Maybe it could have been said better, but, I think this is being WAY over-exaggerated.
So did Trump make an unforced error when he said "They're going to do what I say" , about forcing the military to follow illegal orders?
"While former CIA director Michael Hayden suggested the military will completely refuse to carry out Trump’s orders if he’s elected, given they plausibly violate international law, Trump affirmed very clearly, “They’re not going to refuse me."
International Laws mean jackschitt if we have a terrorist who has info that can stop an attack like 911. They can cut off his wife's head and shove it up his terrorist behind if it gets us the info that can stop and attack as far as I am concerned.
Maybe it could have been said better, but, I think this is being WAY over-exaggerated."He made an unforced error"
That’s the trouble - there was no way to "say it better.” Silence was, in that context, golden. The error was in saying anything at all critical of Trump in that context, because in doing so you inevitably exculpate the guilty, at least to some degree. And Trump is making his “money” in this campaign by by puncturing PC. All you can possibly do is embarrass yourself.So did Trump make an unforced error when he said "They're going to do what I say" , about forcing the military to follow illegal orders?
That was more in the nature of a forced error, to me. Trump did not know what he was talking about, was over his head answering that question, end of story. I did say that IMHO Cruz would be a better POTUS than Trump. Cruz would not, IMHO, have made that mistake.But Cruz had time to think about his comments re: Chicago. He brought up the subject in the interview himself, and he spoke as if comments by Trump - which were controversial but not actionable - had some bearing on the culpability of people who compromised the rights of others.
The culpable people thought that they were putting something over on Trump; what they were in fact doing was abusing people who support Trump. And in so doing they only solidified further Trump’s main appeal, which is his stonewalling of PC assumptions. Any opponent of Trump was waking into a minefield the instant they made the slightest insinuation that the culpable people had any justification for their abusiveness.