Mar-a-Lago Raided by FBI

Sprout · Aug 16, 2022

Cutting through Navarro’s BS;

Sprout · Aug 16, 2022

piezoe said:
We know you listen to Fox News. Thanks for being honest about this. I would say close to 100% of the folks that have fallen for ridiculous conspiracy theories get their information mainly from political commentary on two sources: Fox News and Infowars. Keep watching them, but do yourself the favor of watching other channels news broadcasts and commentary as well. Spend time with google and read either the New York Times or the Washington Post regularly. You can get the Times for as little as 4 bucks a month as an introductory offer for a year. Had the folks that broke into the Capital on Jan 6th followed this advice they'd be home now instead of sitting in Jail or Prison. Do you know about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit-first-amendment.html

You might also look up William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was the inventor of "Yellow Journalism". The Murdochs, in running Fox News, are simply copying what Hearst did to attract Readership for his chain of newspapers. Hearst had no interest in the straightforward and dry reporting of facts. He would start with facts but then embellish them to the point of making things up. He made free use of what today some refer to as "alternative facts" which are actually fiction. He intentionally took liberties with the truth to make his stories appeal to his readers interest in the scandalous, the prurient and the morbid. He stoked conflict among politicians and intentionally misrepresented those he took issue with. He's even been credited with starting the Spanish American War based on his embellishment of fact (see for example "Empire" by Gore Vidal) .
https://www.pbs.org/crucible/bio_hearst.html

William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)

William Randolph Hearst, the powerful owner and editor of the New York Journal, was one of the most colorful, influential, and outspoken figures involved in activities surrounding Spanish-American War.

William Randolph Hearst, son of wealthy U.S. Senator George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, was born in San Francisco in 1863. Hearst's passion for journalism began when he was a young man. As a student at Harvard, Hearst worked on the Harvard Lampoon and later apprenticed with New York World owner Joseph Pulitzer.

When he was only 24 years old, Hearst's career as a publisher began. In 1887, with help from his father's mining fortune, Hearst became the owner and operator of the San Francisco Examiner. Hearst fashioned his paper after Pulitzers' sensationalist approach and flashy style.

In 1895, Hearst turned to the east coast for his next journalistic endeavor and purchased the New York Journal. As the owner of the Journal, Hearst entered the fiercely competitive world of New York journalism. Positioned against his former mentor Joseph Pulitzer, Hearst recruited staff away from the World and continued to copy Pulitzer's style.

The Cuban Revolution of 1895, came at a perfect time for Hearst and his New York Journal. With the eyes of a businessman and a politician, Hearst saw the events in Cuba as a way place himself and his paper on center stage.

Journalism in the late 1890s became known as "yellow journalism" because the sensationalist articles were found among the same pages that carried popular yellow cartoon characters. The New York Journal's coverage of the insurrection was sharply biased, with articles, cartoons, and headlines that promoted the Cuban cause and called for the United States to intervene.

Hearst created several schemes to spark U.S. intervention. The most well-known involved the imprisonment and release of Cuban prisoner Evangeline Cisneros. With his hand in her dramatic escape, Hearst successfully used publicity to rally U.S. interest for the Cuban struggle.

Perhaps the most famous anecdote surrounding Heart's zeal for the war involves a legendary communication between illustrator Frederick Remington and Hearst. As the story goes, Remington, who had been sent to Cuba to cover the insurrection, cabled to Hearst that there was no war to cover. Hearst allegedly replied with, "You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war."

In 1898, Hearst chartered the yacht Sylvia to Cuba to witness battles between the U.S. Navy and the Spanish Fleet. From his ship, Hearst continued to publish sensationalist stories in a "Cuban Edition," personally making sure that the U.S. public stayed informed.

After the Spanish-American War, Hearst remained an outspoken and powerful member of the U.S. press. Hearst was critical of the treatment of U.S. troops as they returned home and blasted the Secretary of War, Russell A. Alger.

While it may be unfair to claim that Hearst "created" the war, it is clear that the events of 1898 and 1899 may have been very different without William Randolph Hearst and the other yellow journalists of the day.

