#trump keeps tweeting about news he sees on TV
February 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Friday, President Trump tweeted a quote from an article that was, for him, an odd news source: the legal news blog Lawfare. Citing the article, without any context or a link, he called this week’s court decision blocking his travel ban “disgraceful.”
LAWFARE: “Remarkably, in the entire opinion, the panel did not bother even to cite this (the) statute.” A disgraceful decision!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2017
Was Trump reading Lawfare? The answer seems to be no — he was watching TV.
Just minutes before Trump’s tweet, several journalists quickly realized, MSNBC’s Morning Joe aired the quote on-screen. (For the record, Lawfare editor Benjamin Wittes soon suggested Trump was taking his words out of context.)
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