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It wasn't linked from the article and it took me a moment to find it, so I've reposted the text of the tweets in question below. > @sundarpichai of Google was

It wasn't linked from the article and it took me a moment to find it, so I've reposted the text of the tweets in question below. > @sundarpichai of Google was in the Oval Office working very hard to explain how much he liked me, what a great job the Administration is doing, that Google was not involved with China’s military, that they didn’t help Crooked Hillary over me in the 2016 Election, and that they... > ....are NOT planning to illegally subvert the 2020 Election despite all that has been said to the contrary. It all sounded good until I watched Kevin Cernekee, a Google engineer, say terrible things about what they did in 2016 and that they want to “Make sure that Trump losses... > ....in 2020.” Lou Dobbs stated that this is a fraud on the American public. @peterschweizer stated with certainty that they suppressed negative stories on Hillary Clinton, and boosted negative stories on Donald Ttump. All very illegal. We are watching Google very closely! Here's a link to the end of the chain: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1158706058724040704 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11587060587240407...

LyndsySimon 7y ago
Reading through this, I don't take it as "Trump accusing Google of illegal acts" - at least not the way that it seems to be have been perceived by Reuters. I read this as Trump saying that Pichai's statements seemed to contrast with what is being said by other parties, and that the acts described by those other parties are illegal. That doesn't strike me as a minor distinction. It seems to me that he's using his bully pulpit to publicize Cernekee at Google's expense. Whether or not that is appropriate is fair game IMO, but it's not at all what the article claimed.
- cromwellian 7y ago
  Cernekee has asked people to contribute money to help Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, defended skinheads, and used 8-chan compatible lingo of referring to people with negative views of skinheads as "normies". Even the right-wing Daily Caller thinks this is a fishy source for Trump to be using to justify attacks on Google. In the era of domestic white nationalist terrorism, is it really good practice for the President of the United States to be basing public, global messaging attacking public companies based on really flimsy sources with tangential ties to extremist communities? This isn't the first time either, Trump often retweets questionable, un-vetted sources with crazy theories, like the whole "3 million illegals voted" conspiracy. How many more lies and incompetent sourcing incidents do we need before people stop giving him the benefit of the doubt and start demanding that the President act with some restraint, some level of due process, some level of balance? https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/05/google-engineer-posts-listservs-richard-spencer-golden-state-skinheads/ https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/05/google-engineer-posts-lis...
  - cromwellian 7y ago
    Disappointed that members of the HN community would rather down vote than discuss. I wonder how they would feel a nutty Democratic President takes office, and an ex-Chick-Fil-A, or Fox employee, who lost their job, went on to trigger that President to go on non-stop media rants against them, put them on an enemies list, and tried to use the power of the executive branch to settle paranoid political vendettas. Or, we could just imagine how people felt when the IRS was accused of targeting "non-profit" conservative groups.

LyndsySimon 7y ago

Reading through this, I don't take it as "Trump accusing Google of illegal acts" - at least not the way that it seems to be have been perceived by Reuters. I read this as Trump saying that Pichai's statements seemed to contrast with what is being said by other parties, and that the acts described by those other parties are illegal. That doesn't strike me as a minor distinction. It seems to me that he's using his bully pulpit to publicize Cernekee at Google's expense. Whether or not that is appropriate is fair game IMO, but it's not at all what the article claimed.

cromwellian 7y ago
Cernekee has asked people to contribute money to help Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, defended skinheads, and used 8-chan compatible lingo of referring to people with negative views of skinheads as "normies". Even the right-wing Daily Caller thinks this is a fishy source for Trump to be using to justify attacks on Google. In the era of domestic white nationalist terrorism, is it really good practice for the President of the United States to be basing public, global messaging attacking public companies based on really flimsy sources with tangential ties to extremist communities? This isn't the first time either, Trump often retweets questionable, un-vetted sources with crazy theories, like the whole "3 million illegals voted" conspiracy. How many more lies and incompetent sourcing incidents do we need before people stop giving him the benefit of the doubt and start demanding that the President act with some restraint, some level of due process, some level of balance? https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/05/google-engineer-posts-listservs-richard-spencer-golden-state-skinheads/ https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/05/google-engineer-posts-lis...
- cromwellian 7y ago
  Disappointed that members of the HN community would rather down vote than discuss. I wonder how they would feel a nutty Democratic President takes office, and an ex-Chick-Fil-A, or Fox employee, who lost their job, went on to trigger that President to go on non-stop media rants against them, put them on an enemies list, and tried to use the power of the executive branch to settle paranoid political vendettas. Or, we could just imagine how people felt when the IRS was accused of targeting "non-profit" conservative groups.