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enhanced_deficit
01-18-2019, 01:25 PM
It's based on MSM reporting, so got to make sure it's not fakenews:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKWPiIGToI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKWPiIGToI


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Impeachment talk grows louder after report Trump told Cohen to lie to Congresshttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/dems-vow-action-after-report-trump-directed-cohen-lie-about-n960156



(https://www.today.com/video/trump-directed-cohen-to-lie-to-congress-about-moscow-project-buzzfeed-report-says-1428184643985)

dannno
01-18-2019, 01:27 PM
Is there any corroborating evidence about anything that Cohen says?

timosman
01-18-2019, 01:30 PM
What's the penalty for obstruction of justice in this town?:confused:

nikcers
01-18-2019, 01:33 PM
What's the penalty for obstruction of justice in this town?:confused:
:tears:
So many tax dollars that it would be hard to count unfortunately.

nikcers
01-18-2019, 01:37 PM
Is there any corroborating evidence about anything that Cohen says?

They don't have shit if they did they would of used it during the election because they would of already had it with all of our government surveillance. This whole thing is just a boondoggle.

Schifference
01-18-2019, 01:37 PM
Will this slow Trump down? Will it phase him at all?

nikcers
01-18-2019, 01:41 PM
Will this slow Trump down? Will it phase him at all?

Well right now we have congress vs Trump so we will soon find out what happens when an immovable object faces an unstoppable force.

Schifference
01-18-2019, 01:59 PM
It's based on MSM reporting, so got to make sure it's not fakenews:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKWPiIGToI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKWPiIGToI


Related

Impeachment talk grows louder after report Trump told Cohen to lie to Congresshttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/dems-vow-action-after-report-trump-directed-cohen-lie-about-n960156



(https://www.today.com/video/trump-directed-cohen-to-lie-to-congress-about-moscow-project-buzzfeed-report-says-1428184643985)

When she was asking all those questions I was thinking of so many politicians that fit those obstruction profile.

spudea
01-18-2019, 03:03 PM
If she is referring to the Don. Jr. statement on the trump tower meeting with Fusion GPS Russian Lawyer that was given special permission to visit the US by attorney general lynch, what about the statement was misleading or a lie? The president has been 100% open, turned over millions of pages of documents, by the way he is not obligated whatsoever to turn over anything. The president retains the 5th amendment right against self incrimination. A person doesn't have to turn over any evidence that could be used against themselves. So her suggestion that withholding evidence is obstruction is false.

jkr
01-18-2019, 03:18 PM
RUBBY
RIDGE


DISQUALIFIED!

Give it to judge swamp...

spudea
01-18-2019, 11:31 PM
It's based on MSM reporting, so got to make sure it's not fakenews:


(https://www.today.com/video/trump-directed-cohen-to-lie-to-congress-about-moscow-project-buzzfeed-report-says-1428184643985)

another buzzfeed story completely falls apart upon close scrutiny. Zippyjuan having a bad day.

enhanced_deficit
01-19-2019, 12:14 AM
Yes the BF report, that all of MSM ran with all day, earlier in the evening appeared to fall apart when it was reported that Mueller was disputing BF report. Pretty unusual for Mueller to speak out.
But this latest claim by BF editor shows somewhat odd conviction.


BuzzFeed editor calls on Mueller to clarify what he's disputing in Trump Tower investigation
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business
Updated 10:11 PM ET, Fri January 18, 2019

New York (CNN)Now that the special counsel's office has taken the rare step of disputing a news report (https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/politics/mueller-statement-buzzfeed/index.html) about its investigation, BuzzFeed is challenging the special counsel to be more specific.
"We stand by the reporting in this story," BuzzFeed News editor in chief Ben Smith said on "Anderson Cooper 360" Friday evening.
"We spoke to, as we described in the story, two federal law enforcement officials involved in the investigation -- we're not playing any games with that characterization -- who told us that the president directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress," Smith said.
He described the special counsel's push-back as "vague," and said, "We really urge the special counsel to make it clear what he's disputing."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/media/buzzfeed-ben-smith-mueller/index.html

Swordsmyth
01-21-2019, 09:31 PM
Yes the BF report, that all of MSM ran with all day, earlier in the evening appeared to fall apart when it was reported that Mueller was disputing BF report. Pretty unusual for Mueller to speak out.
But this latest claim by BF editor shows somewhat odd conviction.



https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/media/buzzfeed-ben-smith-mueller/index.html

