March 17, 2018: On Fox News Everyone Else is Lying, Except President Trump

 

3/17/18: Early Sunday morning, the Orange Buffoon tunes in to watch his favorite cable news show. As usual, Fox News shapes whatever “reality” it is the president inhabits. At 7:02 a.m. he tweets: “Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked ‘have you ever been an anonymous source...or known someone else to be an anonymous source...?’ He said strongly ‘never, no.’ He lied as shown clearly on @foxandfriends.” 

Yes. Clearly. On Fox & Friends. 

At this point, I think if the hosts of that show claimed bagels were sentient, Trump would tweet agreement.

General Barry McCaffrey - no fan of Trump.

 

Twenty minutes later, Trump denies, via Twitter, that notes former F.B.I. official Andrew McCabe says he took after meetings with the president exist. “Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe,” Trump taps on his phone. “But he never took notes when he was with me. I don’t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?” 

You can call them “fake memos” if you want. In court, a judge will most likely call them “evidence.”

 

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FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, John O. Brennan served with the C.I.A. He left government service briefly, then returned, heading the Agency from 2013 to 2017. 

In theory, of course, he could be just another liar picking on poor Donald J. Trump. 

After Trump ordered F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired days before he was scheduled to retire, Brennan tweeted this response: 

When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but will not destroy America...America will triumph over you [emphasis added, here and below].

 

So, if you watched Fox, you had to figure: 

1.     McCabe was a liar. 

2.     James Comey was a liar. 

3.     John Brennan was a liar. 

4.     Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was a liar.

 

A fifth “liar,” retired four-star General Barry R. McCaffrey, had harsh words for Trump the same day. 

“Reluctantly,” he tweeted, “I have concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to US national security. He is refusing to protect vital US interests from active Russian attacks. It is apparent that he is for some unknown reason under the sway of Mr Putin.” 

McCaffrey? What does he know? All he has are three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars for valor, and two Distinguished Service Crosses to his name.

For perspective, see: 3/16/18, and then puzzle out who, in this kind of situation, you can really trust. See also, Trump claiming to have tapes of a meeting with James Comey, but finally admitting, nope. He does not: 4/20/18.