Two things about the story immediately below.http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/us/politics/donald-trump-obama-isis.html?referer=https://news.google.com/
Trump literally dehumanizes people, the way Adolph Hitler did:
“These people are the lowest form of life, I’m telling you,” he said, pointing at the journalists covering his rally. “They are the lowest form of humanity." (In Erie, Pa.)
And, his low-life supporters take him up on his dehumanizing attacks:
In Erie on Friday, his audience jeered each time Mr. Trump mentioned a news outlet, and at one point many in the crowd turned their backs on him to face the press and express their contempt with a variety of shouts and gestures. “Dinosaur media is failing!” one man yelled. (Erie)
Mr. Trump’s slashing attacks have generated embarrassing scenes for his campaign, as agitated Trump fans have acted on his goading. On Thursday night, video circulated widely online of an angry Trump supporter berating reporters and making an obscene gesture in their direction in Kissimmee, Fla. In one instance during the primaries, Katy Tur, a reporter for NBC News, reported she was escorted to her car by the Secret Service after a rally in which Mr. Trump assailed her by name.
Second point: this is SOO bizarre coming from a candidate who has BRAGGED about not spending much of his and his campaign's money BECAUSE OF ALL THE FREE MEDIA he has gotten, something like $400 million just in the primaries! To the point where the guilt-ridden New York Times mea culpa'd over it--WE FAILED!--and a sitting justice of the Supreme Court complained about it.
Third point: it's obsessive-compulsive:
And the Trump campaign, which for months has kept a list of outlets barred from receiving press credentials to cover his events, has now taken to putting out regular emails that attack newspapers and websites for alleged bias.
The emails feature lengthy denunciations of the offending outlet, accompanied by an image of the publication with a red or yellow stamp over it reading: “Media bias offender.” The messages also include offensive headlines, highlighted with circles around them, mimicking Mr. Trump’s habit of cutting out newspaper articles and circling in marker what he finds objectionable.
Fourth point (Sorry, sue me.): IT DOESN'T WORK!:
Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary under Mr. Bush, said Mr. Trump was so far behind in the campaign that his fixation on the press was unlikely to help.
So bizarre, ineffective, in fact, counter-productive, that it spawns articles like this:
In August 2015, I wrote a column for The Hill titled "Is Trump a Clinton plant?" At the time, I wrote that I was not seriously suggesting that Donald Trump is running as a Hillary Clinton plant for the purpose of bringing a second Clinton to the White House, but noted some facts.
I have not read ahead: He's going to note some facts, reiterate that his point THEN was "No, Trump really isn't a plant," and then go on to note some new facts that make him NOW think he really IS a plant so we'll cut to that. Watch:
A year after my tongue-in-cheek column asking whether Trump is running as a plant to elect Hillary Clinton, I will now raise the possibility, much more seriously, that one way to explain Trump's repeatedly self-destructive behavior could be that deep down Trump does not want to win the election and is clumsily throwing the game.
You're welcome.
I am not stating that I believe that Trump wants to lose to Clinton, but I am suggesting there is at least some possibility that this is the case.
...
Think about it. If a candidate genuinely wants to become president, would he repeatedly insult the giant wave of Hispanic voters? Would he insult veterans who were heroic prisoners of war by saying that he "like[s] people who weren't captured"?...
If a candidate actually wants to become president, would he and his advisers plan a strategy that includes praising the mass-murdering communist dictator of North Korea? Which voters did Trump believe he would win with that one? If a candidate truly wants to become president, would he and his foreign policy advisors plan a strategy that repeatedly praises Vladimir Putin, the strongman dictator of Russia, and say he is not sure he would defend Europe nations from a Russian invasion? Does Trump believe there is a pro-Putin vote in America?
Or, as Trump often says, perhaps there is something happening here. Some people might say he does these things because he wants to lose the election and is throwing the game to Clinton.
...literally every single major player in politics that I know expected Trump to "pivot" after the conventions to appear to take more responsible positions and say fewer irresponsible and self-destructive things. Republicans believed Trump would pivot with hope; Democrats believed he would pivot with dread.
That is a good point. Trump's conduct since the GOP convention, like Longstreet's conduct at Gettysburg, is inconsistent with believing he can win.
Nobody I know believed that Trump would pivot in the opposite direction, becoming even more irresponsible and self-destructive after the conventions.
And everybody in the Party of Doom I've READ, Noonan, Rove, Fleischer, off the top, has been sincerely shocked by Trump's self-destructiveness.
I predict that Trump will never release his tax returns because there is something in those returns he intensely fears being revealed. Shall we speculate about what could be so devastating in his undisclosed tax returns? Is it not possible, possibly even likely, that he might dread the thought, for similar reasons, of filing his financial disclosure papers if he is elected president?
Oh! Hadn't thought about the presidential financial disclosure. Yes, no doubt, Trump is hiding Doom in his tax returns but he cannot hide Doom in his presidential financial disclosure.
I am not saying that I believe Donald Trump is trying to throw the election to Hillary Clinton, but I am saying this is a prospect that is now worth seriously considering if the endless series of Trump blunders and gaffes continues.
Alright. He made one good point on the presidential financial disclosure. His point about Trump's post-convention behavior though, that's just Trump being out-of-control. Not even a sub-conscious attempt to throw the election. CITY FOREVER!
