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06-03-2017 , 03:28 PM

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She also sued someone over a tweet recently.

http://www.inquisitr.com/4262939/cas...st-accusation/

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Journalist Cassandra Fairbanks says she is suing a Fusion reporter and the New York Times for defamation after the reporter allegedly accused her of being a white supremacist.

Fairbanks, a former Bernie Sanders-supporting Democrat who now backs Donald Trump and currently works for the right-leaning Big League Politics website, filed the lawsuit against the reporter in District of Columbia federal court today. Apparently, the Times lawsuit will come later.

Fairbanks and controversial author and filmmaker Mike Cernovich visited the White House in late April and posed for a picture behind the lecturn of the famous White House press room, the location where Sean Spicer spars with reporters every day.

Both Fairbanks and Cernovich made the usually innocuous OK hand signal for the picture, something other visitors have done in the past.

On April 28, Roller allegedly tweeted out the photo which had been posted online but accusing the duo of making a “white power” hand gesture. The tweet subsequently went viral. The tweet has since been deleted.

The legal complaint filed by prominent California attorney Robert Barnes claims that this was an example of a mainstream media outlet smearing an independent, new media journalist.

“Emma Roller, of Fusion, told the world that Fairbanks flashed a ‘white power’ signal to the world from the media center of the White House. Roller went further, factually telling the world this “white power” signal had been identified as such by the Anti-Defamation League. What was this ‘white power’ signal? The ‘ok’ hand signal. Within days of this false story by Roller — spread to the world through her twitter account, and then throughout the internet — the ADL itself denounced this claim as a ‘hoax’ noting that the ‘ok’ sign had ‘never’ been a white power signal. Did Roller correct her defamation of Cassandra Fairbanks? No. lnstead, on the eve of learning of this lawsuit, Roller deleted the tweet, and tried to destroy the evidence of her saying what she said. and doing what she did. This suit followed.”

Attorney Barnes took the case pro bono, which means that he is not billing Fairbanks for his time or his work on the case. “I’ve been disturbed by people using the leverage of institutional media to harass new media. I’ve been looking for the right case to help advocate for changing that,” he told BuzzFeed.

06-03-2017 , 03:29 PM

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No, I'm pretty sure they can change at will. See Sanders, Bernard, Lieberman, Joesph those are just two I remember.

06-03-2017 , 03:32 PM

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Trump was warned about Flynn by the President of the United States, who was later blamed for granting Flynn clearance.

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Originally Posted by microbet

And Obama also fired Flynn.

My reply to that awval post earlier:

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Originally Posted by Our House

Wake up dude. Seriously. Think about the facts. Think about Trump's own admissions, before you post nonsense like this.

Trump was warned several times about Flynn by the bipartisan people with career experience in the best positions to know. And instead of even slightly considering a look into Flynn's situation, he fired of all the messengers! Then he went on to lie, deceive and misdirect in every single statement about Flynn since. He's fought tooth and nail against ANY truth coming out about Flynn to the point that he's been confessing on TV and Twiiter to breaking laws to cover that all up.

Face it bro, Flynn's connections to Russia and Turkey weren't unknown to Trump...they were a PREREQUISITE to his NSA POSITION!

And even if you could pass it off as Flynn and Manafort, there's still Stone and Page. There's still Nunes and Sessions and Kushner and...ugh...all of them doing all kinds of lying on government forms and under oath to cover up what? RUSSIA. ALWAYS RUSSIA.

In addition to what we all said, I'll throw in Mike Pence...

Pence, as head of the transition team, was notified in writing more than once that Flynn was dirty. Flynn's own lawyers notified Pence that he had taken a bunch of cash from Russia and Turkey and failed to report it. He never registered as a foreign agent, even though his military position was briefed regularly on how that practice is illegal.

So awval, you're not just banking on all those people listed above conspiring together without Trump's knowledge, but also that the Vice President withheld such serious information from Trump as well.

Change your mind yet?

06-03-2017 , 03:35 PM

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And Obama also fired Flynn.

