https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4675469-trump-trial-chaos-judge-admonishes-defense-witness/ NEW YORK — Former President Trump’s hush money trial briefly devolved into chaos Monday when Judge Juan Merchan admonished a witness for improper decorum, after having the jury leave the courtroom, and then also ordered the room be cleared of press.
As tensions boiled over, reporters were abruptly told to leave the courtroom, the first time that has happened during the trial when proceedings were still underway. They were allowed back inside minutes later without explanation.
Minutes earlier, the defense called Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen, as its second witness. He is testifying about Cohen’s state of mind as federal investigators closed in on him in 2018.
Before reporters were kicked out, Merchan told jurors to leave the courtroom so he could admonish Costello over his courtroom behavior. Addressing the lawyer, the judge said he wanted to discuss “proper decorum” in his courtroom.
“When there is an eyewitness on the stand, if you don’t like a ruling, you don’t say, ‘Geez,’” Merchan said.
“You don’t give me a side eye. You don’t roll your eyes. You understand that?” he later said.
Trump’s entourage of allies were allowed to remain in the courtroom.
Anonymous
>>1296625 Either
(1) Defense is as fucking stupid as we thought they were.
(2) They prepared Costello, but like Trump, can’t stay on script if pressured in the slightest
It’s just amazing how anything and everything in trumps orbit turns into a giant shitshow
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>>1296626 Like the Trump cultists on this board, the defense team and all of their witnesses live in a bubble world of unreality where Trump is infallible like The Pope and if he did something bad it was a 5D chess move to own the libs.
Anonymous
What are all of these editorial threads trying to slide?
Anonymous
>>1296626 The witness got chided by the judge for saying "Jesus" and rolling his eyes when there was an objection and ruling on the objection.
That's not evidence or testimony, just being told to shut up and not roll eyes, because judges are super powerful beings that will smite you if they think your body language is disrespectful.
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>>1296647 You should leave this board until you learn what an editorial is.
Anonymous
>>1296649 > That's not evidence or testimony, just being told to shut up and not roll eyes, because judges are super powerful beings that will smite you if they think your body language is disrespectful.
Yes. This is how court works.
Anonymous
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>>1296662 He did something bad, correct.
Anonymous
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I love the "You eye balling me, boy?"
Anonymous
Costello could be overheard saying “ridiculous” while attorneys were at a sidebar and later let out a “jeez” over an objection. After another sustained objection, Costello made an audible sigh and rolled his eyes, side-glancing at the judge.
Anonymous
>>1296669 >Witness gets annoyed by lawyer theatrical objections >Stares at judge because the lawyers aren't asking him questions, so what else should he be looking at >Judge gets big mad Lol
Anonymous
Costello wanted to infuriate the judge in order to potentially create grounds for a mistrial.
Anonymous
>>1296678 Don't they all do that?
Anonymous
>>1296688 I'm surprised trump hasn't fired the judge and replaced him with a crony
Nobody can afford half of shit
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Trumps gonna turd rate Irish Middleton with cheers dirty rats of New Mexico , dead means dead new robot pile of shit . Cheers dawg gonna nuke your kids and grannies and then decide how to make you a good bot for sale to lowest bidder .
Already was vader
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Logan’s run didn’t work , let’s topple gay marriage supporting crowns born into Christ means can’t be high ranking Christian if supporter of gay marriage wonder who pays for stolen IDs
Already was vader
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Really barely able to function while mainting livable standards pope and Spanish crown attackers are ????? DNC is skating on thin ice with using two triggers for ww3 while not backing gay marriage amendments , sure trumps anti immigrant dnc and unions will be able to hide behind trumps 500 trillion COVID’s debt voters
How did you lays those debts on me?
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Uh age 4 is able to die age for my ring , if your older than 4 years old then Marxists will attack you at dept of education NM unions and if you caught doing gop then man you gonna pay extra and be unwanted white devil fascist scum etc etc
Anonymous
>>1296689 If I was the judge I would leave the country if Trump wins or else suffer his wrath
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>>1296744 >“When there is an eyewitness on the stand, if you don’t like a ruling, you don’t say, ‘Geez,’” Merchan said. Anonymous
>>1296625 Wow, Merchan comes across as the most entitled, petty little bitch. Grow a pair, faggot.
