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Fake news piled on fake news piled on fake news. The media can't even get simple things like dates right.

The media's Russia probe meltdown: 3 screw-ups in one week

The media is having a rough week when it comes to reporting on the federal government's multiple ongoing Russia investigations. Three stories in the past seven days have crumbled under greater scrutiny....

The misses

Flynn's testimony: Last Friday, ABC News reported that former national security advisor Michael Flynn was prepared to testify that President Trump, while still a candidate, directed him to contact Russian officials. But later in the day, the network issued a "clarification" that the direction came when Trump was president-elect. That changed the impact of the story entirely as it's a common occurrence for presidential transition teams to reach out to foreign governments.

Deutsche Bank subpoena: Reuters and Bloomberg both reported on Tuesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation had subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for information on accounts relating to President Trump and his family members — seemingly confirming that Mueller had expanded his probe to investigate the president's financial dealings. The WSJ defused that bombshell in a follow-up report stating that the subpoenas actually dealt with "people or entities close to Mr. Trump."

WikiLeaks emails: CNN reported this morning that senior Trump campaign officials, including Trump himself, received an email from an unknown sender on September 4, 2016 that linked them to what could have been unreleased WikiLeaks documents. WaPo issued their own report later in the afternoon that the email was actually sent on September 14 — and linked to a trove of documents that WikiLeaks had publicly released a day earlier.

https://www.axios.com/the-medias-russia ... 78886.html

How do we know that this isn't intentional for someone's economic gain?

The conservative mindset: Fox News and Russia Today lying hourly is fine (Not that they recognized it as lies, but facts are not on their side), but that CNN, a 24/7 news network, say a few "lies", that may not be "lies" so much as mistakes, is grow to a scandal of monstrous proportion. Of course the conservative propaganda machine is very good at exaggeration and lying to make up scandals, and if the same scandals happen with conservatives, they somehow rarely brought up even on so-called liberal medias.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/the-brazenness-of-jared-and-ivankas-personal-email-server/541017/

And no, it's not because Obama's policies are "finally kicking in"; it's because the economy, released from Obama's policies, is now filling with confidence in the future. New hiring happens first -- it's a leading indicator that reflects expectations of a positive future.

Trump's 'Inclusive' Jobs Boom

With 228,000 jobs created in November, joblessness at a 17-year low of 4.1% and wages rising, it can no longer really be doubted: Donald Trump's relentless focus on tax cuts, deregulation and draining the swamp is great for job growth.

Even some normally critical media now admit the economy's underlying shift: "The American job market is the strongest it's been in a decade, and arguably the strongest since 2000," wrote The New York Times on Friday.

The Times is right. And the change is noteworthy, especially when viewed year-over-year.

Even though the workforce expanded by just under 1.1 million workers in the past 12 months, the number of people employed is up 1.87 million. That's why the unemployment rate continues to drop.

But the most interesting part of the jobs report, which goes almost unnoticed by the media, is that it's not just a few groups seeing more jobs and opportunity — it's broad-based, with minorities, women, men and even those with low incomes, showing the best gains.

For instance, every education group — ranging from those with no high school diploma, to those with a bachelor's degree or higher — saw significant declines in unemployment in November 2017 from November 2016. And the biggest drops were for those with the least education, not the most.

Meanwhile, groups that have lagged in recent years also show major improvements. For instance, the jobless rate for African Americans dropped from 8% to 7.3%, while for Hispanics it fell from 5.7% to 4.7%. For Asians it stayed at an ultralow 3%.

New York Times D.C. bureau adds fact-checker
As news errors become fodder for Trump’s attacks, the venerable daily makes an extra push for accuracy.

With greater scrutiny on media accuracy than ever, The New York Times has added a new, never-before-heard-of position to its D.C. bureau: fact-checker.

LOL, you can say that again.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/ ... ker-295403

"Well, we've already established what you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."

Exclusive: Prominent lawyer sought donor cash for two Trump accusers

A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.

California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... p-accusers

ABSOLUTE PROOF that Trump has been secretly colluding with the Russians!

Putin thanks Trump for intelligence that prevented St Petersburg terror attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin called US President Donald Trump on Sunday to thank the Central Intelligence Agency for relaying information that lead to the arrest of several individuals since Friday suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg.

According to the Kremlin, the information shared by the CIA “helped to track, identify and detain a group of terrorists preparing to set off explosions in St. Petersburg’s Kazan Cathedral, as well as in other public areas,” Interfax news agency reported.

Mr Putin asked Mr Trump to relay his thanks to the director of the CIA and the intelligence officers who first received the information.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12 ... rg-terror/

President Trump visited injured service members at Walter Reed Hospital today and awarded a Purple Heart.

Poor kids.

AFAIC, anybody foolhardy enough to buy ANYTHING in today's bubble stock market, is likely ignorant of what they will get [probable loss of their @$$ when the correction comes, as it surely will]

The Shiller P/E ratio is 32.6 now, higher than the "Black Monday" crash in the 1920s, higher than the "Black Tuesday" crash ...
http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/

So, we do appear to be in dangerous waters.

However ....
-Corporate tax rates were just cut from 35% to 21%.
-Small Business pass-through rate at 20%.
-Nearly all working Americans are going to have an extra $1000-$2000 extra to spend every year.

I think we have more upside.

This is the perfect time to get off disability.

https://choosework.ssa.gov/about/how-it ... index.html
Ticket to Work connects you with free employment services to help you decide if working is right for you, prepare for work, find a job or maintain success while you are working. If you choose to participate, you will receive services such as career counseling, vocational rehabilitation, and job placement and training from authorized Ticket to Work service providers, such as Employment Networks (EN) or your state Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency. The service provider you choose will serve as an important part of your “employment team” that will help you on your journey to financial independence.

Trump:

Legislative bills signed in first year of office:

Trump: 96
W. Bush: 109
Obama: 124
Reagan: 158
Clinton: 209
H.W. Bush: 242
Carter: 249

i'm not even on disability and I can't get off of it.

President Trump wishes everyone here a Happy New Year!

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

As our Country rapidly grows stronger and smarter, I want to wish all of my friends, supporters, enemies, haters, and even the very dishonest Fake News Media, a Happy and Healthy New Year. 2018 will be a great year for America!

5:18 PM - Dec 31, 2017

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 5519173637

And the same to you, Mr. President!