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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeems like every idiot I'm seeing on MSNBC this morning
is presenting this Camp David Taliban meeting as if it was a real thing that was actually scheduled to take place today. Very disappointing.
Sneederbunk
(14,314 posts)progressoid
(50,000 posts)The Islamist group issued a statement after Trump unexpectedly canceled secret talks planned for Sunday with the Talibans major leaders at the presidential compound in Camp David, Maryland. He broke off the talks on Saturday after the Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack in Kabul last week that killed an American soldier and 11 others.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, criticized Trump for calling off the dialogue and said U.S. forces have been pounding Afghanistan with attacks at the same time.
This will lead to more losses to the U.S., he said. Its credibility will be affected, its anti-peace stance will be exposed to the world, losses to lives and assets will increase.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan/taliban-says-trumps-decision-to-cancel-afghan-talks-will-mean-us-lives-lost-idUSKCN1VT05L
montanacowboy
(6,106 posts)anyone in their right mind that believes this fucking bullshit should take a long walk off a short pier
and I am so sick of the "normalization" of this POS, yes, right the Taliban were coming to dinner
True Blue American
(17,994 posts)The Obama Administration was negotiating with the Talibam but the Afghan Government was there,too.
But I do not believe there was any meeting planned. I think it is all in Trumps mind.
Staff says he is like a bull seeing red in private. He is a raving maniac fearing he is going down.
madaboutharry
(40,234 posts)They don't have the reporting and information yet to call it out as a lie. For now, the responsible thing to do is to treat it at face value while journalist do the investigating into the meeting. If they uncover that this was a fabrication that Trump made up in his head on the fly, then they can tell us that.
In the meantime, I think it would be foolish for them to get on television and treat it as a lie. If it would turn out to be true, in some form, it would damage their own credibility and give Trump further fodder for his "fake news' bullshit. That may even have been his goal in the first place.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)will be crucified for calling it fake without evidence..
Let them find whatever there is about this "meeting" and tell us what they found.
tblue37
(65,502 posts)9/11, and to be negotiating a surrender to them while excluding the actual, supposedly U.S. supported, Afghan government (yet including Russia!). Whether the meeting was real or not, he looks bad either way, not to mention the whole blabbing about a sensitive "secret" meeting part.
Also, the idea of negotiating without even a cease-fire in pace looks really incompetent.
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)So far only Trump lackeys like Pompeo are being offered as proof. And it would also be legitimate to report on those doubting it, which they don't seem to be even mentioning.
They are totally normalizing it without any facts to back it up.
John1956PA
(2,659 posts)KPN
(15,665 posts)normalize him -- though they could demand evidence. But even then, he'd just scream and ridicule them as "fake news" in answer to those questions. THere's no winning without pretty iron-clad proof of a lie frankly.
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)guide how they cover their stories, they might as well just close up shop and declare him president for life.
Fuck what he says. He doesn't have 1/1000th of the credibility that American journalism has, except with his knuckle-dragging worshippers.
Skittles
(153,225 posts)Trump is by now a KNOWN LIAR, and everything he says should be QUESTIONED
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Bill Barr's "summary" of Mueller's report becoming the "truth"...
Skittles
(153,225 posts)"taking the high road" does NOT WORK with fascists
Joe941
(2,848 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Putin's Propaganda unit? Nance mentioned this was the next Propaganda move by the GRU in their efforts to protect Trump as well as their position in the White House.
triron
(22,026 posts)Corporate media wants to play along with Trump, especially the weekend morons.
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)Girard442
(6,086 posts)If Trump claims to have built a nuclear-powered suit of armor that gives him the strength of 50 men and flies at supersonic speeds, were going to need more than a supporting statement from Pence to believe it.
smb
(3,475 posts)...that he built such a suit in a cave using a box of scraps than it is to believe that he's schedule a meeting at Camp David instead of one of his properties where he can pocket the lion's share of the event budget.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)reporting this as if it were an actual potential event. What a bunch of unmitigated bullshit. Not one of them I saw this morning questioned the truth of this report. gad.
triron
(22,026 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)MSNBC was one of the first channels to legitimize Trump, every morning he would call in and they would give him a free hour infomercial.
spanone
(135,900 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)What more do we need to know?