Anonymous
>>1296749 Your seething is delicious
Anonymous
>>1296655 Maybe in your thirdie country.
>>1296662 This, kek, I'm convinced our local Democrat schizo is actually Jon Oliver or something.
Anonymous
>>1296751 >our You are alone and have no power here.
Anonymous
>>1296750 Seething about what? This is a show trial, nobody expects anything but a Democrat activist judge to make an ass of himself, convict in the most transparent way possible, and then it gets taken straight to SCOTUS somehow and gets undone within a few days. The country's past the point of caring, either that happens or violence breaks out and we break leftist skulls again just like in the good ol' days of putting down the BLM riots.
Anonymous
>>1296753 Keep telling yourself that, snowflake. I've lurked here enough to notice that aside from you and that other schizo who goes on weird rants and ban evades, this board is just as right-wing as any other on this website, which makes sense because only a retard or a filthy shitskin acting in their own tribal interests wouldn't be right-wing in 2024. So which are you, tard or nigger?
Anonymous
>>1296754 Consider that this is not the "show trial" you were led to believe.
>>1296755 Chud headcanon is so wild
Anonymous
>>1296753 I held some punk kid's face against a tiki torch and watched the product in the genderless freak's hair ignite and saw the flesh sizzle and bubble and melt. What have you done? Nothing. You won't do shit.
Anonymous
>>1296757 You haven't done that but you read about it on The Daily Stormer years ago.
Anonymous
>>1296756 No rebuttal, no argument, just a wail of effeminate denial, that's all you have left. Repeated phrases, likely a form of stimming, to rally you when the anxiety takes hold and you realize how unsuited you are for conflict. We will butcher you like lambs if your masters are stupid enough to keep pushing for a physical conflict.
Anonymous
>>1296759 >he thinks we're arguing and he isn't just being laughed at Settle down now, Adolf, there isn't anyone here for you to virtue signal to.
Anonymous
>>1296758 You won't do shit, little brown.
Anonymous
>>1296761 Even constipated people do shit eventually.
Anonymous
>>1296760 lmao you can't stop typing like a shook bitch who lost an argument against guys whose talents lie more in beating antifa skulls into paste. Hey, don't be a pussy your whole life, it's not too late to ditch this commie crap and become a real American.
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>>1296762 Commies are full of shit and never seem to run out of it.
Anonymous
>>1296763 Wow your descriptions of the boogeymen in your head that you're afraid of sure are entertaining, but in real life Donald J. Trump is going to prison and there is nothing you can do about it but seethe and cope on the internet. Oh and btw make sure to donate your entire paycheck to Trump's legal defense like a good little useful idiot so the so-called billionaire doesn't have to pay anything.
Anonymous
>>1296761 He can't do shit. Average leftist has arms like fucking pipecleaners, man, they look deformed in how little muscle mass they have. A man has to have Christ in him to become strong, and leftists don't.
Anonymous
>>1296766 Are the "leftists" in the room now?
Anonymous
>>1296765 Why are you devolving into schizo babblings about boogeymen? Ain't a soul in this thread afraid of you, boy. Trump won't see a moment of jail time, mark my words, because all the armed men are on his side. All the cops you wanted to defund, all the military you wanted to shame. You long marched through the institutions of Hollywood and the media and the liberal arts departments of colleges and all you got for it was a few shitty propaganda pieces. We long marched into every job in this country besides federal office worker that carries a gun. Test us, boy. You won't do shit.
Anonymous
>>1296767 We're in a thread, not a room, retard.
>>1296765 The case against Trump is entirely dependent on Cohen, the least credible witness of all time. The judge is seething because Merchan(t) is gonna watch Teflon Don walk again.
Anonymous
>>1296768 >>1296769 If the leftists and commies are such powerless weaklings why are you so angry at them?
