White House blocks audio and video from press briefings

Today the White House banned the use of video and audio at the daily press briefings. In other words, the media will no longer be able to record the press briefings, something that had never happened in DECADES since the press briefings have been televised.

Today's White House press briefing was off limits to audio & video recordings... again. https://t.co/qefNGetJ0j #11MSNBC pic.twitter.com/wXatux7OxV

— 11th Hour (@11thHour) June 20, 2017

Trump threatens with suspending press briefings and do them himself every two weeks

Before tweeting his threat against James Comey this morning, Donald Trump tweeted some bullshit excuse for his surrogates (Sean Spicer, Sarah Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, etc) giving contradicting excuses to the press about why Trump fired James Comey, only to get contradicted again by Trump himself during Lester Holt's interview. But he also issued a threat to suspend the press briefings:

As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017

...Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017

Well, first of all, the White House DID hand out a written response about the Comey firing on May 9. The written response was signed by Sean Spicer. And it was contradicted by Trump himself two days later.

Sean Spicer had to hide behind some bushes to avoid answering the press about James Comey

According to The Washington Post, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had to hide behind some bushes to try to avoid answering to the press about the firing of FBI director James Comey. From the WP article:

White House press secretary Sean Spicer wrapped up his brief interview with Fox Business from the White House grounds late Tuesday night and then disappeared into the shadows, huddling with his staff near a clump of bushes and then behind a tall hedge. To get back to his office, Spicer would have to pass a swarm of reporters wanting to know why President Trump suddenly decided to fire the FBI director.

DAY 104: Sean Spicer can't answer what Ivanka Trump is doing in the White House or why

Eamon Javers, a reporter for MSNBC, asked Sean Spicer what exactly is Ivanka Trump's role in the White House and what are her qualifications for being there. Spicer never answered the question. That is, he spoke back to the reporter, but never Spicer never said what exactly is she doing in the White House and what her qualifications are. This is what Spicer said:

"It's a passion of hers, and for her to bring her business acumen and success, her passion for women and empowerment and education and entrance into areas that they haven't been able to get to is one of the reasons Chancellor Merkel reached out to her."

Merkel? They asked Spicer about Trump's administration, not Merkel's.

But that's not all. After Spicer tried to weasel himself out of the question by talking about "passion for women", Javers asked him why then did she meet with the Treasury Secretary. Spicer once again had a hard time coming up with an excuse for that one.

Sean Spicer says in front of the press that Hitler did not use chemical weapons

In an attempt to criticize Bashar al-Assad, Sean Spicer said in his press briefing today that even Hitler did not use chemical weapons.

Which is false, of course. Hitler used gas chambers to commit genocide against Jewish people.

This is exactly what Spicer said:

Trump donates $78K to the Department of the Interior, but wants to cut its budget by $1.6 billion

In what looked like a cheap attempt at PR stunt, the Trump administration said Donald Trump donated his $78,000 salary to the department of the Interior, which is in charge of national parks.

But there's one problem: Trump also wants to cut $1.6 billion dollars from the Department's budget.

DAY 61: Dow Jones and S&P 500 fall and Sean Spicer won't say it's because of Trump

For months, even before he took office, Donald Trump claimed the stock market was rallying because of him and a supposed "optimism" from him being the president.

But today the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 had a sharp fall losses. According to CNBC:

Sean Spicer tries (and fails) to justify Trump's bullshit story about wiretapping

Donald Trump pretty much admitted to Tucker Carlson he made up his accusation against Barack Obama that he wiretapped Trump Tower, but Trump tried to weasel himself out of it by claiming The New York Times published an article claiming the Obama Administration was investigating the Russian hacking of the 2016 election:

Trump says he learned about wiretapping from NYT & Bret Baier—says he didn't wait for proof "because The New York Times wrote about it." pic.twitter.com/0dFHVVZZ7q

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 16, 2017

The NYT article, of course, does NOT accuse Obama of wiretapping Trump. It merely points to the fact that there was an investigation focusing on people from the Trump campaign having contacts with Russian officials. Something that did happen, as in the case of Michael Flynn.

And yet, Sean Spicer tried to use that same bullshit excuse to justify Trump's bullshit story about wiretapping. And he did it by reading The New York Times and a Fox News piece (also with no evidence) for over 9 minutes without providing a shred of evidence to support Trump's claim. It all started with one question from the press. Here's the video:

Kellyanne Conway refuses to provide evidence of Trump's lies about wiretapping; Spicer finally admits it's bullshit

Kellyanne Conway went to morning shows today and was asked to provide evidence of Donald Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama. He provided none and, in fact, she said she's "not in the business of having evidence."

First she went on CNN and lied to Chris Cuomo's face:

Conway (on wiretap claim) says she's "not in the business of having evidence. That's what investigations are for" https://t.co/3DjM2zxsdL

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) March 13, 2017

The New York Times fact checked Sean Spicer's attack agains the CBO, and Spicer is lying

The Republicans prohibited the Congressional Budget Office from analyzing their Trumpcare act so the American people wouldn't know how crappy it is and how much it would cost them. And when the press confronted Sean Spicer about it, Spicer attacked the CBO for being wrong about the cost of Obamacare.

