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Donald Trump : Even the Rigged Mainstream Media Says Donald Trump Won The Debate. Here’s The Proof

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October 10,2016

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Ridgewood NJ, Donald Trump won a decisive victory against Hillary Clinton and the moderators in the second presidential debate . The public also won with Trump forcing the issues making the debate focus more on issues , failing Obamacare , failed foreign policy ,immigration,  trade, the economy and jobs . While the press countered with an 11 year old locker room tape  , Trump put front and center Bill Clinton’s rape accusers and the alleged predatory nature of the Clinton’s relationship . Trump also refocused on themes of “Crooked Hillary” and her dismal track record in politics .

from the Trump campaign:

Millions of Americans tuned in for the second presidential debate, and once again, witnessed the true Hillary Clinton on full display.

On the other hand, Donald Trump outlined his bold plan to rebuild America — and restore the people’s trust in the government — with strength and conviction.

The reviews are in and it’s clear, only one candidate has the conviction and ideas to make America great again: Donald Trump.

Twitter support

She’s STILL claiming she only deleted person emails. FBI says this is false. Thousands were work-related. #debate

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 10, 2016

Donald Trump’s highest moment when he held Hillary liable for her emails and called for a special prosecutor. #debate pic.twitter.com/V4eEIjnMlG

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) October 10, 2016

Trump’s attack on Clinton’s emails is pretty sharp this time.

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) October 10, 2016

Hillary is struggling to defend herself. The group simply doesn’t believe her.#debate pic.twitter.com/7xqE6c2Nfn

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) October 10, 2016

Trump actually doing really well, clearly prepared this time, bringing up emails in boxes, wiped email #Debate

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 10, 2016

The group cares more about Hillary’s emails than Trump’s “locker room talk.”#debate

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) October 10, 2016

Trump hitting his stride last 20 mins

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) October 10, 2016

Trump’s line distinguishing Honest Abe Lincoln and Hillary was pretty good

— Jim Merrill (@JimMerrillNH) October 10, 2016

Don’t think Clinton’s “public/private” answer is going work well. “Lincoln” anecdote smacked of evasion

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) October 10, 2016

It’s halftime – who’s winning the debate so far?

• 17 say Trump
• 4 say Hillary
• 9 tied

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) October 10, 2016

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American journalism is collapsing before our eyes

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By Michael Goodwin
August 21, 2016 | 5:40am

Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, andHillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.

The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand-in-hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.

The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.

The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like The New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.

Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang, suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.

https://nypost.com/2016/08/21/american-journalism-is-collapsing-before-our-eyes/

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DOUBLE STANDARD: Khizr Khan Receives 50x More Coverage Than Pat Smith on ABC, CBS, NBC

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By Geoffrey Dickens | August 1, 2016 | 5:36 PM EDT

Two weeks ago at the Republican National Convention (RNC) a grieving mother blasted Hillary Clinton for the debacle of the 2012 Benghazi attack. Last Thursday, at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), grieving parents gave a speech criticizing Donald Trump for his statements against Muslims.

While all the grieving parents deserve sympathy, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening and morning shows seemed to only care about the parents that showed up at the Democratic Convention. Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazla’s DNC appearance earned 55 minutes, 13 seconds of Big Three network coverage, nearly 50 times more than Pat Smith, whose RNC speech honoring her son earned just 70 seconds of airtime.

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2016/08/01/khizr-khans-trump-criticisms-receive-50x-more-time-pat-smith

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Facebook Changes Suppress News Stories

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by Team DML

The social media platform that many have come to rely on as one of their main news sources – and that media publishers have come to rely on as one of the top methods of reaching their audiences – has just thrown the news in the back seat.

Facebook published an announcement last week, on Wednesday, June 29, stating they planned to make a series of changes to how information appears in their newsfeed.   Posts from the people you are friends with will appear first, and posts from news publishers has been pushed back.

Facebook stated:  Our top priority is keeping you connected to the people, places and things you want to be connected to — starting with the people you are friends with on Facebook. That’s why if it’s from your friends, it’s in your feed, period — you just have to scroll down. To help make sure you don’t miss the friends and family posts you are likely to care about, we put those posts toward the top of your News Feed.

https://dennismichaellynch.com/facebook-changes-suppress-news-stories/

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Media firms lose control of news as tech platforms rise

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Washington (AFP) – When allegations emerged that Facebook was skewing its trending news stories, many learned about it… on Facebook.

That underscored the rapid shift in media — not only is news moving from print to digital, but Facebook, Google and other tech platforms are increasingly becoming the main gateways for information.

Technology and social media firms are increasingly playing a role in filtering and delivering news, often with automated feeds, algorithms and “bots” designed to determine the most relevant articles.

That means the news industry is rapidly losing control of the news along with the revenue that goes with it, underscoring the profound changes in the journalism world.

