That’s as good an explanation as any. I couldn’t figure out WHAT the fuck he was talking about.
He seemed to be boasting that using the technology and tweeting shit all the time made him Thoroughly Modern Millie.
This is a nice piece of spycraft.
Trump mentioned Blumenthal last night in relations to the Birther movement, dog-whistling to the Alt Right and their unwitting allies:
Now “Blumenthal” is pinning the blame for Benghazi on her. To an audience just primed and re-primed to dislike him.
So in other words, Wikileaks is Wikifakes?
Thought so.
Time to confront Russia.
Also well past time to really start squeezing Ecuador’s balls. Yah, yah, I know big, bad imperial USA picking on poor little Ecuador, but if memory serves me correct we were among the first to recognize her sovereignty.
Isn’t it possible that the email is genuine and Blumenthal plagiarized Eichenwald? I should say, I’m not proposing this, just trying to understand what’s going on here.
Exactly.
He plagiarized the piece he attached? You do that?
Seriously, though, Trump quoted not the email, but the Sputnik article which faked its reporting.
Not picking on you, specifically, but my understanding is that actually it’s quite easy to lose money running a casino. Make it too big, or one of too many, for the regional market, finance too much of it with leveraged money and put it in a place where no one wants to go during the winter.
I wonder if it’s Pence announcing he’s no longer an undecided voter?
Just FYI, Eichenwald is updating his article, not writing a new one. So refresh for the more info - essentially details about Trump using the Sputnik article directly at a rally tonight.
Shit! Trump raped a mermaid!
I’m apparently not understanding. So, Russian news published a falsified article. Trump cited it hours later. Does it have to be that they are working together and not that he has people who have a google alert that pulled up this falsified article.
(I’m not a Trump supporter, and I want him desperately to be outed as the con man he is. I’m’ not JAQing, I just genuinely don’t get the timeline here.)
That is the question Eichenwald posed to Trump: how did you come to quote a single article published just this morning by the Russian News agency, directly quoting the plagiarized lines?
He tried to grab her pussy, but…
MERMAID PARADOX!
No cite, but I seem to recall seeing more than one article mentioning that Trump is proud of how little he sleeps.
With that in mind, I suspect that one possible reason for his strange, disconnected speech patterns is…because of how little he sleeps.
So, no one is posing a direct link from Putin to Trump, just that Trump was too willing to run with a published falsified document as proof?
And, as noted above (or maybe it was in the other thread): isn’t it an amazing coincidence that the email is allegedly from Sidney Blumenthal, whom Trump had name-checked in last night’s debate?
Casinos across the continent are not doing well. There are too many of them and the gambling revenue is too thinly spread. This isn’t a Trump failure, it’s industrynwide.
Though, was that the case 20-plus years ago, when Trump suffered the big loss on his casino business? (It might have been; I don’t follow the industry enough to know, though it seems like the 90s were the building boom, as gambling laws were loosened.)
The thing is, the original article that was plagiarized was about the politicization of the Benghazi investigations. The original article is mentioned by name in letter written by “Blumenthal” so we know that writer is familiar with it. However, the two plagiarized sentences, in “Blumenthal’s” usage, change the meaning. “Blumenthal” quoted those two sentences to make it seem like Podesta and “Blumenthal”, Clinton Cronies, were agreeing that the attack as preventable. In the original article by Eichenwald, those sentences are part of a whole article saying, essentially, even if the attack was preventable, the Republican politicization of the attack was damaging and problematic.
By deliberatately cherrypicking the plagarized portions, Fake “Blumenthal” changed the meaning of the lines. What’s the use of plagarizing something if you’re just going to alter the meaning of the words?
So while it’s feasible that “Blumenthal” might have been the real Sidney Blumenthal plagiarizing Eric Eichenwald - it’s seems pretty unlikely. It would have been pointless and self-defeating.