Sunday, September 13, 2020
Bret Baier Shuts Down Trump Campaign Spokesperson’s Lies About Woodward Tapes
On Thursday’s edition of Special Report, Fox anchor Bret Baier interviewed both Biden national press secretary TJ Ducklo and Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh about Trump’s intentional efforts to downplay the severity of the coronavirus pandemic back in February and March.
But as Murtaugh went on to claim that Trump was saying the “same things” publicly that he was telling Woodward, Baier stopped him in his tracks.
“That’s not true, Tim” the anchor said, interrupting his
guest. “It’s not true. When he was saying publicly that the virus would
go from 15 to zero and then it was magically going to wash away, that is
not the same thing he’s telling Bob Woodward, that it’s a deadly virus
that travels over the air and it’s really serious and ‘I like to
downplay it.’ He was not saying the same things publicly that he was
privately to Bob Woodward.”
Sean Hannity: Biden 'did everything wrong' in response to coronavirus, is hoping 'you will all forget'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-hannity-joe-biden-everything-wrong-coronavirus
DEFENDING TRUMP'S LIES BY CLAIMING BIDEN LIES ALSO
According to Hannity, Biden is "lying" when he claims President Trump did everything wrong in response to the coronavirus outbreak, while the former vice president was the one to “sound the alarm” on the pandemic.
In fact, the host pointed out, Biden adviser Ron Klain had praised China on Jan. 27 for being “more transparent and more candid than it has been during past outbreaks.”
RNC speakers exaggerate Trump’s military drawdown from ‘endless wars’
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/27/rnc-speakers-exaggerate-trumps-military-drawdown-e/
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Speakers at the Republican National Convention exaggerated President Donald Trump’s progress toward getting the U.S. out of “endless wars” in the Middle East.
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The Pentagon said there are currently more than 8,000 U.S. forces in Afghanistan, about 5,200 in Iraq and about 500 in Syria, with plans for future withdrawals.
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Experts said the “endless wars” haven’t ended, peace in the Middle East hasn’t been achieved, and the U.S. presence in the region hasn’t significantly slimmed under Trump.
McEnany calls out White House press corps for lack of interest in Mueller team wiping phones
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcenany-calls-out-press-mueller-phone-wiping
The White House press corps isn't paying enough attention to new and important developments surrounding the Justice Department's conduct in the Russia investigation, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on "Hannity" Friday.
"They don't care," McEnany told host Sean Hannity. "How many times have I been asked questions about very legitimate things like Michael Flynn, the injustice done to him?
"Now we learn what Mueller's team was doing," she said. "Several dozens, think about that, several dozens of devices returned damaged, wiped clean, some of them intentionally so. One of those devices was Andrew Weissmann's ... who was rebuked 9-0 by the Supreme Court for prosecutorial overreach and misconduct -- and Lisa Page too, among these offenders.
Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19
The health department’s politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly scientific reports charting the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, in what officials characterized as an attempt to intimidate the reports’ authors and water down their communications to health professionals.
Trump aides review CDC coronavirus reports to better align with president's upbeat messaging: report
The president's political aides have successfully demanded to review and, in some cases, modify weekly Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports on the coronavirus to better align scientific reports with Trump's upbeat messages, Politico reported.
Top Senate Republicans pressing for investigation on Mueller team phones being 'wiped'
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/12/politics/senate-doj-mueller-phones/index.html
Trump Bragged About Protecting Saudi Prince Whose Goons Dismembered a Journalist via Bone Saw
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/donald-trump-mbs-saved-his-ass
In a world in which Donald Trump
is president, it can be hard to remember scandals that happened two
years ago, let alone last week. But try, if you can, to recall the
incident in which journalist, U.S. resident, and Saudi dissident Jamal
Khashoggi was kidnapped and dismembered via bone saw, allegedly on the order of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Trump let Prince Mohammed get a way with it, because the kingdom bought some weapons from the U.S. and the guy was bros with Jared Kushner. (Also, because he has a fondness for dictators.) While you’re recollecting, also remember that Trump continued to defend the de facto Saudi leader even after Saudi Arabia admitted the killing was premeditated and the CIA separately concluded the prince directed
the murder. (The prince, naturally, denies the whole thing.) All in
all, it was a pretty messed up situation, even for a guy who muses
about dating his own daughter. Also messed up? That Trump apparently
boasted about helping bin Salman get away with the whole thing,
according to—what else?— Bob Woodward’s new book. Per Business Insider:
Donald Trump bragged that he protected Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from congressional scrutiny after the brutal assassination of the American journalist Jamal Khashoggi. That’s according to the veteran reporter Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, Rage, set to be released next Tuesday.… Woodward wrote that Trump called him on January 22 shortly after attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. During the conversation, Woodward pressed the president about Khashoggi’s gruesome murder. Khashoggi, 59, a longtime Washington Post columnist known for his criticism of the Saudi kingdom, was assassinated and dismembered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, after going there to get paperwork for his upcoming marriage. “The people at the Post are upset about the Khashoggi killing,” Woodward told Trump on January 22, his book says. “That is one of the most gruesome things. You yourself have said.”
“Yeah, but Iran is killing 36 people a day, so—” Trump began, before Woodward redirected the conversation and continued to press Trump about MBS’s role in ordering Khashoggi’s killing. “I saved his ass,” Trump had said amid the U.S. outcry following Khashoggi's murder, the book says. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.”