Trump says he believes Scarborough 'got away with murder'
Source: The Hill
President Trump on Wednesday said he believed that Joe Scarborough got away with murder, returning to talk of an unfounded conspiracy theory about the MSNBC Morning Joe host despite criticism.
Ive always felt that he got away with murder. That was my feeling, a very strong feeling, and I do feel it, Trump said during a radio interview with Fox News Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday morning.
Trump also said that he spends time criticizing Scarborough and CNN anchor Chris Cuomo because he feels compelled to hit back at his critics.
"I just do it. People hit me, I hit back. I fight. Ive always felt that about Scarborough, Trump said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/500890-trump-says-he-believes-scarborough-got-away-with-murder
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)Sue him!!! Tie him up in court.....
keithbvadu2
(36,778 posts)Some people/many people feel that Donald got away with raping a 13 y/o.
DBoon
(22,357 posts)or so I heard.
No evidence Trump has sex with farm animals, but he hasn't disproved it so it is possible
The next time you post without a disclaimer in the title to "not be eating or drinking anything before viewing"......
You made me not only spray my desktop screen, but the keyboard too.............
shotten99
(622 posts)Never mind me, the President! Look at that other guy, because....well, just because
StClone
(11,683 posts)He should start until his judgement day to pass time. Trump's side show distractions are, as you say, so typical of his style-it's practically everything he says.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)And what other people that are murderers has he corresponded with?
PatSeg
(47,413 posts)that Scarborough was a kindred soul. Then Scarborough turned on him.
Doodley
(9,088 posts)It would be number one story on Fox News.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)brooklynite
(94,503 posts)here are some "pro Trump" stories on their front page
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/500879-percentage-of-americans-who-say-us-is-on-the-right-track-at-record
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/500880-black-people-7-times-more-likely-than-whites-to-be-subjected-to-police
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/500834-national-guard-asks-for-investigation-into-use-of-helicopter-to-target
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/500760-gutted-interior-agency-moves-out-west-with-top-posts-unfilled
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/500873-adp-report-shows-28-million-jobs-lost-in-may
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)references. Have never thought the Hill had any legitimate Creeds. Is not the ownership a Right Wing Billionaire Conspiracy nutjob?
brooklynite
(94,503 posts)THE HILL (and POLITICO, another easy target around here) report on politics (on both sides) for a political audience. They don't try to influence elections, because regular voters don't read them.
FWIW, THE HILL is rated as "Centrist": https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)but,what the hell do I know.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)dalton99a
(81,455 posts)The guy who ran a smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch
Upon leaving Circa, Solomon became executive vice president of digital video for The Hill.[1][16] Until May 2018, he worked on news and investigative pieces for The Hill.[16] According to the New York Times, Solomon tended to push narratives about alleged misdeeds by Trump's political enemies.[17]
In October 2017, Solomon published an article in The Hill about the Uranium One controversy where he insinuated that Russia made payments to the Clinton Foundation at the time when the Obama administration approved the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom.[18] Solomon's story also focused on the alleged failures of the Department of Justice to investigate and report on the controversy, suggesting a cover-up.[18] Subsequent to Solomon's reporting, the story "took off like wildfire in the right-wing media ecosystem," according to a 2018 study by scholars at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University.[18] No evidence of any quid pro quo or other wrongdoing has surfaced.[18]
In January 2018, it was reported that newsroom staffers at The Hill had complained about Solomon's reporting for the publication.[19][20][21] The staffers reportedly criticized Solomon's reporting as having a conservative bias and missing important context, and that this undermined The Hill's reputation.[19][20] They also expressed concerns over Solomon's close relationship with conservative Fox News personality Sean Hannity, on whose TV show Hannity he appeared on more than a dozen times over a span of three months.[19] In May 2018, the editor-in-chief of The Hill announced that Solomon would become an "opinion contributor" at The Hill while remaining executive vice president of digital video.[16] He frequently appeared on Fox News, which continued to describe him as an investigative reporter, even after he became an opinion contributor.[21]
Pro-Donald Trump opinion pieces
Solomon published a story alleging that women who had accused Trump of sexual assault had sought payments from partisan donors and tabloids.[21]
On June 19, 2019, The Hill published an opinion piece written by Solomon alleging that the FBI and Robert Mueller disregarded warnings that evidence used against Trumps former campaign manager Paul Manafort may have been faked.[22] His source was Nazar Kholodnytsky, a disgraced Ukrainian prosecutor, and Konstantin Kilimnik, who has been linked to Russian intelligence and who happens to be Manafort's former business partner.[23]