Trump literally dehumanizes people, the way Adolph Hitler did:
“These people are the lowest form of life, I’m telling you,” he said, pointing at the journalists covering his rally. “They are the lowest form of humanity." (In Erie, Pa.)
And, his low-life supporters take him up on his dehumanizing attacks:
In Erie on Friday, his audience jeered each time Mr. Trump mentioned a news outlet, and at one point many in the crowd turned their backs on him to face the press and express their contempt with a variety of shouts and gestures. “Dinosaur media is failing!” one man yelled. (Erie)
Mr. Trump’s slashing attacks have generated embarrassing scenes for his campaign, as agitated Trump fans have acted on his goading. On Thursday night, video circulated widely online of an angry Trump supporter berating reporters and making an obscene gesture in their direction in Kissimmee, Fla. In one instance during the primaries, Katy Tur, a reporter for NBC News, reported she was escorted to her car by the Secret Service after a rally in which Mr. Trump assailed her by name.
Second point: this is SOO bizarre coming from a candidate who has BRAGGED about not spending much of his and his campaign's money BECAUSE OF ALL THE FREE MEDIA he has gotten, something like $400 million just in the primaries! To the point where the guilt-ridden New York Times mea culpa'd over it--WE FAILED!--and a sitting justice of the Supreme Court complained about it.
Third point: it's obsessive-compulsive:
And the Trump campaign, which for months has kept a list of outlets barred from receiving press credentials to cover his events, has now taken to putting out regular emails that attack newspapers and websites for alleged bias.
The emails feature lengthy denunciations of the offending outlet, accompanied by an image of the publication with a red or yellow stamp over it reading: “Media bias offender.” The messages also include offensive headlines, highlighted with circles around them, mimicking Mr. Trump’s habit of cutting out newspaper articles and circling in marker what he finds objectionable.
Fourth point (Sorry, sue me.): IT DOESN'T WORK!:
Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary under Mr. Bush, said Mr. Trump was so far behind in the campaign that his fixation on the press was unlikely to help.
So bizarre, ineffective, in fact, counter-productive, that it spawns articles like this:
Is Trump deliberately throwing the election to Clinton?
In August 2015, I wrote a column for The Hill titled "Is Trump a Clinton plant?" At the time, I wrote that I was not seriously suggesting that Donald Trump is running as a Hillary Clinton plant for the purpose of bringing a second Clinton to the White House, but noted some facts.
I have not read ahead: He's going to note some facts, reiterate that his point THEN was "No, Trump really isn't a plant," and then go on to note some new facts that make him NOW think he really IS a plant so we'll cut to that. Watch:
A year after my tongue-in-cheek column asking whether Trump is running as a plant to elect Hillary Clinton, I will now raise the possibility, much more seriously, that one way to explain Trump's repeatedly self-destructive behavior could be that deep down Trump does not want to win the election and is clumsily throwing the game.
You're welcome.
I am not stating that I believe that Trump wants to lose to Clinton, but I am suggesting there is at least some possibility that this is the case.
...
Think about it. If a candidate genuinely wants to become president, would he repeatedly insult the giant wave of Hispanic voters? Would he insult veterans who were heroic prisoners of war by saying that he "like[s] people who weren't captured"?...
If a candidate actually wants to become president, would he and his advisers plan a strategy that includes praising the mass-murdering communist dictator of North Korea? Which voters did Trump believe he would win with that one? If a candidate truly wants to become president, would he and his foreign policy advisors plan a strategy that repeatedly praises Vladimir Putin, the strongman dictator of Russia, and say he is not sure he would defend Europe nations from a Russian invasion? Does Trump believe there is a pro-Putin vote in America?
Or, as Trump often says, perhaps there is something happening here. Some people might say he does these things because he wants to lose the election and is throwing the game to Clinton.
...literally every single major player in politics that I know expected Trump to "pivot" after the conventions to appear to take more responsible positions and say fewer irresponsible and self-destructive things. Republicans believed Trump would pivot with hope; Democrats believed he would pivot with dread.
That is a good point. Trump's conduct since the GOP convention, like Longstreet's conduct at Gettysburg, is inconsistent with believing he can win.
Nobody I know believed that Trump would pivot in the opposite direction, becoming even more irresponsible and self-destructive after the conventions.
And everybody in the Party of Doom I've READ, Noonan, Rove, Fleischer, off the top, has been sincerely shocked by Trump's self-destructiveness.
I predict that Trump will never release his tax returns because there is something in those returns he intensely fears being revealed. Shall we speculate about what could be so devastating in his undisclosed tax returns? Is it not possible, possibly even likely, that he might dread the thought, for similar reasons, of filing his financial disclosure papers if he is elected president?
Oh! Hadn't thought about the presidential financial disclosure. Yes, no doubt, Trump is hiding Doom in his tax returns but he cannot hide Doom in his presidential financial disclosure.
I am not saying that I believe Donald Trump is trying to throw the election to Hillary Clinton, but I am saying this is a prospect that is now worth seriously considering if the endless series of Trump blunders and gaffes continues.
Alright. He made one good point on the presidential financial disclosure. His point about Trump's post-convention behavior though, that's just Trump being out-of-control. Not even a sub-conscious attempt to throw the election. CITY FOREVER!
