CNN reported Wednesday on a senior administration official admitting
that the White House intentionally misled reporters ahead of President Donald Trump‘s congressional address in order to get generate positive press coverage as part of a “misdirection play.”
Multiple reports Tuesday indicated that Trump would embrace a more
moderate tone on immigration and would announce that he was willing to
negotiate granting millions of illegal immigrants legal status. Most of those reports, cited to a “senior administration official,”
came immediately after anchors lunched with Trump. Some of those
outlets then just attributed the claim to the president himself.
But when it was time for Trump to actually give the speech, he said nothing of the sort . . . . CNN’s Sara Murray complained the next day about “the bait and switch that the president pulled . . . . .
Notes: Stop !!! What is wrong with this Marxist bunch? "Bait and switch?" Did no one see the pics of Trump working on his speech, in the limo, on the way to event? So he changed his mind, or, whatever. That is vastly different from a "bait and switch."
Does no one on the Left know that the term is a sales term, and, involves advertising a cheap item then switching the customers to a more expensive item when they come into the store?
The press was going to show up for the speech, whether or not Trump talked about comprehensive immigration or not. Did the declared enemies of the Trump presidency honestly believe that Donald gave them insider information for the sake of giving the Marxist Media a "scoop?" Is that what they want us all to believe?
The only bait and switch, here, is us believing the media cares about the truth, as they, in turn, give us stories such as this. Little wonder that the Prez is more trusted than the Media.