Hostage you are a well-spoken and passionate defender of your point of view. I respect and admire that. I join you in contempt for the media and I suspect you have equal contempt for the Republican establishment. I share those sentiments as well.
But you are making assumptions about Trump’s schedule for which there are simply no facts in evidence. Neither of us know whether this fundraiser was already planned. You can make assumptions about Trump’s schedule which are flattering to him, I can make assumptions which are detrimental to him, but in either case they remain assumptions, ultimately revealing more about ourselves than about Trump.
If Trump is sincerely trying to put attention on veterans rather than on himself, then it stands to reason that he will stay off camera during his rally tonight, and will instead put veterans on camera. I don’t mean that Trump will be on camera talking about veterans, I mean he will positively avoid the camera so that veterans can be in the spotlight. And since he is such a Jedi master at manipulating the media he will have no problem in staying off camera even if the media tries to focus on him.
Would you agree?
> “But you are making assumptions about Trump’s schedule for which there are simply no facts in evidence.”
There’s plenty of evidence to support my view over yours. And I say that not from ego but from processing objective raw information.
The below items are evidentiary:
1. You should surely see that his schedule is maxed out. Surely you agree with this.
2. He has appeared at numerous events on behalf of vets both before and after he filed as a candidate.
3. Because he has always included the well-being of vets in his life, and is without doubt, passionate about them, it should be no surprise at all that he makes time for them and draws attention to them. He did this before he was a candidate and he does this as a candidate. Therefore, one cannot informatively say he does it to wrap himself in the flag.
Conclusions:
1. Because Trump has held numerous events for and on behalf of vets, consistent with his life’s history, it is quite reasonable to expect he has many more such events scheduled in the future.
2. Because of Trump’s heavy schedule and the logistics it requires, we can infer he has a team of people working on current events as well as future events, including events held on behalf of vets.
3. We can expect his team of event schedule masters to have a detail of persons scouting out and assessing future events. We reasonably assume the Fox News debate has been known to them for enough time that they learned of the venom and attacks he would experience. We know his people had discussions with Fox News which failed and we know the result is a cancellation of his appearance.
4. We can reasonably infer that the opening in his schedule from the cancellation of his appearance needed to be filled and that meetings were held to see what was appropriate and sensible to replace the cancelled debate appearance.