THREAD:
Hey guys, fun thread on #AccessJournalism gone, er, wrong?
Miller's publicist-trio (wait, ahem "journalists") are at it, yet AGAIN helping Miller and propping him up. Of course, we're talking about @jdawsey1@AshleyRParker@PhilipRucker.
cc: @PostBaron
First, a little 'explainer' on Trump World. One of the things unique to Trump World (and this was a thing during the 2016 Campaign, too) is you want 'helpers' in the media not just in general but for the audience of one: i.e., Mr. Trump.
Trump World people, more than any other ecosystem, uses journalists (who are happy to oblige, in exchange for leaks) to put out narratives they want out there... not just in general but narratives they want TRUMP to read.
This is because, a big thing in the WH, is to put an article in front of Trump. (Trump doesn't read books but he does voraciously read articles.) So you want a report that says how loyal you are to him and then, whoops, that article finds its way to his desk.
Recently, I'd heard (and this isn't any big intel I had -- everyone knows this) that Trump is fuming about how his people have sort of checked-out on defending him. (He's right about that, actually.)
So I was wondering, "When are Miller's three-amigos at @WashingtonPost going to coincidentally write an article claiming Miller -- who has actually barely gone on TV recently -- is someone who has Trump's back?"
The trio was trying so hard that the initial sentence does not even make grammatical or logical sense. "One of Trump’s only White House defenses came from"...
Wait... 'White House defenses'? Can someone, in English, break that phrase down for me???
Right after the paragraph on how everyone has abandoned Trump, it's all: "But wait, Mr. Trump, while you're reading this, now here's a paragraph about how Jason Miller has been your sole defender!" (He hasn't but accuracy isn't the point here. It's helping Miller.)
The point here is to ensure Miller can remain in Trump's good graces, despite delivering a resounding loss and barely defending him, so that Miller can stay on the Trump family gravy train.
However, the trio isn't dumb. They also don't want to make Miller sound like a MAGA-diehard, bc that could make him sound 'unreasonable.' So they actually say that he's not defending Trump but, hm, IS defending Trump.
Wut?
"One of Trump’s only White House defenses came from Jason Miller, a senior political adviser. He did not defend the president’s conduct but rather argued that those who voted to impeach him would pay a political price."
Can anyone with a triple-digit IQ make sense of those two sentences in tandem? "One of Trump's only defenses... who did not defend him." WUT? lol
These three are always hilarious and making a mockery of the @washingtonpost with this sh*t work-product. All for what? Has Miller even given them any good scoops? Bc I know of NO big stories they broke. Have a think, @PostBaron .
And in the meantime, pls remember Phil Rucker is available for speaking gigs! ;)
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The real reason they tried damage-control is he needs to say he's running in 2024 (and probably actually will) for the grift -- and the grift/$$$ for those around him -- to continue.
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But they can't admit that bc maybe then Congress would set wheels in motion. So instead yesterday what we saw was Trump-World-sets-the-narrative-by-leaking-to-reporters-the-narrative-Trump-World wants out there.
#IDEA: What if we had photographers from local communities volunteer their time (with so many photographers, even a day per year from each would be huge) at their local animal shelters for dogs' & cats' intake photos?
For instance, this is what the intake photos look like at my local shelter.
(They do their best on their budget and do great work). And the photos is fine for an intake photo, I guess, but it'd be nice to then have the dog sit for a proper 'photo studio' style photo a few days later.
... MAGA will try to spin GA-results as "Nothing to see here. Look this was an anomaly. GOP voters were turned-off by fear of their votes being misallocated by machines, etc. It's nothing. Won't happen again. No big deal."
But the truth is: GOP voters were NOT turned off. They voted in usual #'s The Lin Wood and Sidney Powell instructions to people to stay home proved to be ignored.
UPDATE: Tweeps, also: update on Lil Luna, the dog recovering from cancer who was lost on Christmas Eve....
More like news, rather than an update. (As you know, I heard about this dog's story by seeing the flyer outside my local supermarket.) Unfortunately, this isn't much of an update. Yesterday, my sister and I made 100 flyers at Kinko's and I placed them in ...
plastic sleeves I ordered through Amazon. (Thanks, @amazon!) We set out with packing tape and placed about 1/3 of the flyers in homes' fences and on posts. (The packing tape worked well.)
THREAD: Additionally, it was confirmed to me by a former official with the Trump Campaign (I learned this independent of the litigation) that Miller is indeed being paid through Jamestown purely as a ruse to hide from the FEC.
Apparently, Miller was offered $20,000 a month and countered that he wanted $40,000/month, to which he was told "F*ck you." he and the Campaign then settled on paying him $35,000/month.
Miller, however, demanded that it not be disclosed on the FEC disclosures, so they devised a way to hide it from the public. The scheme devised was to have Jamestown pay Miller, an ads vendor for the Campaign.