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Smearing can't hide the facts.
Since when the clinton news network n the lamestream media uses facts?
Trump sure is corrupt..
Donald Trump ex-fundraiser to plead guilty in 1MDB lobbying case | Malay Mail
Elliott Broidy, a businessman who held senior finance posts in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and on his inaugural committee, is the latest person with ties to Trump to be charged with a crime and comes as the president is trailing in polls ahead of the November 3 election. — Reuters pic
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — A former fundraiser for US President Donald Trump is expected to plead guilty next week to charges of illegally lobbying Trump to drop an investigation into a massive Malaysian embezzlement scandal, according to court documents filed yesterday.
The former fundraiser, Elliott Broidy, is due in federal court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday for a hearing on a plea deal.
Court documents filed earlier this month showed Broidy was also charged with illegally lobbying to arrange the return of a mainland Chinese dissident living in the United States.
Neither Broidy’s lawyer nor representatives for the US Department of Justice had immediate comment.
Court filings released earlier this month showed Broidy was accused of agreeing to take millions of dollars in exchange for lobbying Trump and the Department of Justice to end an investigation of a “wealthy businessperson living in East Asia” for the person’s role in Malaysia’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.
The charges filed against Broidy did not name the person who hired Broidy to do the lobbying.
Broidy, a businessman who held senior finance posts in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and on his inaugural committee, is the latest person with ties to Trump to be charged with a crime and comes as the president is trailing in polls ahead of the November 3 election.
The US Foreign Registration Act requires people who lobby the US government for foreign entities to register.
The Justice Department last year stepped up its enforcement of the rarely prosecuted law on foreign lobbying.
The prosecution of Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for Trump, involved violations of the act.
Manafort earned tens of millions of dollars covertly lobbying for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. — Reuters
Donald Trump ex-fundraiser to plead guilty in 1MDB lobbying case | Malay Mail
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — A former fundraiser for US President Donald Trump is expected to plead guilty next week to charges of illegally lobbying Trump to drop an investigation into a massive Malaysian embezzlement scandal, according to court documents filed yesterday.
The former fundraiser, Elliott Broidy, is due in federal court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday for a hearing on a plea deal.
Court documents filed earlier this month showed Broidy was also charged with illegally lobbying to arrange the return of a mainland Chinese dissident living in the United States.
Neither Broidy’s lawyer nor representatives for the US Department of Justice had immediate comment.
Court filings released earlier this month showed Broidy was accused of agreeing to take millions of dollars in exchange for lobbying Trump and the Department of Justice to end an investigation of a “wealthy businessperson living in East Asia” for the person’s role in Malaysia’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal.
The charges filed against Broidy did not name the person who hired Broidy to do the lobbying.
Broidy, a businessman who held senior finance posts in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and on his inaugural committee, is the latest person with ties to Trump to be charged with a crime and comes as the president is trailing in polls ahead of the November 3 election.
The US Foreign Registration Act requires people who lobby the US government for foreign entities to register.
The Justice Department last year stepped up its enforcement of the rarely prosecuted law on foreign lobbying.
The prosecution of Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for Trump, involved violations of the act.
Manafort earned tens of millions of dollars covertly lobbying for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. — Reuters
Stop mistaking cnn and the rest of mainstream media for Tucker, Hannity, Laura, Mark Levin, Jesse, Judge Jeanine, Maria etc's channel or worse yet, newsmax.
The lamestream media has been caught out many times.
An American judge has even ruled that a reasonable person would have to take what Tucker Carlson says on his show with a pinch of salt. Nuff said.
The Yankee equivalent of POFMA except its used to benefit the libturds n democrazies
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YouTube announces plans to ban content related to QAnon
The company says it will remove conspiracy theory content used to justify real-world violence after Facebook announced a similar move
Kari Paul in San Francisco
Fri 16 Oct 2020 05.45 AEDT
The online video service said in a blogpost it would remove conspiracy theory content used to justify real-world violence from its network. It comes after Facebook announced similar but more extensive measures, banning all QAnon content outright.
YouTube will instead focus on content that targets an individual or groups with conspiracy theories related to QAnon. It will begin enforcing these expanded hate and harassment policies immediately and would “ramp up” in the weeks to come.
Trump ally running for Congress believes in baseless QAnon sex-trafficking conspiracy
“One example would be content that threatens or harasses someone by suggesting they are complicit in one of these harmful conspiracies, such as QAnon or Pizzagate,” the announcement said.
