Manhattan advertising mogul Donny Deutsch claimed on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe‘ on Thursday that Donald Trump aims to exploit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to manipulate news coverage and will also unleash the military upon the American people, among other outlandish claims.
Deutsch, a regular show participant, suggested that if Trump wins the election, he will have the FCC report directly to him to manage news programs’ coverage. “He says what he’s going to do. What he’s going to do to your point, Joe, is have the FCC report to him so he will be able to control shows like this. He wants the FCC to report to him,” Deutsch said.
Pointing to a recent interview Trump gave to TIME magazine’s Eric Cortellesa, Deutsch also claimed, “He wants to bring the Insurrection Act back so he can turn military troops on his own people. He wants to weaponize, as you said, the Justice Department to go after his enemies,” Deutsch continued. He then bizarrely claimed that Trump “wants to put women on a registry in red states for abortion.”
WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY SAID.
In January, Trump lashed out at CNN and NBC for refusing to cover his victory speech after the Iowa caucuses. However, he never suggested using the FCC to control the media. “NBC and CNN refused to air my victory speech. I think of it because they are crooked. They’re dishonest, and frankly, they should have their licenses or whatever they have. Take it away,” Trump said.
Deutsch’s allegations regarding Trump’s recent TIME interview are simply not true either. In the interview, Trump expressed his intention to use the military, mainly the National Guard, if possible, to go after and detain illegal aliens — not American citizens.
Writes Cortellessa: “For an operation of that scale, Trump says he would rely mostly on the National Guard to round up and remove undocumented migrants throughout the country. ‘If they weren’t able to, then I’d use [other parts of] the military,’ he says. When I ask if that means he would override the Posse Comitatus Act—an 1878 law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians—Trump seems unmoved by the weight of the statute. ‘Well, these aren’t civilians,’ he says. ‘These are people that aren’t legally in our country.'”
Furthermore, while he expressed his belief that it would be acceptable for states with anti-abortion laws to prosecute women who violate them, he never once made mention of a registry, let alone wanting to put women on one.
“More than 20 states now have full or partial abortion bans, and Trump says those policies should be left to the states to do what they want, including monitoring women’s pregnancies,” Cortellessa writes. “’I think they might do that,’ he says. When I ask whether he would be comfortable with states prosecuting women for having abortions beyond the point the laws permit, he says, ‘It’s irrelevant whether I’m comfortable or not. It’s totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions.'”
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Manhattan advertising mogul Donny Deutsch claimed on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' on Thursday that Donald Trump aims to exploit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to manipulate news coverage and will also unleash the military upon the American people, among other outlandish claims.
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Newly unearthed video has revealed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) defending America’s corporate media class and claiming the “biggest lie” that the “right-wing has been able to promote” is that “there is a liberal media in the United States of America.”
In a 2005 speech where he also openly insulted “red state” voters, RFK can be clearly heard defending the corporate media apparatus in the United States, already whittled down to just a handful of left-liberal leaning firms by then:
“Well, the biggest lie that the right-wing has been able to promote in our country over the past 10 or 12 years has been the lie that there is a liberal media in the United States of America. There is no such thing as a liberal media. There is a right-wing media. And if you look where people are getting their news, you know, [an] overwhelming number of Americans are getting it from right-wing media. Thirty percent of Americans say that their principal news source is talk radio. which is primarily 90 percent controlled by the right. Another 22 percent say that their principal news source is one of three cable channels, CSNBC [sic], MSNBC, or Fox News, all dominated by the right.”
CNBC and MSNBC were not, in fact, “dominated by the right,” while Fox News at the time was dominated by the neoconservative uniparty.
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Newly unearthed video has revealed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) defending America's corporate media class and claiming the "biggest lie" that the "right-wing has been able to promote" is that "there is a liberal media in the United States of America."
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The left-wing Daily Beast website fabricated a story about President Donald J. Trump’s 18-year-old son, Barron, after failing to confirm rumors alleged by the site’s new ‘Chief Content Officer’ Joanna Coles, according to a new report about the matter.
