Donald Trump attacks 'biased' Lester Holt and accuses Google of conspiracy

[EricMaundry]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump has gone on the offensive after his underwhelming debate performance by criticizing debate moderator Lester Holt as biased and accusing Google of a conspiracy to rig search results in favor of Hillary Clinton.

He also had surrogates attack his Democrat rival for her husband’s infidelities while suggesting she wants to “strip [the United States] of its status as a sovereign nation”.

The Republican nominee launched the latest salvo of attacks in an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly where he claimed Holt “was much, much tougher on me than he was on Hillary”. Trump said that while initially “I said good things right after the show” he had changed his mind about Holt’s performance “after seeing the way he badgered and even the questions I got”.

In particular, Trump expressed his discontent over the fact that Holt asked him “the birther question” in Monday’s debate. The Republican nominee had long falsely claimed that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, an accusation widely considered to be a racist dogwhistle. Although Trump only recently acknowledged that Obama was born in the United States in an event at a Washington hotel, he falsely blamed Hillary Clinton for the conspiracy theory’s origin. He since said that he only acknowledged Obama’s actual birthplace in order to “get on with the campaign”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/29/donald-trump-attacks-biased-lester-holt-and-accuses-google-of-conspiracy?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+morning+briefing+2016&utm_term=192605&subid=15450941&CMP=ema_a-morning-briefing_b-morning-briefing_c-US_d-1

---

The Daily Wah! from Donald.

[oberliner]

1. He raved about Holt right after the debate

Said he did a great job.

Obviously his handlers didn't like that.

[47of74]

2. Orange Hitler needs my butthurt reporting form.

[randome]

9. Good thing you added the 'lawsuit' option at the end. That's Trump's favorite bit!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[niyad]

24. would you give me your permission to make copies of this??? I don't encounter many

of these people in my little enclave, but just in case.. . . . always like to be prepared.

[47of74]

32. Of course! Feel free to do so!

And that applies to any DU member wishing to do so.

[niyad]

33. thank you. will certainly make for some amusing encounters.

[Democat]

3. He's flip flopping every day now, out of control and lost

Imagine this guy with his finger on the nuclear button.

[niyad]

25. that prospect is terrifying.

[Botany]

4. How do you rig a search engine?

Does Trump really know what google was when it started out?

From "the internets." search engine .... a definition

a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to
keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular
sites on the World Wide Web.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Donnie read it in Sputnik News, so it must be true

Trump also introduced a new conspiracy theory to the campaign on Wednesday night when he accused Google of somehow colluding with Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “Google search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton,” the Republican told a cheering crowd of supporters in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Neither Google nor the Trump campaign responded to requests for comment on this accusation, which seems to stem from a report in Sputnik News, a Russian state propaganda outlet. The reference to Google did not appear to be ad libbed as it was in Trump’s prepared remarks.

If you can't trust your BFF's newsletter, what can you trust?

[Botany]

20. I really wonder about Trump's "reading list"

Neo nazi, white power, and whack job (anti vaccination and birther crap) stuff.

One site ..... that i will not give any more pub .... where Trump or somebody associated
w/him that had a picture of HRC w/a star of David and piles of money behind her that
Trump tweeted out had pictures of jews being shot in WW II by nazis as something
good. The man is really sick if he reads that crap.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. "I really wonder about Trump's "reading list"

[George II]

19. People who own websites can rig searches somewhat, not generally the search engine itself:

They can put key words on their pages to give them more hits.

[PatSeg]

5. I think he could

have a nervous breakdown before the election. He is losing it "bigly".

[Jade Fox]

7. I've had similar thoughts.....nt

[niyad]

26. what makes you think that has not already happened? he seems more out-of-control

each and every day.

[PatSeg]

27. Its very possible

I'm just imagining what is going on behind the scenes. Being everyone has to sign confidentiality agreements, we may never know.

[randome]

6. How he has handled the post-debate is worse for him than how he performed IN the debate.

Just like the GOP Senate: they fold like a pair of pants when the going gets rough.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[riversedge]

10. Seems like he has been like this all through his life with his business practices. Yell, bully, sue

blame others, try to shut the other person down. It is a pattern that is for sure.

[NewJeffCT]

31. when Fox News hosts are aghast

at Trump for attacking Alicia Machado again, you know it's bad...

[spiderpig]

8. What is wrong with this guy?

I've known my share of crazies, but he takes the cake.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Donald Trump is a poor excuse

(for whatever you can name)

[Yonnie3]

12. Is it breaking news if it is repeated every news cycle? <-sarcasm

I'm just pointing out that the Rump is not able to come up with anything new. It's never him. He sounds like a preschooler that has learned a bunch of new words.

His ego knows no bounds. He just can't say I messed up, I was wrong or I made a mistake.

The media seems to be covering his excuses with a lot less enthusiasm lately. I hope this means the electorate is tired of this crap.

[barbtries]

13. they get especially upset

when the truth comes out. it's so offensive to them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Candidates who ACTUALLY win debates don't attack the moderators. . . . . nt

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

15. Probably insignificant...

... but an old high school co-nerd of mine put up on fb a graphic that insinuates that Lester was prejudice in his questions and interruptions to the Donald...

He has a heart of gold, but isn't much for understanding political science.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. At some point, even the bigots are going to get fed up with his whining

every time he screws up. It's not the manly manliness they're looking for.

Though I see Trump is now using 'globalist' as an insult, and as part of a conspiracy theory. That's the alt-right and Alex Jones taking the campaign over.

[bora13]

18. he is so cyber

that candidate is a cyber warrior! he knows that google displays links by ranking in their search algorithm.

sadly for him, his ranking is page 2 where hillary is at page one on top.

Maybe he really put his cyber-hat on and was referring to a google ad that can be
shown on the top of the first page, regardless of ranking.

he so smart. nottttttt.

[volstork]

21. Nothing is ever his fault.

Classic sociopath.

[Historic NY]

22. And just the other day he was praising him...

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/27/media/trump-holt-presidential-debate/

[oberliner]

23. That's him being honest

Then his handlers tell him that he shouldn't say that, and he goes on script.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

28. tRump complimented Lester Holt as fair until

someone put other words in his mouth the following day.

Obviously he was suffering from electrical shock from his faulty microphone.

[underpants]

29. The Google bit is another RW talk radio thing I heard about a month ago

I think I caught it, while running errands, on Beck's show. Yes I listen - it's my service to the cause.

Basically Trump spiels talk radio crap which injects it into the discussion (Big Lie) directly. The talking heads actually spend time on it which is the purpose - repitition. His crowd cheered for it because it is already in their dogma. He is just doing a greatest hits show - you've heard it 100's of times but you show up to say you've seen it in person.

[Javaman]

30. maybe everyone is out to get him because...

he's an asshole.

[uppityperson]

34. Please, keep whining Donnie and please step up the Bill bashing. Show clearly how vile you are