“By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have said radically different things about immigration. Even reporters have told me. “But I tell you what, that will be a terrible day, if Hillary gets to put her judges in, right now we’re tied”. If – if Hillary gets to put her judges – right now, we’re tied [with four justices appointed by each party].
“We need to be heard. you can not stay silent”, Tlaib said Monday.
And why, exactly, is that amusing? It sounds like just a joke gone bad. Numerous headlines referred to it as a joke.
As a firestorm ignited over what critics said was violence being incited against his challenger, some saw parallels to the rhetoric in Israel before the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. The more of a blowout it is, the more people like Hannity will be laughed at for suggesting that missing Republican votes mattered – although he’ll try to make the case regardless, rest assured. It held that the Second Amendment protects not just a militia but an individual right to keep and bear arms. National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has said the people have the right “to take whatever measures necessary, including force, to abolish oppressive government”.
That’s a question worth pondering as a new effort is under way to delegitimize The Donald in the wake of his remarks on the Second Amendment.
But oppression is a matter of opinion. A few days later, during a press conference he suggested that Russian Federation ought to use hackers to access missing e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s personal server.
“I think it’s pretty important”, Wilcox said. The next day, Trump – then embroiled in a primary battle with a host of challengers – said, “Four times, I said he is a hero”.
What if the universe in which Trump is campaigning is one where the point of his campaign is not the presidency, but to convince the world that he is righteous and worthy, and the system that has for so long rejected him-even openly mocked him (Obama ridiculed Trump to his face at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner)-is lousy? The impact of verbal errors can be devastating.
Its foreign affairs columnist, Tom Friedman, goes so far this week as to liken Trump’s remarks to the kind of talk that Israel’s leftists insist got Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated. That happened Tuesday, too, when Clinton was dealing with an unwelcome distraction: the revelation that the father of the gunman in the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub in June had secured a prime seat at her rally Monday in Kissimmee, Fla. For starters, she has not been viewed as trustworthy by a majority of Americans, and her unfavorable rating in polls averages 54 percent. “You made Trump possible!” angry Republicans will say, pointing fingers at both of them.
If ever there was a time for a third candidate in the US presidential election, it has to be now.
With Team Trump seeking to dig the candidate out of a deepening hole, former NY mayor and Trump backer Rudy Giuliani insisted the uproar was triggered by “the Clinton spin machine”.
That is, for the most part, what Trump did on Monday with a disciplined policy speech at the Detroit Economic Club.
The controversy erupted at a North Carolina rally Tuesday.
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Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who said she won’t vote for either party’s candidate, said on CNN’s “New Day” Wednesday that she did not think Trump was inciting violence, but that he has only himself to blame for people leaping to that conclusion because of his consistent “stream of inappropriate and reckless comments”.
