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Trump Fights Back
The Leftist State Media melts down.
It was May 2014.
I was interviewing then-private citizen Donald Trump for The American Spectator in his Trump Tower office. The subject in general was his view on issues of the day, along with a possible presidential run in 2016. But I had one question in particular that I wanted to ask.
The question: There were a lot of Republicans who felt their presidential nominees, the perpetual targets of the media, never fought back when attacked. Were he to run, not to mention were he elected, would he fight back? And note: the mention of Donald Sterling, the then-owner of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise, revolved around a just-released secret recording of racist remarks made by Sterling to his mistress, who had recorded him and released the tape to the media. It was, for a moment, the news story of the day, and as such Trump was asked to comment in an appearance on Fox and Friends. His response to me as follows, verbatim:
Well, I see firsthand the dishonesty of the press, because probably nobody gets more press than I do. As an example, last week I was on a Fox program, and I very much lambasted Donald Sterling. And then at the very end I said, “On top of which, he has the girlfriend from hell.” And the haters and the very dishonest reporters who have their own agenda, they didn’t cover what I said about Donald Sterling. They only took the girlfriend from hell and they said, “Oh he’s not blaming Donald Sterling. He’s defending Donald Sterling. He’s blaming the girlfriend.”
The press is extremely dishonest. Much of it. Some of it I have great respect for, and they’re great people and honorable people. But there’s a large segment of the press that’s more dishonest than anybody I’ve seen in business or anywhere else. And the one thing you have to do is you have to inform the public. The public has to know about the dishonesty of the press because they are really bad people and they don’t tell the truth and have no intention of telling the truth. And I know who they are and I would expose them 100 percent. And I will be doing that. I mean, as I go down the line, I enjoy exposing people for being frauds and, you know, I would be definitely doing that. I think it’s important to know. Because a lot of the public, they think, oh, they read it in the newspaper, and therefore it must be true. Well many of the things you read in the newspaper are absolutely false and really disgustingly false.
And right there is the key to the White House presidential briefing Monday night. There was now-President Trump using two videos — found right here — filled with clips of one media figure after another suggesting the approaching virus was no more dangerous than the flu. There was an audio clip of New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman saying that yes, in fact, the president’s China travel ban, for which he was widely criticized, had been a good thing, after all. Also featured were Democratic governors praising the president for...
China Lobbied for Congratulation Resolution From Wisconsin Legislature
It backfired, and the legislature condemned China’s coverup.
The Chinese government carried out a lobbying effort to get the Wisconsin legislature to congratulate it for its coronavirus response, ultimately failing and ensuring the body passed a motion condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup of the lethal virus.
Operatives associated with a Chinese consulate in the United States contacted Wisconsin Senate President Roger Roth in February and March lobbying for a formal resolution that would praise China’s supposed adoption of “unprecedented and rigorous measures for disease control and prevention,” and laughably congratulating China for being “transparent and quick in sharing key information of the virus with the WHO and the international community, thus creating a window of opportunity for other countries to make timely response.”
Senator Roth actually believed that the email requesting he bring up the measure congratulating China was a prank initially. After he was asked again by employees of the Chinese consulate to bring up the motion, he arranged for Senate staff to investigate the emails, ultimately determining they were genuine communications from consulate, which operates under the Chinese embassy to the United States.
Roth denied the requests for an official congratulation in uncertain terms, imitating legendary World War II general Anthony McAuliffe. “I sent them back a one-word response. I said ‘nuts.“
Roth would go on to reference the Chinese Communist Party’s sleazy attempt to seek official congratulations from the Wisconsin Legislature in a resolution designed to expressly condemn the nation’s authoritarian communist government over its coronavirus response, citing China’s repression of minorities such as the Uyghurs in addition to its suspicious and denialist response to the outbreak of...
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