Solomon's part in the TrumpUkraine scandal
In April 2019, The Hill published two opinion pieces by Solomon regarding allegations by Ukrainian officials that "American Democrats" and particularly former Vice-President Joe Biden of collaborating with "their allies in Kiev" in "wrongdoing...ranging from 2016 election interference to obstructing criminal probes."[24][25] Solomon's stories attracted attention in conservative media.[20] Fox News frequently covered Solomon's claims;[26] Solomon also promoted these allegations on Sean Hannity's Fox News show.[20] According to The Washington Post Solomon's pieces "played an important role in advancing a flawed, Trump-friendly tale of corruption in Ukraine, particularly involving Biden and his son Hunter", and inspired "the alleged effort by Trump and his allies to pressure Ukraines government into digging up dirt on Trumps Democratic rivals."[20] On the same day that The Washington Post published its article, The Hill published another opinion piece by Solomon in which Solomon states that there are " (h)undreds of pages of never-released memos and documents...(that) conflict with Bidens narrative."[27]
Solomon's stories had significant flaws.[20][17] Not only had the State Department dismissed the allegations presented by Solomon as "an outright fabrication", but the Ukrainian prosecutor who Solomon claimed made the allegations to him is not supporting Solomon's claim.[20][17] Foreign Policy noted that anti-corrupton activists in Ukraine had characterized the source behind Solomon's claims as an unreliable narrator who had hindered anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine.[28] Solomon pushed allegations that Biden wanted to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor in order to prevent an investigation of Burisma, a Ukrainian company that his son, Hunter Biden, served on; however, Western governments and anti-corruption activist wanted the prosecutor removed because he was reluctant to pursue corruption investigations.[17] By September 2019, Solomon said he still stood 100% by his stories.[20] There is no evidence of wrong-doing by Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, and no evidence that Hunter Biden was ever under investigation by Ukrainian authorities.[29] WNYC characterized Solomon's Ukraine stories as laundering of foreign propaganda.[30]
Prior to the publication of a story where Solomon alleged that the Obama administration had pressured the Ukrainian government to stop investigating a group funded by George Soros, Solomon sent the full text of his report to Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas and the two pro-Trump lawyers and conspiracy theorists Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing.[31] Solomon said he did so for fact-checking, but Parnas, DiGenova and Toensing were not mentioned in the text, nor did Solomon send individual items of the draft for vetting (but rather the whole draft).[31]
During October 2019 hearings for the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, two government officials experienced in Ukraine matters Alexander Vindman and George Kent testified that Ukraine-related articles Solomon had written and that were featured in conservative media circles contained a "false narrative" and in some cases were "entirely made up in full cloth."[32][33]
Solomon worked closely with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani - Trumps personal attorney who was indicted for funneling foreign money into American political campaigns, to promote stories that Democrats colluded with a foreign power in the 2016 election (the U.S. intelligence community's assessment is that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to aid Trump, then a Republican presidential candidate). Parnas worked with Solomon on interviews and translation. Solomon defended his work with Parnas: "No one knew there was anything wrong with Lev Parnas at the time. Everybody who approaches me has an angle." Parnas helped to set Solomon up with the Ukrainian prosecutor who accused the Bidens of wrong-doing (before later retracting the claim).[2]
Solomon and the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump
Solomon has been mentioned in a draft report by the House Intelligence Committee pubished Dec. 3, 2019, documenting President Trump's alleged abuse of office for his personal and political gain by using congressionally approved military aid to induce Ukraine initiate investigations against Trump's domestic political rival. The report documented phone records showing Solomon was in frequent contact with Lev Parnas, a now indicted associate of Giuliani, exchanging "at least 10 calls" during the first week in April.[34]
Advertising controversy
Solomon was accused of breaking the traditional ethical "wall" that separated news stories from advertising at The Hill. In October 2017, Solomon negotiated a $160,000 deal with a conservative group called Job Creators Network to target ads in The Hill to business owners in Maine. He then had a quote from the group's director inserted into a news story about a Maine senator's key role in an upcoming vote on the Trump administration's tax bill. Solomon pops by the advertising bullpen almost daily to discuss big deals hes about to close," Johanna Derlega, then The Hills publisher, wrote in an internal memo at the time, according to Pro Publica. "If a media reporter gets ahold of this story, it could destroy us."[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Solomon_(political_commentator)
ace3csusm
(969 posts)Centralist BS...
