Девять источников

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В своей речи на CPAC Трамп продолжил войну с прессой:

And I want you all to know we are fighting the fake news. It's fake. Phony. Fake. A few days ago I called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. They are the enemy of the people. Because they have no sources, they just make them up when there are none. I saw one story recently where they said nine people have confirmed. There are no nine people. I don't believe there was one or two people. Nine people. And I said give me a break because I know the people. I know who they talked to. There were no nine people. But they say nine people. And somebody reads it and they say, oh, nine people, they have nine sources. They make up sources.

Говоря про сообщение с девятью источниками, он очевидно имел в виду статью в Washington Post, которая в конце концов привела к отставке генерала Флинна. Марти Бэрон, легендарный главный редактор Washington Post, в ответ на нападки Трампа заявил: "“Everything we published regarding Gen. Flynn was true, as confirmed by subsequent events and on-the-record statements from administration officials themselves. The story led directly to the general’s dismissal as national security adviser. Calling press reports fake doesn’t make them so.”



Нападая на Washington Post, Трамп пока что не называл газету по имени. Более явными были его нападки на New York Times и CNN - два СМИ, которые со ссылкой на анонимные источники сообщили о фактах регулярных контактов между людьми Трампа и российскими спецслужбами во время избирательной кампании.

FAKE NEWS media knowingly doesn't tell the truth. A great danger to our country. The failing @nytimes has become a joke. Likewise @CNN. Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017

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John Barron

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Жалобы Трампа на анонимные источники побудили New York Times вспомнить, как в 1980-ые он сам любил быть анонимным источником для нью-йоркской желтой прессы.

“He used to be the one leaking!” Ms. Stasi pointed out on Friday from her office at The Daily News, where she is a columnist. “He was leaking about himself. He would call up with fake accents and pretend it wasn’t him. He would tell us 100 times: ‘Now listen, I’m going to tell you something, but it didn’t come from me.’”

Mr. Trump, who taunted his blind-quoted critics on Friday — “Let ’em say it to my face!” — hid his own identity to push self-promoting stories in the 1980s, posing as his own public-relations man under the fake names John Miller and John Barron.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/us/politics/trump-press-conflict.html

Неизвестно, почему Трамп решил называть себя Джоном Бэрроном, но имя ему явно пришлось по вкусу, потому что он впоследствие назвал Бэрроном своего младшего сына.

Между тем некий Джон Бэррон был в те же годы известным автором книг про историю КГБ.

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