“In the past 18 months, companies including Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Snapchat, and Google have moved from having an arm’s length relationship with journalism to being dominant forces in the news ecosystem,” said a June report by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.

“By encouraging news publishers to post directly onto new channels, such as Facebook Instant Articles and Snapchat Discover, tech companies are now actively involved in every aspect of journalism.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/media-firms-lose-control-news-tech-platforms-rise-042007515.html

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has accused Google of making a deal with Hillary Clinton.

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“Google is directly engaged with Hillary Clinton’s campaign,” Assange said via video link at the international media forum “New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream” hosted by Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.

Assange: Clinton is ‘Hawk’ With ‘Tools of Legal Interventionism’ Seeking Wars
Moreover, the Internet giant Google is heavily integrated with the US establishment and is allying with the US exceptionalism campaign, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday.

“Google is heavily integrated with Washington power, at personal level and at business level… Google which has increasing control over the distribution channels… is intensely allying itself US exceptionalism,” Assange added.

Speaking about about Hillary Clinton as presumptive presidential nominee from the US Democrat party Assange said that she “seemingly” wants to start wars, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/world/20160607/1040951223/assange-clinton-google-deal.html#ixzz4BBE3vMIf

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Facebook admits “rogue employees” may have shown bias against conservatives

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Social media giant denies ‘systematic’ discrimination

By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Monday, May 23, 2016

Facebook announced Monday it was sending employees out for retraining and would discontinue some of its practices as it sought to defend itself against charges of political bias against conservatives.

The online giant denied that it’s shown “systematic political bias,” but admitted employees played a bigger role than previously acknowledged in determining what news is highlighted in the trending topics section.

Facebook also acknowledged that rogue employees may have unintentionally discriminated against conservative stories or even acted with malice in “isolated improper actions.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/23/facebook-admits-rogue-employees-may-have-shown-bia/

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Facebook scrambles to contain fallout

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By David McCabe – 05/13/16 02:40 PM ED

Facebook is scrambling to contain the fallout from allegations that it has suppressed right-leaning political content on its powerful platform — a charge that hits at the social network’s image of neutrality.

CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg promised Thursday to meet with top conservatives about the allegations, a sign of how damaging any perception of political bias could be to the company.

“To serve our diverse community, we are committed to building a platform for all ideas,” Zuckerberg said in post addressing the issue directly for the first time.

“In the coming weeks, I’ll also be inviting leading conservatives and people from across the political spectrum to talk with me about this and share their points of view.”

Facebook’s problems intensified when unnamed former workers for its “trending” topics section told tech news website Gizmodo this week that colleagues had routinely omitted topics and news sources popular with conservatives.

This came after a separate report that said Facebook employees had raised internal questions about whether the company should be doing anything to stop the rise of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Zuckerberg had also appeared to criticize Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration at a conference in April.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has demanded answers about whether Facebook employees have manipulated the presentation of political content.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/279835-facebook-scrambles-to-contain-fallout

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Former Facebookie…FAKEBOOK Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

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Michael Nunez
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Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users.

Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module.

In other words, Facebook’s news section operates like a traditional newsroom, reflecting the biases of its workers and the institutional imperatives of the corporation. Imposing human editorial values onto the lists of topics an algorithm spits out is by no means a bad thing—but it is in stark contrast to the company’s claims that the trending module simply lists “topics that have recently become popular on Facebook.”

https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006

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Ridgewood News Accused of being a one-sided promoter

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May 4, 2016
Customer Care
The Ridgewood News
1 Garret Mountain Plaza
Woodland Park, NJ 07424-0471


To whom it may concern,


Please consider this note an official cancellation of my Ridgewood News subscription. I have received the Ridgewood News every Friday for the past 16 years, when I first moved to Ridgewood. I am canceling now because it has become very clear that the paper, and those who run it, are no longer attempting to be objective, as a true work of journalism should be. The paper is nothing but a one-sided promoter of very controversial issues in town at the moment. It’s unfortunate, because these issues will resolve themselves in time, but the Ridgewood News will forever be remembered for the way the paper “reported” them, be it the parking garage, the petition, high density housing, the campaign for Village Council. Our local paper comes out on one side every time. That side, it just so happens, is closely aligned with “big business” here in Ridgewood. I’m referring to developers, not Mango Jam, It’s Greek to Me, and the rest of our small shops and restaurants, although they’ve been drawn into the fight as well. Often the preference for the “big wigs” is subtle – the placement of an ad on the very page the opposition was told was “never used for ads.”


