The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Republican operatives close to the White House have begun extensively researching journalists covering Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer, aiming to amplify perceived bias and past mistakes.
Through an intermediary, that lawyer, according to emails published by Trump Jr. before a New York Times exposé on the same correspondence, promised the younger Trump dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to aid Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
In April, Politico cited several unnamed reporters, in addition to a conservative activist who claimed to have spoken to a White House communications staffer, who said unnamed White House sources frequently told reporters untruths.
From the Post’s report Wednesday:
A handful of Republican operatives close to the White House are scrambling to Trump Jr.’s defense and have begun what could be an extensive campaign to try to discredit some of the journalists who have been reporting on the matter.
Their plan, as one member of the team described it, is to research the reporters’ previous work, in some cases going back years, and to exploit any mistakes or perceived biases. They intend to demand corrections, trumpet errors on social media and feed them to conservative outlets, such as Fox News.
And here we are people - you have arrived at the next step of wanna be fascists: Discredit the press and political enemies. This is a very dark and frightening thing.
They must think that the “fake” media is like FUX News. Scandals everywhere.
They’ll likely come up with some speeding tickets…
So…this is the small government party? Keeping its dad gum fingers out of the way of private businesses and such? I feel like sleazy intimidation of journalists is right outta the NY trump biz playbook. Now it’s official republican party business. Neat.
Unless the offenses uncovered are considered Treason … not likely
Maybe they can fake some emails and dump them on Wikileaks. Hey, it worked before!