Discussion: Trump Harps On 'Fiction' News: When You See 'Anonymous Source,' Move Along

Odd statement from a man whose political career was foisted upon us by his reliance on ‘anonymous’ sources for his erroneous and slanderous birtherism.

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Yep, this is the master of the “Some people are saying” based slur…

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Some people are saying he was born in a whore house so he is a brothel’s sprout.

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My personal favorite “people are saying” quote:

ABC’s David Muir: "“Do you think that talking about millions of illegal votes is dangerous to this country, without presenting the evidence?”

Trump: “No, not at all, because many people feel the same way that I do…Millions of people agree with me when I say that. If you would have looked on one of the other networks, and all of the people that were calling in, they’re saying ‘We agree with Mr. Trump. We agree.’ They’re very smart people.”

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Many people are saying that anonymously sourced articles are fake news. Sad.

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But what about Q Anon?!?

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Pretty sure he just called Kellyanne Conway a liar.

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Trump misspelled ‘Republican’.

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Yeah stop reading, Donald doesn’t want you to know the BS going inside the white house that’s even worse than what goes on in public outside it!

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Wasn’t Deep Throat an anonymous source during Watergate? Should we have ignored him and moved along?

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They’re kind of synonyms.

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And the movie Donald wanted to reenact with Stormy.

David Dennison and John Barron agree.

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Did he add “unless it is a flattering story I leaked to Mags Haberman”?

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The king of vague refererences ,innuedo and lies out to disparage anonomous sources…? When does he ever qualify ANYTHING he ever says with facts or data…? Very, many, some …don’t count.

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I wonder how anyone in the White House ever gets any work done. All of the anonymous sources must spend all day trying to figure out who around the office is among those quoted in the NYT or Washington Post each morning.

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Says the guy who invented his own spokespersons to talk to the media…(John Barron and…Miller ?).

So…not anonymous…but a Nom De Fume.

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ATTENTION EVERY ONE OF THE HUNDREDS OF JOURNALISTS WHO HAS EVER HAD TRUMP ON BACKGROUND: you just got permission to burn him.

I’m serious. Forget “John Barron,” forget “some people are saying.” How many stories have been written just since he became President where the “senior White House official” is him?

When a source lies to you or about what you’ve written based on what they told you, you burn the source. It’s not just something you CAN do, it’s something you MUST do. Your credibility is worth more than your access.

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