New York Magazine‘s Intelligencer reported Tuesday:
On her first week on the job as chief creative and content officer, Joanna Coles carried a tip into the newsroom: A friend told her that Barron Trump would attend NYU for college. She told a group of staff to write it up for a new gossip column she wanted, called “Beast Buzz.” After trying to confirm the story, the team came up empty, but Coles pressed them to publish. The task fell to Tracy Connor, the editor-in-chief who eschews her office for a simple desk among reporters and editors. As she wrote up the blind item without a byline, Coles said in a voice loud enough for all to hear: “We will see how it does. Let’s hope it’s true!”
The incident was not isolated, with the Daily Beast recently peddling a number of other stories without sourcing, nor confirmation, according to a number of employees seeking new jobs in the wake of Coles’s transformation of what they once claim was a “news” site:
By the end of her first week, at least a dozen staff were looking elsewhere for jobs or hoping for buyouts, and by the end of her second, two were on the way out. For those who remain, fear of layoffs is widespread and morale is so low that some have been crying behind closed doors.
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True to form, she recently assigned another un-bylined story about “The Look-Alike Women in Donald Trump’s Orbit” focusing on “head-turning brunettes of a certain stripe.” It’s not always clear which ideas Coles wants to pursue and which she is just throwing out, according to one person. For example, according to another staffer, Coles proposed a list of “the five most obese members of Congress.” The piece wasn’t assigned.
She did assign two other stories that made editors scramble to kill them for fear of embarrassment. One was to follow up on a rumor that Donald Trump passed gas in his criminal trial. She assigned the politics team to reach out to gastroenterologists about whether the emissions were “stress farts or sleep farts.” Another was assigned with the headline “Is Protesting the New Sex for Gen Z?” making the case that the campus protests across the country were largely being done for a thrill rather than true concern for Palestinian or Israeli lives.
The left-wing Daily Beast website fabricated a story about President Donald J. Trump's 18-year-old son, Barron, after failing to confirm rumors alleged by the site's new 'Chief Content Officer' Joanna Coles, according to a new report about the matter.
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Can you imagine the uproar if I tried something like this? The “fact check” websites would go nuts, the social media firms would kick us off their platforms (again), and there would probably be a number of lawmakers, domestic and international, calling for sanctions against our use of the internet
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OnlyFans, the subscription service ‘content creator’ site used mainly by pornography-producing sex workers, is under investigation over concerns it is failing to prevent children from accessing explicit adult content. Fenix International Limited, OnlyFans’ parent company, is being investigated by the UK‘s Office of Communications (Ofcom) for its alleged failure to implement adequate age verification measures and failure to comply with government information requests.
“We are investigating whether OnlyFans has contravened its duties to implement appropriate measures (taken under Schedule 15A) to protect under-18s from encountering restricted material such as pornography,” Ofcom wrote. “We are also looking at whether OnlyFans failed to provide complete and accurate responses to statutory information requests.”
The porn site maintained in astatement that it has experienced “a coding configuration issue” affecting some “age thresholds” but insists it “works closely” with regulators to “implement and develop best-practices on online safety.” The company asserts that its age thresholds are always set above 18.
While OnlyFans faces scrutiny in the UK for inadequate age-verification measures, such protections are not even in place for children in much of the U.S. After Texas passed a law requiring age-verification on pornography websites, Texas AG Ken Paxton sued PornHub for refusing to implement such verification. The controversial website eventually decided to suspend service in Texas rather than take measures to protect children from its pornographic content.
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OnlyFans, the subscription service 'content creator' site used mainly by pornography-producing sex workers, is under investigation over concerns it is failing to prevent children from accessing explicit adult content. Fenix International Limited, OnlyFans' parent company, is being investigated by the UK's Office of Communications (Ofcom) for its alleged failure to implement adequate age verification measures and failure to comply with government information requests.
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TIME Magazine writer Eric Cortellessa acknowledged that the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent JoeBiden rejected the same interview request accepted by former President DonaldTrump. As the lengthy interview came to a close, Cortellessa suggested a series of rapid-fire questions to which Trump agreed — but not before he asked if the TIME writer thought that Biden would be able to do the same.
“All right. Do you think you could do this interview with Biden?” the former Republican President asked. Cortellessa responded, “You know, he didn’t say yes. So I’m grateful that you’re giving me the opportunity.” Trump expressed his doubts that Biden would ever accept the interview offer, telling Cortellessa: “He will never say yes, cause he’s off. He’s off, way off.”
