Brock statement: Trump media alliance strikes

What is truly dangerous is the kind of National Enquirer-style gossip in Kessler’s book. In the future, without ‘trust and confidence’ in their agents, presidents will want to keep them at a distance, out of spying range — and out of safety range, when split seconds may count. And with President Obama, such concerns may be especially acute. ‘Once Obama became president,’ Kessler says, ‘the Secret Service experienced a 400 percent increase in the number of threats against the president, in comparison with President Bush.’ Two weeks ago, outside an Obama town hall meeting in Maryland, a man held a sign reading ‘Death to Obama’ and ‘Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids.’

NewsMax has now posted a ‘clarification’ that says its reporter can’t give a specific date of when this was supposed to have happened… The story that’s at the center of the storm today is this one from Ronald Kessler at the conservative-oriented NewsMax.com. ‘Obama attended hate America sermon,’ it’s headlined. Kessler bases that conclusion on a story that NewsMax posted last August. Freelance journalist Jim Davis wrote then that he attended a July 22, 2007 service at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, that Obama was there too… As we reported this morning, the Obama campaign said the senator was not present at the July 22 service. A few minutes ago, Kessler told us by telephone that ‘the NewsMax editors have talked with Jim Davis’ and ‘he might have been wrong about the date.’ Davis, Kessler added, ‘says he could have been wrong about the date, but it definitely happened.’ Kessler added that he’s confident about the rest of Davis’ reporting because ‘I was impressed by the details he had.’ Asked if getting the date wrong isn’t something that would raise questions about the rest of a reporter’s work, Kessler said no.

[My] book, ‘The Secrets of the FBI,’ reveals for the first time what triggered Vince Foster’s suicide. He was the deputy White House counsel under Bill Clinton. About a week before, he had a meeting with Hillary Clinton in the White House in front of a lot of other White House aides, and the FBI found that Hillary totally humiliated him in front of all these aides – called him ‘just a small-town hick lawyer’ ‘you’ll never make it in the bigtime, because you disagree with some legal opinion that he’d given.’ Well, after that, his behavior went downhill. He became very withdrawn, he would break into tears easily, and a week later he committed suicide. So the FBI concluded that the death was triggered by this meeting with Hillary Clinton.

Trump and Enquirer CEO David Pecker have been friends for years. ‘They’re very close,’ said a source close to the Enquirer. In July 2013, Trump even tweeted that Pecker should become CEO of Time magazine, which at the time was being spun off from its corporate parent, Time Warner. ‘He’d make it exciting and win awards!’

Former Donald Trump allies like Fox News and NBC have been taking shots at the presidential hopeful since his bid began — but he has at least one staunch media ally. Industry insiders tell us Trump is ‘very close’ with David Pecker, head of The National Enquirer and CEO and chairman of American Media, which means the outlet is unlikely to dig too deeply into his personal life as he campaigns. This is an about-face for the Enquirer, which broke scandals that spectacularly ended the presidential hopes of John Edwards and Gary Hart, among others. ‘Trump is a big friend of Pecker,’ says our insider. ‘So no John Edwards-type investigations.’ Our source says that with Trump ‘protected’ by the tabloid, ‘Some of the staff are furious. Trump’s such fertile ground, and it drives them crazy to not only be staying away from it, but running puff pieces for him.’

Trump became a National Enquirer contributor in August, writing an op-ed on his greatness. (It would not be the last time the Enquirer would bear his byline.) ‘I am the only one who can make America great again!’ Trump penned. ‘And, on a personal note, my wife, Melania, would make a terrific first lady!’

