Posted on 02/28/2018 10:58:53 PM PST by familyop
In a nationally televised negotiation with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House Wednesday, President Trump appeared to back many liberal gun control proposals much to the delight of the liberal media. During their evening broadcasts ABC, CBS, and NBC touted how the President “stood up to the National Rifle Association” and pushed back against Republicans.
The report on NBC Nightly News was arguably the most vicious against gun rights advocates. “Under pressure after Parkland, President Trump taking on his own party and the National Rifle Association today,” hyped White House correspondent Kristen Welker. “Mr. Trump, at a freewheeling hour-long meeting with a group of bipartisan lawmakers, trying to get something, anything done, appeared to embrace nearly everything he heard in the meeting[.]”
Welker noted that Trump wanted to “confiscat[e] guns from those deemed dangerous,” but slimed folks on the right by insinuating they didn’t care who had weapons, saying “a move opposed by many conservatives.” She then played a clip of Trump arguing that government should “take the guns first, go through due process second,” but she failed to mention such an act was unconstitutional.
“Even taking on red-state Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey for not including an age limit increase in their background check bill,” Welker reported with glee. And she seemed impressed that Trump “even push[ed] back against fellow Republican Steve Scalise, shot and nearly killed during a baseball practice last summer.”
On ABC’s World News Tonight, they seemed ecstatic. “He was sitting with Republicans and Democrats on guns and school safety, saying he supports what many of the Democrats support, universal background checks, among other things, pushed by the students and families in Parkland, Florida,” announced anchor David Muir as he led into the report by Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl.
Karl was brimming with energy as he was delivering his report: “Before the television cameras at the White House, the most pro-NRA President in history gathered together a group including some of Congress's most forceful advocates of gun control.” “And sitting in that room, the President repeatedly took positions that put himself at odds with the NRA and Republican leaders in Congress,” he added.
The ABC reporter also boasted about how Trump appeared to opposed Vice President Pence in wanting to “take the guns first, go through due process second.” He too failed to mention the illegality of the move. “The President told the bipartisan group, he wants more than action. He wants bold action. A comprehensive bill on guns and school safety,” he exclaimed.
Meanwhile, on CBS Evening News, Chief Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes was the only one to note that what Trump wanted would be “skirting the law.”
But CBS promoted Trump’s apparent gun control push, with anchor Jeff Glor stating: “The President gathered members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, at the White House today and said, it's time to end the nonsense and do something about gun violence.” “President Trump scrambled the partisan divide on guns today, siding with Democrats on dramatically expanding background checks and raising the purchasing age for semi-automatic weapons,” Cordes added.
The liberal media are such big anti-gun advocates that they appear to be willing to side with Trump to push their agenda.
The relevant parts of the transcripts are below, expand to read each one:
NBC Nightly News
February 28, 2018
7:04:14 PM Eastern [1 minute 42 seconds]
LESTER HOLT: And two weeks after the mass shooting at a Florida high school, the President stood up to the National Rifle Association today. At least on some points. As he met with members of Congress from both parties, Mr. Trump appeared to embrace new gun restrictions as he told them to come up with legislation aimed at preventing more school shootings. NBC's Kristen Welker now with that story.
[Cuts to video]
KRISTEN WELKER: Under pressure after Parkland, President Trump taking on his own party and the National Rifle Association today.
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WELKER: Mr. Trump, at a freewheeling hour-long meeting with a group of bipartisan lawmakers, trying to get something, anything done, appeared to embrace nearly everything he heard in the meeting from confiscating guns from those deemed dangerous, a move opposed by many conservatives.
DONALD TRUMP: Take the guns first, go through due process second.
WELKER: And embracing long-held Democratic ideas like universal background checks, and increasing the minimum age to 21 to buy some weapons. Even taking on red-state Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey for not including an age limit increase in their background check bill.
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WELKER: At times, Wheeling and dealing in real-time.
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WELKER: Even pushing back against fellow Republican Steve Scalise, shot and nearly killed during a baseball practice last summer, when Scalise suggested adding a measure involving a concealed weapons permit to a bill aimed at strengthening background checks.
