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Trump on the rampage in Arizona
CNN ^ | August 23, 2017 | Stephen Collinson

Posted on 08/23/2017 2:52:32 AM PDT by Trump20162020

(CNN) - Donald Trump just showed why even some Republicans question whether he has the temperament and the capacity to serve as President.

In an incredible performance at a raucous Arizona rally Tuesday, Trump rewrote the history of his response to violence in Charlottesville and reignited the culture wars.

Trump in effect identified himself as the main victim of the furor over the violence in Virginia, berating media coverage for a political crisis that refuses to abate over his rhetoric on race.

"They're trying to take away our culture. They're trying to take away our history," Trump said, blaming "weak, weak people" for allowing the removal of statues commemorating the Confederacy.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aztrumprally; donaldtrump; fakenews; teleprompter; trump
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To: Trump20162020

Trump on the rampage in Arizona - They sound like this is a bad thing


21 posted on 08/23/2017 4:05:44 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: OttawaFreeper

When the antics of Brett Summers and Charles Nelson Reilly are more appealing than your “news” programming, you’re doing something wrong.


22 posted on 08/23/2017 4:06:54 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Trump20162020

Schadenfreude


23 posted on 08/23/2017 4:09:19 AM PDT by karnage
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To: Macoozie

a few bits and pieces. funny how the FakeNewsMSM were embedded with the protesters in many pics and, seemingly, in opposition to the police. Martosko makes a fair point here:

Twitter: David Martosko, Daily Mail:
Not many protesters remaining as we leave, despite reports of tear gas elsewhere. This group is yelling discredited “Hands up don’t shoot.”
9:13 PM - 22 Aug 2017
https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/900209341252456448

22 Aug: ABC: AP: The Latest: Trump says US will ‘probably’ end NAFTA
City of Phoenix spokeswoman Julie Watters says the fire marshal has set capacity for the venue at 19,000.

18 Aug: Arizona Republic: How to attend (or protest at) President Trump’s Phoenix rally Tuesday
by Kaila White
Many protesters have registered for tickets but plan on not showing up in hopes of leaving President Trump talking to an empty room. This will not work, as seating is first-come, first-served, and there will be a mass of supporters waiting to get in.

the President did ask the Fire Marshall to try to let more in who were still outside when he began talking.


24 posted on 08/23/2017 4:09:49 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Trump20162020

I’m still not seeing a problem with what Trump said there. Nice try, though, CNN.


25 posted on 08/23/2017 4:11:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: goldstategop

The media was telling us the anti Trumps were going to be inside the rally with tickets they got. I thought the rally went very smoothly. I wonder how they weeded them out.


26 posted on 08/23/2017 4:32:13 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: goldstategop

The issue is not how many times the President is FORCED to condemn something he opposes anyway and already condemned.

The main issue here is to keep the pressure up on the President, no matter what he says, doesn’t say, does or does not do.

In the eyes of the Left and MSM, he is GUILTY as charged, just fill in your charge sheet and scream about it in all directions.

IT MATTERS NOT WHAT THE ISSUE IS they key is to drive him out of office.


27 posted on 08/23/2017 4:37:21 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: goldstategop

No, they don’t have a few screws loose. They are just evil. But they are counting on shaping the opinions of those numbskulls who are not mentally balanced.


28 posted on 08/23/2017 4:55:22 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Netz

Well said.

Pray for our brave president.


29 posted on 08/23/2017 4:59:11 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Bigg Red

Another Brit swish invades America:

Stephen Collinson is an American journalist who is currently working as the reporter for CNN politics covering the White House, and also the politics across the world. Collins is a well-educated personality and he has completed double M.A. in English literature from SimonBalle School and from the University of Aberdeen. He belongs to White ethnicity and his nationality is American

Stephen Collinson started his professional career after he joined DC Thompson in the year 1995. He worked there as a Reporter for Dundee Courier/ Evening Telegraph until March 1997


30 posted on 08/23/2017 4:59:50 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Trump20162020

Trumpzilla!

Heh heh heh....


31 posted on 08/23/2017 5:00:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: MAGAthon

19,000+ Trump supporters showed up.
Approximately 500 protesters showed up.

Let that sink in.


32 posted on 08/23/2017 5:13:45 AM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: Trump20162020

F*CK CNN stop posting Thier links stop clicking their stories stop feeding the beast. I don’t watch them don’t care what they say and I refuse to give them a platform to spread their bullshit, I wish others would do the same.


33 posted on 08/23/2017 5:21:39 AM PDT by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
☪️NN  is  ISIS

34 posted on 08/23/2017 5:24:49 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Trump20162020

To CNN ,,,, The Trump base is solid and growing we will not be discouraged by fake news . On the other hand CNN is losing viewers hand over fist .


35 posted on 08/23/2017 5:38:55 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing democratic about the democrat party of fools :-()
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To: Bigg Red

We knew it was going to be rough but we had no idea that 50% of the American people would produce one giant rejectionist blast of Left-wing vomit.

One would think that hundreds of thousands of people have been infected by a combination of Rabies and Syphilis...


36 posted on 08/23/2017 6:28:40 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: goldstategop
That’s why they’re now getting nasty - and losing.

It is obvious that CNN is getting shrill and hysterical, probably because some of the MSM soon will have to admit that there is a tsunami of good economic news on the way: stock market, more jobs, fewer food stamps, world leadership successes, etc.

Maybe CNN will self destruct as they internalize all the hate and chaos they are producing. All of that energy has to go somewhere.

37 posted on 08/23/2017 6:30:04 AM PDT by olezip
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Good talk by Trump. But we need to see recuser Sessions walking what Trump talks.


38 posted on 08/23/2017 7:02:26 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Trump20162020

Trumps truth detector is buzzing


39 posted on 08/23/2017 7:10:53 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.king seal.)
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To: Trump20162020

CNN killed Kenny. :-)


40 posted on 08/23/2017 7:10:57 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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