Not one to mince words, Steve Bannon, Trump's Chief White House strategist, eviscerated the mainstream media during an interview last night. Commenting on their coverage of the Trump campaign, Bannon lambasted the disconnect of the media from everyday Americans saying, "They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States." Per Axios:
Submitted by Nick Giambruno via CaseyResearch.com,
The establishment is setting up Donald Trump.
The mainstream media hates him. Hollywood hates him. The “Intellectual Yet Idiot” academia class hates him.
The CIA hates him. So does the rest of the Deep State, or the permanently entrenched “national security” bureaucracy.
Submitted by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Whenever The New York Times or some other mainstream news outlet holds itself out as a paragon of professional journalism – by wagging a finger at some pro-Trump “fake news” or some Internet “conspiracy theory” – I cringe at the self-delusion and hypocrisy.
After some early confusion on timing, Trump is finally set to receive his "intelligence" briefing from the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey later this afternoon. The meeting comes just one day after the same three people briefed the Senate's Armed Services Committee on their "Russian Hacking" discoveries, which actually turned out to be nothing more than a repeat of the numerous allegations leaked to the mainstream media by "anonymous sources" over the past three weeks.
Submitted by Rick Sterling via Strategic-Culture.org,