The tempo of fake news is picking up. I guess the media can't take the fact that President Trump's North Korean policy has been working so they need something to try to make things look bad.
The first item on the list is a crazy story in the New York Times which quotes "sources" as saying that General Kelly, the chief of staff in the White House, has called the President an "idiot" on repeated occasions and has claimed that he alone is saving the country. Both General Kelly and the President himself called this phony fake news, or as Kelly put it "total BS".
I wasn't present for any of these supposed discussions, but I already know that the story is a phony one. All I needed to know is that General Kelly is a smart man; he would never call the President names in a White House meeting. It doesn't take a genius to understand that President Trump does not take kindly to people who work for him badmouthing him. No matter what Kelly thinks of Trump's intellect, Kelly would never demean the President because he knows quite well that such a statement would come back to bite him. To be clear, I don't think that Kelly has a low opinion of Trump, but even if he did, there's just no way he would vocalize that opinion in any way that could get back to the President.
Then there's the supposed context of some of these statements. The article says that Kelly called Trump names after Kelly had to talk the President out of a total US withdrawal from Korea last February. That never happened. There's just no way. A US withdrawal from South Korea would have left our ally, South Korea in a terrible position. It would have undermined faith in the USA by Japan. It would have handed China total hegemony in East Asia. And there would have been no meaningful benefit for the USA in such a move. Indeed, it would be such an idiotic move that my guess is that it was dreamed up either by the Times' reporters or by some "source" trying to plant misinformation with those same reporters.
Then there's the supposed list of questions that Mueller wants to ask the President as part of his investigation. That list got leaked to the press and published in the same New York Times. The President properly called the leaking of the list disgusting. In response, media outlets like CNN are reporting that the grammar used in the questions on the list indicate that the list was written by Trump's people and leaked by the White House. That's an actual story. Supposedly, since Mueller's people are all attorneys, they wouldn't have written the questions in the form in which they appear on the list. The problem with that phony story, of course, is that the only people from the White House who spoke with Mueller and his people were also all attorneys. The grammar and form of the question wouldn't indicate anything. And let me add this: I am an attorney and worked with other attorneys for many decades. You would be amazed how many lawyers don't really know how to ask a question properly. I know attorneys who have supposedly specialized in litigation for decades who still can't ask a proper question. This is just more fake news.
The first item on the list is a crazy story in the New York Times which quotes "sources" as saying that General Kelly, the chief of staff in the White House, has called the President an "idiot" on repeated occasions and has claimed that he alone is saving the country. Both General Kelly and the President himself called this phony fake news, or as Kelly put it "total BS".
I wasn't present for any of these supposed discussions, but I already know that the story is a phony one. All I needed to know is that General Kelly is a smart man; he would never call the President names in a White House meeting. It doesn't take a genius to understand that President Trump does not take kindly to people who work for him badmouthing him. No matter what Kelly thinks of Trump's intellect, Kelly would never demean the President because he knows quite well that such a statement would come back to bite him. To be clear, I don't think that Kelly has a low opinion of Trump, but even if he did, there's just no way he would vocalize that opinion in any way that could get back to the President.
Then there's the supposed context of some of these statements. The article says that Kelly called Trump names after Kelly had to talk the President out of a total US withdrawal from Korea last February. That never happened. There's just no way. A US withdrawal from South Korea would have left our ally, South Korea in a terrible position. It would have undermined faith in the USA by Japan. It would have handed China total hegemony in East Asia. And there would have been no meaningful benefit for the USA in such a move. Indeed, it would be such an idiotic move that my guess is that it was dreamed up either by the Times' reporters or by some "source" trying to plant misinformation with those same reporters.
Then there's the supposed list of questions that Mueller wants to ask the President as part of his investigation. That list got leaked to the press and published in the same New York Times. The President properly called the leaking of the list disgusting. In response, media outlets like CNN are reporting that the grammar used in the questions on the list indicate that the list was written by Trump's people and leaked by the White House. That's an actual story. Supposedly, since Mueller's people are all attorneys, they wouldn't have written the questions in the form in which they appear on the list. The problem with that phony story, of course, is that the only people from the White House who spoke with Mueller and his people were also all attorneys. The grammar and form of the question wouldn't indicate anything. And let me add this: I am an attorney and worked with other attorneys for many decades. You would be amazed how many lawyers don't really know how to ask a question properly. I know attorneys who have supposedly specialized in litigation for decades who still can't ask a proper question. This is just more fake news.
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