Why has not a single hack asked the CONvicted felon

[malaise]

about his prediction that the Stock Marlet would crash if Biden won in 2020?

Why have they not asked him about the million plus Covid deaths?

[TSExile]

1. Because they are cowards.

That simple.

[BootinUp]

8. And they can't handle the truth. Nt

[Magoo48]

18. Perhaps.

It’s more likely to me they are told by corporate ownership which truths they as news readers can handle and those truths not to touch.

[BootinUp]

29. I was more referring to being cowards.

Journalistic ethics, it seems to me, requires more from them. And it also requires me not to support that business.

[BComplex]

30. THAT right there is the truth of the problem. Republican right wing ownership of all the corporations that handle our

"news".

"Liberal Media" my ass.

[Magoo48]

16. They may be cowards, but they are censored by corporate owners.

[bdamomma]

43. not to be

crude but they are watching out for their asses. Corporate heads are bending the knee. The felon has been groomed by our adversaries with compliments just what a narcissist needs like a junkie.

I am posting this article from 2021, old but still pertinent. It's about Putin.


Title:
This article is more than 3 years old
Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House
This article is more than 3 years old
Exclusive: Documents suggest Russia launched secret multi-agency effort to interfere in US democracy

Vladamir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents.

The key meeting took place on 22 January 2016, the papers suggest, with the Russian president, his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present.

They agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position.

Russia’s three spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to support Trump, in a decree appearing to bear Putin’s signature.

By this point Trump was the frontrunner in the Republican party’s nomination race. A report prepared by Putin’s expert department recommended Moscow use “all possible force” to ensure a Trump victory.

Western intelligence agencies are understood to have been aware of the documents for some months and to have carefully examined them. The papers, seen by the Guardian, seem to represent a serious and highly unusual leak from within the Kremlin.

The Guardian has shown the documents to independent experts who say they appear to be genuine. Incidental details come across as accurate. The overall tone and thrust is said to be consistent with Kremlin security thinking.
There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”.

There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected – the document says – from Trump’s earlier “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory”.

The paper refers to “certain events” that happened during Trump’s trips to Moscow. Security council members are invited to find details in appendix five, at paragraph five, the document states. It is unclear what the appendix contains.

“It is acutely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate his [Trump’s] election to the post of US president,” the paper says.

Various measures are cited that the Kremlin might adopt in response to what it sees as hostile acts from Washington. The paper lays out several American weaknesses. These include a “deepening political gulf between left and right”, the US’s “media-information” space, and an anti-establishment mood under President Barack Obama.

[PJMcK]

2. Excellent points

Of course, asking Trump those questions would be a waste of time because he never answers any question. He pivots to wherever his "weave" takes him.

In addition, Trump would turn the question around to insult President Biden or other Democrats.

Trump is a waste of time, space and oxygen.

[leftieNanner]

28. Precisely what I was thinking! Nt

[Tetrachloride]

3. the media is never wrong especially if a poll comes out

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Made me laugh out loud.

There should be a poll on that issue.

[displacedvermoter]

4. I believe Rush Limbaugh still owes somebody a

million dollars as he made the same bet when Bill Clinton got elected.

[Permanut]

36. My Dad said he was going to spend all of his money..

and run up all his credit cards before he died so they'd have to chase him all over hell to collect.

He actually did neither, and actually left Mom with a good financial situation.

[Xavier Breath]

5. The need for access.

Ask those questions and you'll be branded 'nasty' and never allowed within miles of him again. Maybe your network/magazine/paper too. Your bosses wouldn't like that.

[Auggie]

17. THIS

[malthaussen]

25. Yeah, in the final analysis, this is what doomed the 4th estate.

Used to be, it was politicians and celebrities who begged the newsies for coverage. But then along came the 24-hour news cycle, and the need to fill up the dead air at all times with hot takes. Capitalism 101: if a commodity becomes more available, the price (and hence the value) goes down. Any hack pol with a 13th-century mindset can get all the press his little heart desires now, it it the Press who has to scramble for access to the celebrities, which even though they too have been artificially inflated in number, have not increased so greatly in number compared to the insatiable need to feed the Press.

