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Trump baits a trap for Biden
American Thinker ^ | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 07/21/2020 9:31:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

The big news from President Trump’s weekend interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace is that Wallace challenged Trump’s contention that Biden has agreed to defund the police. (Trump is right; Wallace is wrong. Just saying.) What got some press, although not as much, is Trump’s claim that the standard cognitive test he took was “very hard.” Wallace smugly countered this assertion, as did every Democrat. Trump, of course, will have the last laugh because he’s forcing Biden to take the test.

During the interview with Wallace, Trump pushed hard about Biden’s mental competence (emphasis mine):

TRUMP: And you know why I won’t lose, because the country in the end, they’re not going to have a man who – who’s shot. He’s shot, he’s mentally shot. Let him come out of his basement, go around, I’ll make four or five speeches a day, I’ll be interviewed by you, I’ll be interviewed by the worst killers that hate my – my guts.

*snip*

To the uninitiated, Trump sounds moronic. To those who know how Trump works, he just threw down the gauntlet and Biden’s in big trouble. By saying the basic test is hard, and boasting about his outcome, Trump not only got Chris Wallace to say the test is easy, he got everyone else on the left to do the same:

*Snip*

The entire Trump campaign is now perfectly positioned to say, “Okay, let Biden prove he isn’t mentally incompetent. Let him prove he’s smarter than Trump. Every single Democrat is insisting the test is easy. Therefore, Biden should ‘ace’ it, just as Trump -- who said it was ‘hard’ -- aced it.”

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To: RoosterRedux

Wow. I assumed it was for discipline...so much energy he had.


21 posted on 07/21/2020 9:58:50 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: luvbach1

The other Biden will take the test. :-)


22 posted on 07/21/2020 9:58:50 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: All

Cognitive tests don’t matter


23 posted on 07/21/2020 10:00:40 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: brownsfan

Chris Wallace would still be an intern serving coffee and donuts if not for the influence of his daddy Mike Wallace. I never could stand his undeserved arrogance.


24 posted on 07/21/2020 10:01:25 AM PDT by apoliticalone (SOCIAL JUSTICE is as much about justice as PATRIOT ACT is about patriotism.)
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To: DoodleDawg
So mocking dementia and using it for political purposes is a winning strategy? Really?

That's what you came away with? Mocking dementia itself? He was mocking the fact that the democrats are running a candidate for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES that has dementia, and some people are covering it up in order to garner votes. He also mocked people that would knowing vote for a dementia addled candidate. Wake up DoodleDawg, you are better than that.

25 posted on 07/21/2020 10:01:34 AM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Track9

“Gee, your hair smells terrific”

Might be Bidens motto.


26 posted on 07/21/2020 10:02:26 AM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins)
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To: Cowboy Bob

How about Trump challenges biden to a round of golf.


27 posted on 07/21/2020 10:02:32 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: DoodleDawg

If that’s what it takes to overcome the propaganda machine then so be it. Nobody else is going to tell the truth about it, including you.


28 posted on 07/21/2020 10:03:39 AM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: luvbach1
Trump avoids callling it dementia.

Trump says he doesn't want to say Biden is senile and then goes no to say it without saying it. So then the Democrats can fill in the blank for him? That's the plan?

29 posted on 07/21/2020 10:04:22 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: RoosterRedux

The test will not work...He will be given the answers to work from...

Just as big Media ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNN will give Sleepy Joe the debate questions ahead of time, and a special earpiece plus secret video display in the lectern...Just like the Hildabeast!


30 posted on 07/21/2020 10:04:28 AM PDT by MCEscherHammer
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To: RoosterRedux
Oh, sheesh. Really?

That's my question. Really?

31 posted on 07/21/2020 10:04:58 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

He’s not mocking dementia and such. He’s mocking Joe Biden’s dementia. There’s a very significant difference.


32 posted on 07/21/2020 10:05:12 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: DoodleDawg

Bye-done has claimed that he has the mental and physical stamina to do what is clearly a very difficult and demanding job, even for a much younger and healthier individual.

Bye-done needs to prove it, and Trump is challenging him to do so.

The issue is far too important to let it be swept under the rug.


33 posted on 07/21/2020 10:06:08 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (China kills over 600,000 and the sheeple sleep. Cops kill one person, and cities burn.)
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To: Magnum44

34 posted on 07/21/2020 10:06:14 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: RoosterRedux

Biden isn’t going to “walk into this trap.”

Give me a break.


36 posted on 07/21/2020 10:07:19 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Dr. Sivana
If mocking dementia and humor regarding it is necessary to force the issue, so be it.

Is that really the path that Trump wants to go down?

37 posted on 07/21/2020 10:07:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: shelterguy
When it is your opponent, yes.

So how is that going to play with all the voters who actually watched relatives suffer through dementia?

38 posted on 07/21/2020 10:08:36 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Yes. Your concern trolling is noted.


39 posted on 07/21/2020 10:11:11 AM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: RoosterRedux
I think Chrissy Wallace accidentally set a trap by arguing that Sleepy Joe doesn't want to defund the police.

Now Joe has to decide what to do. Try to steal some votes away from President Trump by standing with the police and thereby risk losing the support of his crazy defund-the-police constituents or come right out and admit he does want to defund the police and thereby risk losing the support of any wobbly Trump supporters to whom law and order are paramount.

40 posted on 07/21/2020 10:11:44 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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