Posted on 08/15/2018 12:56:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Omarosa Manigault-Newman should never have been allowed to breathe Situation Room air, and that she did, while jeopardizing national security, is a sad and frightening testament to the Trump administrations utter lack of seriousness from its conception.
And now, the President is paying the price for hiring some of the worst people to work for him: An unqualified, backbiting and dishonest former employee is waging a public relations war.
I have no idea if what Manigault-Newman is alleging Trump did or said is true. Its all plausible would anyone be shocked to learn a man who has openly, publicly called women, Mexicans, immigrants, journalists, foreigners and his enemies abhorrent names also used the worst word imaginable in private at some point?
Thats not to say it isnt deeply disturbing to conjure it. And suffice it to say, to actually hear Trump use the N-word, in context, on tape might indeed trigger a collapse of support for his presidency. But dont get too excited; it would likely only happen among establishment Republicans who remember the party is supposed to be embarrassed by rank racism, and only temporarily, until Trump is needed to win an important election in a district that, you know, appreciates that sort of thing.
Considering his administration was caught literally ripping infants out of the arms of their mothers to prove a political point, predictions that this controversy will be the one that does him in are sadly little more than wishful thinking.
OPINION
Lawfare Executive Editor Susan Hennessey tweeted, Im going to make a prediction that may be naive and might be proven wrong soon enough. But I honestly believe that if a tape of the President saying the N-word is made public, he will be forced to resign or at a minimum not run for reelection.
Brian Beutler writes for Crooked Media that Trump is right to be scared of an N-word tape, because millions of Americans believe racism only describes people who use forbidden slurs in casual conversation. Hearing Trump do that would, as a matter of almost mathematical certainty, be a turning point for some of them, and Trump cant really afford to lose even a small sliver of his remaining support.
To be clear, this tape may not exist. Trump is denying it, and former Trump allies are, too. Corey Lewandowski told Fox News I have never heard the President use that word ever.
Katrina Pierson has made several statements, many contradictory, but that nonetheless plant the seed that the source is corrupt: The reason Omarosa is facing a wrath of contradiction is because she cant keep her lies straight, she said, with little sense of irony.
But if the tape does ever materialize, its fair to say with certainty that Trump will suffer no real consequences for it. There are a few reasons why.
Two groups of voters those who dont care and those who dont mind will help keep Trump afloat.
Plenty of Trump supporters made an early calculation that whatever he says or does that is otherwise loathsome is an acceptable bargain if he also restores jobs, nominates the right judges, lowers taxes or builds the wall. They wont care.
Plenty of other Trump supporters voted for him because they saw him as a protector of white America, whether through rhetoric or policy. They wont mind.
And, as I said, the GOP has shown little moral fortitude beyond milquetoast denouncements of Trump here and there. Why would that change now?
Of course, we should continue to denounce the indefensible, lament the lamentable and hope for some kind of awakening of conscience. But that hope is based on exactly zero past evidence, unfortunately.
The n word has been so abused by the libs and the blacks that it has lost much of it’s sting. Ho-hum.
Like Clinton didn’t have any jerks in his White House? Monica Lewinsky, anyone? I don’t remember anyone wondering why she was even there.
...and she can still open a beer can with her chin.
In reference to those field stones that kept cropping up and damaging tillage machinery....
You know they are just called “colored rocks” now....
Jerk and Monica in the same thought space.
Yet no one cares if Saint LBJ used the word. “I’ll have those N———voting Democrat for the next two hundred years.”
One of the things these liberals and establishment Swamp RINOs don’t get is that Trump is the same in private as in public.
When they extrapolate from “look what he says in public, think of how much worse he is in private” - they are basing that on the other fake politicians in DC with their public masks and false fronts.
One of the reasons that people like and respect Trump (and liberals fear him) is because he doesn’t have a false piety and fake PC persona.
Go Trump !
No, C-Cup was never conservative.
At best she was a Bush League Republican.
>>>Considering his administration was caught literally ripping infants out of the arms of their mothers to prove a political point, predictions that this controversy will be the one that does him in are sadly little more than wishful thinking<<<
As opposed to the Democrat’s first love Planned Parenthood tearing Unborn Children apart limb from limb in the Womb and then selling the “parts”.
This may be the ultimate example of a straw man argument.
Summary: Trump didn’t really say “nigger”, but she could have gotten away with saying such a foul word.
That’s both conjecture and hyperbole all in one.
I guess SE Culp never beat her children, but she could have gotten away with it.
Why would I care if he said Nword? I have said it many times in my life. Nothing I am proud of, but it is a word, and I have used it. How many colored people have used the C word? Cracker? Honky? Chink? Wop? Hymie? Pollock? Beaner? People need to get over themselves, words cannot offend you, they really cannot. Actually, you have to choose to be offended, and I choose the freedom God gave us all. To be free from being offended, and the freedom to say plainly what I think.
I only blanked out the N word at the top because this is not my website.
Now would I fight someone if they called my wife or child a fat hog? Or butt ugly? You betcha, but that is just how things should be settled. Not with court cases, firings, and losing prestige. Let people fight it out if they are so inclined, and arrest the one who swings first if the cops are involved. You don’t arrest the person who said a word, just the one who assaulted or committed battery. THAT is how you enforce laws, on the person who first physically harms another.
Ah yes the little pretend conservative with a porn star name.
“Cupp is at her best when she’s silent”
Yes. And she should change her name to D.E. Cupp while she’s silent. And maybe take up stripping ...
Every single person in America has said this word.
Let’s get serious, Trump is from New York. I wouldn’t be shocked if he used the N word. I also wouldn’t be shocked if he called an Italian-American a “dago” or “wop” or an Irish-American a “mick” or a “donkey.” (Disclosure, I have both of those in me so assume I am not being racist.) That’s just the way it is in New York when people speak their minds.
Probably fewer now than in the past, but the older than are the more certain it is that they've said things from time to time that would be condemned as offensive now.
S.E. always displays her talents right up front.
Why in the HELL would we mind if he said it, WE ALL hear black folks say it ALL THE DAMNED TIME!!!
I only use the “N word” when I am referring to “N words”
I would be disappointed that he decided to follow Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK, LBJ, Carter, Clinton and Obama.
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