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Fetterman slams legal cases against Trump, Hunter Biden in first Truth Social post: ‘Cases were both bulls—‘

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Fetterman slams legal cases against Trump, Hunter Biden in first Truth Social post: ‘Cases were both bulls—‘

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., made a serious social media splash on Tuesday, becoming the first Democratic U.S. senator to post on President-elect Donald Trump’s platform, “Truth Social.”…
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He's right, These cases were all lawfare. Heck even Joe admitted that it was lawfare, but the libs in this forum kept saying otherwise.
 
I don't remember Joe saying that. You got an article? Not disputing, but don't remember it.
 
NY Post. Your source sucks and is RW propaganda. NY Post quoting Truth Social? Even more RW propaganda. John Fetterman posting the truth on Truth Social? Just extreme RW propaganda. Therefore, the quote by John Fetterman never happened unless you can get a LW propaganda source or the DNC to admit it. Did Joy Reid admit Fetterman made a post on Truth Social? NO, therefore it never happened and this is all just extreme RW propaganda.
 
I'm not sure what you are arguing here. There is, indeed a post by a "John Fetterman" on Truth Social that says what Post says. In fact, it is even linked to in the NY Post article. Here's the link: https://truthsocial.com/@JohnFetterman/posts/113631217394443297

Now, we can go back and forth and inquire as to whether "John Fetterman" is, indeed THE "John Fetterman," but the fact is that a "John Fetterman" posted that exact quote.

Your move.
 
It doesn't matter. According to the superior logic of the over-educated leftists of DP, if the information comes from the NY Post it is pure disinformation. Good luck getting a leftist to believe John Fetterman news reported in the NY Post. Until Joy Reid says it, it is all disinformation. Now, if John Fetterman said it in Bluesky or TikTok, then it's possibly true unless it somehow goes against the LW official narrative. That's just how it is here. We discuss anything but the naked truth. That's just how politics is today.
 
If I'm reading your explanation here correctly, then your initial post was sarcasm/expressing disdain and was not intended to be a disputation of fact. If that's correct, then I apologize for misunderstanding you!
 
PoliSciPulse said:
If I'm reading your explanation here correctly, then your initial post was sarcasm/expressing disdain and was not intended to be a disputation of fact. If that's correct, then I apologize for misunderstanding you!
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I was just mocking the usual responses to anything that the left disagrees with. The first, and most used way is to discredit something is to discredit the news source. The second is to discredit the person making a statement, even if the statement is true. For example, if Matt Gaetz says H2O is water, it's not true because Matt Gaetz said it and he is MAGA and a pedophile.
 
To respond more accurately to you now, there has only been one source that I have ever caught reporting total and complete fake news. And that was during the 2016 election. There was a site called Bipartisan Report, which was neither Bipartisan nor a Report. They first caught my attention when they reported that Trump was telling black people (Diamond and Silk) to "do their routine" and maybe there could be monetization of their YouTube channel later on in their life. Bipartisan Report called this tantamount to telling black people to perform for him, like a slave master would tell his black slaves before the Civil War. So, first of all, there was a problem in that the Bipartisan Report wasn't even reporting it correctly and decline to identify the Diamond and Silk as, at the very least, Trump's black YouTube supporters.

So, I went deeper. I started clicking on every first link of their page, and found that it "looped:" No in links, no outlinks. Basically, it was self-referential. Every link was a link to their stories and their stories only. They might even hyperlink "CNN is reporting," which would refer to another story they wrote instead of to the CNN Report. I flagged this to the guy I knew who had posted the link, and explained to him what I had seen on the site. This guy was a rabid anti-Trump supporter. Once he calmed down enough to listen to me about how junky the site was, he deleted his post and never shared any link to that website ever again.

Most other sites will report on an event that happened. So, reading the NY Post story, I believed that John Fetterman had actually posted that to Truth Social. What is discreditable is usually not the veracity of the reporting, but the slant they take. And sometimes, it becomes impossible to tell the slant from the actual story. For those that can't discern or don't have the patience to explain something like I did to that guy on Facebook, it's easy to just dismiss the entire source. But it's not entirely accurate to do that, either.

