Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:And Kellyanne Conway's explanation that Spicer is just stating "alternative facts". It does not bode well when the press secretary is being compared to Baghdad Bob by the news corps.Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:Well, that took about as much time as I thought. Yesterday White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused the news media of falsely reporting the size of the Inauguration crowds and basically threatened them for not following the official Trump party line on the turnout. Literally. "We're going to hold the press accountable" is the word-for-word quote.
Trump's "record turnout" compared to Obama's first inauguration. "We've got the BIGGEST EMPTY SPACES in inauguration history! No President has ever had BIGGER empty spaces in his audience!"
Countdown to denial of photographic evidence begins in 5... 4...
Fortunately, the ACLU is basically saying, "bring it on" in response.
Far more ominous to me is the news that Trump is not going to be releasing his tax returns and the Trump organization will be accepting business from foreign governments. So I can see corruption scandals showing up in the next 4 years if not the start of impeachment proceedings.
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