I don’t need “reporting” like this. I will miss the photos of my friends and their kids, the special events in town, the letters to the editor, which, when balanced, offer a much better perspective on what’s going on in town than your journalists are permitted to. I always thought the paper presented a kind of Mayberry, unrealistic, pollyanna shot of Ridgewood. Now I’m seeing how dark that approach can become. I will not be renewing my subscrition any time soon. I will let you know if I hear the Ridgewood News has decided to tell the truth, as objectively as possible.
Sincerely yours,


Ellen McNamara

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Facebook Suspends FrackNation Page For Telling The Truth About Fracking

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by JAMES DELINGPOLE7 Mar 2016920

The Facebook page of FrackNation was suspended for 24 hours at the weekend after a series of complaints by activists who objected to the fact that it was telling the truth about fracking.

Filmmaker Phelim McAleer has been using the FrackNation page to report on the Dimock water trial – in which two families from smalltown Pennsylvania are trying to sue an oil and gas company for millions of dollars, alleging that it polluted their water with fracking fluid.

Thanks to the families’ allegations – eagerly, unquestioningly repeated in the green propaganda movies Gasland and Gasland 2 and frequently cited by activists like Mark Ruffalo and Yoko Ono – Dimock is now synonymous with environmental disaster. Not only have its faucets (taps to UK readers) been on shown on screen to burst into flames when you set a match to them but aggrieved locals have attested to the sickness the allegedly contaminated water has caused them, even to the point where they “won’t even shower in it.”

Now the case has finally come to trial, however, it is proving absolutely disastrous to the fracktivists’ cause: none of the claims by the two families – the Ely and the Hubert family – appear to be standing up.

Despite claiming to have suffered neurological, gastrointestinal, and dermatological damage from drinking the water, the families have had to admit they can produce no evidence of this. Indeed, they never even visited a doctor, not even when their children had supposedly been poisoned.

The Ely family were so oddly unperturbed by the deadly toxic water beneath them that they built a $1 million mansion on top of it.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/07/facebook-shuts-down-page-for-telling-the-truth-about-fracking/

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NPR finds out public hates Obamacare, buries its own poll results

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” I hope you haven’t been making plans of what to do with that $2,500 a year you’ll be saving on premiums. The NPR poll confirms that that was just another in Obama’s litany of lies. Forty-five percent of respondents said their premiums had gone up, while 46% said their premiums had stayed about the same. Only 4% said their premiums had actually gone down, as Obama promised they would.” Alieta Eck, MD

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Most of the country now knows what we were warning about several years ago: Obamacare is horrible. Even the far-left folks at NPR were made aware of it when one of their own polls showed that only 15% of Americans say they have been helped by the law.

From American Thinker:

A thorough repudiation of the (un-)Affordable Care Act comes from, of all places, state-run National Public Radio. Timed to be buried by Super Tuesday coverage, NPR this week released a new study that indicates that Obamacare has failed on almost all levels.

The poll, by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, shows that three quarters of Americans think health care in their state has not improved under Obamacare. The survey says more people think health care has gotten worse (26%) than better (15%). Forty-nine percent of people think health care has stayed about the same.

And I hope you haven’t been making plans of what to do with that $2,500 a year you’ll be saving on premiums. The NPR poll confirms that that was just another in Obama’s litany of lies. Forty-five percent of respondents said their premiums had gone up, while 46% said their premiums had stayed about the same. Only 4% said their premiums had actually gone down, as Obama promised they would.

Along with higher premiums, co-pays and deductibles have gone up for 35% of people.

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Yeah, America hates Obamacare. And you can probably guess how NPR reported on the poll results…

From Newsbusters:

This is not all the way NPR reported on its own poll. On Monday’s Morning Edition, they waited until late in a seven-minute segment to mention the Obamacare part of their results on health care, and they completely avoided numbers, especially the notion that more feel harmed than helped…

https://poorrichardsnews.com/npr-finds-out-public-hates-obamacare-buries-its-own-poll-results/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

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13 takeaways from Christie’s marathon news conference

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By Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on March 03, 2016 at 8:33 PM, updated March 04, 2016 at 7:33 AM

TRENTON — Facing calls for his resignation and scrutiny over his endorsement of Donald Trump for president, Gov. Chris Christie stood at a podium for nearly two hours Thursday and answered questions about a slew of topics during a sprawling Statehouse news conference.

Here is a closer look at what he discussed:

1. His focus on New Jersey

Christie was repeatedly criticized for spending so much time out of state on his own presidential campaign. Then after endorsing Donald Trump last week and campaigning for him, af few irked Republican state lawmakers called on Christie to either get off the trail or step down.

But Christie stressed Thursday that he has been in New Jersey 19 of the 22 days since ending his White House bid. He emphasized that he will not be “a full-time surrogate for Donald Trump.” And, he said, he has “absolutely no intention” to resign.

“I am here,” he said. “I am back to work.”

Amid rumors he could be Trump’s pick for vice president or U.S. attorney general, Christie said he is “not interviewing (for) or considering any other public job” and plans to finish his second and final term as governor.

