The author of the explosive new Trump book says he can't be sure if parts of it are true

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  1. Ddyad

    Ddyad Well-Known Member

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    Is that you Wolff? ;-)
     
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    TRFjr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    the point is he admitted there are lies in the book that puts all of the book into question because now one has to decide which are and aren't the lies so it is best not to believe any of it then risk the chance of believing a lie
    but of coarse that goes right over your head because it requires critical thinking to understand that concept how printing lies goes against ones credibility
     
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    It's believeable to folks with the IQ of a gorilla. That's what makes it so funny!
     
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    Yeah, but I'm also pretty sure that when the author of a book himself says he's not sure if his own book is completely factual, that casts doubt on the veracity of well - his entire book. Not to mention the professionalism of himself and his editors. Assuming this book had any.

    Cases have been tossed out and/or overturned when the facts presented were shown to be unverifiable and/or not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. That's something any real lawyer knows. But don't take my word for it, call up a real lawyer and find out for yourself. You can find many in your area with a quick Google search.
     
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    Oh you were watching CNN .. Don Lemon is a hyperactive blithering idiot .. I saw the View a couple times my wife used to watch it. I recall 4 or 5 women one or two Black and the time I saw one of the Black ones was screaming at the White ones and isn't one of the Black women Woopsie Goldfarb? I think that's the one doing the screaming. My wife quit watching that show after that.
     
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    And that's how I came to start watching "The Walking Dead". One trailer teaser and I was hooked. Now after seeing the past 7 seasons or so, I now know it's all true. :roflol:
     
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    This is the same guy that wrote "Burn Rate" and pulled the same ****.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20120718061524/http://www.brillscontent.com/burn.shtml

    He made the same claims here, with 13 people saying he was just making **** up, that he had notes and interviews to back it up, but would never release them.

    I predict more of the same.
     
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    Not true about the media. MSM said that even if 20% is true, it is still explosive. And your 'Trump hating liberal forum members' and Republican members did not report on it as verified "facts" but as reported stories about inner action at the White House much of which they had heard long before the book was published. So let us not embellish.
     
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    I don't know, I see the occasional clip from the View. It's like nails on a chalkboard. No idea how people can watch that.
     
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    No, not too funny. Much of it is factual, as you will find out.
     
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    He is not saying that he's not sure if his book is factual.

    He is saying that his book is 100% factual.

    He is saying that the people who he interviewed (the people in the White House) are liars.

    That is a troubling reflection on the White House, not on his book.
     
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    Like the Dossier?
     
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    Here's the problem: He did this knowing that he was gonna get people believing the more salacious parts, especially on the Legacy Media outlets, the MSNBC's, etc. I'm not thrilled with Trump myself but you and I know odds are that eventually some to most of those parts will either be disproven or enough reasonable doubt will be cast upon them as to make any argument against Trump using said arguments worthless. I would argue that if this guy is indeed an anti-Trump guy, that he effectively torpedoed his own stance about the same way Maddow did with Trump's tax returns.

    Mom worked a few jobs putting herself thru college, and one of those jobs was working as a proofreader/story writer for the old fan-mags teenage girls bought about their crushes back in the day who were, I dunno - James Dean, Elvis and suchlike. Even though most of what was written was fabricated from other interviews, every word someone typed nevertheless went thru many editors and even a lawyer or two - real lawyers, not the fake ones you often see online - making sure that it was all safe before it got printed. It appears to me that when fan mags have more quality control than a Trump exposé and has as much credibility as a Lena Dunham rape claim, then it appears that the anti-Trump side has some issues.
     
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    Nah, I'm over here.
     
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    Very good post. When the news media gets rid of its copy editors trouble follows - instantly.
     
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    Bannon is playing the long game and distancing himself from the Trump crime family and protecting his white supremacist MAGA movement (it is in fact his as were all of Trump's BS policies and catch phrases) because he knows that Trump and his grifter family are going down for money laundering.
     
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    do I need to start posting comments made by our Trump Hating forum members

    for example this thread tile

    Everyone in Trumpworld Knows He’s an Idiot

    that is presented as a statement of fact. There is no reported as or according to but written as a definitive statement of fact
    so where is the evidence that Everyone in Trumpworld Knows He’s an Idiot did the author of that sentence get a written statement from everyone in Trumpword confessing as such?
     
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    Who said he was? I haven't seen his political affiliations, if any, discussed anywhere.... If he's left leaning and they let him in the WH without final approval, they are fools.... If not, they are fools for assuming he would write all sunshine and butterflies... Wouldn't have taken somebody much time (other than Trump of course) to go read the Murdoch book to see what they could be getting into..
     
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    Re-read post #25, it sums this OP and thread up nicely.
     
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    TRFjr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    if I gave you a bowl of candy and told you 20% of that candy is poisonous would you eat out of that bowl of candy?
    so why would you believe anything from a book knowing many things in that book are untrue
     
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    The Trump Dossier? Again, this is about the book and has absolutely nothing to do with the Trump Dossier or the Clinton dossier.
    They are separate entities and in no way tied to each other. And even you know that, yes?
     
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    A Wolfe in Wolff's clothing - look out! :)
     
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    Oh it was the big smoking gun and now Dems are running from it as fast as they can.
     
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