Trump Blasts Publication Of Unverified Russia Claims As ‘Fake News’ (Of course he did)

[moonshaz]

The president-elect called BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage” and refused to take a CNN reporter’s question.

NEW YORK ― President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly called out the publication of unverified allegations that he has ties to Russia as “fake news” during Wednesday’s press conference, his first in nearly six months

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[amw]

The responses to this story are almost more entertaining to me than the story itself. I love this article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/11/kremlin-ridicules-claims-collected-material-donald-trump A former FSB boss denying that kompromat even exists as a concept is priceless. "We don’t have such a practice in Russia". It's giving me flashbacks to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf during the Iraq War.

I lived in Toronto during the Rob Ford debacle, and a lot of Torontonians on my Facebook are recalling how that story surfaced. The "mayor smokes crack" video was rumored for the better part of a year before it eventually leaked. And the whole time conservatives complained that their man was being unfairly targeted by the press. Even when the freakin police announced that they had the video, conservatives still screamed "fake news" because zomg show me the evidence. Of course once the video finally got leaked to the public, then - well, he's only human and like everyone he makes mistakes. Le sigh.

It's like... you are so done crying the only thing left to do is laugh. World is fucked.

[ayajedi]

thanks for the link

[nemesid]

Except for only the fake video leaked. There is no evidence Ford was smoking crack and not a cigarette. That alone shows people believe in what they want to believe.

[amw]

[nemesid]

Kind of irrational to send me the video i just described? This video holds NO evidence of crack.