Bibliography:

Dyal, Donald H.. Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War. Greenwood Press: Westport, CT, 1996.

Milton, Joyce. The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism. Harper-Perrenial: New York, 1989.

O'Toole, G.J.A., The Spanish War: An American Epic-1898. W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 1984.

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Great informative post, thank you.

Excellent advice for FauxInfoNewsWar consumers.

gwb-trading · Aug 16, 2022

Let's see the latest excuse...

Trump was so distracted by grievances that he never got round to returning secret documents the FBI found at Mar-a-Lago: NYT
https://www.businessinsider.com/mar...ted-grievances-never-returned-docs-nyt-2022-8

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Frederick Foresight · Aug 16, 2022

gwb-trading said:
Let's see the latest excuse...

Trump was so distracted by grievances that he never got round to returning secret documents the FBI found at Mar-a-Lago: NYT
https://www.businessinsider.com/mar...ted-grievances-never-returned-docs-nyt-2022-8

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Should top secret documents have even been stored at an unsecured location in the first place? ("Lock & key.")

gwb-trading · Aug 16, 2022

Man under investigation in several states and by the federal government demands to know which members of his criminal enterprise are conspiring against him.

Trump Calls for ‘Immediate Release of Completely Unredacted Affidavit’ the DOJ Objects to Unsealing
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/just...acted-affidavit-the-doj-objects-to-unsealing/

gwb-trading · Aug 16, 2022

Frederick Foresight said:
Should top secret documents have even been stored at an unsecured location in the first place? ("Lock & key.")
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Trump’s Excuses Get More Insane as FBI Unseals Warrant

wrbtrader · Aug 16, 2022

Frederick Foresight said:
Should top secret documents have even been stored at an unsecured location in the first place? ("Lock & key.")
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It's now developed into an issue as documented images and videos have recently become available that show Trump sharing those top secret documents with individuals that did not have security clearance at what looks like an evening dinner outside...guests were viewing or photographing those documents as shown in one image of "guests" at Mar-a-Lago standing next to Japan's leader with their cell phones out while looking at secret documents.

It may be why the FBI has now requested the video of several months to see who had access to Mar-a-Lago while these secret documents were stored there.

wrbtrader

gwb-trading · Aug 16, 2022

gwb-trading said:
Let's see the latest excuse...

Trump was so distracted by grievances that he never got round to returning secret documents the FBI found at Mar-a-Lago: NYT
https://www.businessinsider.com/mar...ted-grievances-never-returned-docs-nyt-2022-8

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It's hard to keep up with all the excuses Team Trump is spinning...

Maggie Haberman: Trump Source Blames Meadows for Not Returning Documents Before Leaving Office
https://www.mediaite.com/news/maggi...ot-returning-documents-before-leaving-office/

Sprout · Aug 16, 2022

Things are heating up. As a reminder, Eric Herschmann telling John Eastman after Jan. 6: “I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’re ever getting in your life: get a great fucking criminal defense lawyer.”

Spike Trader · Aug 16, 2022

Trump was playing golf while foreign spies were laughing and gathering all kinds of classified information at Maralago.

Chinese woman who entered Mar-a-Lago with malware federally charged
Yujing Zhang was arrested Saturday after getting past a Secret Service checkpoint. President Trump was not on the grounds at the time, but nearby golfing.

A Chinese citizen who entered President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club Saturday carrying a thumb drive containing malicious software is being charged federally with lying to a Secret Service officer and having knowingly entered a restricted building.

Mar-a-Lago allowed Zhang to enter, according to the documents, because part of her name matched that of a member of the club. Zhang gave a nondefinitive answer when asked if that member was her father, according to the court documents, and was admitted by the club "due to a potential language barrier issue."

Zhang had said she intended to go swimming at the club, according to court documents.

She was found carrying four cellphones, a laptop, a hard drive and a thumb drive, but no swimsuit. After a preliminary forensic investigation, the thumb drive was found to contain "malicious malware," according to the affidavit.