The company argued it had taken previous steps to limit such content, including limiting the reach of harmful misinformation through its recommendations system, but admitted “there’s even more we can do to address certain conspiracy theories that are used to justify real-world violence, like QAnon”.
YouTube is the latest platform to crack down on QAnon content ahead of the 3 November presidential election. Facebook announced on 6 October that it would ban all pages, groups, and accounts related to the promotion of QAnon.
In July, Twitter announced a broad crackdown on QAnon content, kicking 7,000 QAnon accounts off the platform and promising to stop promoting or recommending QAnon. Twitter did not ban QAnon from its site entirely, but said it would no longer make QAnon tweets or accounts visible in searches or recommendations.
But both platforms still struggle to tamp down on the pervasive conspiracy theory. A report from the Associated Press found that, in recent weeks, content related to the mass delusion still spreads on the social media platform. The AP discovered more than a dozen popular QAnon accounts on Twitter that collectively maintain a following of nearly 1.5 million users, almost all of which were recommended to users who followed other QAnon accounts.
QAnon adherents believe that Donald Trump is trying to save the world from a cabal of satanic pedophiles that includes Democrats, Hollywood elites and “deep state” allies. The conspiracy theory’s narrative includes centuries-old antisemitic tropes, such as the belief that the cabal is harvesting blood from abused children.
The mass delusion has been tied to a number of violent events. In 2016, a believer in a QAnon-adjacent theory known as PizzaGate traveled to Washington DC and fired shots into a pizza restaurant he believed was housing a child sex ring.
Experts call these extreme, baseless claims “an incitement to violence”. The movement was named by the FBI as a potential instigator of domestic terrorism.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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The company says it will remove conspiracy theory content used to justify real-world violence after Facebook announced a similar move
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The online video service said in a blogpost it would remove conspiracy theory content used to justify real-world violence from its network. It comes after Facebook announced similar but more extensive measures, banning all QAnon content outright.
YouTube will instead focus on content that targets an individual or groups with conspiracy theories related to QAnon. It will begin enforcing these expanded hate and harassment policies immediately and would “ramp up” in the weeks to come.
Trump ally running for Congress believes in baseless QAnon sex-trafficking conspiracy
“One example would be content that threatens or harasses someone by suggesting they are complicit in one of these harmful conspiracies, such as QAnon or Pizzagate,” the announcement said.
The company argued it had taken previous steps to limit such content, including limiting the reach of harmful misinformation through its recommendations system, but admitted “there’s even more we can do to address certain conspiracy theories that are used to justify real-world violence, like QAnon”.
YouTube is the latest platform to crack down on QAnon content ahead of the 3 November presidential election. Facebook announced on 6 October that it would ban all pages, groups, and accounts related to the promotion of QAnon.
In July, Twitter announced a broad crackdown on QAnon content, kicking 7,000 QAnon accounts off the platform and promising to stop promoting or recommending QAnon. Twitter did not ban QAnon from its site entirely, but said it would no longer make QAnon tweets or accounts visible in searches or recommendations.
But both platforms still struggle to tamp down on the pervasive conspiracy theory. A report from the Associated Press found that, in recent weeks, content related to the mass delusion still spreads on the social media platform. The AP discovered more than a dozen popular QAnon accounts on Twitter that collectively maintain a following of nearly 1.5 million users, almost all of which were recommended to users who followed other QAnon accounts.
QAnon adherents believe that Donald Trump is trying to save the world from a cabal of satanic pedophiles that includes Democrats, Hollywood elites and “deep state” allies. The conspiracy theory’s narrative includes centuries-old antisemitic tropes, such as the belief that the cabal is harvesting blood from abused children.
The mass delusion has been tied to a number of violent events. In 2016, a believer in a QAnon-adjacent theory known as PizzaGate traveled to Washington DC and fired shots into a pizza restaurant he believed was housing a child sex ring.
Experts call these extreme, baseless claims “an incitement to violence”. The movement was named by the FBI as a potential instigator of domestic terrorism.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Oh yes...cnn is such a reliable news source
At least better than promoters of fake news, hoaxes and conspiracies.
Like u?
You brought up QAnon, lol.
U bought up the lamestream media
CNN has come along way from the Clinton News days. Quoting Fox news will result in nothing but false propaganda as well.
