"Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading." He sent a letter to CNN

[sunonmars]

Bwahaahahhahahhahahahahha WTF

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/trump-campaign-cnn-poll/index.html

Link to tweet

President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding CNN retract and apologize for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

The demand, coming in the form of a cease and desist letter to CNN President Jeff Zucker, was immediately rejected by the network.
"We stand by our poll," said Matt Dornic, a CNN spokesman.

.....................

THIS IS NOT A JOKE.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. That's just...pathetic. nt

[sunonmars]

3. I mean this is serious losing your fucking mind material

[coti]

8. Fascism is fucking ridiculous. nt

[ScratchCat]

17. Exactly

And even if this is just "for his base", someone had to agree to send this for him, and I hope they aren't a member of any State Bar Association.

[sunonmars]

23. I mean, you'd expect the local recluse nutjob to send letters to the media berating them

Not the fucking President......about a fucking poll.

[rusty fender]

39. Well, McEninny is a lawyer

so there’s that

[tblue37]

2. K&R for visibility. nt

[lagomorph777]

4. CNN should run this story every 15 minutes.

[sunonmars]

5. I've honestly seen it all now, Pollsters will be jailed next.

[Doodley]

6. This is all the Trump campaign has - attack anyone or anything that shows

Trump in a bad light, because they simply haven't got a better strategy to run on Trump's poor leadership.

[tanyev]

7. He claims to never watch CNN so how does he know and why does he care?

Sad!

[sunonmars]

12. Social Media is literally falling over laughing at this - stunning.

[mucifer]

9. this child needs a time out. Prison would be optional

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Maybe Putin is a senior advisor to the campaign?

"In Russia, I always get favorably polling. Else, people fly off balconies."

[Yonnie3]

11. I feel sorry for The Onion

what's left for them?

[sunonmars]

13. I literally thought it was the onion when i read it...nope he did it, sent a letter and everything

[Hortensis]

21. Oh, me too! Second time in 2 days I had to tell my husband

this isn't The Onion.

[sunonmars]

25. Its getting so hard to tell, journalists need to add in "This is real"

[Hortensis]

31. Save people from double-checking the source.

[ornotna]

27. They should repeat it

Verbatim. With links back to the original article.

[sakabatou]

14. Trump's whining again

[gratuitous]

15. Trump personally polled the White House staff

And he was much closer to 50% approval than the CNN poll showed, so CNN was clearly reporting a fake poll!

Be sure to taunt any trolls or Trump humpers of your acquaintance with this little tidbit. They tend to forget their hero's little peccadilloes like this.

[Hortensis]

24. :) This. They've learned not to tell him the truth,

not that he ever needed anyone's help with that.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

16. This is a campaign in meltdown. The internal numbers

must be utterly abominable. This is not even Trump 2016 behaviour, this is 'oh fuck we're going down harder than anyone since Dukakis unless we stumble upon a miracle' territory.

[sunonmars]

18. That was my first thought, he's lashing out like demented old crack whore.

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

19. I sent my bathroom scale a cease/desist letter demanding an apology...

...that was also rejected.

Wow, how can his whole administration be so, so, stupid?

[sunonmars]

42. ROFL

[Newest Reality]

20. The Orange Furor demands!

The Orange Furor demands the RIGHT poll numbers, not the real ones. Of course!

Yes, Sire, we will get on that right away!

To those people who voted for this egregious mess and are still shoving Trump Suppositories(tm) up their asses in an effort to not admit they were very wrong, and who still poll for support, did you know that there are countries you can go to now that already have some form of totalitarian/authoritarian system in place, where you can see an even better reflection of yourself in the Great Leader?

You really don't have to go to all this trouble to take down our system and I am certain you can find the right regime for you ready to enjoy with plenty of people to hate and persecute.

Maybe we can do a GoFundMe to assist the migration? Get some travel brochures made, commercials, etc.?

[kysrsoze]

22. Caligula is just killing me lately with these comedic gems. Keep it up!

[Brainfodder]

26. Fake Prez wants "Fake Newz" to apologize?

He is legitimizing CNN here, which is the funny part since he has been calling them Fake News for 3 years+?



Meanwhile, just trying to out stupid himself for media distraction #666?

[BlueJac]

28. I am so happy his true colors are showing!

He is such a thin skinned asshole! LMAO

[malaise]

29. Howling with laughter

[sunonmars]

34. I know, I was literally ROFL at how out of his freaking tiny mind he is.

[malaise]

35. All your polls will show that I am leading

or else

[sunonmars]

36. WH staff must be literally going "you go in, no you go, nope your turn, no fuck off, no way"

[Kid Berwyn]

30. DO NOT DISTURB...

...a very small “mind” at “work.”

[Flaleftist]

32. Not The Onion?

[PSPS]

33. The white house is going into full "don't upset him" mode just as they had to with hitler

Over the past month, the Trump campaign has spent slightly more than $400,000 on cable news ads in the Washington, D.C., area, buying time largely on Fox News but with some smaller buys on CNN and MSNBC as well, according to filings with the Federal Communications Commission … It is, on a purely electoral level, a remarkably quixotic use of campaign cash. The purchases have no real shot of moving D.C., Maryland, or Virginia into the Trump column …

But two knowledgeable sources—one a Trump campaign adviser, the other an individual close to the president—said the D.C.-area ads had another purpose as well: to put the president himself at ease … Trump is a voracious consumer of cable news, and—the thinking goes—is likely to see the spots pop up between segments of his favorite shows.

[Flaleftist]

38. Wow. Just wow

[anamnua]

37. From Plutarch's Lives (second century AD)

"The first messenger, that gave notice of Lucullus' coming was so far from pleasing Tigranes that, he had his head cut off for his pains; and no man dared to bring further information. Without any intelligence at all, Tigranes sat while war was already blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him"

[Jarqui]

40. His letter is quoted as saying ..

the CNN poll is "designed to mislead American voters"

But his 18,000+ lies and misleading statements as President do not mislead American voters?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/14/president-trump-made-18000-false-or-misleading-claims-1170-days/
Maybe he should take care of those first before he starts going after others.

Of course, his letter claiming such a thing is as misleading as his previous 18,000+ lies and misleading statements:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/trump-campaign-cnn-poll/index.html

"Several other polls released over the past few weeks -- including polls by ABC News/Washington Post, Monmouth University, NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist College, NBC News/Wall Street Journal, Quinnipiac University and Fox News -- also show Biden well ahead of Trump. These polls, averaged with the CNN poll, find Biden up by double digits, a result well outside any margin of error."

RealClear has Biden up +8.1
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html

Biden is way (double digit) ahead in these other recent (last month or so) polls:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/national/
Monmouth +11
The Hill (right leaning) +10
Data for Progress +13
Garin Hart +11
Optimus +11
HarrisX +10
Whitman +10
Ipsos +10 (June 2)
Morning Consult +12
ABC +13
Zogby +13
Firehouse +11
Qinnipiac +11

They're arguably corroborated by Trump's approval numbers which have sagged to -12.7
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

The virus is going to make a come back with the opening up of states. Almost half the states are on the rise.

Trump has lied about employment numbers but he won't be able to cook the books on the lack of consumer spending and what the lack of pay is going to do to the upcoming economy.

The only way for Trump and the GOP now is to steal the election.

[whopis01]

41. LOL - CNN's General Counsel is out for some Vigilante Justice. n/t