BALTIMORE, Maryland, Thursday, February 16, 2017 - It was called a "news conference." What it really was, in actual fact, was the President giving the big boys and girls in the Mainstream Ultra Left Media a severe tongue-lashing. God knows they deserve it. Their arrogance and narcissism is astounding. Yet one of them had the audacity to stand up and tell Trump that he was doing a "disservice" to the country by ripping the press.
What the mainstream media does these days bears no resemblance to journalism. There is no reporting of factual news. Trump pointed out several facts that were either not reported at all or so poorly reported that most Americans know little about it. How many Americans who get all or most of their news from the so-called big 5 (CBS, ABC, NBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times) know that Hillary Clinton swung a deal that resulted in Vladimir Putin and the Russians buying some 20% of the USA's known reserves of uranium? She really did, and the mainstream press did not report it. Trump asked the assembled media why the mainstream press did not report that Hillary was supplied - in advance - some of the questions to be posed to her during her debates with both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. He could have asked, but didn't, why no one from Hillary's campaign was ever called on to apologize for sending thugs to Trump's political rallies to start fights in which people were badly hurt. The media not only didn't insist on Hillary apologizing, they didn't even report on it. The election was held without Hillary even having to answer for such criminal activity. Trump asked during the press conference what the press would've done if he and not Hillary had done any of those things. I would've loved it if Trump would've asked one of the media types why they favored Hillary. What was it about someone who is the one responsible for Benghazi and the four American deaths that caused them to do all these things to her benefit and not Trump's.
We know the answer to that question, but wouldn't it be great if just once one of them would be put under the media spotlight to explain such insane thinking?
At the get together this afternoon at the White House, Trump defended Lt. General Flynn, saying the only reason he was asked to resign is because of his partial lack of candor with the Vice President. I would love it if Trump did an about-face and rehired Flynn. As we reported yesterday, Flynn is one of the few people who have their arms around the real evil tucked into the Iran deal. Without Flynn, there is every possibility that Obama will get away with keeping the "secret" parts of the Iran deal out of the public eye. And that would be beyond tragic. We speculated yesterday that the part of the deal Obama is willing to do just about anything to keep private are the parts of the deal that force the USA to side with Iran, militarily, if Israel attacks Iran to keep it from having a functioning nuclear weapon. Can you imagine American aircraft shooting down Israeli jets trying to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities? The USA needs to be ready to help Israel in such an attack, come hell or high water. I hope Trump realizes that. I cannot believe he would ever force USA military assets to be used against Israel. I think there is a good chance that some USA military units would refuse to participate in such operations. Then where would we be?
Of course, if Hillary had actually prevailed, such actual events might be closer than we care to think about.
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