They might call that a press conference, but when the so-called “journalists” had been clapping and cheering her just minutes before, and she obviously had notes she referred to during this “press conference”, Trump must call her on that, and still say she hasn’t given a REAL press conference yet.
A two-fer actually. He can mock the press for calling a seven planned plus softball question session a grilling, and he can mock parts of her answers. He is really making hay with "short circuited."
For some reason, the CNN canard addressed in the Blitzer/Carson discussion yesterday stuck in my mind, the part covering the economy ...
BLITZER: Let's talk about the economy. 255,000 jobs created last month, 30 months in a row if now more. 15 million jobs created since the Great Recession that President Obama inherited when he took office. You remember, in 2009, the U.S. was losing maybe 800,000 jobs a month, 900,000 jobs a month. Unemployment is right around 9, 10 percent. It has clearly improved dramatically since then, wouldn't you agree?[13:40:05] CARSON: I don't know about the "dramatically" part. There has been some improvement. I'm happy for that. That's good. But I want you to understand that this is the first time in a seven or eight-year period of a president that we have consistently had less than 3 percent growth. I don't believe that has ever happened in the history of the United States. People say it's the new normal.
There is nothing normal about it. It's these policies, these excessive regulations tamping down the ability of people to use their God-given abilities to create in this country. It's excessive taxation. It's things that allow the government to grow and control our lives, when the American people don't need somebody controlling their lives.
BLITZER: You remember, the economy, if you take a look at the economy, where it was when he took office, the Dow Jones was 7,000. Now it's about 18,000? That's a pretty dramatic improvement. If you ask people who remember what it was like at the end of 2008, the beginning of 2009, that Great Recession we were all having, what it's like now, there has been a dramatic improvement, even though it's by no means perfect.
CARSON: It's been a dramatic improvement for you, Wolf, for me, and all of Hillary Clinton's Wall Street buddies, but it's not a dramatic improvement for the average American family who's lost 2,000 in annual income over the last few years. So it's not even. And what we need to do is be looking for things that will spread the wealth to all of the people, not just the selected few.
CNN - Wolf Blitzer - August 5, 2016
That was a darn good answer. There is another part of personal financial comfort and class warfare, the tax part, that Kudlow hit on today. Published by, of all outfits, Politico.
It's also worth noting that the so-called rich haven't had it so great lately. Recent studies by Manhattan Institute economist Scott Winship and Cato Institute economist Alan Reynolds show that during the Great Recession, the top 1 percent lost 36 percent of its income, while income for the bottom 90 percent was 12 percent lower. As of 2014, the top 1 percent was still poorer by 18 percent than it was in 2007, compared with a 9 percent decline for the bottom 90 percent. Reynolds also notes that middle-incomes fell only 1 percent in the 2007-09 recession, after counting tax cuts and government benefits.These facts and figures slay a lot of left-wing urban legends. Highly divisive urban legends, I might add.
What matters most for all Americans is economic growth. As Arthur Laffer frequently reminds us: Tax something more, get less of it. Tax something less, get more of it.
Mr. Trump's big-bang economic speech on Monday will outline policies to tax growth less and restore American prosperity. Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, has nothing but prosperity killers up her sleeve.
Even the Baltimore Sun wrote in its final paragraph that she took seven questions from preselected journalists. They didn’t say whether or not she provided them with the questions...or maybe just the topics. I guess we’ll have to wait for another wiki leaks dump to find that out.