As the scandal intensifies, Team Trump turns to Jedi mind tricks

[Six117]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-scandal-intensifies-team-trump-turns-jedi-mind-tricks?cid=eml_mra_20191014

As Donald Trump’s impeachment becomes even more likely, the president and his allies have been even more eager than usual to concoct an alternate reality they expect the public to take seriously. In this version of reality, adjacent to our own, the intelligence community’s whistleblower has been completely discredited.

That’s plainly false, of course, as the White House and its cohorts know, though the truth has been deemed secondary. It’s why Trump is also throwing around all kinds of related nonsense about Joe Biden, Adam Schiff, and what the president sees as Russia’s purported innocence in its 2016 attack on our elections.

Trump and his team seem to realize a reality-based approach wouldn’t work, and the result is an avalanche of claims that crumble under scrutiny.

Truth.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Treason is the reason.

He's been discrediting the news media since before the election...as if to innocculate himself from the stone cold reality that most of us operate in.

[empedocles]

2. treason is the reason for the right season

[gratuitous]

3. Correct, this is all stuff and nonsense that has been completely discredited

Even when they repeat it again today (and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow after that), it's still going to be discredited. Obviously Rachel Maddow understands this (which is why she's saying it), but I wish the media could get this simple fact through their collective skull: Just because this administration says something doesn't make it right or true. When you know they're lying, you don't have to report what they say except to say it's a lie. See if you can spot the difference:

Today, President Trump again insisted that Joe Biden was instrumental in getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.

Today, in a medley of greatest lies*, President Trump again revisited the discredited allegation that Vice President Biden got a corrupt prosecutor fired in Ukraine.

*For a president who has a documented history of more than 13,000 lies (and counting) to date, this would be factually objective to call out Trump's lie-arrhea as a medley of greatest lies.

[bdamomma]

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[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Treason is the Reason

Putin owñs Trump, Boris Johnson, Ergogéñ, and MBS.

Otsa world endgàme.