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Trump retweets Fox News story containing classified info.

President Donald Trump's retweet of a Fox News story claiming US satellites detected North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to a patrol boat is raising eyebrows on Tuesday after US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley indicated that the information in the report is classified and was leaked.

"I can't talk about anything that's classified and if that's in the newspaper that's a shame," Haley said Tuesday on "Fox and Friends" when asked about the story that cites two anonymous sources.

Pushed on whether the information was leaked, Haley said "it's one of those things I don't know what's going on.

I will tell you it's incredibly dangerous when things get out into the press like that."

But just a few hours before Haley's appearance on Fox, Trump retweeted a post from the Fox News morning show promoting the story said to contain classified information.

‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un,’ evangelical adviser says.

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers who preached the morning of his inauguration, has released a statement saying the president has the moral authority to take out North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“When it comes to how we should deal with evil doers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary — including war — to stop evil,” Jeffress said.

“In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un.”

Jeffress said in a phone interview that he was prompted to make the statement after Trump said that if North Korea’s threats to the United States continue, Pyongyang will be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

Misty » 08 Aug 2017 6:42 pm » wrote: Yes, right wingnut sources I'm sure.
Try reading the story on a site that is not a wingnut blog like gateway pundit or pajamas media.

Termin8tor » 08 Aug 2017 10:24 pm » wrote:So you cite the corrupt Beltway WashPost and Politico?

Misty » 08 Aug 2017 10:29 pm » wrote: Anyone who cites wingnut sources like gateway pundit or pajamas media has no right to talk about my sources.

Misty » 08 Aug 2017 10:33 pm » wrote:You know who has a Purple Heart and a Bronze Medal? Robert Mueller.

You know who doesn't? Donald Trump. That's all.

Termin8tor » 08 Aug 2017 10:40 pm » wrote:You never cared that Clinton was a liar and a draft dodger.
You stack the deck on everything to favor Democrats and smear Republicans.
Psychopath.

Termin8tor » 08 Aug 2017 10:31 pm » wrote:I gave you two huge specific reasons not to trust the WashPost.
I could give many more such examples.

Misty » 08 Aug 2017 10:53 pm » wrote: Shove them up your ***.
Until you stop using wingnut blogs as sources, you have no right to criticize my sources you brainwashed idiot.

Misty » 08 Aug 2017 10:22 pm » wrote:Holy Mary, Mother of God.
SAVE US FROM THESE PEOPLE!

He has a HOTLINE directly to GAWD! God is also on speed dial!

Misty » 08 Aug 2017 10:33 pm » wrote:

Well in all fairness, he had a boo-boo on his foot.

Misty » 08 Aug 2017 10:33 pm » wrote:Blah, blah about purple hearts and medals

Well in all fairness, he had a boo-boo on his foot.

Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day.

It’s known as the “propaganda document”

Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president.

The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don’t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives.

Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

One White House official said the only feedback the White House communications shop, which prepares the folder, has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more **** positive.”

That’s why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.”

The process of assembling the folder begins at the Republican National Committee’s “war room,” which has expanded from 4 to 10 people since the GOP won the White House.

A war room — both parties have one regardless of who’s in the White House — is often tasked with monitoring local and national news, cable television, social media, digital media, and print media to see how the party, its candidates or their opponents are being perceived.

Beginning at 6 a.m. every weekday — the early start is a longtime war room tradition — three staffers arrive at the RNC to begin monitoring the morning shows on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News as they scour the internet and newspapers.

Every 30 minutes or so, the staffers send the White House Communications Office an email with chyron screenshots, tweets, news stories, and interview transcripts.

White House staffers then cull the information, send out clips to other officials, and push favorable headlines to a list of journalists.

But they also pick out the most positive bits to give to the president.

On days when there aren’t enough positive chyrons, communications staffers will ask the RNC staffers for flattering photos of the president.

“Maybe it’s good for the country that the president is in a good mood in the morning,” one former RNC official said.

Contacted by VICE News, Spicer disputed the nature of the folder.

“While I won’t comment on materials we share with the president, this is not accurate on several levels,” he said in an email.

