“The Ford’s Theatre Lie is just another example of how the Fake News Media and the Dumocrats conspire together to make up false stories about ‘President Donald J Trump.’ Shouldn’t be allowed to happen. Our Country is desperately seeking a Free and Fair Press!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday morning, the third such denial on his personal social network in just under 12 hours as it followed one from Wednesday night and then a second at 7:15 AM EDT this morning in which he wrote “The Dumocrats make up lie after lie. The new one is that I want Ford’s Theater named after me. That’s where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Who would want that? I don’t!”
“It is FAKE NEWS started by MSDNC AND CNN,” Trump continued in that second post, relevant because in the middle of that 12 hours stretch his own judicial appointee, DC Circuit Judge Timothy Kelly, had ordered the White House to restore those two outlets’ and Politico’s access to the complex. Kelly wrote in his ruling “that nothing in the record that predates this suit suggests that the revocation of Plaintiffs’ hard passes was motivated by national security concerns. Certainly, that is not what President Trump said when he announced that he was ‘banning’ Plaintiffs from the White House – instead he focused on the alleged lack of truthfulness and negativity of Plaintiffs’ reporting.”
“And even the justifications provided to Plaintiffs after this case was filed are ambiguous about the true purpose of the revocations: while Defendants’ letters to Plaintiffs mention national security concerns, they purport to identify reporting that ‘threatened national security and/or spread falsehoods,’ leaving open the possibility that all the stories fall into the latetr bucket, rather than the former,” Kelly continued in the ruling which Trump has yet to respond to, even as his denials really seem to increase the credibility of the reporting on the Ford’s Theater renaming project.
The president did however find time to post “Midterm Fact Check: Don’t believe the economic doomers,” linking to a clip of Fox News propagandist Laura “Frau” Ingraham cheering fans up.