Anonymous
>>1296770 Why do you always devolve into these bizarre deflections when you lose an argument? I'm going to rephrase your post to make you sound like less of a stupid cocksucker, you're welcome.
>If Trump's case is going well why are you angry at the people bringing said case? Because it's a blatant show trial with a nakedly partisan hack judge intended for cheap political smearing points in an election year where a populist with grassroots support is facing a corrupt, slimy establishment candidate with a history of actual criminal behavior, not this fake shit. The fact that it was done at all just shows that the Democrats have wandered so far out of the reservation that it's unlikely the country will ever recover. Most likely, and I realize you can't pay attention for longer than it takes you to watch a tiktok, so I'll keep this brief, we'll see the usual thing that happens when central administration becomes so inept and corrupt as to hold no legitimacy, namely the individual states acting as separate entities and de facto overriding federal authority. Not for long, thankfully, because the left is completely fucked in a civil conflict against the right in this particular country and left wing states won't be able to resist starting shit with right wing states.
Anonymous
>>1296770 It is natural for good men to despise evil.
Anonymous
>>1296772 I've already told you we aren't arguing. Any continuation of the imaginary argument going on in your head is on you.
Anonymous
>>1296773 But what if you're wrong?
Anonymous
>>1296774 I'm aware you conceded the argument, I'm continuing to bully you with the fact that your entire movement is composed of depressed, anxious, pill-popping druggies who compete to see who can cry the most easily since being offended easily gives one more social power in leftist culture (which is why real people trigger you so much). Regular people view you as a freak, an abomination, the only reason your party even still exists is because the media puts a respectable face on it and runs cover for your senile pedophile boss. The moment the rules keeping society in place, the ones you keep fucking with, break down it would take only a handful of boomers with their big game rifles taking a few random potshots and leaving to completely shut down trucks coming into or leaving your city. Trucks that fill the shelves at your remaining grocery stores. Power plants are equally vulnerable. Real people, conservatives, will have food and more guns and ammo than you can imagine while you're starving in the dark with the feral gangbangers and military-aged cartel members Biden imported. Enjoy being Tyrone and Juan's soiboi kebab.
Anonymous
>>1296775 You don't understand faith, just as you don't understand how morality leads me to the correct side of these issues. You have an underdeveloped sense of justice, and that is the saddest fate I can imagine.
Anonymous
>>1296776 Added to the conviction day screencap, thanks chud
>>1296777 How many hours of indoctrination did it take?
Anonymous
>>1296778 It may be difficult for someone like you whose moral sense comes entirely FROM indoctrination to understand, an NPC who gets outraged over Current Thing when prompted by the media, but for most real people morality comes from a rational analysis of the world and society, not CNN.
Anonymous
>>1296780 Ahh the CNN boogeyman again. How original.
Anonymous
>>1296778 Watch absolutely nothing happen. You won't do shit.
Anonymous
>>1296784 I hope whatever is really making you angry in your life gets resolved soon so you quit taking it out on the imaginary immoral leftists and commies in your head. They sound pretty nasty.
Anonymous
In the transcript, Costello was told to shut his mouth or he'd be removed from the stand and held in contempt
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>judge is being retarded on purpose in order to bail out prosecution >this is breaking news
Anonymous
>>1296783 Even CNN said the trial is DOA. Anderson Cooper literally said, on live TV, that Cohen got "dog walked" into committing perjury under oath.
Anonymous
>>1296785 >getting offended on behalf of "imaginary" immoral leftists and commies >expects to not be called an immoral leftist commie This is also why you keep getting called a troon. Hit dogs will holler.
Anonymous
>>1296807 >>1296810 oh cool peak schizo hours
Anonymous
>>1296811 >beginning of intentional thread derailment No longer tenable, eh?
Tell your supervisor he should demote you
Anonymous
>>1296817 >Implying he can be demoted any further Anonymous
>>1296817 Yes that's what you're trying to do out of pure seethe, apparently.
>>1296819 What elaborate headcanon is this supposedly referencing?