Asked what about the story was inaccurate, Spicer did not respond.

Of course, every White House monitors media coverage to see how they’re being covered, and the RNC may have decided more staff was needed after the party won the White House.

As the political media environment has become faster-moving and more frenzied, the efforts to follow it have also become more robust.

The Obama White House usually had at least one very caffeinated point person and two others dedicated to watching Twitter, online publications, print media, and cable news, and then compile relevant clips and send them around to White House aides.

But the production of a folder with just positive news — and the use of the RNC to help produce it — seemed abnormal to former White House officials.

“If we had prepared such a digest for Obama, he would have roared with laughter,” said David Axelrod, the senior adviser to Barack Obama during his first two years in the White House.

“His was a reality-based presidency.”

“The RNC is always going to work to defend the White House, the administration, and its members of Congress, and our war room’s efforts help capture and drive how our team can echo that defense,” said RNC spokeswoman Lindsay Jancek.

Another current White House official said that the idea for the twice-daily ego boost came from Priebus and Spicer, who competed to deliver the folder and be the bearer of the good news.

“Priebus and Spicer weren’t in a good position, and they wanted to show they could provide positive coverage,” the official said.

“It was self-preservation.”

In the two-plus weeks following the departure of both Spicer and Priebus, White House officials say, the document has been produced less frequently and more typically after public events, such as Trump’s recent speech at the National Boy Scouts Jamboree in West Virginia.

It’s unclear what will change, if anything, once a new White House communications director is appointed to replace the briefly tenured Anthony Scaramucci.

It’s not the first recorded instance of Trump welcoming excessive flattery.

He frequently cites or thanks cable television hosts like Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, and the hosts of “Fox & Friends” who cover his presidency more favorably.

And at a broadcasted Cabinet meeting in June, Trump listened contentedly as the vice president, his chief of staff, and nearly all of the 15 Cabinet secretaries heaped praise on him.

Priebus took that opportunity to tell Trump: “On behalf of the entire senior staff around you, Mr. President, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you’ve given us to serve your agenda and the American people.”

Misty » 09 Aug 2017 11:26 am » wrote:How **** emotionally needy is this mental cripple that he needs to constantly have his ego fed like this?

Misty » 09 Aug 2017 11:26 am » wrote:How **** emotionally needy is this mental cripple that he needs to constantly have his ego fed like this?

Termin8tor » 09 Aug 2017 11:39 am » wrote:Vice news?
Who the heck are they and why should we trust them?

Randal Pinkett strode into the salmon-coloured marble atrium of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, stepped into a lift that glided up to the 26th floor and entered an office that, along with a vista of wintry Manhattan, was lined with signed memorabilia and magazine covers bearing the face of Donald John Trump.

The first and only African American winner of the reality TV show The Apprentice had arrived for his first day at work.

But when he walked in, Pinkett recalls, Trump was methodically working through a foot-high stack of magazines and newspapers on his desk.

Each item in the stack had a Post-it note; and Trump took an item off the top of the stack, put it on his desk and opened it at the Post-it note.

He read the relevant article then put it to the side.

Disconcertingly, this ritual continued throughout their half-hour meeting in early 2006.

“So I’m wondering,” Pinkett says, “is this guy reading current trends in real estate, is he reading stock market coverage, is he reading about global business?

I lean over as we’re talking and I realize everything he’s looking at is an article about himself.

In fact at several points in the conversation Donald got so excited about what he was reading about himself that he would pick up the magazine and hold it up to me and say, ‘Look Randal, do you see that The Apprentice was number one in the ratings last week, isn’t that great?’

“Apparently somebody’s job responsibility is to find all this stuff and to organize it for him to read.

I can only conclude that Donald loves reading about Donald.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... st-profile

Misty » 09 Aug 2017 12:06 pm » wrote: I believe the story because like I said, he did the same thing when he ran his business.
This is what one of the winners of The Apprentice said about what he saw when he walked into Trump's office at Trump Tower.


Haven't you ever seen pictures of his desk at Trump Tower?
He has stacks of magazines with his picture on the cover laying around.