08-12-2016, 07:50 PM
I think his ridiculous ISIS claims over the last 2 days are more egregious than his frequent claims that his declining poll numbers and any future losses are due to cheating, rigging, etc...
---First, he said that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were the founders and co-founders of ISIS, a false and dangerous statement to make to the world. It feeds the enemy's message and parrots Russian right-wing extremists' verbiage.
---Next, he goes on conservative Hugh Hewitt's show and Hugh tries to throw Trump a life raft. Hewitt said that he knows Trump didn't really mean that Obama is the founder of ISIS and that Trump knows Obama is fighting and killing ISIS. Hewitt added that he knows Trump really meant that Obama's policies left a vacuum for ISIS to spread. Instead of accepting the opportunity to amend his statement, Trump doubled down and said he meant what he said literally - that President Obama is the founder of ISIS and its MVP.
Cue all the Trump media surrogates and supporters, including Rudy Gulliani, struggling to defend Trump and claiming that Trump was really saying what Hugh Hewitt had said, even though Trump himself outright confirmed only hours earlier that he wasn't saying what Hugh Hewitt had said.
---Then, contradicting himself and his surrogates/supporters, Trump sends out a Tweet this morning claiming that the media doesn't understand 'sarcasm' in regards to his ISIS statements.
---Finally, he tells the crowd at a rally today that the media doesn't understand sarcasm...but that, honestly, he wasn't being totally sarcastic. For real.
Bizarre, highly irresponsible, and impossible to defend. In my opinion, if Trump's objective is anything other than to lose the election and walk away with a cult of ill-informed disgruntleds and conspiracy theorists to buy his brands and pay to hear him speak and keep him in the spotlight, he's lost already.
---First, he said that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were the founders and co-founders of ISIS, a false and dangerous statement to make to the world. It feeds the enemy's message and parrots Russian right-wing extremists' verbiage.
---Next, he goes on conservative Hugh Hewitt's show and Hugh tries to throw Trump a life raft. Hewitt said that he knows Trump didn't really mean that Obama is the founder of ISIS and that Trump knows Obama is fighting and killing ISIS. Hewitt added that he knows Trump really meant that Obama's policies left a vacuum for ISIS to spread. Instead of accepting the opportunity to amend his statement, Trump doubled down and said he meant what he said literally - that President Obama is the founder of ISIS and its MVP.
Cue all the Trump media surrogates and supporters, including Rudy Gulliani, struggling to defend Trump and claiming that Trump was really saying what Hugh Hewitt had said, even though Trump himself outright confirmed only hours earlier that he wasn't saying what Hugh Hewitt had said.
---Then, contradicting himself and his surrogates/supporters, Trump sends out a Tweet this morning claiming that the media doesn't understand 'sarcasm' in regards to his ISIS statements.
---Finally, he tells the crowd at a rally today that the media doesn't understand sarcasm...but that, honestly, he wasn't being totally sarcastic. For real.
Bizarre, highly irresponsible, and impossible to defend. In my opinion, if Trump's objective is anything other than to lose the election and walk away with a cult of ill-informed disgruntleds and conspiracy theorists to buy his brands and pay to hear him speak and keep him in the spotlight, he's lost already.