Conservatives erupt in anger after Savannah Guthrie grills Trump
'NBC is an interrogation. ABC is a picnic': Conservatives erupt in anger after Savannah Guthrie grills Trump with a 'question every 12 seconds' - while ABC host 'forgets to ask Biden about his son Hunter's emails
By Rachel Sharp For Dailymail.com
16:18 AEDT 16 Oct 2020 , updated 16:47 AEDT 16 Oct 2020
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Trump and Biden both held their town halls Thursday evening, with viewers forced to choose between the clashing timetables after the president scheduled his to go head to head with his competitor.
On NBC, Trump was asked about coronavirus, QAnon, his own diagnosis and his taxes by Guthrie while, on ABC, Biden spoke LGBTQ rights, court packing and the 1994 crime bill with Stephanopoulos.
But Republicans voiced outrage about the president's campaign event, accusing Guthrie of turning the town hall into a 'debate' and arguing that he faced a much tougher round of questioning than his rival.
Conservatives have erupted in anger after NBC's Savannah Guthrie grilled Donald Trump with a 'question every 12 seconds' while ABC's George Stephanopoulos was accused of forgetting to ask Joe Biden about his son Hunter's emails
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Another bone of contention among Trump fans including White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was their argument that Guthrie dominated the questions rather than allowing voters to ask the president questions in the typical town hall format
Former White House press secretary and Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer likened NBC to an 'interrogation' and ABC to a 'picnic' as he accused Guthrie of repeatedly interrupting Trump.
'I just switched to NBC since ABC is in a commercial. Savanah Guthrie has interrupted Trump in these 60 seconds more than Stephanopoulos has done to Biden in 40 mins,' he tweeted.
'NBC is an interrogation. ABC is a picnic.'
Staunch Republican and Trump ally Frank Luntz also accused Guthrie of interrupting Trump 'every 12 seconds' while Biden was able to speak uninterrupted over on the other channel.
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'NBC host @SavannahGuthrie is interrupting Donald Trump on average every 12 seconds. ABC host @GStephanopoulos is interrupting Joe Biden [checks] not at all,' he wrote.
Luntz continued saying the two candidates were treated 'dramatically different' and crying that it wasn't 'fair'.
'Someone needs to do a side-by-side comparison of the 2 town halls,' he tweeted.
'Should one candidate be treated dramatically different than the other? Is that fair? Is that legitimate?'
Another bone of contention among Trump fans was their argument that Guthrie dominated the questions rather than allowing voters to ask the president questions in the typical town hall format.
'How long will NBC go before giving an actual voter the chance to ask a question?' Luntz asked, who later said calling the event a 'town hall' was 'false advertising.'
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Conservative accused Guthrie of turning the town hall into another 'debate'
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany also fumed about an apparent lack of voter questions.
'A third of the way into the NBC town hall and NO questions from the PEOPLE!!!' she wrote on Twitter.
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly raged that the town hall was designed to 'appease' Democrats who had slammed NBC for allowing the president to schedule the clash with Biden's town hall on the network.
'So far, this is not a town hall for voters, it is designed to appease the angry NBC employees/Dems who are pissed off Trump's on NBC at all,' she tweeted.
She later compared his treatment to that of Biden's saying it's 'easier when the moderator lets you speak.'
'Biden sounds good/coherent on ABC right now - talking about the country's future/unity - has the 'aw shucks' attitude he sometimes shows,' she wrote.
'It's definitely easier when the moderator lets you speak.'
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Others questioned why Stephanopoulos failed to ask Biden a single question about the explosive New York Post story about emails allegedly leaked from Hunter Biden's laptop
By contrast, many questioned why Stephanopoulos failed to ask Biden a single question about the explosive New York Post story about emails allegedly leaked from Hunter Biden's laptop.
The story alleges Biden met with Ukrainian businessman Vadym Pozharskyi in 2015 when the businessman was paying his son Hunter $50,000-a-month.
Months later, Biden - then Vice President - pressured Ukrainian officials into firing a prosecutor who was investigating Pozharskyi.
The first emails were released by the New York Post on Wednesday.
The historically Conservative outlet got the emails from Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's closest aides who has also been accused of working with a Russian agent.
Biden's campaign said Wednesday a meeting with Pozharskyi was not in his official schedule.
