{"id":70315,"date":"2017-04-01T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70315"},"modified":"2017-04-01T16:37:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:37:48","slug":"total-scam-trump-slams-nbc-coverage-of-phony-russian-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70315","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Total Scam&#8221; &#8211; Trump Slams NBC Coverage Of &#8220;Phony Russian Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>It would not be a Saturday morning if President Trump did not take to Twitter to vent about his latest grievance. This time he took aim at NBC News and in particular Chuck Todd&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCNews<\/a> start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump\/Russia story?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/848153860602507264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is the same Fake News Media that said there is &quot;no path to victory for Trump&quot; that is now pushing the phony Russia story. A total scam!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/848158641056362496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p>It was not immediately apparent what NBC coverage Trump was taking issue with, but <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/326830-trump-tells-nbc-to-stop-covering-russia-story\">as The Hill notes,<\/a> Chuck Todd on Friday interviewed top Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell and former Obama press secretary Josh Earnest on \u201cMTP Daily\u201d about the latest Russia developments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/03\/28\/20170401_todd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/03\/28\/20170401_todd.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, and correctly, President Trump is upset that so little coverage is focused on the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-03-31\/intel-official-behind-unmasking-trump-associates-very-senior-very-well-known\">increasingly intriguing surveillance state leaks and admissions<\/a><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; supported by facts and actual evidence &#8211; rather than trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-03-30\/%E2%80%98russiagate%E2%80%99-failing-and-its-supporters-are-getting-concerned\">keep the Russians-did-it narrative alive<\/a> in a desperate effort to avoid any blame or self-reflection with regard the election, the Clinton campaign, or the post-election division being sponsored by leftists everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, as Upton Sinclair famously wrote,<strong><em> &#8220;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-04-01\/total-scam-trump-slams-nbc-coverage-phony-russian-story\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-04-01\/total-scam-trump-slams-nbc-coverage-phony-russian-story<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}