Trump Promotes Fox Pal Pirro’s Show In A Tweet

Has anyone ever seen Donald Trump promote anyone but himself or someone in his family on Twitter? The answer (Nope!) is why nobody believes Trump promoted Fox’s Justice with Judge Jeanine show yesterday morning just to help out a pal.

Yesterday morning, as he was nursing the wounds of his humiliating Trumpcare defeat the day before, Trump suddenly urged his 27 million Twitter followers to watch Jeanine Pirro’s show later that evening:

Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2017

It just so happened that Pirro opened "Justice" a few hours later with a blistering attack on Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. She blamed him for the Trumpcare debacle and demanded that he step down. “The American people won’t forget this and neither should the president,” she intoned ominously.

Not surprisingly, Twitter and the internet went a-buzz over the sequence of events.

Nevertheless, Pirro also stated, “I certainly have not spoken with the president about any of this.

Do you believe her?

Even if Pirro told the truth, the promotion of a partisan news host by a president would be troubling no matter what Pirro said.

Watch Pirro’s Opening Statement below, from the March 25, 2017 Justice with Judge Jeanine.

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"Paul Ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house.The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill." #openingstatement pic.twitter.com/75WbI4mcYX
— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) March 26, 2017

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commented 2017-03-27 14:37:37 -0400 · Flag

You’re very welcome Bemused.

Ted Koppel entered the national stage in 1979 during the Iranian hostage situation for ABC’s News Nightline program that came on at 11:30. He couldn’t top Johnny Carson in the ratings, nobody could, but his ratings were good enough to keep the show on the air, which it still is today. He left the show around 2005.

What I always respected about Mr. Koppel, was that he was an old school journalist who reported the news based on facts, not his opinion.

commented 2017-03-27 14:17:32 -0400 · Flag

Thank you doors17. Hadn’t realised it was so long ago.

I’d never heard about Ted Koppel but the way he spoke to O’Reilly was most seductive. And instructive.

commented 2017-03-27 09:53:56 -0400 · Flag

Bemused, here is the interview between Ted Koppel and Bill from 2012 that you asked for…https://youtu.be/zWNuj75y6uQ

commented 2017-03-27 08:32:31 -0400 · Flag

You’re right Ellen, Ted Koppel. Sucks getting old.

Now let me take my Geritol and get my nap in. 😴

commented 2017-03-27 04:39:40 -0400 · Flag

Enjoy your well-deserved (all-too-brief) time-out, Ellen.

I wouldn’t worry overmuch about being “clickbaitey” (lovely word). Each and every news programme has a (to me, irritating) little “stay-with-us” spiel before commercial breaks. However, Ellen’s clickbaits" have a substantive purpose: i.e. her desire is to inform us that a suggested topic is already in the works or will be addressed. That’s a useful sort of “clickbaitey-ness”.

Can anybody provide me with the link to a delightful conversation between Ted Koppel and O’Reilly from a couple of years ago? They’d been colleagues early on in their careers and I remember being shout-out-loud delighted to hear Koppel wonder what had happened to O’Reilly as a proper journalist.

commented 2017-03-27 01:19:16 -0400 · Flag

El 84 and doors,
I hate to be even more clickbaitey but I’m going to have to leave Richard’s post for the AM. Some other things came up and now I need to rest my brain.

Hasta mañana.

commented 2017-03-26 23:03:36 -0400 · Flag

Eyes, I think you mean Ted Koppel confronting Hannity. I mean to get to it as soon as I can.

commented 2017-03-26 22:39:57 -0400 · Flag

Demanding that Paul Ryan step down????!! Good luck with that!! Finding a new republican Speaker of the House will be about as easy as finding a volunteer to be the latest wife of Henry the VIII.

Isn’t what Trump did illegal and unethical on a whole bunch of levels? Faux is dreading the next 5:00am bowel movement tweet. Trump needs to stay away from those Trump steaks he’s got stored in a warehouse.

commented 2017-03-26 21:44:35 -0400 · Flag

Glad you posted on this Newshounds. My Twitter feed has been buzzing about this all day. There’s also a funny clip of Bill Moyers confronting Sean Hannity circulating which is hysterical. Hope you find time for it.

commented 2017-03-26 18:07:45 -0400 · Flag

“Watch Pirro’s Opening Statement below, from the March 25, 2017 Justice with Judge Jeanine.” Sorry ~ just had dinner & hate to waste it down the toilet [where they ALL belong].

commented 2017-03-26 17:52:39 -0400 · Flag

doors17 – It won’t mass the spell test, either.

commented 2017-03-26 17:49:45 -0400 · Flag

Such NewsHounds clickbait! “..more coming up.” hee hee
#ellenrocks

commented 2017-03-26 17:03:16 -0400 · Flag

Ellen, I think I know what you’re talking about. I never watch her show, but I think I read where she was promoting her show with proof that Trump was correct in his wiretapping allegations. Or at least her version of proof.

commented 2017-03-26 16:33:11 -0400 · Flag

doors, we’ve got more on this coming up. Not my next post but Richard’s after that. As a teaser, I’ll just say I think it’s possible Trump was promoting something else he thought would be on Pirro’s show.

commented 2017-03-26 16:25:08 -0400 · Flag

Trump can clear everything up by just saying he was just promoting her show, and that he had no idea she would start the show by asking Ryan to step down, and that he fully supports Paul Ryan. If he doesn’t then perhaps Sean Spicer will at tomorrow’s press briefing since you have to believe the question will be asked.

I agree this doesn’t pass the smell test, and he could easily lie, but how can you prove it? Silence on the subject will speak loudly.