{"id":342529,"date":"2018-01-05T21:48:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-latest-deranged-media-talking-point-trump-cannot-read\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T21:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:48:48","slug":"prison-planet-com-latest-deranged-media-talking-point-trump-cannot-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-latest-deranged-media-talking-point-trump-cannot-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Latest Deranged Media Talking Point: Trump Cannot Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Claims that POTUS is \u201cno more than semi-literate\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>January 5, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump derangement syndrome has reached it\u2019s peak with the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fire-Fury-Inside-Trump-White\/dp\/1250158060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Wolff\u2019s widely uncorroborated book\u00a0<em>Fire and Fury<\/em><\/a>\u00a0which purports that practically every single person who has come into contact with the President believes him to be a child-like moron.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest talking media point, in addition to the notion that the President is mentally unstable, is that Trump is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-reading-dyslexic-scaramucci-branson-770799\">probably also illiterate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The point was raised, predictably, on MSNBC\u2019s Morning Joe, with Joe Scarborough declaring \u201c[Trump] doesn\u2019t read. He didn\u2019t read. [\u2026] [T]here has been a question of whether this guy can read, whether he does read.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/526311\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scarborough noted that Wolff\u2019s book contends that \u201csenior staffers at the White House have low opinions of the President\u2019s intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many creative words. Quote:\u00a0\u2018Trump didn\u2019t read. He didn\u2019t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes, he was no more than semi-literate.&#8217;\u201d Scarborough stated as he read from the text.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an \u201cidiot.\u201d For Gary Cohn, he was \u201cdumb as\u201d blank [on screen: \u201cs**t\u201d]. For H.R. McMaster he was a \u2018dope.\u2019\u201d the host continued.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to read from the text Scarborough noted that an email\u00a0from Cohn shared between a dozen or more staffers stated \u201cIt\u2019s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won\u2019t read anything \u2014 not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing.\u00a0He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has responded to the claims, saying that they are 100% false, and that Cohn did not write the email.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough scoffed that \u201cof course they would say\u201d that, and then launched into a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/latest-deranged-media-talking-point-trump-cannot-read.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that POTUS is \u201cno more than semi-literate\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comJanuary 5, 2018 Trump derangement syndrome has reached it\u2019s peak with the release of Michael Wolff\u2019s widely uncorroborated book\u00a0Fire and Fury\u00a0which purports that practically every single person who has come into contact with the President believes him to be a child-like moron. The latest talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342529","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=342529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}