Everyone strap in & brace yourself. There are about to be some major stories released on the Trump-R

[riversedge]

I just tuned in to DU but no access to TV tonight for a while. anyone know??

Scott Dworkin?Verified account @funder

Everyone strap in & brace yourself. There are about to be some major stories released on the Trump-Russia scandal. First one will be early this evening. I compiled an extensive research report & @GrantStern has the exclusive. Let’s just say it will stop some attacks on Mueller.

Link to tweet

Star Member OnDoutside (5,440 posts)
6. So Scott Dworkin might be right....

[W_HAMILTON]

1. It sounds like the first shoe to drop is...

...the revelation that recently un-recused Devin Nunes apparently received campaign donations from the same people that originally funded the Steele dossier.

[LonePirate]

2. I think Scott's clock or calendar are off. Nothing but crickets and it's after 8:30 PM EDT.

[riversedge]

6. I am patient (for awhile )

[pangaia]

29. I think you can safely go to bed.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Lawrence O'Donnell is cutting his vacation short to appear on his show tonight with Ari Melber

He said there's good news:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210033806

[LonePirate]

7. His good news is not necessarily Russia related. It could be with his charity work.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. That is true - he does talk about the K.I.N.D. fund frequently

But we can hope! And I'm thinking it must be important for him to cut his vacation short.

[Siwsan]

4. Apparently I have a whole different criteria for what constitutes "early evening"

Perhaps he is in a different time zone.

[JI7]

5. The only thing that would stop attacks on Mueller that i can think of

Is something that would help or be good for trump.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Lawrence O'Donnell said there's "very good news..."

And there's no doubt how he feels.

[tblue37]

26. Apparently his very good news is that he is getting married. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

38. Alrighty then! Thanks for the info

Good for him, I guess. I nodded off. Now I won't have to hang in for the repeat...

[Tipperary]

8. One of these stories every week or so.

I have gotten tired of holding my breath.

[RKP5637]

10. It seems if it were really major it would have leaked out by now by CNN, NYT or something, not so

late.

[SoCalMusicLover]

12. HA! HA! Made You Look!

BIG NEWS!

GIGANTIC NEWS!!!

THIS IS HUGE!!!

LOL!!

[Roland99]

13. I am holding my breath

NOT

[Roland99]

19. *turning blue*

[Roland99]

35. And I have passed out

[wasupaloopa]

14. Here we go again. He probably needs

some web traffic at his site or more twitter followers

[ecstatic]

15. Any news yet? nt

[awesomerwb1]

16. Im hungry

Is auntie Louise the sauce? 😒

[IluvPitties]

17. I'm still waiting...

[DeminPennswoods]

18. IMHO, Dworkin hyperventilates a lot

YMMV.

[NewJeffCT]

20. did he mean early evening Pacific Time? Hawaii Time?

let me know

[tblue37]

25. 24 business hours, no doubt. nt

[bathroommonkey76]

21. Dworkin is full of shit

We need to stop giving this douchebag attention. The motherfucker has over 200K followers on Twitter - they buy into his bullshit on a daily basis. Fuck off, Dworkin.

[womanofthehills]

37. Seems like Dworkin is working on story with Grant Stern and things have changed course

Grant Stern
?Verified account @grantstern
2h2 hours ago

The big story on #RemoveNunes ate up a lot of time, but I'm diligently working on another story with @funder to release tonight...

Grant Stern?Verified account @grantstern
Replying to @MargaretOrmrod1 @jojorez and

Sometimes you pursue one story and realize that that's not the story and change course... this is one of those times. We follow the facts where they lead and sometimes, one set of facts outweighs what you originally imagined was most important.

[cwydro]

43. Twitter users seem to be a gullible bunch.

It’s really quite amazing.

[icymist]

22. Again?

Don't tell me, show me.

[milestogo]

23. Its past 10:30pm EST and nothing. Can I go to bed now?

[OliverQ]

24. Interesting thing Dworkin did find.

The original Republican donor who funded the Russian Dossier was the donor to Devin Nunes.

[Hoyt]

28. Thats kind of old news.

[jberryhill]

27. Cute

[shanny]

30. Or not. Nt

[still_one]

31. major stories? What? That there was colusion between the trump campaign and Russia, and that

Russia interfered with our election.

No offense, but we knew about that about a year ago

[area51]

32. Whelp, here we go again.

I think I'll wait until shit actually hits the fan.

[L. Coyote]

33. 46 minutes ago:

Link to tweet

[EllieBC]

34. Is this our version of the End of Days prediction garbage?

Tonight a bombshell will be dropped! Strap in!

Ok by tonight we meant tomorrow. Night. Maybe 3 days from now. Night.

Ok let's put out some info that was already known but with a creative spin and call it THE BOMBSHELL!

Oh look! People are clicking again! Ok TONIGHT! Strap yourselves in because it's going to get crazy!

No it's not. This isn't how it's going to go down. Stop it already.

[MarcA]

36. Yes, it does seem similar to that

The year of, the end of, the beginning of, whatever,
the year 20 (add any number less than 19) and send
lots of money now for these neat cds, dvds, books
and whatever else is overstocked. This is more along
the line of the currency of clicks, tweets and ratings.

[cwydro]

39. I know.

These breathless predictions are getting tiresome.

[orleans]

40. here's the story

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/politics/trump-russia-investigation-mueller-fair-nyt/index.html

"Trump tells NYT he thinks Mueller will 'be fair'"

[EllieBC]

45. OMG I WAS NOT BRACED FOR THAT!!!

[budkin]

41. What a bunch of bullshit

MUH HYPE

[Hav]

42. I don't think many here are surprised

that nothing came after this breathless announcement. Real journalists don't make these kind of announcements, even if they are sure the story is solid. In this case, the leads didn't turn out as expected. There is an easy solution to avoid such an embarrassing situation: Just wait with this clickbait until you are sure you have the story!
The thing is, it's possible that these two will one day have a great and important story and I don't want to be too harsh. But how often will we give this kind of clickbait and especially guys like Dworkin the attention before one has to think that they are insulting our intelligence if they believe we fall for it again and again, every Friday?

[a kennedy]

44. So???? what was the big news from Lawrence O???

[Baclava]

46. wolf!wolf! wolf! His charity paid for some desks and pencils for schoolkids n/t

[a kennedy]

47. Ahhhhh, well thats a good thing.