A second trove of emails was released Thursday suggesting Hunter pursued deals with a major Chinese energy company including one that would be 'interesting for me and my family'.
Critics questioned why Biden was not pressed on the topic Thursday night with avid conservative actor James Wood retweeting a post from journalist Kyle Morris on the issue.
'There was not a single mention of the New York Post's hard-hitting story on Hunter Biden's emails during Joe Biden's town hall,' asked Morris.
'What the hell is going on over at ABC News? Have they thrown out what little journalistic integrity they had left?'
Woods retweeted his post and simply wrote: 'Yes.'
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Yet while people on the right were outraged after the town hall events, many liberals congratulated Guthrie for calling out Trump's factual inaccuracies and getting a near-confession over his failure to pay taxes
Another journalist Andrew Mark Miller also tweeted about the absence of questions on the topic.
'@JoeBiden spoke at an @ABC town hall event for 90 minutes Thursday night and wasn't asked a single question about his son Hunter's emails or his involvement with Ukraine,' he wrote.
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh also blasted what he cited as a 'difference in media treatment' of the two candidates.
'These two town halls capture perfectly the difference in media treatment, Trump vs. Biden. ABC is doing everything they can to keep Joe Biden comfortable,' he tweeted.
'Meanwhile, Savannah Guthrie is attacking the President like she openly hates him. Couldn't be encapsulated better.'
Despite his umbrage at Guthrie's moderation tactics and outrage that it be treated like a debate rather than a town hall, Murtaugh contradicted himself by declaring victory over the NBC host soon after it wrapped up.
'Even though the commission canceled the in-person debate that could have happened tonight, one occurred anyway, and President Trump soundly defeated NBC's Savannah Guthrie in her role as debate opponent and Joe Biden surrogate,' Murtaugh said in a statement.
'President Trump masterfully handled Guthrie's attacks.'
Trump sparred with Guthrie over wearing a face mask, denouncing white supremacy, and the QAnon conspiracy group
Over at Biden's town hall, the Democrat wasn't asked about his son's explosive emails
Yet while people on the right were outraged after the town hall events, many liberals congratulated Guthrie for calling out Trump's factual inaccuracies and getting a near-confession over his failure to pay taxes.
Guthrie was praised for fact-checking Trump in real time and running a harder line than the president is used to as he typically speaks to the right-wing press such as ally network Fox News.
When Trump claimed the CDC had found that '85 percent of people who wear a mask catch [coronavirus]' to argue against masks Guthrie corrected him saying the survey actually found 85 percent of people in a group of 150 Covid-19 patients had worn a mask.
The president was also cagey about his views on QAnon and was grilled over his retweet of a baseless conspiracy theory that Seal Team Six did not kill Osama bin Laden, snapping at Guthrie: 'Let's waste a whole show.'
'You're not somebody's crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever,' Guthrie hit back.
She also challenged Trump over his taxes after it emerged in a New York Times investigation last month that he had paid just $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017 and nothing for several other years and owes $421m debt.
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'Who do you owe $421m to?' Guthrie said.
Trump equivocated and claimed he owed 'a very small amount of money' and was 'underlevered'.
Guthrie asked: 'Are you confirming that, yes, you do owe some $400m?'
'What I'm saying is that it's a tiny percentage of my net worth,' Trump said.
'That sounds like yes,' Guthrie responded.
'Savannah Guthrie is doing very well so far in this format. She’s being direct, persistent, correcting misinformation and not letting the president avoid answering questions. Future debate moderators should take notes,' journalist Liam Stack tweeted of Guthrie.
Journalist Erin Ryan also wrote that Trump 'losing to a "girl" will have damaged his reputation among 'insecure men'.
'i can't think of anything more strategically disastrous than trump going head-to-head with @SavannahGuthrie and getting his ass kicked,' she tweeted.
'the white women he needs to defect back to him will see themselves in her. the insecure men who love him will see him losing to a "girl".'
