Trump allies to investigate news reporters
Raising $2 million to uncover damaging statements
As the 2020 presidential election approaches, it appears that reporters aren't going to be the only ones "investigating."
A report reveals that allies of President Trump are trying to raise $2 million to investigate those reporters, and editors, who have been campaigning against him through their comments and editorials.
"I have been suggesting this for over 25 years, that journalists need to be investigated," radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday,
"because they sit there on a moral high horse claiming they have the authority to judge everyone else."
"They are stunned and they are paranoid and they are outraged."
The attacks on Trump have been going on since before the 2016 election.
The reporters and editors also have been displaying their anti-Trump biases.
Jim Acosta of CNN made a spectacle of himself at one news conference when he refused to give up the White house microphone after the president had moved on to another reporter.
Videos appear to show him pushing away an intern whose job it was to retrieve it.
Then the Daily Caller reported he "heckled" Trump at a G7 Summit news conference.
At NPR reporter Yamiche Alcindor badgered the president during that news conference.
The president had said, "President Putin outsmarted President Obama," over the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.
That didn't fit Alcindor's agenda.
He interrupted the president, with,
"Why have you been using the misleading statement that Russia outsmarted President Obama when other countries have said that the reason Russia was kicked out (of the then-G-8) was very clearly because they annexed Crimea?
Why keep repeating what some people would see as a clear lie?"
"There you have it," explained the Federalist. "
A member of the White House press corps rising to protect President Obama while calling President Trump's perfectly reasonable assertion a lie."
The report said while the press "was soft" on Obama, its members have been "brutal" to Trump.
Now an Axios report reveals "President Trump's political allies are trying to raise at least $2 million to investigate reporters and editors of The New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets."
The report said Axios reviewed a three-page fundraising pitch.
Axios explains,
"This group will target reporters and editors, while other GOP 2020 entities go after the social media platforms, alleging bias, officials tell us."
The report claimed the strategy will be to "slip damaging information about reporters and editors to 'friendly media outlets,' such as Breitbart, and traditional media, if possible."
It explained that those involved include GOP consultant Arthur Schwartz and others.
It appears the move developed after a Times editor was exposed for past anti-Semitic social media statements, and the new group now is
"using the exposure to try to formalize and fund the operation."
The primary targets listed in the pitch, Axios reported, include "CNN, MSNBC, all broadcast networks, NY Times, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, and all others that routinely incorporate bias and misinformation in to their coverage.
We will also track the reporters and editors of these organizations."
Leftists have been doing the same for years already, with the "liberal group Media Matters."
The Hill reported that Trump long has labeled those who attack him as "fake news," and the New York Times described the targets, including itself, as "legitimate news reporting.
It warned,
"Operatives have closely examined more than a decade’s worth of public posts and statements by journalists, the people familiar with the operation said.
Only a fraction of what the network claims to have uncovered has been made public, the people said, with more to be disclosed as the 2020 election heats up.
The research is said to extend to members of journalists’ families who are active in politics, as well as liberal activists and other political opponents of the president."
But it explained the information released so far has been "authentic" and "much of it has been professionally harmful to its targets."
The White House said it is not involved, or even aware, of the operation.
When The New York Times editorial board recently lashed out at the president over "fomenting anti-Semitism,"
suddenly in the news were "documented anti-Semitic and racist tweets written a decade ago by Tom Wright-Piersanti, who was in college at the time and has since become an editor on the Times’ politics desk."
When a CNN effort to expose old posts by a Trump appointee – "spreading suggestions that Barack Obama was a Muslim"
– surfaced, suddenly there were documented reports of anti-Semitic tweets from a CNN photo editor.
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