Anonymous
>>1296821 The one where you're forced to post on /news/ for a job and you're bad at it because you're a retarded faggot. The madder you get about this, the more true it is.
Anyway, can we go back to discussing how the MSM's continued celebrity-tier coverage of this court case and general omission of actual facts, is proof the MSM knows the trial is about to end in Trump's favor? And also how Cohen got absolutely raped and assblasted by the defense's cross examination and even CNN said the trial is DOA?
Cause this is the second article posted on /news/ about how "Trump's conviction is imminent because the faces of the jury don't look sympathetic to him", at least this time it's not some leftist hugbox rag like Salon but it's still devolved into butthurt leftist shills trying to derail their own thread cause they can't handle criticism or opposing arguments for more than 2-3 posts.
Anonymous
>>1296830 >Michael Cohen is finished.... because he just is okay Good TrumpCo narrative you're trying to spin there. Too bad you have to be 80+ years old and a regular Fox/newsmax/OAN viewer to believe it.
Anonymous
>>1296830 we already went over this
>>1296811 Anonymous
>>1296832 >get caught committing perjury, again >expect testimony to still be valid >expect case that wouldn't exist without testimony to not be dead Are you denying that Cohen lied under oath again? Because even CNN admitted it happened and that he got caught.
Anonymous
>>1296834 >getting mad Whoopsee, means it must be true
Remember: the madder you get, the truer it is. Hit dogs holler.
Anonymous
>>1296837 His job is shilling, melting down, and imploding.
Not necessarily in that order.
Anonymous
>>1296835 >overcharging is stealing now because I said so No one believes this but I understand how you people are that desperate enough to keep trying to spin it that way.
Anonymous
>>1296837 >>1296838 Do you exist just to accuse other people who BTFO you of getting mad? Remember, the witness for the defense got admonished in the OP story, not a witness for the prosecution.
Anonymous
>>1296839 >overcharging is stealing What? Where in the post is either overcharging or stealing mentioned?
Anonymous
>>1296844 That's the entire basis for why Cohen is supposedly discredited if you were paying attention, even though he isn't actually discredited.
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>>1296625 I'm hat a totalitarian time we live in. Nigga can't even sigh on the stand without being threatened with deprivation of liberty.
In fact, this should be a lesson to everyone. Protests are allowed in the same way you allow a child to act out now and then. It allows him to cope with his position of having no power.
And the likewise with the elites, they allow you to freak out now and then as long as you get up the next day and go to work for them.
But just like what happened here, if you ever genuinely disrespected or challenged the system they'd come down on you like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Don't think they can't Institute complete and utter 1984 style living anytime they want. They just allow younth illusion of freedom the way you allow a child the same.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>1296849 Don't worry, Trump isn't going to win. He lost last time too, remember?
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>>1296843 >this thread exists in a vacuum and if you suggest otherwise, I will scream and cry and get more mad >>1296845 >That's the entire basis for why Cohen is supposedly discredited No anon, he's discredited because he got caught lying under oath. Again.
>even though he isn't actually discredited. Here you go
>>1295753 :^)
Anonymous
>>1296851 Ahh so you're the gullible bastard from that thread who thinks the EpochTimes is real. That figures. Makes a lot of sense actually. Meanwhile while you keep going from thread to thread insisting Michael Cohen committed perjury without sourcing your claims, the trial ended without Trump taking the stand as he promised to do.
Anonymous
>>1296857 >Ahh so you're the gullible bastard from that thread who thinks the EpochTimes is real. They're quoting CNN anon. Are you also saying CNN isn't real? Are you denying that Anderson Cooper himself said Cohen was "dog walked"?
> Meanwhile while you keep going from thread to thread insisting Michael Cohen committed perjury without sourcing your claims it's really easy to say I'm not sourcing my claims when you keep ignoring the sources I repeatedly post. Meanwhile you keep saying there's multiple pieces of evidence proving Trump's guilt outside of Cohen's testimony and you have yet to post a source for a single one. Curious. Anonymous
>>1296860 I'm saying CNN "analysts", Anderson Cooper, and The Epoch Times aren't federal judges or on the jury, so their opinion literally doesn't matter, not that I believe The Epoch Times is quoting CNN correctly anyway, or that CNN has some kind of relevance beyond facebook boomers who watch it.
