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Want to Know More About … the Trump Hotel

Cynthia Mcfadden: “It’s The Money Spent By Foreign Governments That Have Ethics Watch Dogs Reeling.”

MCFADDEN: “It’s the money spent by foreign governments that have ethics watch dogs reeling. NBC news also reviewed thousands of registration forms for foreign agents. They show that lobbyists for Saudi Arabia spent $270,000 at the hotel. A few months later president trump took his first foreign trip there.” [Today, NBC, 8/8/18; VIDEO]

Cynthia Mcfadden: “NBC News Also Reviewed Thousands Of Pages Of Registration Forms For Foreign Agents. They Show That Lobbyists Working For Saudi Arabia Spent $270,000 At The Hotel. A Few Months Later President Trump Took His First Foreign Trip There.”

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Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring

The following article by Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker was posted on the Washington Post website August 5, 2018:

President Trump on Aug. 4 called CNN “fake” and MSNBC “corrupt” but praised Fox News personalities during a rally for congressional hopeful Troy Balderson. (The Washington Post)

In private, President Trump spent much of the past week brooding, as he often does. He has been anxious about the Russia ­investigation’s widening fallout, with his former campaign chairman standing trial. And he has fretted that he is failing to accrue enough political credit for what he claims as triumphs.

At rare moments of introspection for the famously self-centered president, Trump has also expressed to confidants lingering unease about how some in his orbit — including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — are ensnared in the Russia probe, in his assessment simply because of their ­connection to him.

Yet in public, Trump is a man roaring. The president, more than ever, is channeling his internal frustration and fear into a ravenous maw of grievance and invective. He is churning out false statements with greater frequency and attacking his perceived enemies with intensifying fury. A fresh broadside came on Twitter at 11:37 p.m. Friday, mocking basketball superstar LeBron James and calling CNN’s Don Lemon “the dumbest man on television.”

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Trump takes us-versus-them media war to new heights

The following article by Amie Parnes was posted on the Hill website August 3, 2018:

When CNN’s Jim Acosta was booed and cursed at a campaign rally for President Trump this week, many political observers said it exemplified how much the media environment has changed under the current administration — and that it is a sign of what’s to come.

On Thursday, tensions reached new heights when Acosta walked out of the White House briefing room after press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to answer a pointed question about whether she agreed with Trump that the press was the “enemy of the people.”

Acosta noted that Ivanka Trump, earlier on Thursday, had said she did not agree with that sentiment.

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Trump blasts media amid chants of ‘CNN sucks’

The following article by Jacqueline Thomsen was posted on the Hill website August 2, 2018:

After a day of tension between the White House and CNN, the crowd at President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Thursday night broke out into chants of “CNN sucks” when the president blasted “fake news.”

Trump at the rally in Wilkes-Barre cited multiple examples of what he called “fake news,” including saying the “fake news refused to call” Pennsylvania for him during the 2016 presidential election.

The crowd responded with boos and jeers, with some chanting, “CNN sucks.”

Carl Bernstein Details Trump’s ‘Demonstrable’ Russia Cover-Up: ‘He Wants Our Credibility Destroyed Because We’re Reporting the Truth’

The following article by Elizabeth Preza was posted on the AlterNet website July 29, 2018:

“[Keeping the base] energized against the press is absolutely essential to Donald Trump fighting and furthering the cover-up.”

Carl Bernstein

Legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein on Sunday laid out Donald Trump’s “demonstrable” cover-up, telling CNN’s Brian Stelter that the president wants the media’s “credibility destroyed because we are reporting the truth.”

Bernstein on Friday reported Cohen’s claim that Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Russian nationals offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. Per the CNN report, Cohen is willing to “make that assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller.”

Speaking with Stelter on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Bernstein compared the Russia investigation to Watergate, explaining that he and his reporters are “making judgements about what is news” while those in power attempt to discredit the sources.

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Trump accuses ‘very unpatriotic’ journalists of putting the ‘lives of many’ in peril

The following article by Philip Rucker was posted on the Washington Post website July 29, 2018:

President Trump is not the first leader to label journalists as “enemies of the people” and creators of “fake news.” (Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post)

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump escalated his feud with the news media on Sunday, accusing journalists of being unpatriotic and endangering lives after the publisher of the New York Times disclosed that he had warned Trump recently that his inflammatory rhetoric about the media could lead to violence.

Trump — who has made “fake news” a rallying cry and labeled journalists the “enemy of the people” — fired off a Twitter tirade Sunday afternoon from his New Jersey golf estate blasting the media for revealing internal government deliberations and for what he considers unfairly negative coverage of his presidency.

“When the media — driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome — reveals internal deliberations of our government, it truly puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic!” Trump wrote.

Trump’s favorite conspiracy theorist joins his attacks on CNN

The following article by Oliver Willis was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 27, 2018:

Trump and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones are both smearing CNN this week and pushing a fake story that conservatives are being ‘silenced.’

Less than 48 hours after Trump banned a CNN reporter from covering a White House event just for asking a question, his ally and informal adviser Alex Jones joined him in attacking the news network.

On Wednesday, after CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked Trump a series of questions during a press availability, Trump’s new deputy communications director Bill Shine personally banned Collins from covering another supposedly open press event later that day.

Taking his cue from the administration’s hostility to the free press — Trump prefers sycophantic outlets like Fox News — Jones followed suit with his own attacks on CNN.

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Venting about press, Trump has repeatedly sought to ban reporters over questions

The following article by Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker was posted on the Washington Post website July 27, 2018:

President Trump speaks to the media outside the White House. Credit: Jabin Botsford, The Washington Post

President Trump has sought repeatedly to punish journalists for the way they ask him questions, directing White House staff to ban those reporters from covering official events or to revoke their press credentials, according to several current and former administration officials.

At various moments throughout his presidency, Trump has vented angrily to aides about what he considers disrespectful behavior and impertinent questions from reporters in the Oval Office and in other venues. He has also asked that retaliatory action be taken against them.

“These people shouting questions are the worst,” Trump has said, according to a current official. “Why do we have them in here?”

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Trump Hates Journalists but Not for the Reason He Claims

The following article by Connie Schultz was posted on the Creators.com website July 26, 2018:

Credit: Beanworks via MorgueFile.com

Last week, CNN Washington correspondent Ryan Nobles tweeted about a random encounter with a member of the public: “This rarely happens so I thought it was worth documenting. Gentleman stops me at the hotel where the press are staging covering POTUS — asks if I’m part of the press corps. I say yes — he replies

“‘Thank you for your service, the First Amendment is so important right now.'”

I understand why Nobles wanted to share this. It was not that he agreed with the man’s assessment. As Nobles made clear in a later tweet, he would never claim to be a public servant, and no journalist should. His original tweet offered a glimpse into how it feels whenever a member of the public is not attacking us for what we do.

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