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Conservatives erupt in anger after Savannah Guthrie grills Trump with a 'question every 12 seconds'
'NBC is an interrogation. ABC is a picnic': Conservatives erupt in anger after Savannah Guthrie grills Trump with a 'question every 12 seconds' - while ABC host 'forgets to ask Biden about his son Hunter's emails
By Rachel Sharp For Dailymail.com
16:18 AEDT 16 Oct 2020 , updated 16:47 AEDT 16 Oct 2020
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- Trump and Biden both held their town halls Thursday evening
- On NBC, Trump was asked about coronavirus, QAnon, his own diagnosis and his taxes by Savannah Guthrie
- On ABC, Biden spoke LGBTQ rights, court packing and the 1994 crime bill with George Stephanopoulos
- Republicans voiced outrage about the president's campaign event, accusing Guthrie of turning the town hall into a 'debate'
- Former White House press secretary and Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer likened NBC to an 'interrogation' and ABC to a 'picnic'
- Trump allies said the two candidates were treated 'dramatically different' and that Guthrie dominated questions rather than allowing voters to ask them
- White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany fumed: 'A third of the way into the NBC town hall and NO questions from the PEOPLE!!!'
- Others questioned why Stephanopoulos failed to ask Biden a single question about the explosive New York Post story about Hunter's leaked emails
- However many liberals congratulated Guthrie for calling out Trump's factual inaccuracies and getting a near-confession over his failure to pay taxes
Trump and Biden both held their town halls Thursday evening, with viewers forced to choose between the clashing timetables after the president scheduled his to go head to head with his competitor.
On NBC, Trump was asked about coronavirus, QAnon, his own diagnosis and his taxes by Guthrie while, on ABC, Biden spoke LGBTQ rights, court packing and the 1994 crime bill with Stephanopoulos.
But Republicans voiced outrage about the president's campaign event, accusing Guthrie of turning the town hall into a 'debate' and arguing that he faced a much tougher round of questioning than his rival.
Former White House press secretary and Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer likened NBC to an 'interrogation' and ABC to a 'picnic' as he accused Guthrie of repeatedly interrupting Trump.
'I just switched to NBC since ABC is in a commercial. Savanah Guthrie has interrupted Trump in these 60 seconds more than Stephanopoulos has done to Biden in 40 mins,' he tweeted.
'NBC is an interrogation. ABC is a picnic.'
Staunch Republican and Trump ally Frank Luntz also accused Guthrie of interrupting Trump 'every 12 seconds' while Biden was able to speak uninterrupted over on the other channel.
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'NBC host @SavannahGuthrie is interrupting Donald Trump on average every 12 seconds. ABC host @GStephanopoulos is interrupting Joe Biden [checks] not at all,' he wrote.
Luntz continued saying the two candidates were treated 'dramatically different' and crying that it wasn't 'fair'.
'Someone needs to do a side-by-side comparison of the 2 town halls,' he tweeted.
'Should one candidate be treated dramatically different than the other? Is that fair? Is that legitimate?'
Another bone of contention among Trump fans was their argument that Guthrie dominated the questions rather than allowing voters to ask the president questions in the typical town hall format.
'How long will NBC go before giving an actual voter the chance to ask a question?' Luntz asked, who later said calling the event a 'town hall' was 'false advertising.'
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany also fumed about an apparent lack of voter questions.
'A third of the way into the NBC town hall and NO questions from the PEOPLE!!!' she wrote on Twitter.
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly raged that the town hall was designed to 'appease' Democrats who had slammed NBC for allowing the president to schedule the clash with Biden's town hall on the network.
'So far, this is not a town hall for voters, it is designed to appease the angry NBC employees/Dems who are pissed off Trump's on NBC at all,' she tweeted.
She later compared his treatment to that of Biden's saying it's 'easier when the moderator lets you speak.'
'Biden sounds good/coherent on ABC right now - talking about the country's future/unity - has the 'aw shucks' attitude he sometimes shows,' she wrote.
'It's definitely easier when the moderator lets you speak.'
By contrast, many questioned why Stephanopoulos failed to ask Biden a single question about the explosive New York Post story about emails allegedly leaked from Hunter Biden's laptop.
The story alleges Biden met with Ukrainian businessman Vadym Pozharskyi in 2015 when the businessman was paying his son Hunter $50,000-a-month.
Months later, Biden - then Vice President - pressured Ukrainian officials into firing a prosecutor who was investigating Pozharskyi.
The first emails were released by the New York Post on Wednesday.
The historically Conservative outlet got the emails from Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's closest aides who has also been accused of working with a Russian agent.
Biden's campaign said Wednesday a meeting with Pozharskyi was not in his official schedule.
A second trove of emails was released Thursday suggesting Hunter pursued deals with a major Chinese energy company including one that would be 'interesting for me and my family'.
