"When asked at an event at the New York Economic Club 'what specific piece of legislation will you advance' to make child care affordable, the 78-year-old Trump answered:
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"From there, the money went by wire transfer to three Turkish shell companies, three additional shells in the United Arab Emirates, and one phony company in Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of East Africa. From there, the money made its way to a bank in New York controlled by Tenet Media founders Laren Chen and Liam Donovan."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Donald Trump’s media empire, Truth Social, is losing tens of millions of dollars and its stock has been dropping precipitously even though its founder is a candidate for President of the United States, which would seem to be a benefit to the company rather than a drag on its earnings.
But little Tenet Media down in Tennessee is healthy and profitable."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"According to the indictment, $8.7 million was transferred to the accounts of right-wing commentators Pool and Johnson and Rubin. The remaining $1.3 million was presumably used to pay Chen and Donovan as founders and managers.
And whoop-dee-doo! They didn’t have to pay a cent to Eduard Grigoriann because he exists only as a figment of the imagination of the Russian handlers in Moscow who have been running Tenet Media all along."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The indictment underscores how stupid these MAGA media celebrities were, when they were approached with this super-cool opportunity to make a few videos per week in exchange for (in a couple cases) millions of dollars, to be paid by a completely fake man named EDUARDO GRIGORIANN!"
~ Evan Hurst
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"This has led to the delightful specter of high-profile rightwing commentators loudly insisting they were too stupid to know that Russian money was behind the wildly exorbitant sums they received for producing content. ...
From the details in the indictment, it’s impossible Chen and Donovan didn’t know their money was coming from Russia via shady means.
~ Lisa Needham
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
/7Russia's useful idiots
The MAGA influencer ecosystem is even shadier than we thought.
(www.publicnotice.co)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Unfortunately, the Russians have scads of money, and plenty of Americans are despicable enough to take their cash."
~ Tom Nichols
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
/8The Russian Propaganda Attack on America
Sometimes money is more effective than weapons.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm: last edited by
@tob Well-stated and very exact — right on the mark.
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Tofu Golemreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
It doesn't matter if they said these things because Russia paid them, or if Russia paid them because they were already saying what Russia wanted to hear. Either way, they are working for the benefit of Russia. -
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@wdlindsy Trump sounds like a third grader asked to do a book report on a book he never read.
That is what old media should be reporting.
An English major should start a Trump speech analysis blog to aid the press in deconvolving the nonsense to show he is not answering the question.
A new media should be pointing out his lies upon lies.
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Ralph (AF4EZ)replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy The Gray Lady is dead. Whatever is in its place is unsuited for the bottom of a bird cage.
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@ralph058 Well-stated and well-observed.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Ralph (AF4EZ) last edited by
@ralph058 "An English major should start a Trump speech analysis blog to aid the press in deconvolving the nonsense to show he is not answering the question": that's an excellent observation.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Tofu Golem last edited by
@tofugolem Yes, though I do think it matters whether they're lying about what they knew, and hope people will keep probing that point.
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@wdlindsy The problem is, you and I read this and think "WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING? HAS HE NO RESPECT?" while his fans are LOVING it because i their minds he's speaking truth to power and "draining the swamp".
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Honestly I'm still reeling from Arlington National Cemetery and will NEVER forgive his stunt making a political speech at CIA headquarters in front of the wall of stars for fallen agents.
IMO you can have serious reservations about the intelligence industrial complex (and boy howdy do I!) but still pay the proper respect for people who DIED trying to help protect our freedom.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Earlier this week, I wrote an article for The New Republic (and expanded on it in a post here at TPA) about how the media 'sanewashes' Trump. If you missed that, I recommend checking it out.
And then yesterday, we were given a perfect example of this."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
/9The Press Response to Trump's Word Salad Answer on Childcare is Peak Sanewashing
He rambled for two minutes. You wouldn't know that from a lot of the media coverage.
(www.readtpa.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"All this of course raises another serious question: Who else have the Russians bought? After all, $10 million is a small amount to a government like Russia (or Egypt for that matter). But to individuals like these far-right influencers, or to a certain ex-president nearing financial insolvency, $10 million could be life changing."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Republicans #Russia #Putin
/9A MAGA Meltdown
The Russian influence peddling scandal begins to mount casualties.
(statuskuo.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"The Washington Post led with his incoherent comments about childcare in a Thursday speech. In the Times’ account? Barely a word. ...
He should be quoted verbatim, not in a partial way that sanitizes his words and cleans them up.
Why? Because his mental fitness at age 78 to be president for the next four years is a legitimate issue."~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #WashingtonPost #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The biggest problem, the problem that all journalistic analysis of Trump’s response ought to lead with, is that his answer makes absolutely no sense. …
Reading through some media outlets’ attempts to report on Trump’s comments yesterday, one can witness in real time the process of trying to impose sense where there is none."
~ Isabel Fattal
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
/11A New Level of Incoherence From Trump
His answer to a specific policy question yesterday made absolutely no sense.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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@wdlindsy
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The Tenet Media guys are worse than useful idiots. They're collaborators. …
When someone is a victim of a scheme, he does not usually end up with a pile of money as a result of it. So if these gentlemen are victims then I expect they will either give the ill-gotten money back to the Russian government, or give it away to charity, yes?"
~ Jonathan V. Last