(…)
ABC
World News Tonight
February 28, 2018
6:35:15 PM Eastern [2 minutes 45 seconds]
DAVID MUIR: As you know, the other firestorm tonight, Republicans reacting at this hour to what they saw from the President today at the White House. He was sitting with Republicans and Democrats on guns and school safety, saying he supports what many of the Democrats support, universal background checks, among other things, pushed by the students and families in Parkland, Florida. But tonight, many in his own party are now livid. ABC's Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
[Cuts to video]
JON KARL: Before the television cameras at the White House, the most pro-NRA President in history gathered together a group including some of Congress's most forceful advocates of gun control.
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KARL: And sitting in that room, the President repeatedly took positions that put himself at odds with the NRA and Republican leaders in Congress. He embraced Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy's call for background checks on all gun purchases. An idea Republicans have voted down again and again.
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KARL: Trump even seemed to oppose his own vice president on how to take guns from someone identified as a possible threat.
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KARL: And the President brought up an idea the NRA says it firmly opposes: raising the age to buy assault weapons, like the AR-15 used in the Parkland shooting, to 21 years old.
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KARL: The President told the bipartisan group, he wants more than action. He wants bold action. A comprehensive bill on guns and school safety. He told one Republican leader to put aside a controversial pro-gun measure and to concentrate on something Democrats will support.
(…)
CBS Evening News
February 28, 2018
6:34:41 PM Eastern [1 minute 7 seconds]
JEFF GLOR: The President gathered members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, at the White House today and said, it's time to end the nonsense and do something about gun violence. Here's Chief Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes.
[Cuts to video]
DONALD TRUMP: I'm not into popularity. I'm into getting something done that's good.
NANCY CORDES: President Trump scrambled the partisan divide on guns today, siding with Democrats on dramatically expanding background checks and raising the purchasing age for semi-automatic weapons.
TRUMP: It doesn't make sense that I have to wait until I'm 21 to get handgun, but I can get this weapon at 18. Just curious as to what you did in your bill?
(…)
CORDES: President Trump also clashed with Republicans, including recent shoot shooting victim Steve Scalise when they argued gun owners need the right the carry concealed weapons across state lines.
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CORDES: Those weapons, he argued, should have been confiscated from the Florida shooter, even if it meant skirting the law.
(…)
Brinksmanship is a Trump area of specialization as is the game of box, stick, and piece of cheese.
LOL Great Analogy!
Seems like they punted on DACA so far right?
I did like to say he was 5 steps ahead, but in reality,
he is playing 4D chess on a dozen boards and they are still playing checkers.
It was a throw away line.
Not gonna happen...
The Democrats and the media are modern-day Stalinists. They would be more than willing to suspend the Constitution and the rule of law in favor of boot-on-the-neck federal police action for every ill they deem worthy.
This moment did send a chill down my spine. I pray DJT was trolling the Dems, because it DID show their true colors and those of the media for their incessant cheerleading; but if he was even partially entertaining the idea, that would be something I would not expect and cannot condone as appropriate behavior for a sitting American president.
The left loves to talk about the relocations of millions of Japanese during WWII as being as bad as slavery, but when a sitting president talks about taking away the rights of Americans without due process, there's crickets. Truly chilling.
The never-trump brigade is trying to make mountains out of a grain of sand again.
“I watched the meeting. Trump didn’t side with dems. Fake news.”
Ummm, appeared to me he was sideling left some. Maybe Feinstein had a grip on his balls under the table or something, don’t know. But, let’s see what happens once everyone returns to their daily routine, takes a deep breath and starts getting imput from their constituents, etc.
On no. Can’t have any restrictions on the media’s sacred first amendment protection to spew propaganda at the public 24/7. The second amendment gives the Constitution it’s teeth. Without it, it’s just a paper tiger. The left believes that resistance is futile, unless you try to drain the swap, of course.
“The left loves to talk about the relocations of millions of Japanese during WWII as being as bad as slavery, but when a sitting president talks about taking away the rights of Americans without due process, there’s crickets. Truly chilling.“
Yeh, for sure. But, I don’t see that happening. This probably be one of the rare times that the ACLU and Gun Rights crowd would be aligned.