Anonymous
>>1296865 > Not that they're quoting CNN correctly You can literally go watch the video clips anon
>so their opinion literally doesn't matter Is the author of this article on the jury? No?
Does their opinion matter? Also no?
Anonymous
>>1296868 Ahh so you don't understand the difference between CNN pundits discussing opinions about the case and TheHill reporting on the facts of the case. Well that also makes a lot of sense considering you're also an Epoch Times believer.
Anonymous
>>1296789 >witness for the defense is told he isn't allowed to defend Wow, and you wonder why this trial isn't being taken seriously.
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>>1296883 but it is being taken seriously, and no, trial witnesses are not allowed to say "Jeez" on the stand when an objection is sustained.
Anonymous
>>1296819 Even David Brock called people like him "nerd virgins" that were not photogenic enough for other volunteer roles and were stuffed into a room in the dark somewhere to "correct the record" online.
Anonymous
>>1296832 >because he just is okay You mean because his credibility was torpedoed and he committed perjury?
Anonymous
>>1296887 Whatever you need to tell yourself to distract from the Trump's impending conviction is fine.
Anonymous
>>1296850 Can't rig it without covid.
Anonymous
>>1296888 Maybe if you keep repeating this ad nauseam your boomer friends from facebook will start to believe it.
Anonymous
>>1296890 >still thinks it was rigged How many independent audits do you need? 50 isn't enough?
Anonymous
>>1296870 >the facts are that a juror frowned Keep grabbling those straws.
>>1296889 Even CNN says he'll walk, it's over. That's the problem with the entirety of your party identity being a meek castrated pussy, you don't have the balls to actually jail Trump and kick off a Civil War 2: Republicans Have Even More Guns This Time Than the Dems.
Anonymous
>>1296894 CNN isn't saying he'll walk but I enjoy hearing wacky chud headcanon as much as any of the non-chuds on this board.
Anonymous
>>1296892 You're in denial.
>>1296893 None, when more absentee ballots are counted than were issued in the first place it seems open and shut. Weird how many Democrat and RINO judges were in on denying standing, but that just means more firing squads to organize.
Anonymous
>>1296895 You had one key witness and he crumbled like a wet churro. How many times does this need to happen to you before you get the message?
Anonymous
>>1296892 i guess their main objective these days is staying submerged in their own alternate reality of lies
Anonymous
>>1296896 t. Sidney Powell
>>1296898 t. based Epoch Times reader
Anonymous
>>1296902 Post an actual argument any time, or are you going to cope by pretending you never intended to have one and were just trolling this whole time?
>>1296901 Why did you respond to your own post?
Anonymous
see, once again he is believing his own lie. case in point
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>>1296898 It's a Manhattan jury, they might convict him for killing JFK. This is all theatre, designed to keep him tied up in appeals so he can't campaign. It still won't be enough to salvage Biden's abysmal presidency.
>>1296892 >>1296901 >get btfo >start samefagging Every time with you critters.
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>>1296910 >once again Where was the first case of it, what lie, and where's your evidence?
Anonymous
>>1296909 There isn't any point to trying to argue with crazy people who are still repeating the debunked lies of a Trump crony who already pleaded guilty for election interference.
Anonymous
i guess he knows i'm referring to him as the liar, so he does admit he's lying
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>>1296916 You're just not subtle when you're having a meltdown.
>>1296915 Samefag harder maybe some newfags will be fooled lmao.
Anonymous
uh oh, he's about to completely break down
Anonymous
>>1296953 >Still too afraid to link to posts or address me directly I won already, pussy.
Anonymous
>>1296978 Are you the guy who posted the
CIS.org charts in the other thread and tried to say they weren't /pol/ related?
