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Richard Baris
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This is a talking point oft-cited by Trump-haters. And it's false.

Materials Fusion GPS provided to @FreeBeacon were public NOT Kremlin-sourced, unlike the DNC/Clinton-funded Steele dossier sold to FISC as an intel product.

WFB didn't even know Steele.
freebeacon.com/uncategorized/…
Exactly my point.

Public sources versus "A: senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure; B: former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin; C: senior Russian financial official; and G: senior Kremlin official."

Very different.
"The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele..."
"Nor did we have any knowledge of the relationship between Fusion GPS and the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and the Clinton campaign."

Bogus talking point to obfuscate the fact-pattern of a conspiracy.
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Richard Baris
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All I hear today, is mediates and Democrats doubting the polls.

1. General election polls at this point have ZERO predictive value.

1a. As I laid out in 2016, the argument that candidates who are trailing in August/September cannot win, was a flimsy, at best.
2. Statewide polls in 2018 were NOT accurate. Big media is pretending coming somewhat close to the predicting the national vote means they fixed their problem.

They have not.

It is simply not good enough. Elections for POTUS are won at the state level, in the Electoral College.
3. At least @BretBaier had the fortitude to tell viewers how that poll faired in Florida in 2018. Not very well, folks. They didn't fair well anywhere in 2016. They missed the mark and margin in every single state.

Here's what I'd say to people looking at polls in Florida.
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Richard Baris
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Trump: "This was our chance to reclaim our government from a permanent political class that enriched itself at your expense. We did not merely transfer power from one party to another. We transferred power back to you, the proud citizens of the United States of America."
Notice Trump says "we" a lot. Remember Obama's reelection rally?

"I" do.
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If the Fox Poll is accurate, and not saying it is b/c it hasn't been, it's not flattering to Corporate Big Media.

A media concerned w/ reporting truth would view 50% saying @realDonaldTrump coordinated w/ Russia, as a failure. A #BigMediaHateMachine would view it as a success.
Only fringe Democrats still claim that he did. Corporate Big Media earned the name #BigMediaHateMachine by helping them continue to push that lie.

It is a lie. Always was.

So, when President @realDonaldTrump calls them the Enemy of the People, are they acting like a "friend"?
Friends don't let friends believe conspiracy theories, especially dangerous lies that lead to political violence.

You know who believed wholeheartedly that Donald Trump was a traitor?

James Hodgkinson.

It was one of the last posts he made to FB before shooting Steve Scalise.
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