NeMont
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LAST EDITED ON Mar-22-17 AT 09:49AM (MST)[p]
What does one of the most conservative and widely respected News papers in America know about anything.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-presidents-credibility-1490138920
Not sure how many subscribe to the WSJ so I pulled some quotes from it.
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Yet the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims. Sean Spicer?who doesn't deserve this treatment?was dispatched last week to repeat an assertion by a Fox News commentator that perhaps the Obama Administration had subcontracted the wiretap to British intelligence.
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The wiretap tweet is also costing Mr. Trump politically as he hands his opponents a sword. Mr. Trump has a legitimate question about why the U.S. was listening to his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and who leaked news of his meeting with the Russian ambassador. But that question never gets a hearing because the near-daily repudiation of his false tweet is a bigger media story.
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All of this continues the pattern from the campaign that Mr. Trump is his own worst political enemy. He survived his many false claims as a candidate because his core supporters treated it as mere hyperbole and his opponent was untrustworthy Hillary Clinton. But now he's President, and he needs support beyond the Breitbart cheering section that will excuse anything. As he is learning with the health-care bill, Mr. Trump needs partners in his own party to pass his agenda. He also needs friends abroad who are willing to trust him when he asks for support, not least in a crisis.
I know for the dyed in orange Trump supports the facts don't matter but for the rest of the country it is beginning to look like the guy is a nut case. Also I know most Trumpeteers don't believe politics matter any more but they do. For a President who won the electoral college but lost the popular vote to act like he has a sweeping mandate and believes that he can offend every ally that is dangerous ground.
If any of you true Trump believers can rebut or refute any of the editorial I would love to hear a well thought out, none emotion filled explanation that doesn't blame the media, Hillary or Obama for Trump's continued and intentional antics and how they further the good of the country.
Nemont
What does one of the most conservative and widely respected News papers in America know about anything.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-presidents-credibility-1490138920
Not sure how many subscribe to the WSJ so I pulled some quotes from it.
Quote:
Yet the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims. Sean Spicer?who doesn't deserve this treatment?was dispatched last week to repeat an assertion by a Fox News commentator that perhaps the Obama Administration had subcontracted the wiretap to British intelligence.
Quote:
The wiretap tweet is also costing Mr. Trump politically as he hands his opponents a sword. Mr. Trump has a legitimate question about why the U.S. was listening to his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and who leaked news of his meeting with the Russian ambassador. But that question never gets a hearing because the near-daily repudiation of his false tweet is a bigger media story.
Quote:
All of this continues the pattern from the campaign that Mr. Trump is his own worst political enemy. He survived his many false claims as a candidate because his core supporters treated it as mere hyperbole and his opponent was untrustworthy Hillary Clinton. But now he's President, and he needs support beyond the Breitbart cheering section that will excuse anything. As he is learning with the health-care bill, Mr. Trump needs partners in his own party to pass his agenda. He also needs friends abroad who are willing to trust him when he asks for support, not least in a crisis.
I know for the dyed in orange Trump supports the facts don't matter but for the rest of the country it is beginning to look like the guy is a nut case. Also I know most Trumpeteers don't believe politics matter any more but they do. For a President who won the electoral college but lost the popular vote to act like he has a sweeping mandate and believes that he can offend every ally that is dangerous ground.
If any of you true Trump believers can rebut or refute any of the editorial I would love to hear a well thought out, none emotion filled explanation that doesn't blame the media, Hillary or Obama for Trump's continued and intentional antics and how they further the good of the country.
Nemont