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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And that's a winning strategy? Really?
The Biden campaign has not pushed back very hard to disprove the dementia sentiment IMO. They will need to at some point and Trump won’t let them run out the clock.
All they need to do is use the ammunition Trump just gave them over the weekend. According to Trump, " I'll bet you couldn't, they get very hard, the last five questions." Well the last five things asked on the test are what month is it, what year is it, what day of the week is it, where are you, and what city are you in? If those were very hard questions for Trump then all the Biden campaign has to do is put that into campaign adds and people will be wondering which one is unfit for office.
Noted, and no doubt ignored. Let's see how this plays out.
I want Joe to test AND to debate. Not either/or. I want BOTH.
Why does Biden need to prove anything?
Is it?
Politics is a blood sport.
Man up.
So mocking dementia and using it for political purposes is a winning strategy? Really?
Can we take a moment and look at what the opposition is putting forth, maybe we should ask the democrats what is honorable to put forth.
Maybe they will think twice before voting for someone like that.
He’s not mocking dementia and such. He’s mocking Joe Biden’s dementia. There’s a very significant difference.
Is it?
It appears to be the popular opinion at Free Republic near as i can see.
I was kind of hoping we were better than them.
I think what he's pointing out is that Biden isn't going to be the President even if he's the President. Whoever controls Biden is going to the President. Just like Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn't really working...she's got law clerks who are issuing THEIR opinions and THEIR rulings.
When the dementoid is running for the top office in the land? Hell yes!
Really? Not Covid? Not the economy? Not unemployment or health care or race relations or education but this?????
There absolutely MUST be a debate. One purpose of the lockdown is to make sure it doesn’t happen.
“ So mocking dementia and using it for political purposes is a winning strategy? Really.”
Oh geez - you’re kidding I hope. He wants to be president, so of course that’s fair game! What’s next people are going to complain that Trump is mocking Joe Biden for his mental disability? I hope they do!
So you’re saying Trump’s good at baiting... you might even say he’s a master.... Sorry had to; that’s where my sophomoric, juvenile brain automatically went when I read your post. :)
Biden is the rubber decoy duck floating around in the pond.
The Dems are going to yank him out, when they want, probably using dementia as the reason.
The only question is if Trump can force or upset their timing.
There are people here that haven’t figured out Trump yet. They examine every word and fail to see the bigger picture... the concept. Dipshit Chris Wallace did that with the “defund” word vs reassign.
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