah. no.
No need to cover anyone except for the current president.
“Retiree with pending lawsuits creates word salad with leftovers from 2020.”
Y’all have a choice here, Garrett. Does the media have it in them to do the right thing? Recent history certainly says no. Restore some faith.
News outlets should replay footage of the Jan 6th siege all day.
There is NO reason to cover the former guy. Not on 1/6/22 or any other date. Is he going to unite the country? No. Will he speak of how awful 1/6/21 was? No. Will he say anything new? No. There’s no reason to cover him.
This should no way in hell be any split screen… Please media do better
Only the media can make it a split screen day. Please don’t.
Only if the media chooses to cover it that way.
WHY would the media even consider a split screen?
Good question.
Too many networks will accommodate his second call to arms. There shouldn’t be any live coverage. News networks can report on his words later with guests ready to provide the factual and legal rebuttals.
Why? Why is there any reason to devote any inches of screen to the circus in Florida?
It had better not be a split screen, Garrett Haake. It would be dereliction of duty for the media to “both sides” this.
Split screen? Seriously?
Who is doing the dividing?
And:
Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu
My suggestions.
* No build up, no count down, no empty podium awaiting his arrival
* Don’t carry it live; disinformation risk too high
* After it’s over, sift for any genuine news and report it
* Do not amplify familiar lies and distortions; they’ve all been fact checked already
Len Sherman @lenshermanCBS
@jayrosen_nyu Any advice on how the press should handle DJT’s presser on Jan. 6th?