-- Mal

[Silent Type]

6. Anyone who cares about Stock Market knows the truth. Covid is tougher if just considering "deaths."

trump and GOPers would just reply that more people died after trump left office than before. Obviously there are rebuttals for that, but I think it would be an effective counter to Covid for anyone who might vote for trump.

Point is, there are lots of better things to ask trump about, like his Nazi love, NATO hate, Russian asset status, tariffs, and a lot worse.

[gab13by13]

7. The same reason that

WaPost didn’t endorse Kamala. The MSM is owned and managed by right wing oligarchs.

[jaxexpat]

9. Personally, I'm not interested in any reply to any question the rapist-felon might have to that or any other question.

The only words I ever want to hear from him is "yes sir" when the guard tells him to get in his cell and shut up.

[jfz9580m]

11. From everything I hear from you guys

I am glad i don’t watch tv .
I think it is a requirement in those hacks that they are as sleazy and fake as they can get.

This is why Jon Stewart used to rip into that type of media in his heyday. He has lost his touch a bit lately is my impression going by posts here. Not watched him myself.

Hi malaise.

[malaise]

39. Hi there

I stopped watching Stewart a while back

[librechik]

12. Because the media is orchestrating all of it.

Billionaires whose names are well known are forcing their media properties to do everything they can to defeat the democratic movement. They want to be oligarchs and authoritarians, without oversight and with the help of the military and White Christian Supremacists and we will soon see if they able to do it.

This time.

They are used to getting whatever they want. They have been sharpening this plan for multiple generations while encouraging hate, racism and misogyny They won't give up, they never have, and they are more powerful than ever before. I am freaking out and Bush v Gore haunts me.

Sorry for the doom and gloom. Kamala has been glorious. VOTE!!!

[republianmushroom]

13. Embarrassment.

Because they are taking care of their golden cow and don't want to embarrass him. He would just lie and they would accept the lie, then you would be asking them about the lie.

[louis-t]

14. This is a guy who says he will remove "communists" from government

yet he praises every Communist or authoritarian dictator in the world, marvelling at what "strong leaders" they are.

[FakeNoose]

19. He praises autocrats ... if they happen to be "communist" autocrats well ... so much the better

We've reached the point in human political evolution where the word "communist" doesn't mean much. Except it can be hurled as an insult at progressive liberals like AOC, and the MAGAs all get worked up like barking dogs.

But nobody bats an eye when Chump plays footsy with the communist leaders of China and North Korea. Why is that?

[pansypoo53219]

15. because the moron is 'good' for ratings. teevee gnewz are rating whores. thry did more the russia in 2o16.

[Bettie]

20. You answered your own question..

they are hacks, hacks gonna hack.

[thesquanderer]

21. It doesn't matter. His answers would be some combination of lies and gibberish. (n/t)

[jalan48]

22. He'll just do the weave, and our media has no defense against the weave.

By the time he gets done weaving, it will be time for a five minute commercial break during which the audience will have forgotten the question.

[BattleRow]

24. Oh what a tangled web we weave,when we practice to deceive.

[LilElf70]

23. My brother was one of those Covid deaths

I will never forgive him. NEVER

[Conjuay]

34. Same here

I regret my brother didn't live to see Guilani jailed. He knew Guilani in H.S. He would have had a good laugh.

[LilElf70]

35. So Sorry

My brother was 62, healthy. He died close to the 500K mark.

[malaise]

37. Too sad

[LilElf70]

40. TY

[Klarkashton]

26. That was trump being trump. Meanwhile Biden

Said something about garbage...

