Does the white house deliberately leak stories like Haitians & Nigerians to destroy media?

[spanone]

it had to leak by someone in the cabinet meeting....?

i don't think the New York Times has anything to gain by making this shit up but trump gets something out of slagging the media..


TRUMP SAID HAITIANS HAVE AIDS, NIGERIANS LIVE IN HUTS IN OVAL OFFICE MEETING, NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS

In a fit of anger during a June cabinet meeting in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump said Haitians entering the U.S. "all have AIDS" and that Nigerians would never "go back to their huts" once they saw America, according to The New York Times, which reported the comments in a bombshell article it published Saturday.

The White House denied the former reality TV star made the controversial remarks. “General Kelly, General McMaster, Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Nielsen and all other senior staff actually in the meeting deny these outrageous claims,” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told The New York Times. "It's both sad and telling The New York Times would print the lies of their anonymous ‘sources’ anyway."

Huckabee Sanders was referring to Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Homeland Security is Kirstjen Nielsen.

The Times reported the president made the comments after adviser Stephen Miller gave him a list numbering the immigrants from certain countries who had received visas during the Trump presidency, despite the Republican running on a hard-line anti-immigration platform. New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman tweeted that right before the story written by Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis was set to publish the White House "pushed out cabinet members to deny the details of POTUS remarks." But the Times story notes that two anonymous officials who served as sources for the article deemed the comments so noteworthy at the time that they told others.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-haitians-aids-nigerians-live-huts-oval-office-new-york-times-report-758000

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

1. No

He leaks things like this in order to rile up his base. The media will call statements like that "racially charged" or "insensitive" instead of racist. He'll have gotten the message out to his base.

White supremacist culture allows us to move on from this story in a day, thus, normalizing his racism.

All in all His dog whistle message will have been sent to his followers. Everybody in the public relations department of the White House aint dumb.

Suggesting that he is focusing on the media allows us to ignore the obvious intent of the message.

[exboyfil]

2. That is why the media should only report

With sources that agree to go on record when dealing with Trump. Recordings are even better. They also need to be careful with documents. He tells enough verifiable lies. Nothing to be gained from using anonymous sources.

[EL34x4]

3. I do wish both the New York Times ad the Washington Post would stop relying on...

..."unnamed advisors", "anonymous White House officials", "individuals close to the President", "sources present during the discussion", and on and on.

Using anonymous sources is the stuff of supermarket tabloids, not the storied New York Times and Washington Post. It is journalistic malpractice and is destroying their credibility.