Off the record, House Dems tell CNN’s Tapper that Trump was ‘brilliant’ snookering Dems

American Thinker ^ | 07/18/2019 | Thomas Lifson

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Once again Trump’s critics have made fools of themselves. With few exceptions, the beltway establishment pundits (and not a few Republicans) denounced his tweets on the four radical female freshmen now bearing the brand name of “The Squad’ as a gigantic mistake, a violation of the rule that when you opponents are self-destructing, stay out of their way. Trump was denounced as impulsive, foolish, and stupid among many other epithets. NeverTrumpers took this as evidence they have been right all along, that Trump is so stupid that he is unworthy of their support.

But as events have played out, speaking off the record, some House Democrats have told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump outsmarted them. Nobody would go on the record with the truth, of course, because telling the truth is not how the establishment of either party plays the political game. And, they have to pretend that their party is unified because of their fear of being challenged in primaries by radicals with the support of Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s Svengali chief-of-staff and the brains behind the Justice Democrats.

Kudos to Tapper for getting the truth out of the Dems, and for publishing it on Twitter. It takes some guts for an employee of Jeff Zucker's CNN to tell the public things that don't support The Narrative that the Left continues to peddle.

In a 12-tweet Twitter thread, Tapper reported on what they told him. Here is the first tweet, followed by the content of the remaining 11, courtesy of the Threadreadrapp: (hat tip: Matt Vespa)

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Kudos to Tapper for getting the truth out of the Dems, and for publishing it on Twitter. It takes some guts for an employee of Jeff Zucker's CNN to tell the public things that don't support The Narrative that the Left continues to peddle.

Guts has nothing to do with it: Tapper is helping Pelosi try to keep the Democrats from going over the cliff with the Jihad Squad.

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My dad played poker. At his funeral, one of his fellow players said that he didn’t play. He studied the game and used them as his lab subjects, basically toying with them. Just like POTUS with the democrats

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that's because Trump is playing inter-dimensional chess..