Anyway, hope I gave you a better quality post than the last one I made
 
going to need a quote where joe admitted it.
 
You are, of course, correct. This is a most frequent tactic used by leftists...and especially here on DP...when they want to avoid addressing a valid topic.

You are, of course, correct even though your response is mostly not relevant to the Big Brother post that you quoted.

But hey guys...keep it up. This is very entertaining...even though it has nothing to do with the thread topic.

 
PoliSciPulse, I'm glad there are a few here who aren't so hyper-partisan. And kudos to Fetterman for risking his life and career for telling the truth.
 
Fetterman good now!

Not a single guest was willing or able to come on to defend Joe Biden.

Not just defend Biden, but defend the years of lies they’ve told their constituents and country.
debatepolitics.com
 
and just to be precise, the post referred only to the NY hush money case against trump, not the other ones.
 
Without a Manchin, I guess the world gets a Fetterman? Cool, another scold more interested in trolling the ones who brought him.
 
Big Brother said:
PoliSciPulse, I'm glad there are a few here who aren't so hyper-partisan. And kudos to Fetterman for risking his life and career for telling the truth.
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Fetterman most certainly is entitled to his opinion, and it is a courageous one to make. Whether it's accurate or not … eh, it's a beauty is in the eye of the beholder type of thing. But no one will ever be as courageous as Jeannette Rankin, who held true to her pacifist roots and voted against the United States entering either World War:

Jeannette Rankin - Wikipedia

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Supporting evidence that any criminal case against Trump was “all lawfare”?
 
I have to admit that I was wrong about Fetterman. I always thought he was mentally incompetant because of the way he expressed himself verbally. Because of his Truth Social post, I know this isn't true.

Here is his post...

Truth Social

Truth Social is America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.
truthsocial.com

This is intellectually well written. Clear and concise. Much different than the way he comes across when he's speaking.

On another note, I think his Senate career is in jeopardy. I don't think the Dem Elites who got him into the Senate will tolerate him remaining in the Senate. He will be forced out much the same way Manchin was forced out.

Here is a recent interview that will not be appreciated by his Democratic Senate leadership.

 
Who knows, maybe it starts a trend where politicians try to tell the truth 10% of the time. Even 10% would be a gargantuan improvement. I think at 33% congress starts to function a bit.
 
Fetterman doesn't seem to have been talking about the federal cases, and those most certainly were not bullshit. They should have been brought much sooner, however. Even with respect to the others (including the Hunter Biden case), as a legal matter it's hard to dispute Trump and Hunter did the illegal things they were accused of. I'm not sure why it is considered more partisan to prosecute crimes against leaders (or their relatives) than to not prosecute such crimes.
 
Actually, Fetterman is wrong. Both Donald Trump and Hunter Biden are completely unremorseful, entirely too arrogant, treating people horribly, and law breaking pieces of shit.
 
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Electing a convicted felon with 3 other multiple count indictments is not a norm either. MAGAs did that.
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You can always count on Fetterman to speak his mind. You may not agree with him but you'll always know what he is thinking. As an aside, it looks like he has made a full recovery....good for him.
 
There were literally scores of posts correcting posted opinions that Fetterman’s post stroke speaking symptoms were stroke induced speech aphasia, not indicative of diminished capacity. You seem to hsve avoided being influenced by any of those posts. Instead you thought what RWE money invested in influencing its audience to believe.

“..Republicans have tried to use the interview to discredit Fettermsn’s cognitive ability.”

Fetterman’s communication hindered by stroke, not cognition, neurologist says

John Fetterman has auditory processing disorder as a result of his stroke. During the debate, he stumbled over words. Some have concluded that this is a sign of cognitive issues, but a neurologist says that’s not actually the case.
www.audacy.com
 
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I agree that the trials against Trump were lawfare.

I would like Fetterman to explain how Biden's own justice dept engaged in lawfare against the president's son. Esp. when they first tried to give him the mother of all sweetheart plea bargain deals, one that only fell through because of an alert judge.
 
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