The release of former FBI Director James Comey’s notes from his meeting with President Donald Trump has sent the media into full Trump Derangement Syndrome.
This time it’s so bad, they’re intentionally misleading Americans into believing Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin secretly discussed Russian prostitutes.
“President Trump once said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that Russia has “some of the most beautiful hookers in the world,” according to memos written by former FBI Director James Comey,” The Hill reports, in a lead paragraph that makes it appear the exchange occurred during private conversations.
Virtually every other mainstream media publication described the comments in the same manner, leading readers to believe Trump and Putin secretly discussed prostitutes.
The comments were described in memos written by Comey after his Feb. 8, 2017 meeting with Trump, in which Comey claims Trump said Putin commented to him.
Comey’s memo was written hours after he spoke with Trump, and Putin appears to have never told Trump that.
Trump, during a conversation about a fake “Russian dossier” that falsely accused Trump of using Russian prostitutes, was relaying to Comey comments by Putin that appeared in a Jan. 17, 2017 London Daily Telegraph story.
In that story, Putin publicly denounced the dossier’s claims as “nonsense” and called those behind it “worse than prostitutes.”
Few mainstream media articles on Comey’s memo reveal that fact.
It’s that kind of intentional misrepresentation that is sending Americans’ trust in the mainstream media to record lows.
A February 2017 Emerson College poll finds only 39 percent of Americans feel the mainstream media are “truthful,” while 53 percent feel the media are “untruthful.”
That echoes a 2016 Gallup poll finding trust in the media is at its lowest point since they began polling the question in 1972.
Only 32 percent of Americans said say they have a “great deal or fair amount of trust in the media,” a drop of eight percent from the year before.
AAN Staff
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