{"id":2407004,"date":"2025-02-26T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-talk-to-me-watch-trump-shoot-down-reporter-and-his-1-sided-question-about-targeting-jack-smith-other-deep-staters\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:37:52","slug":"dont-talk-to-me-watch-trump-shoot-down-reporter-and-his-1-sided-question-about-targeting-jack-smith-other-deep-staters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-talk-to-me-watch-trump-shoot-down-reporter-and-his-1-sided-question-about-targeting-jack-smith-other-deep-staters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Don&#8217;t Talk to Me&#8217;: Watch Trump Shoot Down Reporter and His 1-Sided Question About Targeting Jack Smith, Other Deep Staters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdont-talk-to-me-watch-trump-shoot-down-reporter-and-his-1-sided-question-about-targeting-jack-smith-other-deep-staters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2407004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses President Donald Trump&#8217;s response to a reporter&#8217;s question during a press conference in the Oval Office. The reporter\u2064 raised concerns about &#8220;targeting&#8221;\u2062 individuals involved\u2062 in legal actions against Trump. In his reply, Trump emphasized that he himself had been the target of corrupt politicians \u2063for years and dismissed\u200d the reporter\u2019s inquiry as hypocritical and absurd. the article criticizes mainstream media for asking such questions, suggesting that \u2064reporters either lack self-awareness or deliberately manipulate narratives. It argues that the audacity of such questions is comparable to \u200dthat of terrorist sympathizers,implying that reporters\u2062 may be more naive than malicious. Ultimately, the author posits that the apparent ignorance of the reporters reflects poorly on their cognitive \u200dabilities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Years of observing the establishment media in action have failed to definitively answer some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sean-stone-unveils-all-the-presidents-men-a-dive-into-political-conspiracy-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Sean Stone unveils All the ...\u2019s Men: A dive into political conspiracy - Washington Examiner\">modern history&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s most perplexing questions.<\/p>\n<p>In short, do they hear themselves? Have they no awareness of how asinine they sound? Or, do they behave with such diabolical cleverness that they consciously use their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-campaign-spent-450k-on-security-despite-backing-defund-police-movement-report\/\" title=\"Stacey Abrams\u2019 Campaign Spent 0K On Security Despite Backing \u2018Defund Police\u2019 Movement: REPORT\">jaw-dropping hypocrisy<\/a> as a weapon against us?<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump showed no patience while responding to a reporter&rsquo;s biased and hypocritical question.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. President, what do you say to people who worry that targeting an individual firm or individuals who aren&rsquo;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-revokes-security-clearances-law-firm-aiding-jack-smith-tosses-souvenir-disgraced-attorney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Smith<\/a> &mdash; &rdquo; the reporter asked in a clip posted to the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>The president, however, interrupted the reporter rather than endure the rest of the question.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Excuse me,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been targeted for four years. Longer than that. So you don&rsquo;t tell me about targeting. I was the target of corrupt politicians for four years and then four years after that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So don&rsquo;t talk to me about targeting,&rdquo; the president added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?\">@POTUS<\/a> slams a Fake News reporter: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been targeted for four years&hellip; I was the target of corrupt politicians for four years. Don&rsquo;t talk to me about targeting.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tdp5Vj0uhb\">pic.twitter.com\/tdp5Vj0uhb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1894500643131269263?\">February 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-strips-security-clearances-from-law-firm-tied-jack-smith-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, Trump signed a memo Tuesday suspending security clearances for employees of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington &amp; Burling LLP. Lawyers from that firm assisted in former special counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-doj-cracks-prosecutors-worked-jack-smith-removed-federal-service-effective-immediately\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Smith&rsquo;s<\/a> politically motivated persecution of the president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also ordered a review and termination of government contracts with the firm &ldquo;to the maximum extent permitted by law.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a full accounting of the weaponization of government against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-explains-able-hold-together-facing-four-indictments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fbi-surrenders-trumps-doj-turns-details-5000-bureau-employees-role-jan-6-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his supporters<\/a> during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-tucker-carlson-takes-aim-wannabe-dictator-joe-biden-latest-twitter-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tyrannical<\/a> administration of former President Joe Biden would require volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the jaw-dropping hypocrisy of the reporter&rsquo;s question.<\/p>\n<p>Asking the president if he worries about targeting the people who targeted him really does sound so absurd that one cannot help trying to understand the motives and mental processes that lead to such questions.<\/p>\n<p>Either establishment reporters recognize their hypocrisy and do not care, or they have no idea how they sound.<\/p>\n<p>Do they ask such jaw-dropping questions on purpose? Have they made conscious decisions to invert truths and exhaust us as we <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">expend energy daily refuting<\/a> them?<\/p>\n<p>If so, then their audacity has perhaps only one parallel in the modern world. It resembles that of terrorist sympathizers who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pure-evil-israelis-open-box-containing-mother-hamas-executed-find-palestinians-sent-someone-else\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cheer the slaughter<\/a> of their enemies and then pose as victims when that enemy retaliates.<\/p>\n<p>That comparison, however, probably gives establishment reporters too much credit. They appear to the attentive observer more like useful idiots than diabolical actors.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, although one wonders how adult human beings who have not lost basic cognitive functionality could ask such audacious and asinine questions, the simplest explanation remains most plausible: If they sound dumb, it is because they are dumb.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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