{"id":301759,"date":"2017-04-01T21:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-censures-phony-russia-story-highlights-obamas-surveillance-scandal\/"},"modified":"2017-04-01T21:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:42:23","slug":"trump-censures-phony-russia-story-highlights-obamas-surveillance-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-censures-phony-russia-story-highlights-obamas-surveillance-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump censures \u2018phony Russia story,\u2019 highlights Obama\u2019s \u2018surveillance scandal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump calls on NBC News to stop covering an investigation into his alleged collusion with Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president said on Twitter on Saturday that the American broadcast network and the moderator of its \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Chuck Todd, should instead report on former President Barack Obama\u2019s wiretapping of Trump Tower in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump\/Russia story?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the same Fake News Media that said there is &#8220;no path to victory for Trump&#8221; that is now pushing the phony Russia story. A total scam,\u201d he added in a tweet minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Todd (pictured below) interviewed American defense attorney Abbe Lowell and former White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest about Russia\u2019s alleged interference into the election that yielded President Trump on November 8, 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170401\/70c1add2-4aec-4e7e-9311-1b3db3db650f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/01\/516390\/Trump-censures-phony-Russia-story\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump calls on NBC News to stop covering an investigation into his alleged collusion with Russia. The president said on Twitter on Saturday that the American broadcast network and the moderator of its \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Chuck Todd, should instead report on former President Barack Obama\u2019s wiretapping of Trump Tower in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}