Trump's fellow fatboy Christie warned him about Flynn before the election. Acting AG Yates told the WH lawyer Flynn was dirty, but Trump did nothing for 18 days. Trump not knowing Flynn was compromised is still completely plausible.

06-03-2017 , 03:37 PM

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This is amazing.

06-03-2017 , 03:37 PM

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Attorney Barnes took the case pro bono, which means that he is not billing Fairbanks for his time or his work on the case. “I’ve been disturbed by people using the leverage of institutional media to harass new media. I’ve been looking for the right case to help advocate for changing that,” he told BuzzFeed.

If a pro Bono lawyer did a bad job for Trump, do they have to pay him?

06-03-2017 , 03:42 PM

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Jason Miller is a cross between Roseanne Barr and Frylock.

06-03-2017 , 03:59 PM

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Parties in the US are separate (in theory) from the government. We don't elect a party the way they do in a lot of places. People can and sometimes do switch with no election.

If a 'moderate' Republican were to switch they would obviously lose much of their base, but wouldn't they become super popular with the Democrat voters? Or in the next election would the Democrats run their own candidate to primary him and win easily?

06-03-2017 , 03:59 PM

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"Ignorance is strength" is definitely one of the Trumpkin mottos.

"Work sets you free" is something of a Paul Ryanish motto.

These guys couldn't survive a day without committing mass deception regularly. It's definitely the worst this country has ever been, in an age where facts and information are the best they've ever been.

Lies are at a staggering level right now. I don't understand why Trump fans can't (or won't) see it. I mean, it's very easy to notice that they get all of their data as talking points that come straight from Trump's mouth. Then they eventually run into actual data. At no point are you guys exhausted from being corrected all the time?

There's a good reason why Trump has been deleting public government records, is hiding everything he can hide, and is trying to rewrite history. Honest people don't behave this way!

06-03-2017 , 04:01 PM

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Senate or House? It depends on the specific constituency. Something like 390/435 House seats are gerrymandered so badly they are considered "very safe" R or D seats. Switching in one of those districts is political suicide.

06-03-2017 , 04:06 PM

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if trump has his anti french rally at lafayette square do we have to give them the statue of liberty back?

06-03-2017 , 04:09 PM

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TV Trumpkins learning how to whine to and massively deceive the public from their teacher.

"Trump has to apply his Executive Privilege here. Otherwise it will be a game of he says, he says. Plus it's not fair to the President. Why should Comey get to tell the story alone in the Senate? It's completely one sided."

06-03-2017 , 04:56 PM

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lol these people would be so hilarious if they weren't literally in charge of our country

https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/s...90264122101760

Literally a paid protestor:

https://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/871012561285722112

06-03-2017 , 05:25 PM

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"The truth may be that Trump had no idea his supporters... were compromised."

https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/stat...97615198416896
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/statu...62300056317952

06-03-2017 , 06:00 PM

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Literally a paid protestor:

Credit where credit's due, he surprising managed to spell 'CNN is ISIS!' correctly.

06-03-2017 , 06:16 PM

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I guess if you can get EVERY single Democratic Senator on board (including pretty conservative guys like Joe Manchin) you could get it done with 19 GOP Senators.

If you're in a position where you're dipping into the deep red states for possible removal, yeah Joe Manchin is already on board. He's still a democrat.

06-03-2017 , 06:20 PM

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Sure, that makes sense. The problem is in your first sentence: we'd need to be in a position to dip into those red states quite deeply to actually remove Trump.

06-03-2017 , 06:28 PM

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Sure, that makes sense. The problem is in your first sentence: we'd need to be in a position to dip into those red states quite deeply to actually remove Trump.

Criminalizing incest at the federal level should create enough of a divide.

06-03-2017 , 06:29 PM

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No bet. But I'd bet a lot of money that should the impeachment process ever move forward and look sufficiently bad for Trump, Awval will be weeping with pride that our political process is taking our country back.

All while thanking his lucky stars that he actually voted for HRC.