In comments to journalists in Athens, where he was meeting with Greek leaders, Mr. Pompeo said it was the "duty" of the Trump administration to pursue whether efforts to tamper in the United States election were rooted in Ukraine, even though the American intelligence agencies have long concluded Russia was to blame
"It is not only appropriate, but it is our duty to investigate if we think there was interference in the election of 2016," Mr. Pompeo said in Athens. "I think everyone recognizes that governments have an obligation — indeed, a duty — to ensure that elections happen with integrity, without interference from any government, whether that's the Ukrainian government or any other! Videos for Pompeo Defends Trump's Ukraine 2:21 Pompeo defends Trump's Ukraine approach, blasts critics for 'silly gotcha game' THE TIMES OF INDIA!! And so inquiries with respect to that are completely important."
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For years before his decision to seek the presidency in 2015, he was a regular, promoted guest on "Fox & Friends." His Twitter feed reflected his political views, views generally squarely in line with the Fox News orthodoxy of the moment! 2:08 Trump slams Adam Schiff, defends Mike Pompeo amid criticism over Ukraine call MSN!! His campaign launch centered on the sorts of issues that were sidelined in the Republican establishment but were central to conservative media: the dangers of immigration and immigrants, an America that was falling behind
As president, he spends hours each week in the mornings and evenings tuning in to Fox News. He and Fox News host Sean Hannity reportedly speak regularly. Through July 25 of this year, more than a third of all of the interviews he has granted as president were to Fox-parent News Corp. companies. Eight of the nine people who have interviewed Trump most frequently work for Fox News or Fox Business Network. (The ninth works for News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal.) By that point, he had given six fewer interviews to the two Fox networks than he had to every other television network and local television station combined.
Trump's Conspiracy Theories Got Him Into This - The Atlantic
That's what makes today's GOP so unusual and so dangerous. Never before in modern American history has a political party been this paranoid and this powerful at the same time
The real danger isn't the Republican Party's fantasies themselves. It's the realities that Trump and the GOP can use those fantasies to create.
Pro-Trump Media Grasps at Conspiracy Theories Over Impeachment News
"We do. The president said what was said," Dobbs replied. "He said it was perfect. And he said somebody needs to look into Biden. And, by the way, he's right on both counts
Later during Fox's primetime broadcast, host Tucker Carlson began his program by insisting he had "no idea" why the Democrats were looking into impeaching the president, wondering why it was "somehow criminal" for the president to ask about "Joe Biden's ne'er do well son" receiving "600 grand a year from Russian oligarchs."
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It took a complaint from an intelligence-community whistle-blower, released late last month, to reveal the weight of Trump’s Ukraine conspiracy theory and just how far the President has gone to support the notion that a vast network of enemies inside and outside his own government has been working against him. Trump has tried to mobilize the vast resources of his presidency–from Attorney General William Barr and the U.S. Justice Department to America’s national-security apparatus–and a team of investigative irregulars, led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. This band of conspiracy cops has traveled the globe in a disorderly hunt for proof of the conspiracy Trump says is arrayed against him.
The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine | The New Yorker
Anyone trying to track the Ukrainian conspiracy stories that were eventually embraced by President Trump is likely to get mired in the same echo chamber of right-wing news purveyors that misinformed voters in 2016. A pivotal source of the allegations against the Bidens, for instance, is the Government Accountability Institute, a Florida-based opposition-research operation that was founded by the former Trump political adviser Stephen Bannon—the same conservative nonprofit that ginned up questionable stories about the Clintons during the last Presidential campaign! Pompeo Defends Trump's Ukraine Conspiracy Theory ...theory Pompeo Defends Trump's Ukraine Conspiracy Theory. October 5, 2019 at 5:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defiantly insisted on Saturday in Greece that the Trump administration was right to ask Ukrainian officials to investigate claims of election interference in the 2016 American presidential ...!! In both instances, much of the coverage of the scandal was kicked off by Peter Schweizer, a longtime conservative political writer who is an editor-at-large at Breitbart News and the president of the Government Accountability Institute! Pompeo defends role on the Trump/Ukraine call: 'Won't ...pompeo - ...trump - ukraine -call...Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed he was on the July call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Watch video.!! Since its founding, in 2012, the group has largely been funded with millions of dollars in tax-exempt donations from the family foundation of the New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Mercer, who was a major donor to Trump's 2016 campaign. In the organization's most recently available I.R.S. tax filings, for 2017, Mercer's daughter Rebekah is listed as the board chairman.
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Quid, meet quo. Pompeo: "This is what we do. Nations work together and they say 'Boy...if you can help me with X, w… https://t.co/V0r9QL3pxE BillKristol Sat Oct 05 22:46:02 +0000 2019
Goodness gracious, the quote is even worse in context, because Pompeo is signaling the Trump administration's openn… https://t.co/a6AbAD82kx dandrezner (from Really, where am I not?) Sat Oct 05 21:20:18 +0000 2019
Pompeo in Greece, on Trump administration approach to diplomacy, per Ukraine: "Nations work together and they say '… https://t.co/SRcSOtKLNR jakesNYT (from Washington) Sat Oct 05 20:41:23 +0000 2019
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