The admission by Cortellessa that Biden had declined an interview with the magazine comes as the corporatemedia wavers in running cover for the Democrat leader’s declining mental faculties. The Biden White House has taken great pains to ensure the 81-year-old only engages in carefully scripted interviews, often requiring reporters to submit questions beforehand. Most recently, the White House heavily promoted Biden’s interview with radio host Howard Stern, in which the one-time shock jock gushed over the Democrat President for a little over an hour and offered only softball questions.
Unlike Biden, whose communications team will abruptly end interviews when the 81-year-old Democrat begins to stray off message, Trump offered to extend the interview with TIME — eventually doing a follow-up interview over the phone.
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TIME Magazine writer Eric Cortellessa acknowledged that the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent JoeBiden rejected the same interview request accepted by former President DonaldTrump. As the lengthy interview came to a close, Cortellessa suggested a series of rapid-fire questions to which Trump agreed — but not before he asked if the TIME writer thought that Biden would be able to do the same.
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr recently explained to CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins that the media too often takes the alleged comments of former President DonaldTrump too literally. During an interview last week, Collins pressed Barr on allegations made by former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin that Trump had called for a White House staffer to be executed for leaking to the media.
“I remember him being very mad about that,” Barr recalled to Collins. He continued, noting that the former President was angry but not being serious: “I actually don’t remember him saying ‘executing’ but I wouldn’t dispute it, you know… The president would lose his temper and say things like that. I doubt he would’ve actually carried it out.”
Barr explained to Collins that Trump‘s offhanded remarks were made in an effort to blow off steam or as a bit of gallows humor. He said the media and critics often take Trump “too literally.” He reiterated, dismissing the ginned-up concerns of the corporatemedia: “Having worked for him and seen him in action, I don’t think he would actually go and kill political rivals and things like that.”
Earlier this month, Trump‘s former Attorney General said he’d support his one-time boss in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Barr argued that the choice for him boils down to a “duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country.” He said, “a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide, in my opinion.”
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr recently explained to CNN's Kaitlan Collins that the media too often takes the alleged comments of former President DonaldTrump too literally. During an interview last week, Collins pressed Barr on allegations made by former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin that Trump had called for a White House staffer to be executed for leaking to the media.
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Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld told the New Yorker Radio Hour that the “extreme left” and political correctness are killing comedy, with too many outside committees and other groups weighing in on comic scripts.
“Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it, they need it so badly,” Seinfeld said. He argued, however, that the public is not getting the comedy they need.
“It used to be you would go home at the end of the day. Most people would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on.’ ‘Oh, M*A*S*H is on.’ ‘Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on.’ ‘All in the Family is on.’ You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what? Where is it? Where is it?” Seinfeld demanded.
“This is the result of the extreme Left, PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people. Now they’re going to see stand-up comics because we are not policed by anyone. The audience polices us. We know when we’re off-track, we know instantly, and we adjust to it instantly. But when you write a script, and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups, ‘Here’s our thought about this joke,’ well, that’s the end of your comedy,” he explained.
Seinfeld, whose eponymous sit-com was among the highest-rated shows of all time, has said his upcoming Unfrosted movie will feature a “very funny January 6 parody.”
He also featured in the final season of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, with a storyline based around leftist talking points against Georgia election integrity laws.
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Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld told the New Yorker Radio Hour that the "extreme left" and political correctness are killing comedy, with too many outside committees and other groups weighing in on comic scripts.
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Lachlan Cartwright appears to have confessed to being one of the most critical sources for the “catch and kill” claims against President Donald J. Trump, as well as the initial ‘hush money’ story published in the Wall Street Journal just days before the 2016 presidential election. During his time as executive editor with the National Enquirer, Cartwright claims he was intimately involved in the tabloid publication’s work to protect certain individuals from negative press and to direct scathing stories at others.
In a lengthy essay for The New York Times, the former tabloid editor describes these efforts in great detail, shedding more light on the origins of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of former President Trump. Additionally, Cartwright admits he promoted the narrative that the tabloid acted under the direction of Trump.
Even more troubling is his admission that his decision to serve as a confidential source was primarily motivated by a need to retain his U.S. work visa and rehabilitate his byline after working for the Enquirer. An Australian national, Cartwright went on to serve as an editor at large for the far-left Daily Beast website and is currently a special correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter.
