Trump ambassador shouts 'fake news' at reporter -- and gets immediately busted with damning video

[DonViejo]

WATCH: Trump ambassador shouts ‘fake news’ at reporter — and gets immediately busted with damning video

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/watch-trump-ambassador-shouts-fake-news-at-reporter-and-gets-immediately-busted-with-damning-video/

[CentralMass]

1. Lying is their native tongue.

[2naSalit]

7. +1

[PdxSean]

16. Can I steal that?

Never mind. It’s mine now.

[CentralMass]

20. Please do.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. Swhy every dem and every real journalist should have this reply ready.

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Locked and loaded.

[Cha]

46. Absolutley!

Aloha, Blanche!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

49. Aloha, Cha!!

Long time no see...what a nice surprise! 😄❤️🎄

[onit2day]

41. They all need to be confronted at the time they lie

[Cha]

45. Well said.

[DetlefK]

2. "I didn't say 'fake news'." - You literally said 'fake news' a few minutes ago on camera!!!

[Javaman]

23. if it was so fucking absurd, it would read like a monty python sketch. nt

[Lucky Luciano]

40. Your arms off! No it isnt! Indeed...

[DetlefK]

54. Oh, there is a Monty Python sketch exactly like that:

It's about a guy who would like to have an argument. (Look it up. It's really good.)

[Archae]

55. Oh yeah. John Cleese as the "whatever it is, no it isn't" guy.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Hah! Busted!

They are all such brazen liars! It's sickening!

[groundloop]

4. Isn't it great when a good journalist comes prepared? !!!!

Too bad most of our journalists have been late to the party (and of course we all know that they gave 45* a mostly free pass all the way up to the election).

[yardwork]

5. This is our ambassador to the Netherlands! How embarrassing! Cringe.

[Nitram]

35. The Dutch, as with most Europeans, can distinguish between Republican wingnuts and Democratic

members of the resistance. They are rooting for us.

[syringis]

53. Hello Nitram

Indeed.

An editorial cartoon from a Dutch newspaper :

Trump's ambassador just got caught lying to the Dutch

[Maggiemayhem]

6. They have become so accustomed to lying

That they can’t keep up with their own lies. They are taught to just get certain talking points out in the general media knowing Americans are too stupid or won’t take the time to fact check. When certain media selectively edit video, it is hard to convince the right wing worshippers that tha narrative is utter bullshit. Cognitive dissonance. The RNC sends out their list of lies everyday. They are the most immoral group on the planet.

[Renew Deal]

8. Trumpism is a disease

[knightmaar]

9. Your arm's off!

No it's not!

Tis but a scratch!

[SnowCritter]

10. We live in a world where everything said by people

in positions of power is recorded. You would think that they would realize that, but they don't.

<trump voice>Sad!</trump voice>

[Permanut]

11. "I didn't call that fake news.."

"I didn't use the word today. I don't think I did."

"But we have it on tape, Ambassador Hoekstra, just a few minutes ago. Would you like to see the tape?"

"I didn't mean THAT word. I meant the word "rumpelstiltskin"."

"You don't think you used the word 'rumplestiltskin' today? Wouldn't you recall something like that?"

"But what about Benghazi and the emails?"

[marble falls]

14. I know, right? They're never so graceful as when they lie, quickly and seamlessly.

[zentrum]

12. Fake Ambassador! What a

….disaster it all is for America on the world stage.

[Saviolo]

13. Great tweet I saw about this on my timeline:

Link to tweet

“Fake news” has never really meant “This is a lie.” It’s tribal signaling. It means, “I give you permission to ignore this fact that’s not good for our team.”

[Beartracks]

42. Willful Ignorance For Dummies

Their "leaders" now actually tell the sheep what to willfully ignore.

Turns out, they're supposed to willfully ignore practically everything.

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[AllaN01Bear]

15. love it when they go sputtter sputt sputt. typical

[ecstatic]

17. Trump and all of his people are deplorable scum. nt

[paleotn]

18. Geezz! And they're not even good liars...

In the great political shuffling since the 70's (back when we actually had socially liberal Republicans and racist Dixiecrats), it seems the low IQs migrated to the Republican party.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. Unfortunately, the clip is no longer good.

Not even at the link. Darn.

[JDC]

24. I was just able to view it.

Maybe the link was updated.

[joshdawg]

26. Nope, I just tried and got the same response,

"The video could not be played" (heavy sigh)

[JDC]

28. I can see it on both the rawstory link and via the twitter link

https://t.co/vlstN9vhSK

[joshdawg]

32. Thanks for the link.

Was able to see it okay.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

51. That brings me to something with lots of posts and no link to the video.

Too bad. I'd really like to see it.

