{"id":9849,"date":"2019-03-03T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9849"},"modified":"2019-03-03T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:47:05","slug":"tweetstorm-of-the-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9849","title":{"rendered":"Tweetstorm of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering, What&#8217;s up with The Donald since he got humiliated by that pudgy North Korean delinquent?<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all will probably not be surprised to learn that the First Felon is still a corrupt madman enamored of Big Lies.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After more than two years of Presidential Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and other broke the law. The hostile Cohen testimony, given by a liar to reduce his prison time, proved no Collusion! His just written book manuscript showed what he&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1102237752744120322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;said was a total lie, but Fake Media won\u2019t show it. I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted &amp; corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal &amp; should never have been allowed to start &#8211; And only because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1102233209708924930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to every publisher that the press have asked &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Michael Cohen shopped around a proposed book about Trump, once upon a time.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Nobody bit.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>There is no book deal or book about to be published.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Nobody acknowledges ever seeing a manuscript.<\/ul>\n<p>Trump is lying &#8212; the claim is pure invention of a very particular sort, however.  It is what used to be known as a Big Lie, something so garish and demonstrably false that some people would conclude there just has to be something to it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s cultists regard him as a god-like figure &#8212; and they will believe it.  You can count on hearing, from Trump supporters, about the conflicts between Cohen&#8217;s testimony and his book; it will be remarked as a universally recognized, acknowledged fact.<\/p>\n<p>This is being done the same way that Trump lied about Lester Holt.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What\u2019s going on at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> is happening, to different degrees, at other networks &#8211; with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCNews<\/a> being the worst. The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1035120511259500544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Andy Lack is still the President of NBC News, and Trump&#8217;s frank acknowledgment to Lester Holt that Comey was fired because of the &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; is still routinely broadcast; no &#8220;fudging&#8221; was ever discovered.<\/p>\n<p>But notice how Trump&#8217;s  smears, his Big Lies, are delivered &#8212; as though they are settled, established facts that everybody knows.  This is how propaganda works; it doesn&#8217;t change minds, but gives permission to believe untrue things that people want to believe.  Trump&#8217;s supporters want to believe that the &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; is a witch hunt, so they&#8217;re happy to believe that Holt is corrupt and &#8220;fudged&#8221; the tape somehow.  They want to believe that Cohen lied Wednesday, so there is a mysterious manuscript which proves it.<\/p>\n<p>We have a very dangerous man in the White House, and the Deplorable One-Third who believe him are no less dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering, What&#8217;s up with The Donald since he got humiliated by that pudgy North Korean delinquent? 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