JERUSALEM (JTA) – Facing mounting scandals, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the “fake news” media and “leftists” of trying to take him down with a campaign of lies. In a hastily organized meeting with political allies Thursday, Netanyahu denied any wrongdoing in two erupting controversies involving his associates, the Hebrew media reported. The prime minister…
The pressure is building on Jared Kushner in the days after revelations that he attended a meeting with an attorney linked to the Russian government. And now he’s apparently under investigation for possible ties to the Kremlin’s fake news campaign against Hillary Clinton. According to McClatchy, an unidentified source close to Russia special counsel Robert…
Sean Hannity was roundly condemned for fanning conspiracy theories about the death of Seth Rich, even after the Fox News Channel retracted a story about supposed links between the slain Democratic National Committee staffer and Wikileaks. Now, after pledging to stay away from the fake news, Hannity is back at it, with more erroneous claims…
Jake Tapper ripped into President Trump’s claim that former President Obama ordered espionage against him, calling it classical “fake news” and despairing over how many voters seemed to have believed the unsupported assertion. “The president and his team kept pushing ways to make this evidence-free claim somewhere, sort of, possibly in the neighborhood of not…
Right-wing bloggers and activists are criticizing Georgetown University students who protested an appearance on campus by Sebastian Gorka, the White House counterterrorism adviser who has been dogged by accusations that he is a member of a far-right Hungarian group with historical ties to Nazism. Gorka bolted from a panel discussion on cybersecurity and “fake news”…
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counterterrorism aide, stormed out of a panel discussion on cybersecurity and “fake news” at Georgetown University on Monday after some students silently protested him and others asked him pointed questions. Gorka, a former adjunct professor at Georgetown, has come under heavy criticism in recent months for his longstanding ties to…
An Israel “cyber consultant” has reportedly been circulating fake documents that purport to show a shady deal between President Trump and Exxon Mobil to appoint the company’s former chief executive Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. According to BuzzFeed News, which obtained the false papers, the trove claims the Trump Organization real estate firm was…
“Putin Agrees To Receive Intelligence Briefings In Trump’s Place.” “Trump To Step Away From Making His Businesses Bankrupt To Focus On Bankrupting Country.” Did you believe that? Apparently the New Yorker no longer trusts that its readers will sniff a satire in the headlines of its Borowitz Report. Last week, the New Yorker changed the…
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