Trump Blasts Media Over Assange Tweets Ahead of Intel Briefing

[riversedge]

Source: Bloomberg



January 5, 2017, 8:10 AM CST



President-elect Donald Trump called the media “dishonest" for its coverage of his Twitter posts this week on Julian Assange, saying the press was wrong to assert that he agreed with the fugitive WikiLeaks founder.

“The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange - wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people,” Trump said in a pair of tweets early Thursday, “to make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look like I am against ‘Intelligence’ when in fact I am a big fan!”

In a series of tweets starting late Tuesday evening, Trump called an alleged delay in his intelligence briefing on Russian hacking of the U.S. elections “very strange” and went on to quote an interview with Assange, who said on a Fox News opinion show that “a 14-year-old” could be responsible for breaches of computers at Democratic Party offices last year............................................

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Trump has taken on the fox news mantra of We report-You decide. #fakenews


"“The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange - wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people,” Trump said in a pair of tweets early Thursday, “to make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look like I am against ‘Intelligence’ when in fact I am a big fan!”

[Liberalagogo]

1. "Dishonest"

Hello, Kettle? Pot is on Line One. He says you're black.

[Botany]

2. How about Trump's own words?

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump Jan 4
Julian Assange said "a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta" - why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!


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[PatSeg]

3. Whoa!

Getting awfully defensive there, even for Donald!

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. He is the most childish politician I have ever heard of

Boris Yeltsin, when drunk, had more gravitas than him. Sarah Palin, when admitting she couldn't name newspapers, had a better grasp of the media than him. Neville Chamberlain had better judgement than him. Petain (in WW2) stood up for his country better.

I've actually reached the point where I think Rush Limbaugh would be a better president than Trump. I really didn't think that would be possible.

[peggysue2]

5. Deranged

Trump is nuts and this serial lying was never funny, rather flat out dangerous and delusional. Can anyone recall a transition this bizarre or off the rails? The damage the man is doing is unspeakable. And he's not even in office yet.

A mentally unstable president-elect. Perfect in unstable times. I weep for my country and the world at large. But sure, just keep blowing kisses at Putin; that will fix everything. They must have a ton of dirt on Trump-the-Impostor.