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| Subject: Cool: Trump Allies Raising $2 Million To ‘Target’ Reporters With ‘Damaging Information’ Tue Sep 03, 2019 11:21 pm | |
| A central element of Donald Trump’s reelection strategy involves attacking and smearing individual members of the media with “damaging information,” and Trump’s allies are so committed to this plan that they are currently raising up to $2 million to fund investigations of reporters who have published stories critical of Trump in such outlets as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and even BuzzFeed, according to a stunning report Tuesday morning by the political site Axios. Campaigns of all political persuasions have long relied on “opposition research,” as FiveThirtyEight.com documents, to attack and discredit rival candidates with negative information. But the strategy of turning the same investigations against members of the media appears to be a new one, Axios reports. Last week The New York Times reported that a “loose network” of conservative political operatives close to Trump has already begun an “aggressive operation” to target journalists and other members of the media, but the Axios report was the first to reveal the fundraising effort specifically aimed at attacking and silencing critical journalists. The site also reported that the fundraising effort includes, but also extends beyond the “loose network” of Trump allies described by The New York Times revelations, involving Republican political consultant Arthur Schwartz and “undisclosed others.”
https://www.inquisitr.com/5613970/donald-trump-allies-raising-2-million-to-target-reporters-with-damaging-information-reports-axios/
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