TheFarseer
(9,322 posts)Some of you confuse not declaring Democrats 100% right in every circumstance for being pro-Trump.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)I am sick and tired of this asshole!
irisblue
(32,969 posts)For years.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)So I guess we can add murder to the list.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)KPN
(15,642 posts)a very strong feeling, and I do feel it.
moreland01
(738 posts)if he's trying to use Joe's one little (didn't happen) murder to justify his 105K+ murders of innocent Americans with Covid, he's got another thing coming.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,784 posts)Trump knows how to say them, but lacks any ability to express them.
Joe Scarborough should consider a possible Libel and Defamation suit.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)and you still are basically attacking the family of the young woman, that worked for Scarborough...................your such a complete and total corrupt ass...............
RockRaven
(14,959 posts)So who did Trump murder? One of Epstein's victims? A Russian prostitute? The possibilities are endless, I suppose we'll all have to ask that question on social media every time he brings it up.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)The accusation deserves no words thrown at it other than "no".
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)really needs professional help.
Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)RKP5637
(67,104 posts)jalan48
(13,860 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)with Katie Johnson, the thirteen year old.
https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/wait-katie-johnson-actually-exists/content?oid=29023196
According to the filings, Johnson was an aspiring model in 1994 when, after a string of unsuccessful meetings with agencies in New York City, she was at a Port Authority bus terminal getting ready to make her cross-country trip back home. Instead, a woman told Johnson how she could make money and modeling connections attending parties. It was at these partiesallegedly featuring other underage girls and wealthy gueststhat Johnson says she was forced to sexually gratify the future president on four occasions, each one escalating in its described level of depravity.
Take the gloves off, guys.
maxsolomon
(33,312 posts)Probably vague enough to let him off the hook in court. Roy Cohn taught him adequately.
Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)PROJECTING.
Tikki
marble falls
(57,079 posts)pwb
(11,261 posts)You are neither. You hide behind your money and lawyers that is weakness.
generalbetrayus
(507 posts)Previously, from early in 2016: Trump, meanwhile, has also spoken in glowing terms about Scarborough.
"He's a great guy, and he has a great show ... and we have a lot of fun," Trump told Howie Carr, the Boston talk radio show host, in January. "Joe's doing well. You know, he's making money for the first time in his life, really making some pretty good money."
https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/12/media/joe-scarborough-donald-trump-nbc/
So, Don Trumpleone thinks murderers are great guys ...
Dios Mio
(429 posts)But....I may get hammered by DU for saying this but Joe annoys me by prattling on about his opinions while Mica nods and occasionally gets in a word. It takes him forever to ask a question. Rachel can cover the daily shit show in about 15 minutes.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,582 posts)Today's word is Truthiness.
Truthiness refers to the quality of seeming to be true, but not necessarily or actually true according to known facts.
Truthiness is, "What I say is right, and nothing anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality. Stephen Colbert
pwb
(11,261 posts)He is nuts.
catrose
(5,065 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,447 posts)Paladin
(28,253 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)live love laugh
(13,101 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)he'll hit the mat.
olddad65
(599 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)There are fucking facts and thats what matters... like most Trump supporters Trump himself doesn't even seem to recognize the difference between facts and feelings.
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)I have a very strong feeling.....
Please proceed Mr. Trump....
I doubt this goes much further, but I don't have a dog in the fight, Joe S. is a Republican, that is now enough to not cut them slack, any more?
CRK7376
(2,199 posts)I'm not a lawyer, but this taunting and public speculation of something proven not to be true......
CTyankee
(63,903 posts)at this point. It just shows that Joe can laugh at Drump even more often and taunt him on TV every day and Drump can't do a thing about it.
maxrandb
(15,322 posts)and pick an "independent" DOJ lawyer to review the investigation and the investigators.
God! I frickin love karma.