Does Trump understand he will lose this media fight?

Yeah, well, Snopes is not exactly the most reliable source. Take them with a grain of salt. Many of the "fact checkers" so often quoted are run by or funded by left wing sources.

I have taken a jaundiced view of this episode. The MSM and the Democrats/Hillary campaign were totally in bed with each other in the election. When the supposed neutral reporter of facts takes a side and openly campaigns for one candidate and attempts to damage the other, I would not have been unhappy that wikileaks leaks of e-mails obtained by Russians between the Clinton campaign and various media figures showing coordination of attempts to defeat Trump managed to balance out the assault on liberty carried out by the American MSM. http://canadafreepress.com/article/ny-times-writer-who-urged-journalists-to-abandon-objectivity-to-defeat-trum

 

We've got a problem communicating with each other (not just you and I, but Americans in general) when we cannot agree on what is factual and what isn't. While some of that is certainly the fault of editorializing in the media, partisanship is also to blame for stories being spun to advantage one side and blame the other and confirmational bias kicking in as to what we believe to be the truth. People have to separate factual reporting from editorials. However, as long as we cannot agree on what is actually factual, how in the world are we going to be able to make logical decisions moving forward? At some point, we will have to agree on common facts. When one person is making the decision, then that is easily spun in whichever way someone needs it to be spun. When it takes several agencies to sign off on something, like the uranium deal, then something nefarious is less likely… Occam's Razor and such.

After the latest news came out about Sessions, my question is not why did these guys- Flynn and Sessions- meet with the Russians, but rather, why did they lie about it? It's the lying that makes me suspicious. The media didn't make these men lie. If they were working within their responsibilities and there was nothing wrong with talking to the Russian ambassador, then tell the truth… but they didn't. Reporting on them lying is patriotic, since they are/were in positions of governmental power. You see the media as the problem. I see the behaviors being reported by the media as the problem.

I was a teenager when Nixon's corruption was exposed. Behind closed doors, but on tape, Nixon called the media the enemy too. Had the media not done their job and reported on the behaviors of Nixon and others, Nixon's corruption wouldn't have been exposed. I expect those in governmental positions to be honest with the people that pay their salaries, whether that is the President, the National Security Advisor, the Attorney General, or anyone else. When they aren't being honest, it's the media's place to report on it. Call it fake news or an assault on liberty if you like. Having seen this kind of thing unfold before, I'm grateful the media is on the job.