Discussion: Trump 'Brands' FBI Informant As 'Spy' To Make Story Resonate With Public

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Proving the nickname ‘FatNixon’ is appropriate - but perhaps with even a dash more of delusional paranoia than the original.

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And of course our media will adopt the “spygate” meme and expand on it without a care in the world. Using the language generated by Trump’s media shop is a choice the AP and others will make. It isn’t the only way to report the story.

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Spygate - the Russian spies meeting with Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner in Trump Tower.

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I saw some clip of Donald where he says something like, even the press is calling it spygate, and I just thought, no Donald, they are saying, you call it spygate.

It’s just not in his nature to tell the truth.

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In denying that they use the term Spygate this morning CNN and MSNBC repeated the term about 100 times in the span of about an hour. Maybe they could at least call it his PHONY Spygate claim.

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Not “will make” but “frequently make,” including in the very AP article TPM just posted:

Trump has told confidants in recent days that the revelation of an informant was potential evidence that the upper echelon of federal law enforcement has conspired against him, according to three people familiar with his recent conversations but not authorized to discuss them publicly.

I’m pretty sure Trump did not use the term “potential evidence,” and in any case it’s not what he meant, as we see in the AP’s next sentence:

Trump told one ally this week that he wanted “to brand” the informant a “spy,” believing the more nefarious term would resonate more in the media and with the public.

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Aimed directly at the low-information dumb-fucks who only read headlines and “know what they hear on FOX News”.

and it’s WORKING because the feckless and supine MSM will do ANYTHING to keep their precious “access” to the White House (and since it turns a relatively mundane counter-intelligence investigation into a SPICY “SPY STORY” they run with it.)

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Plus “spy” has only one syllable compared to “covert law enforcement investigator”, so 45 can actually keep it in his head long enough to say it in an possibly decipherable utterance.