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The Andrew Klavan Show

Ep. 555 - The Armies of Silence

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

Society & Culture

4.822.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Social Media takes its campaign to silence conservatives to the next level. Plus Comedian Jimmie Walker tells some wild Hollywood tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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headlines are blazing all across the mainstream media at the amazingly amazing scandal that is broken

0:06.6

at the White House. President Donald Trump on Sunday sent out a tweet in which he finally admitted

0:12.8

that a Trump tower meeting between Don Jr. and some Russian woman that Trump originally said

0:18.0

was intended to gather opposition research against Hillary Clinton was in fact intended to

0:23.2

gather opposition research against Hillary Clinton. That's right. This wildly insane change of

0:28.6

story came during a tweet storm or a tweet tornado or even possibly a tweet forest fire or other

0:34.4

natural disaster and sent headline writers rushing to their headline writing machinery to write headlines

0:40.1

proclaiming that Trump had at last frankly acknowledged that what he's been saying about the meeting

0:45.0

for over a year is still what he's saying. The New York Times, a former newspaper,

0:50.1

ran a story headline quote, President Trump admits Trump tower meeting was meant to get dirt on

0:55.9

Clinton, unquote, in which the paper revealed that Trump's admission was exactly what he's been

1:01.4

saying since the meeting first became public last July. ABC News broke the big story like this.

1:08.5

The other major headline involving the president tonight, the meeting at Trump tower with Russians,

1:12.9

the president now tweeting that the meeting was about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton.

1:18.0

And then in the very same report played Trump statement from a year ago.

1:21.7

It's called opposition research or even research into your opponent.

1:25.8

So that's a shocking change from one version of the story to the same version of the story a year

1:31.3

later. CNN issued an analysis headline quote why this weekend's Trump tower tweet matters.

1:37.8

Because of CNN didn't tell us why it mattered. It would almost seem that it was a complete non-event

1:42.6

that didn't matter at all. But thank heavens, CNN was there to disabuse us of that silly notion.

1:48.9

And I read their article and I can tell you that CNN says this tweet matters a lot.

1:55.2

I can't tell you why it matters because that wasn't in the article. But I'm sure CNN knows

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