"New Media" Reporter Rants About Clinton at WH Briefing
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Via: john-russell • last year • 7 commentsBy: Ahmad Austin Jr. (Mediaite)
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A reporter sitting in the White House briefing room's "new media" seat brought up the "Clinton body count" theory as part of a long, meandering question about the Jeffrey Epstein files on Monday.
After White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's opening announcements in Monday morning's briefing, she opened the floor to questions and first called upon Liam Cosgrove of Zero Hedge. Cosgrove began his second question with a tangent about the "Clinton body count" theory — a conspiracy theory that suggests dozens of deaths over the last few decades were actually the handiwork of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton . Believers in the theory claim the Clintons have been eliminating political opponents for years. Cosgrove brought up the theory after President Donald Trump posted a video about it, saying:
So over the weekend, President Trump posted on Truth Social a video highlighting what most people call the "Clinton body count," which is the strange number of suicides that seemed to happen in Clinton circles. I have a headline here from The Washington Post that said "Trump peddles false conspiracy theories tying the Clintons to several deaths." So I just wanted to highlight real quick, this wasn't in Trump's video, but this is from the Arkansas Times, and it's the death of Mark Middleton , who was a former Clinton White House aide who was found dead on a Clinton Foundation property. And I'll just quote from the Arkansas Times: "Middleton apparently shot himself in the chest with a shotgun and also hung himself from a tree with an extension cord." So, I have no idea how somebody commits suicide that way; but if The Washington Post is here, maybe you can enlighten us as to how that was actually a suicide.
So anyways, that's just a lead in to my question about the most famous Clinton-related suicide, which is that of Jeffrey Epstein. There's still a lot of questions around that case. You've released phase one of the Epstein files. What was missing from that is any connection to his ties to intelligence agencies, and that's really the whole story — not just trafficking young girls, but doing it on behalf of intelligence agencies, and even potentially as part of a blackmail ring with potential ties to the Israeli government. So, for phase two, when can we expect it? Will it have information pertaining to those aspects of the Epstein case?
Leavitt deferred to the Justice Department before moving on to other questions.
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This is freedom of the press Trump style - have cranks and conspiracy nuts masquerade as legitimate "media" and embarrass the shit out of everyone who is not a conspiracy nut.
This is the level of intellectual discourse to be expected with Trump giving a prominent role to reactionary propagandists posing as reporters.
Trump and his puppet Leavitt are making a mockery of the concept of "free press".
BTW Trump now says Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce should be investigated because they supported Kamala Harris.
In happier news, it appears that Kid Rock and Lauren Boebert might be in love.
that person has no concept of the First Amendment. As American citizens they have the right to support whomever they want
He also reposted a comment that Obama should be tried for treason before a military tribunal.
I blame the White House media contingent for most of this. They simply do not hold him to account.
No they don't hold him to acccount or his lying sack-of-shit press secretary.