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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump Demands Barr Investigate The Media's Coronavirus Coverage [View all]
Trump has asked Attorney General William Barr to launch a Department of Justice investigation into the medias coronavirus coverage.
Gabriel Sherman of Vanity Fair reported:
The problem is that the crisis fits into his preexisting and deeply held worldviewthat the media is always searching for a story to bring him down. Covid-19 is merely the latest instance, and hes reacting in familiar ways. So much FAKE NEWS! Trump tweeted this morning. He wants Justice to open investigations of the media for market manipulation, a source close to the White House told me.
Trump is also frustrated with his West Wing for not getting a handle on the news cycle. Hes very frustrated he doesnt have a good team around him, a former White House official said. On Friday, he forced out acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and replaced him with former House Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows. Trump thought the virus was getting beyond Mick, a person briefed on the internal discussions said.
Trump thinks that the stock market can be manipulated by media coverage, so he believes that the press is conspiring against him to manipulate the stock market by reporting on the coronavirus.
The stock market is plummeting, because they see a domestic public health crisis that is worsening by the day, and a president who has no clue what to do about it. Trump is trying to deal with the coronavirus as a stock market problem, not a health issue. He is incapable of understanding that the markets would go up if he would competently address the coronavirus crisis.
Not even William Barr will launch an investigation into the media for their reporting on the coronavirus.
Trump only cares about the stock market and is looking to blame the media for his total failure as a president.
Trumps lies cant hide the ugly truth about the spread of the coronavirus.
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He only has one playbook with a couple of Sharpie diagrams. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2020
#29
He probably wants Barr to sue the press in other countries for their coverage too (nt)
pat_k
Mar 2020
#26
High stock market was 1 of tRump's few points. Even before this drop, Obama's stock market beat his.
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2020
#28
And the response from Barr will be...There isn't budget enough to investigate every media source.
Ford_Prefect
Mar 2020
#37
I feel like we are on a run away train near the top of a steep mountain, coming up on a hairpin
Blue_true
Mar 2020
#48
Trump does a lot of totally insane things but this one really takes the... cake.
Rainbow Droid
Mar 2020
#64
Well hell, maybe GAIA is real and self correcting the latest cause for pollution by destroying tRUMP
WyattKansas
Mar 2020
#66