FAKE NEWS

 The orange idiot continues to blather about 'fake news' on anything that doesn't fit his lying narrative or anything which is critical of him.

Today I watched a (real) news report about the Trump administration issuing subpoenas against New York Times journalists over their reporting on the new Air Force One presidential airplane. They have been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury after a story detailed security concerns with the Qatar-gifted plane that Trump flew to Turkey on.

The airplane at the center of the Times report was provided by Qatar as a $400m gift. It took Donald Trump to the Nato summit in Turkey. Trump however then flew part of the way back to the US on an older-model Air Force One presidential airplane. That happened amid the collapse of the ceasefire with Iran, which shares a border with Turkey and which caused concern for Trump's safety and speculation that the  Qatari-gifted jet lacked certain security systems. The Times reported on these concerns and that Trump flew some of the return trip from Turkey on an older Air Force One that is equipped with special security features at the request of the Secret Service.

Trump subsequently denied any security concerns, telling reporters who were accompanying him that no safeguard-related worries factored into the decision to fly only part of the way home in the new Air Force One.

Of course Trump and his cronies deny this and make out that it is fake news.

This is becoming par for the course with this guy and his gang but it's especially galling that he claims he invented the term and concept of 'fake news (see above). 

While in no way claiming that I invented 'fake news' The Curmudgeon has from day one used this form of communication in this very blog. Careful readers will have seen, on the home page this notice:

They will also have read on numerous occasions my assertion that The Curmudgeon never lets the truth get in the way of a good story - an aphorism often attributed to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) but that is disputed. I'll claim it then.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.