Anonymous
>>1296980 There we go, finally you got stung enough to reply properly. What's
CIS.org ? Did someone post facts that triggered you because as a leftist you prioritize your feelings over reality again?
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>>1296980 Full schizo meltdown lmao
Anonymous
the faggot really does believe his own lies
Anonymous
>>1297003 The leftist retard shrieking impotently? Yeah he does.
Anonymous
>ITT: Lumpy trumpies shit and piss themselves.
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>>1297007 I doubt it. No one's that delusional
Anonymous
>>1296754 >and then it gets taken straight to SCOTUS somehow Why do Trumpist shills have no clue about how the government works?
Retarded or non-American, take your pick
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>>1297008 Go away and take your fecal fantasies with you.
Anonymous
>>1297008 Stay and keep manhandling the one chud who can't take a hint
Anonymous
>>1297019 Why did you reply to your own post?
>>1297008 Take the L retard.
>>1297010 Replying to (((You))) for the third time in one post, lol, because you're not allowed to just shop for a series of activist judges and keep a major party leader in a kangaroo court forever. Either this gets resolved via the courts or you get handed your own asses again by armed patriots, you pick.
Anonymous
>>1297029 hurry up and do another failed coup you gigantic faggot
Anonymous
>>1296999 Shilly has been shrieking nonstop ever since someone confronted him with a chart that wasn't from the NYT, as if it was some Lovecraftian text that melted his eyes. Facts are the enemies of the left, because they deal entirely in feelings.
Anonymous
>>1297030 You're the ones who declared a Revolution and got beaten up by random Christian boomers, but ok. Next time we'll bring guns and masks and leave the phones at home. ;)
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>>1297034 interesting fanfiction, but you can go back to shouting your mike lindell talking points for our entertainment now, unpopular
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>>1297029 >because you're not allowed to just shop for a series of activist judges and keep a major party leader in a kangaroo court forever t. Republicunt ignorant of what his own party stands for
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>>1297029 How hard is it for you to accept that there are people here to the left of Stephen Miller?
Anonymous
>>1296870 >CNN pundits discussing opinions about the case and TheHill reporting on the facts of the case CNN's legal analysis is usually pretty good. Unless you're saying Anderson Cooper isn't a credible source, and some nobodies from TheHill are.
If that's the case, then you should probably turn down the flow from your copium tank. Here on /news/ we trust the MSM.
Anonymous
>>1297103 No one knows because no one watches CNN except boomers dying in hospice care.
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>>1297033 t. Stephen Miller
Anonymous
>>1297103 >CNN's legal analysis is usually pretty good. It is. CNN has objective reporting that can be very good. The legal analysis can be good, but you have to be careful that you're reading actual analysis and not opinion pretending to be analysis. The analysis on Costello's decorum is opinion and not legal analysis.
> Unless you're saying Anderson Cooper isn't a credible source, and some nobodies from TheHill are. CNN opinion is terrible. AC is garbage. The hill sucks too. I'm a different anon.
>If that's the case, then you should probably turn down the flow from your copium tank. Here on /news/ we trust the MSM. You literally couldn't have dropped my opinion of you faster. The MSM is a mixed bag and you have to learn who is competent and trustworthy on which subjects. Biases will degrade otherwise good news outlets when certain topics are covered.
Anonymous
>>1297129 He unironically thinks we're all dinosaur cable tv consumers here. The only reason he brings up CNN is because the strawman in his head are constantly watching it and mimicking the opinions like the chud does with Fox News.
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>>1297117 It's still on in airports and hotel lobbies
Anonymous
>>1297129 >>1297134 >>1297117 >still no counter arguments >still no counter sources >I'm a different anon. Sure Jan.
>You literally couldn't have dropped my opinion of you faster. >He unironically thinks we're all dinosaur cable tv consumers here. I'm simply using the same logic the resident /news/hills use whenever they post an MSM article that gets heavily criticized, and they reply with the ol' "if you don't like the MSM you don't belong here" cope.
It's not fun having your own retard shill logic used against you, is it? Womp womp
Anonymous
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>>1297314 Why are you angry?
