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Trump Ensnares Media in Yet Another Fake News Boondoggle

The media was rife with ‘I told you so’ headlines yesterday, after reports from more unnamed sources said the first order of business for the Trump administration was to hold a summit with Vladimir Putin, in Iceland, just like Reagan did with Gorbachev, circa 1986.

The headlines were smug and the Twitterati of newly born left wing militarist war mongers were resplendent with calls for martial law or protests or anything that could stop Donald Trump, an obvious traitor against America — a revolting person of low qualities who enjoys to be urinated upon by Russian hookers.

The only problem with that narrative, as touching as it may seem, is that it’s completely false. According to Trump’s press secretary, it’s all fake news.

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Here is what Bloomberg peddled for news yesterday.

Donald Trump’s advisers have told U.K. officials that the incoming president’s first foreign trip will be a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, potentially in Reykjavik within weeks of taking office, the Sunday Times reported.

Trump plans to begin working on a deal to limit nuclear weapons, the newspaper said, without providing details. It cited an unidentified source for the summit plans, and added that Moscow is ready to agree to the meeting, based on comments from officials at the Russian embassy in London.

The paper, citing an unidentified adviser to Trump, told the Times that the president-elect, who will be sworn in on Jan. 20, will meet with Putin at a neutral venue “very soon.”

In eyeing Iceland’s capital, Trump’s team may be hoping to recreate the optics of a Reagan-era nuclear agreement. Former President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, then general secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, held a two-day summit in Reykjavik in October 1986 to work on what eventually became a major nuclear disarmament treaty between the two superpowers in 1987.

Trump’s transition team didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Did the media just make up this story out of thin air in an attempt to further deride Trump? I must admit, only in a bizarre world, such as the one created by the left for the left, is holding meetings with a military super power in the attempts to normalize relations and preserve peace considered a bad thing. Alas, we are living in an era of war, where the military industrial complex works overtime to control useful idiots to foment anger and sway public opinion towards (you guessed it) MOAR WAR.

This story was likely leaked by team Trump on purpose, in order to make the media look like jackass fools. By leaking falsehoods to an ornery and invective media, Trump keeps them on their toes and makes them second guess anything they hear coming out of his quarters, an effective disinformation strategy used to fool an enemy during a time of war.

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39 comments

  1. heckler

    Trumpf is hardcore but no none is as bad ass as putin

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    • bennyhill

      Putin set up hookers and cameras to get the backmail material on Trump because he knew he could. He played Donald the moron like a fiddle. The pissgate videos will be unleashed by end of year, i’ll bet impeachment proceedings will already be underway by then.

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  2. zola

    Could be that Trump is setting up his own internal Plumbers group – similar to the Nixon administration – to detect leaks. They fill up the staffers with some sort of tracer gas and then check who farts in the media.

    The problem is that the LameScream presstitutes are so full of shit, it will be hard to distinguish the tracer gas from the mole-ecules that are self-generated. As is the case for this emission.

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  3. Dr. Fly

    He said he was doing that, I agree.

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  4. t.c.

    The CIA is in revolt because there favourite ill-advised projects, Ukraine and Syria, are about to be undone. Trump needs to clean house

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  5. bennyhill

    Trump practically invented fake news with the birther myth, plus he’s politifact’s liar of the year for 2016. The Russians and the FBI both cheated to get this turd into office.

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    • husaria

      Wonderful! More entrainment! We already have organ grinder monkey. Is good job for you, no? We have another job for you. You are barking seal! All the raw fish you can eat……

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    • frog

      Bennyhill, these people here are hopeless. Most people at this site love to believe lies, and love to insult people who tell the truth. Why else would they support politifact’s liar of the year for 2016, for president?

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      • ericbakerbruce

        Frog,
        You never say anything CONCRETE. Rather than lay out a foundational premise, build a logical, rational framework on top of it, cite examples, and make direct instructional analogues – you incessantly whine and are on the defense. Grow a pair will you?

