Trump sent 4 tweets on the Sally Yates hearing. Not one of them was entirely accurate.

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Between 6:41 p.m. and 6:50 p.m. ET Monday night, President Donald Trump sent four tweets focused oh the Senate subcommittee hearing on Russia's meddling into the 2016 election that featured testimony from former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

The four-tweet barrage shows just how closely Trump is monitoring the ongoing congressional investigation into ties between members of his 2016 presidential campaign and Russian intelligence officials. The quartet of tweets is also a window into how Trump hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. He creates his own reality for himself and his followers.

Let's break the tweets down one by one -- in the order that they were sent.

Tweet #1, 6:41 p.m.

 

 

"Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows- there is 'no evidence' of collusion w/ Russia and Trump."

 

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Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows- there is "no evidence" of collusion w/ Russia and Trump.

6:41 PM - 8 May 2017

 

This is not entirely accurate. What Clapper said was not that he could definitively rule out collusion between elements of the Trump campaign and the Russians but rather that he was unaware of evidence suggesting there was any. In fact, Clapper noted that he had been unaware of the FBI investigation into the Russia ties with the Trump campaign -- driving home the point that he wasn't privy to every piece of information.

Trump is, broadly speaking, right that there is "no evidence" that has been released publicly of collusion between anyone on his campaign and the Russians. But that's not what Clapper said on Monday.

Tweet #2, 6:43 p.m.

"Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today --- she said nothing but old news!"

 

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Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today --- she said nothing but old news!

6:43 PM - 8 May 2017

 

 

This one is way off the mark. It is "old news" that Yates met with White House Counsel Don McGahn on January 26 to discuss Flynn's problem. But what's new is that she told McGahn on that day -- and in a follow-up meeting the next day -- that not only was Flynn lying to members of the presidential transition about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak but also that she had reason to believe he had been compromised by the Russians and was a potential blackmail target. Yates also offered McGahn the chance to go through the evidence the Justice Department had that led them to that conclusion. (It's not clear if he actually did so.)

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/trump-tweets-sally-yates/

click on through for the rest of the defensive deflective fake news tweets from dear leader...

 

 

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"Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today --- she said nothing but old news!"  

In parsing this: Sally Yates made those who like lies ( the fake media) "extremely unhappy".  Therefore Sally Yates was truthful ( according to DJT) 

[smilesammich 10,727]

who does trump even consider fake media now a days? i didn't see happy or unhappy after the hearings. i read a bunch of additional questions and a bunch of timeline rundowns that weren't very flattering of trump's uhhh...competence. but i guess that's why he struck first with a tweet condemning yates before the hearing even started. another bad move, trump. doesn't look good. bad. just, bad.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/four-reasons-why-russia-story-isn-t-fake-news-n756776

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Just now, Jacque67 said:

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/four-reasons-why-russia-story-isn-t-fake-news-n756776

oh my dear dear jacque, you've been triggered. stop reading this right away, before you're ability to think critically is gone forever!

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

12 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

who does trump even consider fake media now a days? i didn't see happy or unhappy after the hearings. i read a bunch of additional questions and a bunch of timeline rundowns that weren't very flattering of trump's uhhh...competence. but i guess that's why he struck first with a tweet condemning yates before the hearing even started. another bad move, trump. doesn't look good. bad. just, bad.

18 days to fire Flynn...unconscionable.  

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

Just now, smilesammich said:

oh my dear dear jacque, you've been triggered. stop reading this right away, before you're ability to think critically is gone forever!

its too late for Jacques, that is what listening to Wham! in the 90s did to people.   Save yourself ,  download some Ann Coulter before you are a vegetable!

[Jacque67 7,328]

2 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

oh my dear dear jacque, you've been triggered. stop reading this right away, before you're ability to think critically is gone forever!

So triggered according to VJ I have reached NY limit of 50 plus ones a day!!! Really???

[Jacque67 7,328]

1 minute ago, ccneat said:

its too late for Jacques, that is what listening to Wham! in the 90s did to people.   Save yourself ,  download some Ann Coulter before you are a vegetable!

Careless whisper!!!!!

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5 minutes ago, ccneat said:

18 days to fire Flynn...unconscionable.  

he was 'thinking' 

these things take time for dear leader.

 

firing yates, however, did not require thinking so much. swiftness.

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2 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

So triggered according to VJ I have reached NY limit of 50 plus ones a day!!! Really???

now see, there's a conspiracy! never feels like 50 but likes fly when you're havin fun

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4 minutes ago, ccneat said:

its too late for Jacques, that is what listening to Wham! in the 90s did to people.   Save yourself ,  download some Ann Coulter before you are a vegetable!

i have three copies of atlas shrugged (not by my own doing) and no one will buy them  want a copy? firestarter maybe?

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1 minute ago, smilesammich said:

he was 'thinking' 

these things take time for dear leader.

 

firing yates, however, did not require thinking so much. swiftness.

Who knew firing people would be so hard!

[Jacque67 7,328]

1 minute ago, smilesammich said:

now see, there's a conspiracy! never feels like 50 but likes fly when you're havin fun

Steven Seagal???

[Jacque67 7,328]

1 minute ago, smilesammich said:

i have three copies of atlas shrugged (not by my own doing) and no one will buy them  want a copy? firestarter maybe?

Trying to get through Sisyphus in French atm, but thanks for the offer!!!