[creeksneakers2]

27. He's getting an outrageous pass on his handling of Covid

His own Covid coordinator said he was responsible for 130,000 deaths, then raised her estimate. And Covid caused the inflation Kamala is getting killed over, and it was Trump's fault. I wish she would use it. I don't know why not.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2023/beyond-bls/what-caused-inflation-to-spike-after-2020.htm

How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding? Most of them

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/19/faster-response-prevented-most-us-covid-19-deaths/

And Trump made decisions knowing they would result in tens of thousands of deaths but made them anyway, hoping he could cover up the Covid problem.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/21/2264927/-Donald-Trump-remorseless-mass-killing-monster

[Beartracks]

31. Because who's got time for his rambling why-me, love-fest, battery-shark non-answers?

[Bev54]

32. Your question has the answer - because they are hacks.

[malaise]

41. LOL

😀

[Blue Owl]

33. Then the fat fuck couldn't fail upwards

Let the hacks get crushed by the Slobfather as they try to hoist his lardship upwards

[B.See]

38. The same reason why the hacks

haven't asked the convicted twice impeached and treasonous INSURECTIONIST about a hundred other atrocities.

Cowardice and complicity.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

42. The free press is hurting us by failing to use

their freedom to handle the famous Felon in ways that would be truly informative. They ask him questions that practically invite him to lie, and then they don't challenge the lie. There are clever ways to construct questions that would expose him for what he is.

The again, and it's not really the "free press" we deserve when ownership & control is dominated by RW billionaires and run on a system of click bait being necessary to attract readers.

Sadly, few people have the attention span to read more than a few paragraphs anymore. I'd like to see a study of how much anyone actually reads past the headlines, which are not controlled by the articles' authors and often distort the gist of the piece.

[Ruby the Liberal]

44. Guessing the same reason they sanewash his insane ramblings and WaPo/LAT nixed endorsement

$$$$

[mdbl]

45. Why aren't they calling him Felon Trump?

They should always address or refer to him with the title "34 Felonies and adjudicated rapist".

[Roxi]

46. They don't want to know the answers

Even if he bothered to form a coherent answer to their questions, what’s the point?

Everyone already knows he’s a horrible person and a blithering idiot. What’s one more confirmation?

Honestly, I think they should all just ignore him completely. No interviews, very little press coverage, absolutely no videos of him or his minions.

Just one line: “Day 3,424 of trump hell. He said something stupid at a rally in North Carolina.” That’s all. Let him fade into obscurity until we can imprison him.

Yeah, I know, wishful thinking. I’m just so exhausted by him existing everywhere I go.

[Emile]

50. +1 I'm totally exhausted of the mud face asshole too.

[ThoughtCriminal]

47. He has never been asked lots of blindingly obvious questions

Like: You have claimed you declassified all of the secret documents you took. Why would you declassify nuclear secrets, information about our was plans for Iran, and military vulnerabilities of our allies?

NEVER ASKED. That's not an oversight, they avoid questions like that to protect him.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

48. Some probably did ask.

But he just bats it away and pivots to some ridiculous thought that pops into his stupid head and there is no follow up.

[Jarqui]

49. Why haven't they asked Trump this:

In 2020, Trump only won 1 of the last 212 general election polls
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2020/trump-vs-biden
Biden led 209 of them
They tied two
Trump led in one by right leaning Rasmussen (by 1%)

So why does the guy who led 209 of the last 212 polls and had a polling average before the election of +7.2% (way beyond the margin of error) get accused of stealing the 2020 election?

[malaise]

52. This should be an OP

Profound
Rec

[BobsYourUncle]

51. Because they want trump to win.

My husband has been saying this forever.

He triumphantly shouted “Finally!” the other night when we heard Ben Meisalas say those very words. They want trump to win.

[Brainfodder]

53. I too have that dream that CATCH-22s will be asked and he BLOWS his top & turns into ORANGE BLOB with tiny hands.

With grift gallop as his super power.

[dlk]

54. Lawrence called out the generally shoddy political reporting on his show last night

He said the political press often gets the facts wrong and reports lies; you won’t find the truth there.

Kudos to Lawrence who isn’t afraid of sharing the truth with an historical perspective

[malaise]

55. Lawrence is not a

Hack😀

[dlk]

57. One of the few

[Emile]

56. All his voters think it did crash. Stupid people

with the power of the Magic R will believe anything.