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      • jts5362

        Shut up frog

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      • husaria

        Ahhhh! Monkey is back! Now we have barking seal AND organ grinder monkey. Wonder if both like raw fish?

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    • ferd

      “The Russians and the FBI both cheated to get this turd into office.”

      I have been living in a two different rural areas in different states over the past eight months and I have actually gotten to know a lot of Trump voters. I believe the primary factor that put him over the top in key states was the REACTION to MSM narratives that did not ring true and the REACTION to media social agendas that pushed it too far too fast.

      Right or wrong, stuff like the knock out game, ALL lives don’t matter, that Kaepernick dude, where one gets to pee, the “hands up don’t shoot” scam and adding a fucking “Q” (whatever that means) to LGBT, were what mattered to swing voters who would have traditionally voted Democrat.

      Even if the Russians did leak the info on how Clinton and the media conspired against Bernie and Trump, I don’t think that that was a major factor.

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  6. stockslueth

    Barnum and Bailey might be closing after 146 years but now there’s a new circus in town. In a town already filled with scary angry clowns we have Trump the Ringmaster who will amaze his audience cavorting around Washington causing mayhem and destruction to the establishment over the next four years.

    If you go to Washington this week don’t forget your riot helmet.

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    • traderconfessions
      traderconfessions

      Is an odd and poetic coincidence but unfortunately the damage will be to the little guy, as always. The establishment folks always do just fine.

      I can’t wait for the Trump Circus to hit town because he will be so exposed as a clown. Wait until his best plans get shot don by some committee chairman from butt-fuck South Dakota and he has Alec Baldwin-like hissy fit. The tweets and lies will flow like the great Mississippi. Yes, our country will be perpetually embarrassed but like an alcoholic we must reach rock bottom before recognizing we are sick. Viva Trump!! Bring on the pain!

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      • frog

        Perhaps you are right, Trader Confessions. It took 8 years to hit bottom with W, and then we got Obama, who is a good, though not perfect, president. Maybe after 1 year of Trump and 1 year of Pence, after Trump is impeached or otherwise de-activated by the Republican establishment, we may be ready for a Dem Congress, and then a Dem president again. in 2020

        Or maybe Trump will last 4 years, if he decides to give the Republican establishment 100% of what they want. In which case it will be doubly obvious to his “anti-establishment” supporters that they have been played.

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        • husaria

          Oh my! Trump is not president yet and you are so uptight and anxious. Good. Good! Enemy of my enemy is more effective than I thought! Now,dance for us monkey.

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        • moosh

          Frog continues to smugly bash and is now a fortune teller.

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      • husaria

        You need role to amuse us. We have organ grinder monkey and barking seal. Now, what can doughy little lard butt do? You no worry! We find you something soon!

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  7. ferd

    Fly, your “Trump is playing 3d chess narrative” would be easier to sell if he could stop with verbal asides like “where I had the Miss Universe pageant that was very successful” when talking about Moscow and nuclear weapons.

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    • moosh

      You don’t think that is part of the 3d chess? You just took time to ask about it.

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    • moosh

      Please, this is how you deal. Are you short the sector? You should be, if you aren’t. Please post your short positions.

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    • heckler

      I am hearing that he also wants to stand down our nuclear silo readiness – back down to defcon 5

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  8. heaterman

    3 things I’ve heard about Trump’s healthcare plan:
    Enable insurers to sell their plans in any state. No restrictions. No barriers.
    Federal government negotiates drug prices.
    Healthcare premiums are tax deductible.

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  9. joshua

    The orange snowflake snowflake complaining about snl again on twitter. What a fucking gigantic labia. Embarrassing.

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    • ironbird

      Dude that smell. Cross your legs. Thanks in advance.

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      • joshua

        I think you’re smelling the liquor on your breath again, flaccidbird. Your boy Trump is a grade A sissy boy.

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    • husaria

      This doughy lard butt not very amusing. Should find something to entertain us.

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