Posted on 07/28/2016 5:22:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Following Donald Trumps unusual mid-Democratic National Convention press conference Wednesday, two schools of thought quickly formed among political observers.
Liberals and conservative Trump critics saw his comments, particularly his call for Russia to hack and release Hillary Clintons personal emails, as disastrous and disqualifying. Some argued that the Republican nominee felt the need to act out because the media was so focused on the Democrats.
Trumps statement is impossible to defend on the merits, wrote Dara Lind of Vox. But its actually really easy to understand why he made it: Donald Trump hasnt been in the news yet all week.
However, others saw Trumps actions as a strategic maneuver to derail coverage of the convention. They say he succeeded in hijacking the news cycle and drawing attention to voters concerns about Clintons email practices as secretary of state.
By answering reporters' questions about Russia and bringing up the Clinton email scandal on his own, Trump once again directed attention to one of Clinton's greatest liabilities at precisely the moment she didn't want it discussed, said Byron York in the Washington Examiner....
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Not only is Trump living rent-free in the Lefts head, hes got them paying his utilities as well.
Not only is Trump living rent-free in the Lefts head,
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Trump is also living rent free in others outside the Left’s head.
the basic article is a lie...
O.J. did it.
"Crooked Hillary Rotten. The economy sucks, why is the press lying about that too? I'm voting TRUMP."
He made no such call. How are they going to hack a dismantled computer sitting in an FBI crime lab? His comment was made from the perspective that they already had the emails and they almost certainly do.
I think the man is a Genius.
They are all so dishonest. Almost every story I have read has said this: “particularly his call for Russia to hack and release Hillary Clintons personal emails,”
NO NO NO!! No call to “hack” - as has been described by many others, the server is no longer and couldn’t be hacked anyway. But he NEVER called for anyone to hack anything - simply said “if you have them, why not turn them over?”
He made no such call. How are they going to hack a dismantled computer sitting in an FBI crime lab? His comment was made from the perspective that they already had the emails and they almost certainly do.>>> he was cracking a joke about how stupid the media is, and it worked.
The press and the democrats show the results of bad education, no reading skills and life just above welfare.
Stupid, uneducated boob.
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