Critics questioned why Biden was not pressed on the topic Thursday night with avid conservative actor James Wood retweeting a post from journalist Kyle Morris on the issue.
'There was not a single mention of the New York Post's hard-hitting story on Hunter Biden's emails during Joe Biden's town hall,' asked Morris.
'What the hell is going on over at ABC News? Have they thrown out what little journalistic integrity they had left?'
Woods retweeted his post and simply wrote: 'Yes.'
Another journalist Andrew Mark Miller also tweeted about the absence of questions on the topic.
'@JoeBiden spoke at an @ABC town hall event for 90 minutes Thursday night and wasn't asked a single question about his son Hunter's emails or his involvement with Ukraine,' he wrote.
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh also blasted what he cited as a 'difference in media treatment' of the two candidates.
'These two town halls capture perfectly the difference in media treatment, Trump vs. Biden. ABC is doing everything they can to keep Joe Biden comfortable,' he tweeted.
'Meanwhile, Savannah Guthrie is attacking the President like she openly hates him. Couldn't be encapsulated better.'
Despite his umbrage at Guthrie's moderation tactics and outrage that it be treated like a debate rather than a town hall, Murtaugh contradicted himself by declaring victory over the NBC host soon after it wrapped up.
'Even though the commission canceled the in-person debate that could have happened tonight, one occurred anyway, and President Trump soundly defeated NBC's Savannah Guthrie in her role as debate opponent and Joe Biden surrogate,' Murtaugh said in a statement.
'President Trump masterfully handled Guthrie's attacks.'
Yet while people on the right were outraged after the town hall events, many liberals congratulated Guthrie for calling out Trump's factual inaccuracies and getting a near-confession over his failure to pay taxes.
Guthrie was praised for fact-checking Trump in real time and running a harder line than the president is used to as he typically speaks to the right-wing press such as ally network Fox News.
When Trump claimed the CDC had found that '85 percent of people who wear a mask catch [coronavirus]' to argue against masks Guthrie corrected him saying the survey actually found 85 percent of people in a group of 150 Covid-19 patients had worn a mask.
The president was also cagey about his views on QAnon and was grilled over his retweet of a baseless conspiracy theory that Seal Team Six did not kill Osama bin Laden, snapping at Guthrie: 'Let's waste a whole show.'
'You're not somebody's crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever,' Guthrie hit back.
She also challenged Trump over his taxes after it emerged in a New York Times investigation last month that he had paid just $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017 and nothing for several other years and owes $421m debt.
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'Who do you owe $421m to?' Guthrie said.
Trump equivocated and claimed he owed 'a very small amount of money' and was 'underlevered'.
Guthrie asked: 'Are you confirming that, yes, you do owe some $400m?'
'What I'm saying is that it's a tiny percentage of my net worth,' Trump said.
'That sounds like yes,' Guthrie responded.
'Savannah Guthrie is doing very well so far in this format. She’s being direct, persistent, correcting misinformation and not letting the president avoid answering questions. Future debate moderators should take notes,' journalist Liam Stack tweeted of Guthrie.
Journalist Erin Ryan also wrote that Trump 'losing to a "girl" will have damaged his reputation among 'insecure men'.
'i can't think of anything more strategically disastrous than trump going head-to-head with @SavannahGuthrie and getting his ass kicked,' she tweeted.
'the white women he needs to defect back to him will see themselves in her. the insecure men who love him will see him losing to a "girl".'
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Ah the famous Ben Garrison. Far right wing cartoonist. What a joke. He's a Q Anon worshipper, too. So does he participate in Satanic ritual sacrifices and drink blood too? Or does he have sex with the children as well?
Kudos to FB, Youtube, Twitter FBI, CIA for intercepting the Russian fake Biden emails and making it such a joke
When presented with facts, Trump attacks the messenger. He attacked Fauci, Birx and Redfield. Now he attacks his own appointed FBI director, Wray.
He's insane. Nuts. I loved it when he got smacked in the face in the NBC town hall, worth look. He cut an ad with Fauci saying look Trump was doing the right thing then Fauci shot back saying no I did not say that, next day he attacks him. Fauci's reputation speaks for itself so lots of people r pissed off. Picks on everyone even this 80 year old man.
2 Republican governors just said they r not voting for Trump, so ship is sinking, on fire...
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