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Why Does the Media Let Trump Tell So Many Lies?

Mike Weisser
4 min readJul 28, 2023

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Uh oh. Watch out! If Trump gets convicted or even if he’s just indicted again, there’s going to be a wave of violence like we’ve never seen!

That’s Trump talking. And when Trump talks the fake news media always repeats and amplifies what he says because, after all, whatever pops out of Trump’s mouth is news, right?

Here’s what he said just prior to being indicted in New York: “What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former president of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting president in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a crime, when it is known by all that NO crime has been committed, & also that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our country?”

Note the reference to ‘death and destruction.’

Here’s another comment he made when he was asked what would happen if Jack Smith’s Grand Jury handed down an indictment: “I think they’d have big problems. Big problems. I just don’t think they’d stand for it. They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes.”

Of course, Trump has to be a little more circumspect when predicting what will happen vis-à-vis Jack Smith, because the investigation into Trump’s January 6th role is an…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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