So, immediately after he says there were "thousands" of Muslims cheering in NJ, the drive-bys quickly write stories that he was wrong. That there were no Muslims cheering. But then one by one, people begin to tell their own stories and these start to leak out so that the fall back is, "Well, there weren't 'thousands.' Maybe a few." More keep leaking out. Meanwhile what major THEME has been produced? Not that "Trump lied." Rather, "Muslims cheered 9/11." Whether it was "thousands" or "hundreds," it doesn't look good.
Then the "I saw people jumping." So the drivebys claim he couldn't have seen it from his apartment. Of course, he does have a telescope, but he didn't say he saw it with the naked eye. He said he watched the plane fly into the second tower, and that "there were people jumping." Anyone doing what I would have done---had I had direct eyesight from an apartment there on that day---would be flipping back and forth from my own line of sight to the TV. And the TV in fact caught people jumping.
But here's the key: AGAIN, the narrative has been moved from one that the media didn't even want to talk about (i.e., there were people jumping from the towers for what Islamic radicals did)---and haven't even shown those pictures in a decade!---to now discussing it openly, often causing the pictures to be shown again.
Same thing with the illegals "raping." This was completely buried until Don Lemon challenges Trump on it, then all of a sudden it's part of the narrative that the illegals are "raping" and committing all sorts of other crimes.
All this has to be driving the Krauthammers and the Brit Humes and the Jim Geraghtys and the Byron Yorks utterly nuts because they think they "have" Trump on a lie, when in fact the OVERALL GENERAL TRUTH of the issue is precisely what he is raising.
Spot on analysis.
And I’m cracking open a dark beer and watching the spectacle.
In fact, *so* insightful, that I can springboard off of it to another level of truth.
Donald Trump is using the leftists' own social engineering tactics, in service of the truth, instead of falsehood!
What do I mean?
Look at the past political campaigns, BT (before Trump). Sam Donaldson or Brian Williams or Chris Matthews or someone would grab a line from a fringe-kook leftist site, and use it as part of a gotcha! against a conservative: Sarah Palin is an inexperienced Caribou Barbie, Christine O'Donnell is a witch, Ronald Reagan is going to start a nuclear war, George W. Bush is stupid; the GOP is racist homophobes; "war on women"; "macaca". That kind of thing.
The talking heads for the GOP-e, who mistakenly thought "well, people are basically good and honest, so if I just tell the truth, that'll set the record straight" -- only to fall into the maw of the press, who delighted in deliberately misquoting (as they tried to with Trump about a database for Muslims), or just lying openly through their foul teeth.
The net result, is that the ACCUSATION got discussed, and infinitely more airplay, than anything of substance; and when the air finally cleared, the news cycle turned over, the residue that left was the *association* of the charge with the GOP.
Trump is doing the same thing: exaggerating the truth, but in a "Social Justice Warrior baiting" fashion: they lose their collective heads like lemmings and scramble at all costs to virtue signal and call out Trump's heresy: only to find that they themselves are spreading the meme!
Good call, Mr. Trump.
Incidentally, you might want to seek out and read the book 'SJWs always lie" by Vox Day -- he used to be a columnist at TownHall.com or such. The book is available on Amazon.