Well, The New York Times fact checked Spicer's claim and the newspaper found Spicer is full of shit.

The press ask Sean Spicer why Trump wants an investigation on information he already has

During a press briefing, a member of the press asked Press Secretary Sean Spicer why does Trump want Congress to investigate information Trump claims he already has in Barack Obama supposedly wiretapping him, which of course is a lie. Spicer responded with another lie: that Trump doesn't want to break the separation of powers:

.@HallieJackson: Why would Trump want Congress to probe info he already has?

Spicer: "I think we've made this clear how he wants this done" pic.twitter.com/D377Op2icO

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) March 7, 2017

The truth is, Trump repeated false information (fake news, actually) against Barack Obama and now him and his people at the White House don't know how to get out of that lie.

Sean Spicer technically admits Donald Trump is a dictator

CNCB social lead Steve Koapck noticed something today: Back in December Sean Spicer claimed that only dictators would prohibit access to the press. But today, Spicer did not allow reporters from The New York Times, CNN and Politico to attend his press briefing:

In December, Spicer said barring media access is what a ‘dictatorship’ does.

Today, he barred media access. https://t.co/Jd0DNN4pT6

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) February 25, 2017

Sean Spicer lies repeatedly about Obamacare

As a result of Donald Trump lying on Twitter with his suggestion that the protests in town hall meetings regarding Obamacare are fabricated, a reporter asked Sean Spicer about it. Spicer went on to repeat, without a shred of evidence, that some of the protests were fabricated. But he didn't stop there. Then he went on to lie about Obamacare repeatedly. One of the lies he said, for example, is that health care access is going down, when in reality there is a record number of people with insurance in America:

Spicer claims health care access "going down" b/c of Obamacare

Uninsured rate is actually at record low: https://t.co/ygwhkpUcLI pic.twitter.com/GhGikTDwHk

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) 22 de febrero de 2017

And there's more.

Sean Spicer lies about Trump talking against racism "many times"

When confrented by the press about the fact that it took until today for Donald Trump to say something officially against antisemitism, Sean Spicer claimed Trump many times talked against discrimation and hate crimes.

Spicer on anti-Semitism: Trump "forceful" with "denunciation...ironic that no matter how many times he talks about...it's never good enough" pic.twitter.com/h7SUrWYtQT

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) February 21, 2017

Which is a big lie. Trump never even tweeted, much less condemned publicly as official policy, the massacre at a Canadian mosque perpetrated by a right-wing White man who also supported Trump.

Sean Spicer mentioned several times fake Atlanta terror attack and then said he meant Orlando

Although Sean Spicer, Trump's Press Secretary, said to different media outlets over a period of two days there was a terror attack in Atlanta, when he was finally told by the press there was no terror attack in Atlanta he tried to weasel himself out of it by saying he "clearly meant Orlando."

First Spicer said on January 29 to ABC's The View:

Trump loses on taxing Mexico: Sean Spicer backpedals on 20% tax on imports

Donald Trump loses his fight against Mexico once again. After Mexico's president cancelled his meeting with Donald Trump because of Trump's border wall, Trump proposed a 20% tax on imports from Mexico to pay for the border wall. But outrage in the United States against the tax --which would have to be paid by American consumers-- forced Trump's Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, to backpedal about it.

According to The New York Times, after Spicer justified the tax, and the idea caused an uproar, he backpedaled on it:

MORE HYPOCRISY: Sean Spicer and Jared Kushner are also registered to vote in 2 states

Today Donald Trump said in a speech in Philadelphia that he would "investigate" his own lie about illegal voting. The day before he said there were people registered to vote in 2 states.

Well, turns out not just Trump's daughter Tiffany, Stephen Bannon and Steven Mnuchin were registered to vote in two states during the 2016 election. According to The Washington Post, Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer and Trump's son in-law and top adviser Jared Kusher were also registered to vote in 2 states.

Quote from the Washington Post article:

Sean Spicer says Trump "believes" there was voter fraud in 2016 but shows no evidence

When the press asked Sean Spicer for evidence backing Donald Trump's claim that millions of illegal immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton, Spicer says Trump "believes" that's the case based on "studies and information he has". However, Spicer did not present any evidence proving Trump's lie.

Sean Spicer lies once again about inaugural viewership

During his first full official press briefing, the press asked Sean Spicer once again if he stands by his claim that Trump's inauguration was the most watched. Spicer replied with a misleading statement:

"Sure. It was the most watched inaugural. When you look at... look, uh... you look at, just in, one network alone got 16.9 million people online. Another couple of the networks, there were tens of millions of people that watched it online. Nevermind that the audiences here 31 million watched it on television. Combined it with the tens of millions of people who watched it online, on a device, it's unquestionable. I don't, I don't... and I don't see any numbers that dispute that, hen you add up attendance, viewership, total audience, out total audience in terms of tables, phones... uh... on television, I'd like to see any information that proves that otherwise."

DAY 2: Trump and Sean Spice lie repeatedly about inauguration attendance

Because of the overwhelming evidence of very few people attending Donald Trump's inauguration, both, Trump and his Press Secretary Sean Spicer, lied repeatedly about the attendance.

The facts are:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/president-trump-inauguration-crowd-white-house.html