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Eugene

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Tue May 30, 2017, 08:40 PM May 2017

Fox News just pulled Trump into an alternate reality

Source: Washington Post

Fox News just pulled Trump into an alternate reality

By Callum Borchers May 30 at 2:09 PM

Try to follow this dizzying sequence of events:

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that Jared Kushner sought to create a secret line of communication between Donald Trump's transition team and the Kremlin during a meeting with Russian diplomats in December.

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On Monday, Fox News Channel published an online article with no byline and a single unnamed source that claimed that Kushner, a senior White House adviser, did not try to set up a back channel after all.

On Tuesday morning, “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade posed a question to counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway: “Do you back up the Fox News report?” Conway refused. “I'm not going to get into any of that,” she said. Conway echoed McMaster and Kelly, saying that “they're not concerned” and that “back channels like this are the regular course of business.”




A short time later, Trump tweeted a link to the Fox News report that Conway had just declined to support, seemingly endorsing an alternative defense of Kushner that his administration spent three days not making.

What the heck is going on here?

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/30/fox-news-just-sucked-trump-into-an-alternative-reality/
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Fox News just pulled Trump into an alternate reality (Original Post) Eugene May 2017 OP
This is easy to figure out. Trump is the anonymous source Thomas Hurt May 2017 #1
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