Megyn Kelly: Trump tried to bribe the media for positive coverage

[Imperium]

Now that he's elected he needs to stop it. It's enough. It's served its purpose and I hope he can behave like an adult now. It would be terrible if turns out to be the kind of cry baby liberal I despise.

Fact is, Trump will likely be more "liberal" than his supporters can imagine. The fact that he is already backing off Obamacare will enrage his Republican allies. I'm sure he will appoint moderates to the Supreme Court. And he'll enforce his will on a Republican congress because he has the will & support of the uneducated, NRA- card-carrying white masses that these legislators owe their jobs to.

You watch, the more he minimizes Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich in the transition team and replaces them with Washington insiders, you'll all realize that Trump is actually a Liberal Democrat who got elected on the Republican ticket. The irony of it all.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Fact is, Trump will likely be more "liberal" than his supporters can imagine. The fact that he is already backing off Obamacare will enrage his Republican allies. I'm sure he will appoint moderates to the Supreme Court. And he'll enforce his will on a Republican congress because he has the will & support of the uneducated, NRA- card-carrying white masses that these legislators owe their jobs to.

You watch, the more he minimizes Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich in the transition team and replaces them with Washington insiders, you'll all realize that Trump is actually a Liberal Democrat who got elected on the Republican ticket. The irony of it all.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hope he does lean more left than he claims. I think global warming is man made and a huge issue. I also support abortion early on in extreme circumstances.
I agree more with Trump though than Hillary so pick your poison I suppose.

 

[sxr7171]

Fact is, Trump will likely be more "liberal" than his supporters can imagine. The fact that he is already backing off Obamacare will enrage his Republican allies. I'm sure he will appoint moderates to the Supreme Court. And he'll enforce his will on a Republican congress because he has the will & support of the uneducated, NRA- card-carrying white masses that these legislators owe their jobs to.

You watch, the more he minimizes Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich in the transition team and replaces them with Washington insiders, you'll all realize that Trump is actually a Liberal Democrat who got elected on the Republican ticket. The irony of it all.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's what I thought but his proposed cabinet picks right now don't look so great. But he's really a liberal no doubt about that.

 

[Commodus]

Fact is, Trump will likely be more "liberal" than his supporters can imagine. The fact that he is already backing off Obamacare will enrage his Republican allies. I'm sure he will appoint moderates to the Supreme Court. And he'll enforce his will on a Republican congress because he has the will & support of the uneducated, NRA- card-carrying white masses that these legislators owe their jobs to.

You watch, the more he minimizes Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich in the transition team and replaces them with Washington insiders, you'll all realize that Trump is actually a Liberal Democrat who got elected on the Republican ticket. The irony of it all.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not convinced that Trump is a liberal Democrat, but I do think that he took a lot of voters for a ride and isn't what they thought he was. Oh, you thought he was an outsider determined to break up the system and care for the little people? No, he's just a different kind of insider who only cares about himself. And the big danger is that he's likely to trust a lot of the real policy making to old-guard Republicans who would love nothing more than to turn the clock back to 1950 on scientific and social issues.

The one consolation is that Trump clearly expected the presidency to be different than what it is, such as his desire to spend a lot of time away from the White House and continue to hold rallies. He's more interested in the trappings of power than upholding the responsibilities of that power, and I wouldn't be surprised if he quickly becomes disillusioned and creates serious problems for his administration.

 

[sdifox]

Hopefully he doesn't curb press freedom like he promised.

 

[momeNt]

Fact is, Trump will likely be more "liberal" than his supporters can imagine. The fact that he is already backing off Obamacare will enrage his Republican allies. I'm sure he will appoint moderates to the Supreme Court. And he'll enforce his will on a Republican congress because he has the will & support of the uneducated, NRA- card-carrying white masses that these legislators owe their jobs to.

You watch, the more he minimizes Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich in the transition team and replaces them with Washington insiders, you'll all realize that Trump is actually a Liberal Democrat who got elected on the Republican ticket. The irony of it all.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Could it be, that the democrats actually won the election? If Trump turns out how we all expect, appointing establishment cronies to the cabinet, and swinging back left on just about every one of his campaign promises, then it's absolutely true that Hillary was indeed the worst choice for not just democrats, but for the country as a whole.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

Could it be, that the democrats actually won the election? If Trump turns out how we all expect, appointing establishment cronies to the cabinet, and swinging back left on just about every one of his campaign promises, then it's absolutely true that Hillary was indeed the worst choice for not just democrats, but for the country as a whole.

As if this election was about the best choice. But no matter, the good news is that racism is back in vogue!

 

[openwheel]

but Hillary is a murderer
but Hillary is crooked
but Hillary should be in jail
but Hillary is to blame for everything wrong in this World

oh and Obama

 

[HomerJS]

Are you guys serious? The media was clearly in Hillary's pocket. I'm guessing it was the big money corporations trying to keep their terrible trade agreements in place. I'm glad the people didn't listen to the media and how inevitable a Clinton victory was and voted anyways. The media should be ashamed of themselves. I for one will take what they say from here on out with a huge grain of salt.

Media was in Hillary's pocket? Hey Skippy, guess who broke the email story which help lead to her defeat?

The New York Times.

