Trump Tweets Up A Storm About ‘Discredited’ Dossier, Facebook Ads

United States President Donald J. Trump makes remarks during a joint press conference Prime Minister A. Tsipras of Greece in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. - NO'WIR... United States President Donald J. Trump makes remarks during a joint press conference Prime Minister A. Tsipras of Greece in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. - NO'WIRE'SERVICE'- Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon claimed a controversial dossier alleging ties between himself and Russia has been “discredited” (it hasn’t) and claimed a Russian firm spent a “tiny” amount of money on political Facebook ads.

Lawyers representing the firm that assembled the so-called Trump dossier on Friday asked a judge to block House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) subpoena to the firm’s bank for the identity of the client who commissioned the document.

Trump attacked the dossier on Thursday as well. While much of the information it contains has not been substantiated, a number of the claims in the document have been reinforced by new information.

The “tiny” amount of money Trump referred to that was spent on Facebook ads during the 2016 election by a Russian “troll farm” was $100,000.

Facebook in October said an “estimated 10 million people” saw those ads.

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  1. Avatar for ceenik ceenik says:

    Thar he blows again!

  2. It is back from its round of golf.

  3. Avatar for kerf kerf says:

    Is that his chief of staff tangled in the harpoon line?

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Whatever Nunes is doing, he’s doing it at Trump’s behest. Trump’s tweet shows he’s very worried about the dossier which, in a way, helps confirm its authenticity. Why tweet about it, after all, if it’s really fake?

    Mueller’s been very quiet lately. Could something be ready to break?

  5. Just switch over to Faux
    Whatever is the topic du jour there …
    Immediately becomes his topic du jour
    Re-enforcing his 30% watching the same
    or… Bannon sent him an email with a link
    Distracted like a 6 month old puppy

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