Posted on 08/17/2017 5:18:48 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The problem was not the reality... but the comment itself. It was what baseball calls an “unforced error.”
The comment was never going to benefit him, and ended up costing him dearly. Had he run it past Mathis, Bannon or Gorka, he would have never said it. It was unneeded, and hurt him badly.
No president can afford unforced errors. in 2017, neither can America.
We shall see who benefits. President Trump speaks the truth and obviously Congress cannot handle the truth... I would have been upset with the President had he NOT spoke the truth. The Congress is the SWAMP and ‘we the people’ are seeing them exposed for being the most dishonest bunch since the first lie was told.
Have you checked out lately how much debt the Congress has placed upon you? I will not live long enough to pay off my debt, so it will get passed on to my children and my grandchildren... Congress is our new slave masters, and they are upset over the truth.
Yep. That’s why I do it. But I have not had television since 1997 and, frankly, it takes too long to get a story. I listen to NPR from time to time on my commute. It’s 90 minutes each way.
I also read HUFFPO and Slate as well as the occasional article on the internet from the left. Most importantly, I spar with liberals on a couple of “no holds barred” sites. They link to a lot of articles to support their positions. That is probably my best source from the other side.
Oh, and they are usually quite easy to refute.
This is not about Congress. This is simply about the statement that “there were good people there with the KKK, Nazis, etc. I’m sorry, but the president made a statement that he did have to make.... and no one benefited from it.
He lost big from it. It’s what cost him the public industrial base support he had.
It was totally unnecessary, and has hurt him.
Mr Trump is not a God. His heart in 100% correct, but he has to stop making these tactical mistakes that are costing him the ability to actualize what is in his heart.
He hasn’t lost anything from that statement. American’s understand that American’s have THE RIGHT to be a Nazi.
Even if the outfits are silly.
Perhaps. But Trump is guided first and foremost by the rule of law. That's what was lacking in the gun running, IRS abuses, section 702 violations, illegal unmaskig and all the rest of it.
There were laws broken by various suspects like Hillary. But her staff did most of the violating (e.g. strippping markings from classified documents). She used them as shields. Comey gave them immunity and that will make it hard to get prosecutions that will stick.
You want to see hundreds of arrests? Go to Venezuala. Or stay in the US once a new lawless Dem president takes over. There will be way more than hundreds. Arrests now doesn't stop that from happening unless they stop bad guys or act as deterrence.
Oh, I am sure Congress will protect Wall Street's golden bull from all protesters... Who funds Congress, their reelection campaigns? Wal-Mart sells slave produced products and I am suppose to take their being offended seriously... Who produces INTEL chips? This so called 'public industrial base' hardly has an American made work force, to do so, would mean to abide by the laws Congress has enacted and would surely lessen their profits.
Just for the record, what Trump said was:
I've condemned neo-Nazis. I've condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me
You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. The press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
You also had some very fine people on both sides
soda cans with cement takes preparation.
The night of the Inauguration, leftist thugs rushed the lines of formally-clad men and women in military uniforms or evening gowns who were standing in the long, slow security line to get into the special Inaugural Ball for military. The thugs pee'd on several women's gowns or marked them with Sharpies. They were taunting the military members to try to start violence. Just disgusting.
The lines at the largest Inaugural Ball were extremely long and wound around the sidewalks of the yuge Convention Center, which itself takes up an entire long DC city block, and then the thugs came rushing up in the street beside the lines of gowned, jeweled, furred and tuxedoe'd supporters over there as well, but the security forces were now wise to their game and counter-rushed them off.
Fortunately, Trump had the national guard and many auxiliary police forces besides the Obama-corrupted DC and Capitol police forces crawling all over the place. They had bomb-sniffing dogs and radiation detectors, body armor, you name it.
Democrat Charlottesville security had their pants down.
On purpose.
Do you really think the statement “You also had some very fine people on both sides” helped him.
Do you agree there were “fine people” on the AntiFa side?
But when he said “You also had some very fine people on both sides”, stating by inclusion that there were good people on the KKK, Nazi side, America gasped.
As an aside, do you agree there were “good people” on the AntiFa side?
This is not about Congress.
This is about a president, whose heart is 100% in the right place, saying things that significantly hurt his chances to turn his dreams into law.
I’m sorry, but that is reality.
We shall see ... It is all about Congress and their lying deceptive ways. The House is up for reelection in a little over a year... and a few Senators. I am sure they are worried, given how they have been exposed for being a bunch of liars... They sure sucked up to Obama like sweet little progressives.
Of course, there were many people their on either side of the spectrum that had every intention of expressing their voices and opinions peacefully.
I have said 4 times this is not about Congress.
4 strikes and you are out.
But why say it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is a time when silence is golden.
Some really guilty of corruption GOP scum, have probably ended their careers, by embracing the MSM narrative.
I feel as if millions of armed Americans should gather in DC and block the bastards from coming back after their break.
It is we who are also guilty of letting the president face this alone in DC.
He is forced to put on rally’s outside of DC and now the scum will want to shut those down too.
If the fact of violence by anyone at any protest means no protester is a very fine person, then there is no more 1st amendment.
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