Posted on 10/04/2018 3:03:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The White House’s expected victory in getting Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court is in part a product of an unusual approach by President Trump: restraint.
While the president has a tendency to lash out when he doesn’t get what he wants immediately, he approached allegations of sexual misconduct against his nominee with unusual calmness. Rather than go on the offensive, the White House allowed the allegations to play out within tightly circumscribed grounds. For example, the president publicly greenlit an FBI probe but secretly set limits that made sure it would be fast and shallow. Only as Kavanaugh’s confirmation seemed imminent did Trump resort to his typical offensive speech. By avoiding inserting himself in an incendiary way at first, the president likely helped get the outcome he wanted.
Trump is usually eager to get into any fight, and the Kavanaugh nomination was already an ugly one. Yet in the early days after Christine Blasey Ford made public her allegation that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her in 1982, the president didn’t say much. “Aides quietly stunned by Trump's respectful handling of Kavanaugh accuser,” CNN reported. The president said he wanted to “see a complete process,” and other administration officials said Ford deserved a chance to be heard....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Trump foiled us again !!
lol
Is a 1000 page report shallow?
Trump gave them enough rope to hang themselves. And they did.
Trump is a brilliant strategist.
It ain’t over until the gavel falls.
There’s no plan.
It’s all dumb luck.</sar>
Graham has zero evidence to support this wild assertion. He does NOT know what the FBI was told. He does not know how thorough the FBI was in their investigation. He has not a clue on how long it takes the FBI to conduct investigations.
Shame on him!
“George Washington would be voted against 100 percent by [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer and the con artists,” the president added. “I mean 100 percent — 100 percent.”
Curse you, President Trump!!!
No, you see this Atlantic writer was right there looking over POTUS’ shoulder, observing the secret stuff, or he’s besties with that “secret sauce” agent that wrote to the Failing New York Times. /s
For such an incompetent man, not qualified for the office, Trump has been astonishingly successful in everything he’s done. I wish I could be as incompetent as Trump.
(”That word. I do not thing it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya- “Princess Bride.”)
Love it!
“Trump’s Unusual Strategy”
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i.e. “Taking names, kicking azz and winning”.
His “typical offensive speech” served to make him the “bad cop” so McConnell could be the “good cop” in rounding up his members to vote for approval. They can all agree that Trump was offensive, crude, etc blah blah blah but no, that’s no reason not to confirm.
His ridiculing KJU worked too. Something that Alinsky fella wrote about ridicule being man’s most potent weapon...
The Atlantic can go back to playing checkers with CNN...
Secretly set limits that Flake publicly BEGGED to get.
Exactly! Well said!
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