White House says it is creating 'very large' dossier on Washington Post journalist and others - CNN
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New York (CNN Business)The White House said in a story published Thursday that it was compiling a "very large" dossier on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter and others who it said are a "disgrace to journalism and the American people."
The astonishing revelation about the White House's efforts to discredit reporter David Fahrenthold came after The Post requested comment for a Thursday story he wrote with two colleagues. The story, co-bylined by reporters Josh Dawsey and Joshua Partlow, detailed how President Trump's company "charged the U.S. government more than $900,000" for hotel rooms fees among other services at Mar-a-Lago. In a statement, White House spokesperson Judd Deere accused The Washington Post of "blatantly interfering with the business relationships of the Trump Organization" and demanded "it must stop." "Please be advised that we are building up a very large 'dossier' on the many false David Fahrenthold and others stories as they are a disgrace to journalism and the American people," Deere said.
When asked by CNN Business for further information about the dossier, Deere declined to comment. Neither White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany nor White House director of communications Alyssa Farah responded to additional emails seeking comment. Read More Fahrenthold deferred a request for comment to a spokesperson for The Post who declined. Fahrenthold, however, wrote on Twitter that if anyone knows "anything about a dossier the White House has supposedly compiled" on him, to let him know or provide him a copy.
Fahrenthold won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for "casting doubt" on Trump's "generosity toward charities" in his coverage. He has also reported on Trump's businesses. Last summer, The New York Times reported that allies of the White House had compiled dossiers on hundreds of people who work for top news organizations. The White House's boasting of building a dossier on Fahrenthold and other journalists is jarring, but perhaps not surprising from an administration that has branded the press as "the enemy of the people." Trump and his allies have for years aimed to discredit journalists and news organizations, often through the use of lies and dishonest rhetoric.
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David Farenthold won the Pulitzer Prize for showing that the Trump Foundation, Donald Trump's personal charity, was crooked and misusing funds.
Now Trump wants revenge by compiling personal information about the reporter. I hope Farenthold doesnt disappear.
this clown is just not right, asz what else would you expect a 'man' and his family to do, actually GIVE the money to CHARITY ??? "but, but but, i'm a Billionaire, and what else would i do with charitable funds, besides KEEP IT FOR ME !! But, if you want, i'm taking over Bannon's wall charity foundation, so just send me cash, and i'll have the wall, built by China, paid for by Mexico, impenetrable like my thick skull and the Titanic Hull, as for the herd, still many left to CULL !
... like iggy said...
Trump is afraid. He must protect Ivanka. Which is unfortunate for Ivanka. She must learn how to dodge the wheels of the bus.
There is a difference between being thrown under the bus and voluntarily crawling under it. If Ivanka thinks that daddy won't flip on her to save his own skin, she is going to have a rude awakening when the shit finally hits the fan.
Let us know when they start spying on journalists like the Obama administration.
Sheer fake outrage from the left again.
Farenthold demonstrated Trump is a crook. That is the one and only reason he is on a list for a Trump dossier.
Until Trump is gone, Mr Farenthold should find a nice quiet place to get away from it all, letting no one know where. Then he should come out guns blazing.
It is bad enough that Trump thinks he is a president. Now he thinks he is J. Edgar Hoover and McCarthy rolled into one.
What a crock of shit.
All you got.
That's always the right-wing's "defense": show that someone else did something wrong.
For right-wing nutzoids, "the worst that anyone has ever done" is allowable for their Prophet.
Is there any act that is intrinsically wrong? Anything at all? No.
Any deed is excusable. "But Mommy! Joey did it first!"
I bet if Trump were given the choice of him or Ivanka going to prison, he would say "LOCK HER UP!"
In New York second. He is doing everything he can to avoid being able to get out in prison as it is. That is his #1 reason for desperately wanting to win the election. So if it comes down to he goes to prison or Ivanka, I think most everyone knows which one he would choose. Trump knows that as soon as he loses the election the police will be waiting with arrest for him. And when that happens, all his loyal supporters will find a better God to worship.
I suspect the sales of cake mix and files will go up.
Doesn't sound like the kind of thing the White House should be involved in.
Lock them up!
Lock them up!
Lock them up!
Lock them up!