PackBacker07 said:
GuerrillaPack said:
What if Trump had taken millions of dollars in bribes into his foundation, and then approved the sale of 20% of U.S. Uranium production to Russia, to aid them making nuclear weapons? Well...that's exactly what Hillary Clinton and Obama did!!
here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html
Quote:
Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal
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As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One's chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
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But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation's donors.
So is the NY Times fake news or real news? It's hard to tell with the way all "truthers" pick and choose articles.
You have the "problem" of choosing to ignore or attempt to discredit the information in this article, when I assume you would generally view the NY Times as a "very credible" source of information.
The NY Times is extremely dishonest and untrustworthy, as a general matter. But they do publish factual information every now and then. The NY Times is hyper leftist and hardcore advancing a communist/globalist agenda. This is not an organization that is dedicated to "publishing the truth and only the truth". They are pushing an agenda. They are propagandists. Probably 40% of their content is outright lies in articles posing as "news" to promote the communist/globalist agenda, and 50% is editorials and opinion pieces pushing the communist/globalist agenda. Of the remaining ~10%, some factual and truthful and information can be found. Sometimes this truthful information slips past the censors/Editors, etc.
As an analogy, consider a common criminal who is on trial or who has been sent to prison. If you sit down and interview them, they might lie to you 90% of the time when asked about the facts pertaining to their life and why they are being prosecuted for their crimes. But they still might tell the truth or even admit to some of their crimes 10% of the time. That's how the NY Times, NBC/ABC/CBS, and other far-Leftist propaganda "news" outfits operate. They are literally criminal organizations (ie, communist revolutionaries) who are dedicated to deceiving the public, as they further the communist/globalist agenda. But they still tell the truth and even admit to some of the criminal activity of their co-conspirators....every now and then.
When you step back and consider how any one of us decides what is a "trustworthy" source of information, you can't take the simplistic approach of picking a "trustworthy" source and believing 100% of what they say. Nor can you assume that what you consider to be an "untrustworthy" source is providing false information 100% of the time. Humans and man-made organizations are fallible. They have biases, and are willing to lie or twist the truth in order to promote their agenda. Only God can be trusted 100% of the time.
On the flip side, if you look at a generally trustworthy news source -- such as Alex Jones and Infowars, IMO, for instance -- they are truthful and/or correct on about 90% of their content. I disagree with Alex Jones on around 10% of his content/views, with most of those disagreements concerning the very most important subject areas.
The task of finding the truth is complicated. It involves considering information from a wide variety of sources, and then making judgments with a larger amount of information and weighing all of the evidence.