ALL FOR A WORK VISA.
In his essay, Cartwright readily admits that after leaving the Enquirer, he worked as a source—with no compensation—for several national news publications as a means of integrating himself back into corporatejournalist circles. He says this was prompted after he already technically left his role with the tabloid in July 2017, but remained listed as an employee as part of his severance agreement. This allowed him to retain his U.S. work visa as an Australian national.
According to Cartwright, in October 2017, his attorney received a letter from the National Enquirer‘s then-parent company, American Media, Inc. (AMI), which threatened a termination of employment per the severance agreement. This, the letter noted, would result in him losing his work visa and subsequent deportation from the U.S. The letter suggested they believed he was behind several leaks to national media outlets regarding the Enquirer’s involvement in purchasing and burying stories on behalf of several notable public figures.
Now, several years after the letter, Cartwright admits AMI’s suspicions were correct. He also suggests his work as a confidential source on AMI likely contributed to his gaining employment with the far-left Daily Beast.
ORIGIN OF “CATCH AND KILL”?
Cartwright claims he first heard the term “catch and kill” from an unnamed colleague. The phrase was used in conjunction with a $30,000 payout by AMI to Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin. According to the doorman, Trump had fathered a love child in an affair. However, Cartwright says the tabloid’s investigation into the matter found Sajudin to be unreliable, noting the man’s claims were unfounded. Despite Cartwright and his colleagues concluding that Sajudin’s story was likely untrue, he says AMI CEO David Pecker authorized a $30,000 payment to the doorman anyway.
“I stressed to him the importance of the term ‘catch and kill’…
– Lachlan Cartwright
Cartwright says the second occasion he heard the term “catch and kill” was in relation to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal’s alleged affair with Trump. At the time, McDougal was being represented by Hollywood entertainment lawyer Keith Davidson.
The confirmed connection with Keith Davidson raises questions about the “catch and kill” term’s origins. During his testimony in the hush money trial, David Pecker insisted “catch and kill” was not a term used by AMI or the National Enquirer. However, as The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, reported last week, the phrase has a history of being used in connection with Hollywood, and disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
SOURCE FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
“Catch and kill” made its first appearance in connection to former President Donald Trump in a November 4, 2016, story in the Wall Street Journal detailing the alleged payments and nondisclosure agreement between AMI and Karen McDougal. Cartwright admits to being the newspaper‘s source and using the term “catch and kill’ when speaking with reporter Lukas Alpert.
The WSJ story from 2016.
According to Cartwright, Alpert had never heard the phrase prior to his use of it.
“I stressed to him the importance of the term ‘catch and kill‘ and told him that if the Journal included it, it would give me some breathing room,” Cartwright wrote, recalling their conversation. In addition, Cartwright says he broke into the safe where the Sajudin nondisclosure agreement was kept and supplied details from the document, including names of individuals involved, to the Wall Street Journal.
THE TRUMP NON-CONNECTION.
The most glaring omission from Cartwright’s recollection of events is that he can never definitively connect former President Trump to any of AMI’s actions prior to the 2016 election. He either assumes a connection or makes innuendo to one, but the former editor for the Daily Beast is careful never to claim Trump actually directed any of his or David Pecker’s actions. In fact, Cartwright strangely only mentions MichaelCohen, Trump’s then-personal attorney, in passing — despite the District Attorney’s office insisting that Cohen was heavily involved with Pecker, AMI, and the National Enquirer‘s senior staff in executing the “catch and kill” operations.
Cartwright admits that he also spoke to the New York Times after the paper broke the Harvey Weinstein story and detailed the National Enquirer‘s handling of the McDougal allegations. Regarding his conversations with the newspaper, Cartwright admits he “stressed that the real story was the Enquirer’s work on behalf of Trump.” He has yet to provide any evidence of this claim.
The Australian national’s essay for the New York Times could have serious implications for Bragg’s prosecution of Trump.
Cartwright appears to be not only an originator of the “catch and kill” phrase now being bandied about by the District Attorney‘s office but also the source for the idea that the tabloid worked on behalf of the Trump campaign. The fact that Cartwright admits to opening an AMI safe and leaking documents and other materials to competing news outlets calls into question not only his ethics but also his credibility.
