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on Saturday January 27 2018, @10:22AM
from the lifesyles-of-the-rich-and-famous dept.
from the lifesyles-of-the-rich-and-famous dept.
The New York Times reports "Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit":
President Trump ordered the firing last June of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, according to four people told of the matter, but ultimately backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive.
Previously:
Mueller Investigation: Three Former Trump Aides Charged
Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the F.B.I.
UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @06:58PM (1 child)
Ummmmm...
The only reason we got a second term of Baby Bush was the NYT not reporting on the illegal wire tapping, until after the election "so as not to affect the election results."
NYT has never been great, but it isn't for the reasons you claim. NYT is pro establishment, not partisan.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday January 28 2018, @03:11PM
I think making that the only reason is a bit of an exaggeration. Some other factors that might have been in play:
- The media efforts to crush the campaign of Howard Dean by basically ignoring most of what his campaign had to say while using out-of-context audio of the "Dean Scream" to make Dean seem crazy and unhinged. Dean was looking like a stronger challenger than either John Kerry or John Edwards. But he represented the left wing of the Democratic Party at the time, so he had to be destroyed.
- Lots of media outlets including the NYT dutifully reporting the claims of the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" (that invented the idea that John Kerry's medals were fraudulent, contradicted by many who were there) and treated them as anything other than malarkey.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.