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Trump has long rallied against so-called "fake news," branding some of America's largest media outlets, including CNN and The New York Times, as such.
His tweet comes amid reports that almost 343 news outlets will be publishing coordinated editorials on Thursday which denounce the US president's "dirty war" on the press. The movement was initially pushed by the Boston Globe.
On Thursday afternoon, the Senate unanimously approved a symbolic resolution proposed by Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and sponsored by Minority Leader Chuch Schumer (D-New York), declaring that "the press is not the enemy of the people" and condemning attacks on the "institution of the free press" and "efforts to systematically undermine the credibility of the press" as an attack on the "democratic institutions of the United States."
Comment: What a joke! Like a corrupt institution that is the US Senate has any credibility to counter the giant and justified mistrust in the mainstream media.
Trump's war on the media has been controversial since it began, with many claiming he is trying to censor the free press. He has skipped both White House correspondents' dinners that have taken place during his presidency, and the White House even went so far as to ban a CNN reporter from a press event last month, claiming she asked "inappropriate questions." In February 2017, shortly after he came into office, Trump banned reporters from CNN, the BBC, and the Guardian from an off-camera press briefing.
He has also accused the "fake news media" of taking part in a "phony Russian witch hunt" regarding unsubstantiated claims that Trump colluded with Moscow during the 2016 presidential election.
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As President, Trump has control of the military and upon taking office he immediately sprung his plan into action. He used the NSA (a military branch) to dig up all the dirt on all the people in power in government and their sources of finance and support from the corporate world. This includes the fake news media owners and their shills and lackeys. Q says they have everything and it will be used to remove all of these people committing crimes from power - permanently. The crimes include treason and sedition, since we are talking about removing a sitting president from power illegally.
So, Trump is calling them out while taking out the trash in the two key government agencies that can arrest and prosecute these guys - the FBI and the DOJ. At the same time, he's got Huber in Utah creating sealed indictments on literally tens of thousands of individuals from the the crimes they found in the NSA databases. Once the FBI and DOJ leadership issues are fixed, the arrests will start.
Some of it will be publicized, but some of it will be kept hidden so as not to destabilize society anymore than it needs to be. But rest assured, lots of media personalities will be arrested and/or lose their jobs. Some media conglomerates might even go down and cease to exist. It will be like the apocalypse for them.
I bet they are really scared right now. lol