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has been leading in the polls for months, but he’s just received his first endorsement from a major publication – the infamous tabloid The National Enquirer. … ‘Trump Must Be President,’ blasts a headline from within the Enquirer’s pages, which includes a list of reasons why the real the estate mogul should be elected, including: ’He will chase down illegal immigrants and toss out the criminals who came streaming through our open borders.’ That particular statement is ironic, considering the fact that the Enquirer recently published a racially insensitive article about one of its reporters dressing as a ‘terrorist’ and crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, in their estimation damning evidence of how porous it is. This appears to be the first time The National Enquirer has ever endorsed a candidate for president. MSNBC reached out to the tabloid’s parent company for comment about why the Enquirer decided to take the plunge with this year’s contest but has not heard back at this time.

Although the tabloid has printed sensational claims about other candidates […] Trump has been conspicuously spared this treatment.” “At a minimum, the Enquirer’s unsubstantiated story about multiple Cruz affairs is the work of a publication with an obvious rooting interest in the election. Although the tabloid has printed sensational claims about other candidates — Jeb Bush had a cocaine habit in the 1980s; Hillary Clinton is on her death bed; Ben Carson crippled surgical patients for life — Trump has been conspicuously spared this treatment.

The Clinton Global Initiative, which arranges donations to help solve the world’s problems, set up a financial commitment that benefited a for-profit company part-owned by people with ties to the Clintons, including a current and a former Democratic official and a close friend of former President Bill Clinton. […] Energy Pioneer Solutions was founded in 2009 by Scott Kleeb, a Democrat who twice ran for Congress from Nebraska. An internal document from that year showed it as owned 29% by Mr. Kleeb; 29% by Jane Eckert, the owner of an art gallery in Pine Plains, N.Y.; and 29% by Julie Tauber McMahon of Chappaqua, N.Y., a close friend of Mr. Clinton, who also lives in Chappaqua.

Bill Clinton’s foundation doled out $2 million to a power company partly owned by a wealthy blond divorcée about whom questions have been raised as to whether she is the frequent visitor to his home nicknamed ‘Energizer.’ The ‘commitment’ to Julie Tauber McMahon’s firm from the Clinton Global Initiative was placed on its 2010 conference agenda at Clinton’s urging, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. […]McMahon, 54, is rumored to be the woman dubbed ‘Energizer’ by the Secret Service at the Clinton home because of her frequent visits, according to RadarOnline. Secret Service agents were even given special instructions to abandon usual protocol when the woman came by, according to journalist Ronald Kessler’s tell-all book, ‘The First Family Detail.’

Trump is now an imperfect messenger carrying a vital message. But he reflects the best of ‘New York values’ — and offers the best hope for all Americans who rightly feel betrayed by the political class. He has the potential — the skills, the know-how, the values — to live up to his campaign slogan: to make America great again. For those reasons, The Post today endorses Donald Trump in the GOP primary.

I think this is a bombshell and people have been talking about it for a long time.

Rupert Murdoch is Executive Chairman of News Corp, the largest news and information services provider in the English speaking world comprising leading newspapers in each of the US, Australia and the UK; integrated marketing services; digital real estate services; book publishing; digital education; as well as sports programming and pay-TV distribution in Australia.

Rupert Murdoch: YEA The hugely influential conservative mogul—owner of The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and the New York Post—suggested in March that the Republican Party coalesce around Trump:As predicted, Trump reaching out to make peace with Republican “establishment”. If he becomes inevitable party would be mad not to unify.

As predicted, Trump reaching out to make peace with Republican “establishment”. If he becomes inevitable party would be mad not to unify.

The Post, of course, is owned by Murdoch, once a vocal critic of Trump’s presidential campaign. The tabloid’s endorsement comes amid a thaw in tensions between Trump and Murdoch’s media empire. Trump and Murdoch have had several meetings and conversations in recent months, according to sources close to both men. Those discussions were brokered by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the owner and publisher of the New York Observer, the sources said. Related: New York Observer loses top reporter over Trump coverage Kushner, who helped write Trump’s speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference last month, encouraged Murdoch to have a dialogue with the Republican frontrunner. Over the course of these discussions, Murdoch has apparently come to see Trump not only as a serious candidate with potential, but also as the GOP’s inevitable nominee, the sources told CNNMoney.