[JDC]

58. Here

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/22/politics/us-ambassador-to-netherlands-denies-own-comments/index.html

[CatWoman]

30. I was just able to watch it on Twitter

[yonder]

37. I just learned last week

that by clicking on the blue twitter bird, in the lower right, it will play.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

52. I don't see a blue twitter bird anywhere.

Once again the technology gods are screwing with me.

[flying_wahini]

39. Clip works for me

1:23 pm CST

[JI7]

56. it works fine for me at the time of this posting

[floWteiuQ]

21. In this case...

Cameras do not lie. Deplorable!

[Maraya1969]

44. It seems as if carrying around video clips as a journalist is a very good idea.

Great that this journalist thought be be prepared.

I would love for someone to do that to Trump

[SeaDoo77]

22. How About Fake Humsns

Or simply evil lying scum.

[JDC]

25. What a shit show our "leaders" have become

The Wing Nuts used to always talk about apology tours, we are going to need apology ambassadors just to travel the world making right all that the relationships we are shredding right now. Our reputation might be irreparable.

[calimary]

31. We actually had one. Some gal named Hillary...

After she became President Obama’s Secretary of State, she traveled extensively to smooth feathers, reassure our allies that we weren’t international war criminals, and rehabilitate our image to the rest of the world, after bush/cheney’s WMD lies and war lies and torture excuses and other sins. Repaired and rebuilt a lot of broken bridges that the last wrecking crew left behind. John Kerry then continued building on that improvement.

And now we have Moron/Christofascist, systematically ransacking the joint yet again. Just fabulous, ‘eh?

[Perseus]

27. In his defence

He did not "shout" "fake news" to the reporter...lets give him that, he just said it.

But the level of insincerity, of lying is so profound, it is at the point of code red. To even say that he didn't call it "fake news" when a couple of minutes he did...you can see in the reporter's puzzled expression, he cannot believe it.

Why is this being accepted?

[keithbvadu2]

29. I'm shocked! Shocked!

I'm shocked! Shocked!

[SwissTony]

33. Read elsewhere that he was born in Groningen (in NL)

and his family emigrated when he was 3 years old. He may even speak Dutch.

But he's coming over here...anti-gay, anti-abortion and a lying arsehole to boot. He'll do well.

[Hamlette]

34. would be nice if Trump voters saw this

and "got it". Which they won't. But I'll save it in case the fever breaks.

[cstanleytech]

38. That ambassadors first name would not happen to be Pinocchio by any chance would it?

[Maraya1969]

43. This behavior of making up false situations in various parts of Europe to try and smear

Muslims is right out of the Putin play book. It is repulsive to see an American behaving exactly as Putin wants him to behave.

This type of talk is why Brexit happened. And it is why the Nazi party in France almost won the election to the presidential office.

Putin and Trump and the rest of these deplorables want to sow unrest and create chaos so that their dictatorial regimes will gain power. They must be fought at every turn.

[DFW]

47. When I compare the level of this imbecile to the level of the Dutch Ambassador to the USA

I can relate a story from a few years back.

When a friend of mine was Canadian Ambassador to the USA, he used to throw a big July 4th party on the Canadian Embassy roof in Washington for his Washington friends. One year when I was in town, I was there (second best view of the fireworks in DC except for the White House balcony), and heard a guy with an American accent talking in English to a guy with a Dutch accent.

Not expecting to hear a Dutch accent on the roof of the Canadian embassy, I said hi in Dutch. The Dutch guy was just as surprised as I was and said (in Dutch) that he thought he was the only one there from the Netherlands. I said he might be right as I was American. The American broke in, and said, hey guys, a little pity for the friendly natives, here. How about a language we all know? I said sure, pick one.

He said OK, how about Russian? I said no problem for me, but I didn't know about our Dutch friend. "Our Dutch friend" happened to be the Dutch ambassador to the USA, and spoke passable Russian, since his previous posting had been Ambassador to Russia. I then asked the American guy how come he knew Russian. He turned out to be an assistant Secretary of Defense. Oh, OK. That's a good reason.

Compare that to the level of this idiot accusing the Dutch media ready with a video clip to show Trump's clown to be a fraud and a liar for all of the Netherlands to see. THIS is the caliber of "diplomat" Trump and Tillerson are sending out to represent us to our allies. You'd think Putin was picking them himself, thinking, "OK, who of all these lamebrains will put the USA in the worst possible light?"

[edbermac]

48. Hey moron!

[world wide wally]

50. I guess I trust "fake news" more than I trust "Trumped up news"

[drray23]

57. hopefully he makes a stupid statement that lands him in court..

In europe you can be fined or even jailed if you do things like denying the holocaust or make racist statements inciting violence. Some of these deplorable that are now ambassador may find out pretty soon. Likewise the media will call you out if you lie.

[Gothmog]

59. This idiot is just as stupid as trump