Posted on 10/17/2018 3:28:13 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Facing the prospect of bruising electoral defeat in congressional elections, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he wont accept the blame if his party loses control of the House in November, arguing his campaigning and endorsements have helped Republican candidates.
In a wide-ranging interview three weeks before Election Day, Trump told The Associated Press he senses voter enthusiasm rivaling 2016 and he expressed cautious optimism that his most loyal supporters will vote even when he is not on the ballot. He dismissed suggestions that he might take responsibility, as his predecessor did, for midterm losses or view the outcome as a referendum on his presidency.
No, I think Im helping people, Trump said. I dont believe anybodys ever had this kind of an impact.
Trump spoke on a range of subjects, defending Saudi Arabia from growing condemnation over the case of a missing journalist, accusing his longtime attorney Michael Cohen of lying under oath and flashing defiance when asked about the insult Horseface he hurled at Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who accuses him of lying about an affair.
Asked if it was appropriate to insult a womans appearance, Trump responded, You can take it any way you want.
Throughout much of the nearly 40-minute interview, he sat, arms crossed, in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk, flanked by top aides, including White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and communications director Bill Shine. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway listened from a nearby sofa.
The interview came as Trumps administration was being urged to pressure Saudi Arabia to account for the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Instead, Trump offered a defense for the U.S. ally, warning against a rush to judgment, like with what happened with his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused...
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
I was really pissed off when I read the actual quotes after seeing the Drudge screaming headline.
At the end of the day...
MATT DRUDGE IS A FLAT OUT DOUCHEBAG!
(sometimes the word is just called for)
Anybody seen Paul Ryan lately?
Hes in deep hiding. Deeper than Sessions!
Just WHEN did his predecessor take “responsibility” for ANYTHING that went wrong?
Zippy the Wonder Kenyan spent 8 years blaming everybody and everything...but himself
And they also imply that Science is only correct by consensus.
Fudgepacker Drudge is still suffering severe butthurt from when Trump tried to get the mentally ill crossdressers out of the military in 2017.
He blasted that Warren story to get Trump and. left it up even after it was
debunked .
He blared every fake story about Kav and left them up too after being
debunked .
Drudge acts like a Dem operative now .
Trump’s appearance has been screechingly mocked by the left since day 1...That’s okay though, apparently?
this explains a lot about the FakeNewsMSM hostility to President Trump:
16 Oct: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: How to bridge the Trump gap in climate finance
By Erin R. Graham, Perry World House
Former US President Barack Obama pledged an initial $3 billion to one of the funds that distributes climate financemoney to help reduce emissions and adapt to climate impactsbut delivered only $1 billion before he left office, and Trump decided not to contribute any. Funding cuts supported by the Trump administration and the Republican majority in Congress have now produced a gaping hole in available resources...
Climate finance is delivered to governments through international institutions like the Global Environment Facility, the Green Climate Fund, the Adaptation Fund, and a number of trust funds hosted by the World Bank, the United Nations, and other international organizations...
https://thebulletin.org/2018/10/how-to-bridge-the-trump-gap-in-climate-finance/
16 Oct: Bloomberg: Former UN Chief Raps Trump for Idling on Global Warming Preparation
By Christopher Flavelle; With assistance by Jess Shankleman, and Mathew Carr
Giving money to the fund was supposed to be one of the ways wealthy countries would honor their commitment to provide $100 billion annually by 2020 for adaptation and other projects.
Yet the fund has struggled since Trump vowed to slash funding for the initiative last year, saying he would not honor former President Barack Obamas pledge to provide $3 billion...
Ban predicted that the U.S. would eventually rejoin the worlds efforts to prepare for climate change.
The problem is that President Trump, he doesnt listen to anybodys call, Ban said. The U.S. will definitely have to come back. And I think they will come back. If not during President Trumps time, then whoever becomes his successor.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-16/former-un-chief-raps-trump-for-idling-global-warming-preparation
You are sort of expressing in your post the same idea I had from reading this article. Trump doesn’t want ANYONE complacent. And the bigger the victory for the Republicans this November, the more demoralized the opposition. We need much more of his agenda to pass. Again, he’s playing chess while others haven’t even gotten the board set up yet.
‘Again, hes playing chess while others havent even gotten the board set up yet.’
[Grin]
With instant communication people race to be ‘first to say it’. No time to really think with that attitude.
National Reciprocity before the midterms !
We won’t even be talking about “waves” at that point. It will be a solid wall of republicans hitting the polls that day.
And Jonathan Lemire is the original sleazebag reporter. Why are we not surprised? Nowadays you can learn more about a story by searching for the journalists history than what is in the actual drivel they publish.
“his supporters who say they may not vote this November. Im not running, he said. I mean, there are many people that have said to me ... I will never ever go and vote in the midterms because youre not running “
What type of fughing moron says this?
Do you think he’s having these rallies for your entertainment, you idiot hayseed?!
President Trump DID NOT say this to the A**hole Press. This is fake news created by the A**hole Press.
I think it would be more fun if ****ing Pelosi is not Speaker again.
headlines without quotation marks is their own interpretation . FAKE NEWS!
SEND NEWS TIPS TO DRUDGE
tell to him change headline
It ain’t his fault, it is the RINOCRAT PARTY’S FAULT. The Weasley mouthed, weak spined, commie juniors.
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