Posted on 06/15/2019 6:55:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
If President Trump has a superpower, it’s saying things that get under the skin of the Left and Never Trumpers. It’s a struggle for many to discern whether his statements are calculated actions conceived in the mind of a genius or just standard system wiring for Donald J. Trump. It is conceivable that he says these things like a body digests food—without any extra requirement of thought. Either way, it doesn’t matter. It’s the result that counts. What he says drives his enemies nuts, and he does it with reckless abandon. Personally, I like Donald Trump because he makes the right people crazy.
Once again, President Trump is making the Left apoplectic after his most recent remarks concerning whether or not he would accept dirt on a political adversary from a foreign source. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Trump was asked, “Your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if Russia, if China, if someone else offers you information on opponents, should they accept it or should they call the FBI?”
He replied, “I think maybe you do both. I think you might want to listen, there’s nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, Norway, ‘we have information on your opponent.’ Oh, I think I’d want to hear it.”
KABOOM! Heads exploded everywhere. The outrage emergency team at CNN kicked into high gear. Lights and sirens went off in studios nationwide and experts on speed dial were immediately summoned. “Good Lord, did you hear what he just said?” they shrieked. Headline writers went to work with the fervor of reporters on election night. Democratic leaders rushed to their favorite political news broadcasters to bemoan President Trump’s comments and cite them as further reasoning to remove him from office by impeachment.
At its surface, it might be safe to assume that most Americans don’t like the idea of a political campaign engaging in intelligence gathering compacts with foreign governments. Trump didn’t say that he’d organize high ranking officials within agencies like the State Department, FBI, and CIA to spy on an opponent’s campaign using phony foreign intelligence paid for by his own campaign. That wasn’t the question. The question was if his future campaign would accept dirt on an opponent from a foreign source. He didn’t say he would pursue it, but rather listen to it and make a determination as to where to take the information.
“It’s not an interference, they have information. I think I’d take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI. If I thought there was something wrong,” Trump said.
Do you see what happened here? Do you see what he did? In his transparent, open and honest reply, the President of the United States simply stated that he would take the information. He said, “There’s nothing wrong with listening.” He wasn’t talking about the CIA or FBI listening in on conversations between campaign staffers. He’s not suggesting foreign agents pay an opponent’s campaign staffer $10,000 cash while traveling overseas in order to bring him under surveillance by the FBI. He didn’t use his power to put his political opponents’ former advisor in solitary confinement until they produced evidence against his political rival. That would be much different. That scenario would seem almost criminal. The question was about foreign governments providing information to the President of the United States about a political opponent. To that he suggested he would listen and report it to the FBI if he thought anything was wrong. (He even said that part twice.)
By his simple, straightforward and transparent response, he brought to light everything his opponents did to him before and after the last election with some major differences. What they did to him went light years beyond a foreign entity providing dirt as was suggested during the ABC interview. They utilized a foreign intelligence source to create a false narrative which was then used by American intelligence and investigative agencies to potentially thwart an election and undermine a presidency. In one simple but awkward interview, Trump laid bare the complete hypocrisy of the media and Democrats.
Crazy or crazy like a fox?
A little of both, I think. That’s what I love about him — he drives the leftist media mobs absolutely bat$hit!!
Extremely Stable Genius.
This article lays out the number one thing I like most about President Donald Trump...(I still like the sound of that...)
I think it’s a combination of both, he’s a genius who’s just wired that way. I said he was a genius not long after he announced, still think so. Ever notice he seems like he’s always 3 steps ahead of them?
I like to put it this way - He’s playing 3D chess while everyone else is learning to play checkers.
I think very little he does is not planned. Everything he’s done for the past 40 years has been according to a written business plan. Do I think he’s changed his methods now? Not a chance. I’ve said all along, somewhere in a little corner of Trump tower only he has access to is a written step by step plan to run for and get elected President of the US of A.
He went into that interview fully aware what little Georgie would do, he knows what the little creep is. Tell me he didn’t expect a slew of gotcha questions and I’ll say YOU are the one who’s crazy. And I’m leaning toward this one was intentional, trolling them like a big dog...
Since he got elected, a few people have commented it’s like he’s going down a list of campaign promises...I’m betting they have no idea how precisely right they are. I would bet you $20 he has a written list of campaign promises with little check marks all over it...
Crazy? Yep, like a fox is exactly right...
freedom of speech + freedom of listening = freedom proper to a rational being
Essentially, Trump is playing Grandmaster-level chess while his opposition is playing tic-tac-toe.
He is a killer. A scrape or two doesn’t matter while he is consistently drawing blood
Attack, attack , attack!
Meanwhile..... Do not take counsel of your fears
President Trump is Graced by God Brilliant.
:)
“If President Trump has a superpower, it’s saying things that get under the skin of the Left and Never Trumpers. It’s a struggle for many to discern whether his statements are calculated actions conceived in the mind of a genius or just standard system wiring for Donald J. Trump.”
Obama was pretty good at it too. The “I won, get over it” comment and the strategic scratch of his face using his middle finger were calculated to elicit a response from conservatives. And he got them.
You can’t score if you’re not on offense. Trump has taken that to the logical extreme by never-ever playing defense.
For sure....he keeps setting up the Dems with “Daily Bones”...and they keep chomping.
There is no "or" here
The wiring system in the mind of Donald J. Trump is at genius level.
President Trump’s most valuable trait is he holds no hate for anyone. He has true compassion and love for his fellow man and woman. There has not been a more altruistic POTUS than he since George Washington.
We have one motto, ‘L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace!’ (Audacity, audacity, always audacity!)
George S Patton
They hate him because his very presence reveals their inferiority to all the world.
A true measure of your observation will be if Trump give Cohen a pardon.
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