The Atlantic Outlines The Trump Campaign’s Disinformation Tactics | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

If you think disinformation only happens in other countries, think again. The Trump campaign machine known as the "death star" is already in action. Stephanie Ruhle is joined by Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins to break down how this is already shaping the 2020 election. Weighing in: Former Congresswoman Donna Edwards and Political Consultant Shermichael Singleton. Aired on 2/13/2020.
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The Atlantic Outlines The Trump Campaign's Disinformation Tactics | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

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    1. @TheSynthZone vote your conscience? In that case I would vote for a tomato rather than Cheeto Von Tweeto and Republikkklans! Fool me once…

    1. Gwendolyn Paradise He has dementia, just like daddy👏🤪🤪🤪🤪🤔I think he knows what is happening and is trying to get himself re-elected , thinking no one else will realize it before it is too late

  1. A decent President wouldn’t need to spend a billion dollars to get re-elected. A billion dollars worth of desperate to stay out of prison.

  2. THATS A CON’S GAME… CONVOLUTING THE ISSUES!!!
    Y’all can’t see his game🤔
    FACEBOOK SUCKS!!

    1. “___…puts no limit on what can be done by propaganda; people will believe anything, provided they are told it often enough and emphatically enough, and that contradicters are either silenced or smothered in calumny.” The saddest part is the name attributed to this is not Trump it’s Hitler.

      *GO REGISTER GO VOTE*

    2. Your to young to know better trump lies every day all he as really done is separate our country and dystroying our Democracy! And the Republicans under trump our to afraid of him! I dont care if a Rebublican becomes president as long as he brings with him the truth and Democracy.! Its time to not let trump separate us and keep our democracy! Dont let his hate win!

    3. Its Propaganda trump is trying to separate us and dystroy our Democracy! What has trump done! Gave us 3 trillion dollars deficit, he hasnt done nothing! Want a Republican get a different one!

    1. @Sleeping Insomiac I never said Biden was trying to protect his son, but that his son was hired by Burisma and paid millions so Joe would do favors. Whether that happened or not, I don’t know, but it’s highly probably and should be looked at.

    2. @Patriot Spring
      Do you have problems reading or comprehending?
      Not the company, but its owner was under investigation.
      You know who shelved that investigation?
      Shokin!
      Burisma hired not just Hunter Biden, but some other “public faces” in a PR-stunt to boost international confidence.
      Morally questionable, but in no way illegal.
      Everything else is just made up nonsense…
      And with all your fancy “intelligence agencies”, Trump had to be absolutely aware of it being nothing.
      Him trying and going out of his way to make the Ukraine proclaim an investigation whilst knowing there was nothing to be found is a blatant abuse of power.
      In any normal country, a politician caught in that kind of extortion scheme would have the integrity to step down…
      Ah, well, shithole countries and their token democracies…

    1. @Wesley C. . Except the entire senate that just lied for him. The media that pretends his trade deals are good, and pretends his economy is good.. It’s all middle class debt..

  3. This is exactly according to Putin’s plan. Putin’s misinformation campaign has been adopted by Trump. The goal is to undermine democracy, free speech and trust in Western governments. They have succeeded exactly according to plan. The only way out of this mess in the future will be to make the intentional spread of misinformation an illegal act. For example, channels such as Fox “News” and Russia Today shouldn’t be allowed to exist in their current form.

    1. You get the award for the BEST logic I’ve read today. It’s propaganda that always does the real work.
      America wasn’t even going to get into WWi … but then the business men of the day realized there was MONEY to be made. They sent “4 minute men” around to towns in America to talk up the (some would say fake) reasons why we needed to get involved. And IT WORKED!

    2. @Jazz Haze Whoa…not quite. “30 minute men,” ? Cite sources. Pearl Harbor was not something that was, “talked up,” for profit. Neither was the ever increasing aggression from Hitler. Listen to some people who lived during this time.

    1. Dude, but he didn’t even offer an example! He got dragged in?? Lol. I watch Majority Report, Secular Talk and Democracy Now. They don’t even come in our post boards anymore! We drag people out of that world. Msm sends them in..

  4. “Who ya gonna believe? ME or your own lyin’ eyes?” – Groucho, formerly the funniest slapstick comedian until Trump came along

    1. Ben Lutz
      Groucho wore a fake mustache and Impeached Trump wears a fake tan.
      Groucho was an actor.
      Trump is an Egomaniac.

    1. I watch Majority Report and Secular Talk mainly. These people lied us into 18 years of war and got trump elected.

    1. We use our Right to Free Speech to light the Life Star, with the truth and facts. BTW, this data will not necessarily serve them as they assume. Just one example: The majority of women, including the majority of Catholic women, support Roe V Wade.

    2. @Tom Forest no queremos ajuda destes ratos e sim justiça.e cadeia para eles pois eu tenho plano para esta tecnologia.

    1. Yes. We the People light up the Life and Truth Star! We must put our Right to Free Speech to its highest and best use as our genuine information tactic. We correct the lie/rumor mongering when ever we encounter it, and spread the word at every opportunity. We’ll tell two people and they’ll tell two people and so on. Robert Reich’s Common Good broadcast is a dependable source of accurate info. We must also join in the ongoing work to eliminate the poison intrusion of Big $ upon our elections/govt. It is the causative factor. The Move to Amend, Common Cause, Trust Vote, Color of Change, American Promise, just a few of the quality groups of everyday people we can check out/join with.

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