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John Lott Via Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/john-lott-buzzfeed-and-me-the-incredible-thing-the-sites-publisher-did-using-my-name-without-permissiojohn-lott-buzzfeed-and-me-the-incredible-thing-the-sites-ceo-did-using-my-name-without)
BuzzFeed, a popular “news” website, has once again been shamed for publishing fake allegations (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buzzfeed-reporter-after-rebuke-by-mueller-declines-to-explain-discrepancies-we-cant-get-into-like-the-details-there) against Donald Trump. BuzzFeed’s anonymously sourced report claimed that President Trump ordered his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about a proposed business deal in Moscow. Supposedly, two unnamed federal law enforcement officials claimed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office had the goods. They were purported to have collected emails, texts, and testimony proving the explosive claim.
The story dominated the news on Friday (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-blasts-buzzfeed-over-botched-report-alleging-he-told-cohen-to-lie), with Democrats calling for Trump to be impeached. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” opened with the announcement that this revelation was “a big one.” CNN’s “New Day” host John Berman claimed the disclosure was so dramatic he almost spilled his coffee.
But by late Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office issued a very rare rebuke saying that BuzzFeed’s account (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pence-slams-disappointing-pelosi-rejection-of-trump-border-funding-compromise) was “not accurate.” This was hardly BuzzFeed’s first embarrassment. As Trump reminded people, “it was BuzzFeed that released the totally discredited 'Dossier,' paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats . . .”
BuzzFeed’s culture of fake news starts at the top with founder and CEO Jonah Peretti, who has a history of knowingly spreading false information. He has used fraudulent websites and email accounts to pose as people he wished to defame. I was one of his victims.
Peretti’s first victim was MBA student Jeff Goldblatt, who had set up a dating service called the Rejection Hotline. This was inadvertently in competition with Peretti’s newly created rejectionline.com. Peretti’s sister and co-founder, Chelsea, contacted Goldblatt to gain information on his business. She “interviewed” him, under the false identity of New York-based reporter Vanessa Holmes.
Then Jonah Peretti set up the website JeffGoldblatt.com, under the pretense that it was Goldblatt’s personal website. Peretti sent out emails from me@JeffGoldblatt.com that, according to Goldblatt, “contained multiple lies about me and portrayed me as an arrogant jerk who was bragging about how I stole the idea of the New York City Rejection Line.”
Goldblatt contacted me after Peretti did the same thing to me in 2003. In my case, Peretti set up AskJohnLott.org and used the email address john@AskJohnLott.org. (https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/gun-statistics-expert-john-lott-victim-identity-theft) Peretti’s expropriation of my name wasn’t for financial gain, but to support gun control.
Pretending to be me, Peretti sent out hundreds of thousands of emails lobbying against the proposed “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.” This bill, which was being debated at the time (it ultimately passed in 2005), protected gun makers from abusive lawsuits that were solely designed to put them out of business with overwhelming legal fees. Peretti even purchased advertising for his fake website on Google, and the advertising promoting "my“ appeared at the very beginning of any search results on my name.
I was already relatively well-known in 2003 to those who care about the gun control debate because of my book “More Guns, Less Crime.” Peretti sent emails under my name to convince people that I had changed my mind and come out against the Act. The emails then urged people to ask their congressmen and Senators to oppose the bill.
A number of the recipients were people I knew, and some wrote back using the John@AskJohnLott.org email address and questioned why I would have changed my mind. But Peretti continued the charade of being me in multiple email chains.
I first learned about the website from James K. Glassman, a former Washington Post columnist, who later served as U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. He shared the email exchange with me (http://johnrlott.tripod.com/postsbyday/fraudulentsiteposts.html) that he had with Peretti's fake John Lott.
Peretti also used my name and picture to advise people on how to violate gun control laws. Soon, I received hundreds of angry phone calls from people who were upset that I was supposedly advising them to break the law.
My emails to john@AskJohnLott.org asking who was behind the effort were ignored. The website’s registration didn’t help, as it was supposedly registered to me.
I spent money to find out who was behind these efforts. When I contacted Peretti, he denied any involvement. After I hired lawyers, Peretti finally included a disclaimer on the website, stating that he intended to parody me. But he still refused to take down the website down or stop sending emails.
Goldblatt didn’t have the money for a legal battle, so I included him in my case.
After a year-and-a-half, we finally reach a legal settlement. Peretti, who worked for a company called Eyebeam, publicly acknowledged: “The AskJohnLott.org site was created by The Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. This site was never associated, endorsed or otherwise affiliated with John R. Lott, Jr. E-mail sent from the AskJohnLott.org domain that was identified as coming from Lott was also never associated, endorsed or otherwise affiliated with John R. Lott, Jr. Eyebeam deeply regrets any confusion and offers a formal apology to John R. Lott, Jr. The terms of the settlement are confidential.”
Peretti also apologized to Goldblatt and took down JeffGoldblatt.com. I received an undisclosed monetary settlement.
People are again asking how BuzzFeed could possibly publish such “fake” news against Trump. They need look no further than BuzzFeed’s CEO and founder Jonah Peretti.
John R. Lott, Jr. is a columnist for FoxNews.com. He is an economist and was formerly chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission. Lott is also a leading expert on guns and op-eds on that issue are done in conjunction with the Crime Prevention Research Center. He is the author of nine books including "More Guns, Less Crime." His latest book is "The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies (August 1, 2016). Follow him on Twitter Johnrlottjr.


More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-21/buzzfeed-ceo-spoofed-prominent-gun-rights-activist-spread-disinformation