2. Why he is backing Trump

Some supporters said they felt betrayed when Christie threw his support behind Trump, whom he once said was “unfit” to be president and whom many establishment GOP members say is a danger to the party.

But Christie said he and Trump have been friends for 14 years and that the billionaire businessman and former Atlantic City casino tycoon has the best shot among the Republican field at beating Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the general election.

The governor added that his endorsement “doesn’t change me being serious and policy-minded and all those things.”

“But I have to make a choice,” he said. “I don’t sit on the sidelines. I don’t wait for other people to make things happen. I try to make things happen. So now I’m trying to make things happen to make sure Hillary Clinton doesn’t become president of the United States.”

3. Why his campaign failed

Christie gave several reasons for why his campaign for president failed: He couldn’t raise enough money, which made it hard to respond to attack ads in New Hampshire. There were too many candidates in the race. And there was Trump.

“If he had not been in the race,” Christie said, “I would have been the nominee.”

4. About those newspapers

Christie ‘not surprised’ at The Star-Ledger calling for his resignationGov. Chris Christie comments on his reaction to two of the state’s largest newspapers calling for his resignation. The N.J. governor held a press conference on March 2, 2016 to talk about jobs and employment in the state. (Courtesy NJTV)

Shortly after Christie’s Trump endorsement, Joseph McQuaid, the publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, said the governor swore to him weeks before he would not endorse the businessman. But Christie said he did not lie.

Christie said McQuaid called him two days after the governor placed sixth in the New Hampshire primary election. McQuaid wanted to know if it was true Christie was endorsing Trump that day.

“I said, ‘Absolutely not true. I am not endorsing anyone,'” the governor recalled. “It was two days after the primary.”

Christie said when he ultimately decided to throw his support behind Trump, “I knew Joe was going to mad. But I made a choice. He obviously doesn’t like Donald Trump.”

The Union Leader had endorsed Christie, but after the Trump endorsement, it retracted and declared, “Boy were we wrong.”

Christie also slammed The Star-Ledger, which called on him to resign Thursday morning. He said the paper “never supported me, my policies, or my existence.”

Star-Ledger columnist Tom Moran responded by saying the paper backed him in his 2013 re-election bid, as well as on pension reform, a property tax cap, and more.

https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/03/13_topics_christie_discussed_in_lengthy_news_confe.html?ath=9c46bfc08d76232bb5a5e00eeaf0bfa2#cmpid=nsltr_strybutton

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Christie Accuses Media of Having Protected Predecessor Corzine

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list of terrible governors that the media has protected some more than other

James Florio January 16, 1990January 18, 1994 Democratic

Christine Todd Whitman January 18, 1994 January 31, 2001 Republican

Donald DiFrancesco January 31, 2001 January 8, 2002 Republican

John Farmer, Jr.January 8, 2002 January 8, 2002 Republican

John O. Bennett January 8, 2002 January 12, 2002 Republican

Richard Codey January 12, 2002 January 15, 2002 Democratic

Jim McGreevey January 15, 2002 November 15, 2004 Democratic

Richard Codey November 15, 2004 January 17, 2006 Democratic ( best one since Kean)

Jon Corzine January 17, 2006 January 19, 2010 Democratic

Trying to get in front of calls for him to resign, the persistently nationally barnstorming Gov. Chris Christie today charged the media with protecting former Governor Jon Corzine when the Democrat was governor. Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ Read more

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The media’s Trump reckoning: ‘Everyone was wrong’ , except the Ridgewood blog

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From the New Yorker to FiveThirtyEight, outlets across the spectrum failed to grasp the Trump phenomenon.

By Hadas Gold

03/01/16 04:58 PM EST

Updated 03/01/16 05:28 PM EST

David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, told his readers last summer that Donald Trump was running for president to promote his own brand and that the “whole con might end well before the first snows in Sioux City and Manchester.”

That was quite measured compared to James Fallows, the national correspondent of more than three decades for the Atlantic, who wrote confidently — and with his own bold for emphasis — “Donald Trump will not be the 45th president of the United States. Nor the 46th, nor any other number you might name. The chance of his winning the nomination and election is exactly zero.”

Those two mandarins weren’t alone in dismissing Trump’s chances. Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza wrote in July that “Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.” And numbers guru Nate Silver told readers as recently as November to “stop freaking out” about Trump’s poll numbers.

Now all these journalists, and more, are coming to grips with their mistaken assessments. And some, too, are freaking out.

In an interview this week, Remnick sounded both shocked and sad at Trump’s success, saying it was “beyond belief” and reflects an “ugliness” that appeals to “every worst instinct” in America.

“The fact that so many of us, all of us, were wrong in predicting anywhere near the extent of his success so far, may be partly due to the fact we didn’t want to believe those currents could be appealed to so well and so deeply and successfully,” Remnick said.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-media-response-220033#ixzz41hCSMK9r