Trump did well overall yesterday but there’s two adjustments he needs to make in his comments: First, by now I’m sure he knows that very probably most of the “white nationalists” at the Charlottesville protest were fake paid protesters brought in by left-wing organizers to impersonate “white nationalists” and discredit everyone who opposes removal of confederate monuments. Trump knows that this was very likely a false flag operation by left-wing activists, and that the people carrying “KKK” signs and tiki torches were fake paid protesters carrying fake signs. But Trump needs to keep in mind that the media and most Americans don’t know yet that this was a false flag operation, and that a peaceful group of protesters who want to maintain historical monuments was infiltrated by fake paid demonstrators carrying fake flags. So he should avoid saying things like “there were some fine people who were there that day to protest removal of a historical monument”, because the public doesn’t know yet who was there and what actually happened. Instead, just talk about violence by the vicious left-wing counter-protesters.
Secondly, DJT shouldn’t mention that Washington and Jefferson were slave owners, because that just supports the left-wing narrative that our Founding Fathers were a bunch of racists. Instead, just ask the question...”where does this stop, are they going to tear down Mt. Vernon, Monticello, and the Jefferson memorial next?” That’s a very important question...where does this drive to erase history end and what are the real motives of people who want to destroy historical monuments?
Overall, Trump did well yesterday and the vast majority of Americans are not concerned about Charlottesville and instead are interested in jobs, the economy, and the hyperinflation of health insurance premiums caused by the horrible health care law passed entirely by democrats. (My premiums have almost tripled in five years...and because of that I will fight the democrats are hard as I possibly can for the rest of my life. Democrat politicians have no idea how angry we are about what they did to our health insurance premiums.)
At this point, I think President Trump should not make any more statements about Charlottesville and just get on with his economic agenda and tax reform. We need a powerful corporate tax rate cut, with some elimination of loopholes, to turbocharge our economy and help us crush the corrupt and evil democrat party in 2018 and 2020.
:: this drive to erase history ::
Especially, the history of the Civil War which emanated from slavery but was actually fought over a correct/incorrect interpretation the 10th Amendment by a branch ^other than the SCOTUS.
If we “erase that history, BLM must, therefore and necessarily, explain why MLK, Jr. died. And, shouldn’t we also remove MLK,Jr.’s thousands of memorials as they are reminders of that “missing time in history” (aka, triggers)?
I think you make good points but I disagree. The media have basically painted a picture that a bunch of Nazi’s and Klan members showed up on Charlottesville, started beating up everyone they saw, and finished it by ramming a car into a crowd of innocent bystanders. As long as that story is allowed to stand, they will use it as a club against Trump from now until the end of time.
No, those kinds of lies have to be confronted and taken out by the roots. There was a group of people who had a legitimate political concern, a right to speak and a permit to do so. Everyone else in attendance from the probably fake Nazi’s and Klan members, to the local politicians, to law enforcement, to Antifa, all violated their basic civil rights to peaceably assemble and air their concerns.
Absent Trump as President, that side of the story would never see the light of day, and the media’s version would go down in the history books at they state it. But because we have Trump and Sessions, we have the chance to get the truth out, and the truth in this case has quite a bit of real world political impact.
“”Trump did well overall yesterday but there’s two adjustments he needs to make in his comments””
NO! NO! NO! - the press wouldn’t shut up if he did that - they’d carry on worse than they already are - into the next century....We’ve heard quite enough from them. Trump did just fine yesterday and FINALLY someone let the rest of the country/world know that there were TWO SIDES to the story even tho’ CNN wants to present only one side. I posted about hearing Don Lemon and Jim Acosta last night and I forgot to say that they really said that - “can you believe he thinks there are two sides to the story?”
Holding my head....
::Instead, just ask the question...”where does this stop, are they going to tear down Mt. Vernon, Monticello, and the Jefferson memorial next?::
You say leave slave owning out of it and you don’t think by mentioning what you suggest brings it into the picture? Why else would the question even be asked?
::At this point, I think President Trump should not make any more statements about Charlottesville::
Yes - exactly!
I think he should hold a press conference on the topic every day. Let the people watch the press screaming and unhinged while Trump sits back and lets them lose their remaining 12% credibility.