About Japanese internment; keep in mind Rosevelt was a Democrat. And, while mass Japanese enternment was an huge overreach, there would have been merit for selective fact based arrests. Btw, which was what was done with certain Italian and German U.S. residents.
You honestly need to read his books. The man is the KING of trolling for a purpose. You see what he did with DACA don’t you? He completely stole the narrative. He knew those dumb F’s were never going to vote for/with him. How much DACA BS have you heard in the media recently? Crickets. 18 is coming up. We need 60 in the senate. What he did with DACA means some of those illegal/pro illegal votes are going our way. The man is the master of chaos. Kek! In a hurricane he knows when to jump up and catch the wind to take him where he wants to go. I am in awe of the man God sent us. It is almost like God whispers in his ear, jump now and he does. He has been anointed and blessed. JMHO.
After what Durbin did to him with shitholegate, I wouldn’t meet with Dems without the press either.
My mother is in her 80’s and voted for Trump, but not his biggest fan (yet.) She called me last night just to tell me how impressed she was with how Trump ran the meeting. “He ran it like a business meeting” were her exact words.
What I saw was Trump continuing to bring light to how petty and dysfunctional congress truly is.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 5m Many ideas, some good & some not so good, emerged from our bipartisan meeting on school safety yesterday at the White House. Background Checks a big part of conversation. Gun free zones are proven targets of killers. After many years, a Bill should emerge. Respect 2nd Amendment!
Trump is the man and they don’t know what to do. He is running rings around congress Dems and Repub.. This is really something to see and we should all sit back and enjoy this. This has never been done before and may never be done again. He will back some new gun rules but he will never turn on the NRA. God Bless TRUMP AND THE USA
Trump directly attacked the NRA a few times .
Yesterday he mocked Gopers as NRA stooges. .
That was outrageous.
Trump does not need to using the Dem NRA talking points.
Trump directly pushed a under 21 age limit .
He was direct.
Lets stop the nonsense about 3—D chess .
He sounded like clueless NYC Manhattan elite .
He has no idea how many honest young hunters or he is stripping there
2nd amendment rights
Join the NRA and fight Trump .
Trump is hardly perfect .
He picked Sessions and Rosenstein and McMaster and the list goes on . Yesterday , Trump clueless attacks under 21 age gun owners was pathetic . Why punish honest young gun owners .
The same guy who said he’d take the heat for allowing DACA amnesty.
My guess is he’s setting the Dems up. They are incapable of compromising.
“Stop your nonsense about attacking people who saw Trump directly attack the NRA live”
LOL!!! You call telling the truth “nonsense”. I saw President Trump laying the ground work to make the RATs admit they are only interested in banning all guns just as he got them to essentially admit they never cared about the DACA people.
But your never-trump leftovers can’t seem to recognize President Trump’s brilliance even after he rubs your face in it.
No one has suggest President Trump is perfect save for those who never really supported him. Same BS flowed from you people way back in early 2016 & you had to wipe the egg off your faces repeatedly as you soon will again.
Enjoy your willful blindness while the rest of us work for the MAGA agenda.
If true, this would not be helpful for the President.
You ignore Trumps direct attack on the NRA yesterday .
He said it Live .
No way to spin that clueless comment .
He mocked Gopers that support the NRA .
He only added more fuel to the destroy the NRA mob .
He sided with the left wing Mob
Then Trump was pushing a gun grabbing idea of stripping
the under 21 gun rights .
Even Sen Toomey told Trump that was stupid idea that punishes the good young people . Why is Trump punishing them ?
His comments were reckless and out of control .
I am not addressing his stripping due process rights .
Dana Loesch even responded back on Trumps reckless comments .
I am sick of the spin .
You need to directly respond to Trump unreal comments rather than spinning it . You have no idea if he meant it or not . By the way
the Syrian Muslims are still pouring in thanks to Trump .
Scott Adams’ take is that him saying the line “You’re afraid of the NRA” to the Republicans in the meeting takes gun control off the table as an issue he can be attacked with in 2020.
It’s a very interesting take on things, and sounds accurate. From a guy who understands the Trump dynamic better than almost anyone, who called it for Trump very, very early.
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