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Lachlan Cartwright appears to have confessed to being one of the most critical sources for the "catch and kill" claims against President Donald J. Trump, as well as the initial 'hush money' story published in the Wall Street Journal just days before the 2016 presidential election. During his time as executive editor with the National Enquirer, Cartwright claims he was intimately involved in the tabloid publication's work to protect certain individuals from negative press and to direct scathing stories at others.
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Gateway Pundit, a well-known right-wing news website, has declared that its parent company, TGP Communications, is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Florida. This comes in response to what the site’s founder, Jim Hoft, describes as a series of “lawfare attacks” allegedly initiated by “the radical left.” Hoft detailed the issue in a post on Wednesday.
“TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet,” Hoft wrote.
‘This is not an admission of fault or culpability. This is a common tool for reorganization and to consolidate litigation when attacks are coming from all sides. It allows TGP to consolidate this lawfare in one court for ultimate resolution,” he continued.
“Despite the radical left’s efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today.”
The company currently faces multiple lawsuits, many of which stem from the information published by Gateway Pundit regarding the 2020 electoral process. Dominion Voting Systems, a controversial firm that played a key role in vote tabulation during the 2020 presidential elections, has leveled defamation charges against the organization.
Two ex-election workers from Georgia have also initiated lawsuits against Gateway Pundit. Posts from the media outlet suggested these workers were involved in election fraud, an accusation the workers firmly deny.
Gateway Pundit, a well-known right-wing news website, has declared that its parent company, TGP Communications, is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Florida. This comes in response to what the site's founder, Jim Hoft, describes as a series of "lawfare attacks" allegedly initiated by "the radical left." Hoft detailed the issue in a post on Wednesday.
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A cabal of lawyers, legal analysts for the corporate media, and former Deep State officials is colluding on private Zoom calls every Friday to decide how to cover the various lawfare cases against Donald Trump. The existence of the off-the-record meetings was revealed by POLITICO, which described the participants as “united by their dislike of Trump.”
Norman Eisen, a CNN analyst who served as a special counsel and ambassador under Barack Obama, hosts the group. Eisen recently argued Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “hush money” prosecution of Trump is an “election interference” case.
Only some of his cabal’s regular participants were named:
Bill Kristol, a pro-war neoconservative who has pushed Chris Christie to endorse Joe Biden for President;
George Conway, a Never Trumper who persuaded E. Jean Carroll to sue the former president. He also co-founded the Lincoln Project alongside John Weaver, alleged to have groomed and harassed multiple young men, including at least one minor;
Andrew Weissmann, an MSNBC analyst who assisted Robert Mueller’s bogus Trump-Russia investigation as a federal prosecutor;
Mary McCord, a former Justice Department official who hosts an MSNBC podcast alongside Weissmann;
Jeffrey Toobin, a cable news legal analyst previously suspended by The New Yorker for exposing his genitals to a colleague on a Zoom call;
Harry Litman, a Los Angeles Times columnist who served as a U.S. Attorney under Barack Obama;
Barbara McQuade, an MSNBC contractor who also served as a U.S. Attorney under Barack Obama;
Joyce White Vance, another MSNBC contractor who served as a U.S. Attorney under Barack Obama;
The cabal has occasionally invited special guests to speak with them, including lawyers involved in lawfare efforts against Trump.
One was Roberta Kaplan, who spoke to the group for approximately 30 minutes about her efforts to sue Trump on behalf of E. Jean Carroll. The elderly advice columnist claims the former president raped her in the changing rooms of a busy department store in the 1990s.
The group also hosted J. Michael Luttig, who helped lead the failed campaign to bar Trump from running for the presidency again under the 14th Amendment. POLITICO notes the interaction with Luttig “spread dubious analysis,” with call participants arguing the 14th Amendment efforts had merit despite the fact they “never really had a chance.”
POLITICO notes the group also has strong misgivings about DA Bragg’s highly novel case against Trump in Manhattan. They discuss “whether it should have been brought in the first place” regularly.
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A cabal of lawyers, legal analysts for the corporate media, and former Deep State officials is colluding on private Zoom calls every Friday to decide how to cover the various lawfare cases against Donald Trump. The existence of the off-the-record meetings was revealed by POLITICO, which described the participants as "united by their dislike of Trump."
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