 

[HomerJS]

As if this election was about the best choice. But no matter, the good news is that racism is back in vogue!

and one of the top white nationalist supporters has a top position in the White House.

I suspect to stick a finger in the eye of black people in this country Trump will pardon every cop found guilty or on trial for unlawfully killing a black citizen

 

[zinfamous]

So Megyn Kelly has a new book coming out. Some of it has to do with verbal abuse she got from Trump behind the scenes, in addition to what is known publicly. That isn't the interesting part. This is:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/11/media/megyn-kelly-donald-trump-book-fox-news/index.html



So let's get this straight. Trump tried to corrupt the news media by buying them off for positive coverage, and when they didn't take the bribes and instead said critical things about him, he accused them of being corrupt. The real "corruption" he was referring to was apparently in not taking his bribes.

The real question is, how is "President Trump" going to handle being criticized in the media, or even by ordinary citizens for that matter? He cannot take any sort of criticism without some form of retaliation. Are ugly tweets going to be the worst of it or are we headed for very dark times?

If Trump was directly trying to corrupt the media with bribes....then why didn't the media, like, do their jobs and report it?

 

[raildogg]

Trump was on TV, radio, internet, newspapers constantly for more than a year! He got free press coverage non-stop. I don't think anything or anyone was covered and talked about as much as Trump.

If the media was so anti-Trump as some people say, why would they give this guy such unlimited coverage?

I mean, none of the other Republican candidates got even a small fraction of the coverage Trump got. Bernie was and Hillary's coverage by the media was also substantially less than Trump. Of course he wouldn't need to spend that much money on ads. The media gave him free coverage for more than a year.

Yeah, sure the media hates Trump.

 

[Chiropteran]

Trump bribing media, Trump is in control.
Media bribing Clinton, media is in control.

I'm glad I elected Trump instead of the media.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I'm not convinced that Trump is a liberal Democrat, but I do think that he took a lot of voters for a ride and isn't what they thought he was. Oh, you thought he was an outsider determined to break up the system and care for the little people? No, he's just a different kind of insider who only cares about himself. And the big danger is that he's likely to trust a lot of the real policy making to old-guard Republicans who would love nothing more than to turn the clock back to 1950 on scientific and social issues.

The one consolation is that Trump clearly expected the presidency to be different than what it is, such as his desire to spend a lot of time away from the White House and continue to hold rallies. He's more interested in the trappings of power than upholding the responsibilities of that power, and I wouldn't be surprised if he quickly becomes disillusioned and creates serious problems for his administration.

Trump has always been left leaning on some issues. Of course that won't be enough for the people here nor those on the right. Those who are of the "half full" mindset will probably accept most of what we have heard, with the natural caveat that this is what is happening. Supporting gun ownership, gay marriage and abortion rights. Could be worse all around. Again, we'll see.

 

[soundforbjt]

The reason the media covered Trump was because Trump was taught all about media and how to act and manipulate people through media by NBC. Yep the "liberal" network unknowingly trained Trump. Trump knew throwing "bombs" would get coverage and every tweet was a deliberate act to drive the coverage. People heard his name every day ( Any publicity is good publicity) It drove ratings and what does any network care about more than their favored candidate...MONEY!

 

[soundforbjt]

Trump has always been left leaning on some issues. Of course that won't be enough for the people here nor those on the right. Those who are of the "half full" mindset will probably accept most of what we have heard, with the natural caveat that this is what is happening. Supporting gun ownership, gay marriage and abortion rights. Could be worse all around. Again, we'll see.

Depends on who actually runs the show, I have my doubts that Trump has much interest in governing.

 

[raildogg]

The reason the media covered Trump was because Trump was taught all about media and how to act and manipulate people through media by NBC. Yep the "liberal" network unknowingly trained Trump. Trump knew throwing "bombs" would get coverage and every tweet was a deliberate act to drive the coverage. People heard his name every day ( Any publicity is good publicity) It drove ratings and what does any network care about more than their favored candidate...MONEY!

That is true.

When you look at it this way, his victory is even more saddening because it shows that people will fall for anything. They overlooked his disgusting character and still voted for him. (Not that the other candidate is any better.)

 

[Commodus]

Trump has always been left leaning on some issues. Of course that won't be enough for the people here nor those on the right. Those who are of the "half full" mindset will probably accept most of what we have heard, with the natural caveat that this is what is happening. Supporting gun ownership, gay marriage and abortion rights. Could be worse all around. Again, we'll see.

The problem is, we not only don't know for sure where he stands, he's taking on legions of advisors and administration members who clearly skew to the right. And as a Republican, Trump will be inherently limited in any left-wing ideas he can promote. He could veto legislation, but there's no way in hell that he'd successfully introduce left-of-center measures that don't fly with the Republican orthodoxy. That and Trump comes across as a worse version of Bush Jr., a mostly empty shell that could easily be corrupted by more experienced members of his cabinet.

 

[soundforbjt]

That is true.

When you look at it this way, his victory is even more saddening because it shows that people will fall for anything. They overlooked his disgusting character and still voted for him. (Not that the other candidate is any better.)

A very successful sales rep once told me that if you could tell a guy to go to Hell and make him look forward to it, you were a good salesman.