- We could also talk about Obama’s ‘hot mic’ commitment and plea: “Tell Vlad…”
NBC Panel Rips Trump’s ‘Wrecking Ball Tour,’ Accuses Him of Interfering in the British Election
“Interfering in the British election”! this is a report on an NBC edition, and it would be mainly a waste of time to give much consideration to anything said on that network.
To us, however, it touches on what is so amazing to watch: how some of the most blatant misrepresentations and downright zany distortions can remain so enduring in the media, both the ‘mainstream’ and even legitimate news and opinion outlets. All aimed at discrediting the current president of the united states.
In his column, Mr. Foley does, to his great credit, note one of the most egregiously ignored rebuttals to one of the biggest distortions in current media….how when it serves one purpose, “Russia meddled in America’s 2016 election” (this one is always hauled out to reinforce the discredited notion that trump’s administration ‘colluded’ with Russia to do so).
And then, there’s the media’s most popular silly charge that trump is ‘interfering’ in a British election, intended to serve to illustrate how dastardly trump is on the world stage .
Each of these charges are kept alive as though they are so unprecedented in all of recorded history…imagine!!…one country ‘meddling’ in another country’s election? OMG!!!!
The hypocrisy and silliness of all this ‘swooning’ by supposedly ‘hardened’ reporters who have ‘seen it all’ is exposed by this one recollection from the ‘great moments of the Obama presidency’:
“In 2015, President Obama meddled in the Israeli election by spending $350,000 in an effort to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in that year’s election. The efforts of the Obama Administration and other liberal groups to defeat Netanyahu ultimately failed, Netanyahu won re-election and still serves as Israel’s Prime Minister today. This might not necessarily count as interference..(IT WOULD IF TRUMP HAD DONE IT).. but President Obama urged voters in the United Kingdom to vote “remain” on the “Brexit” referendum, telling them they would move to “the back of the queue” in any trade deal with the United States should they decide to leave the European Union.”
DLH
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More from Mr. Foley’s column:
During Friday’s edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports, the MSNBC host went after the President for praising Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and suggesting he would make a good Prime Minister. Johnson resigned earlier in the week due to his disapproval of May’s “Brexit” strategy. Johnson, unlike May, vocally supported the June 2016 referendum where voters ultimately chose to leave the European Union. Mitchell asked former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns “when have we last seen an American President interfere in a British election or any overseas election of an ally?”
Burns replied “We have not seen this kind of wrecking ball tour of Europe by any American President in the history of our country, to go after the Germans, to go after the British, to go after NATO and the EU. And now, the White House has a big problem with optics. They’ve had this disputatious tour of Europe, our best allies.”
He proceeded to tie Rod Rosenstein’s press conference on new indictments in the Russia investigation to President Trump’s upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland, saying “The President is going to see Putin, if he doesn’t cancel the meeting….this cannot look like an embrace of Putin. It can’t look like two buddies getting together.”
Burns added “The President needs to be tough on this issue of interference, on Crimea, on the nerve agent attack which cost a British woman her life last week. The President indicated at the press conference this morning at Checkers, he’s not prepared to do that. He wants to have a nice meeting with Putin. How can he do that following these indictments?”
Since Burns refused to answer Mitchell’s question about election meddling, here is the correct answer: In 2015, President Obama meddled in the Israeli election by spending $350,000 in an effort to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in that year’s election. The efforts of the Obama Administration and other liberal groups to defeat Netanyahu ultimately failed, Netanyahu won re-election and still serves as Israel’s Prime Minister today. This might not necessarily count as interference but President Obama urged voters in the United Kingdom to vote “remain” on the “Brexit” referendum, telling them they would move to “the back of the queue” in any trade deal with the United States should they decide to leave the European Union.
Mitchell asked former Obama Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller “Does this in any way insulate Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein from the attacks?” The “attacks” Mitchell referred to are the repeated branding of the Russia investigation as a “witch hunt” by the President, his supporters, and his legal team.
Miller responded by saying “The best way to answer those attacks, because Bob Mueller can’t go out and do interviews… is to respond in Court with facts. And today, he put a lot of new facts on the record that show very convincingly this isn’t a witch hunt, this is a serious investigation and it’s producing fruit.” Miller also suggested that the timing of Rosenstein’s press conference just ahead of a planned summit with Putin was no accident: “I have to question whether the timing of this indictment was both a way for the Special Counsel and for Rod Rosenstein to push back against the really inappropriate attacks and also if it was a little bit of a way to force the President’s hand as he goes into this meeting on Monday.”
