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To: sargon; nathanbedford

Trump’s tweet was sheer brilliance. It TOTALLY turned the entire debate from Trump/Russia to Obama/spying.

I have never in my life seen one single tiny statement so completely destroy and reverse a mainstream media meme as did that.

It would have been a huge mistake to wait or involve others with more “evidence” because of leak factor. And as for “wiretap,” once again Trump communicates to American people in normal language vs priggish “surveiled.”


136 posted on 04/03/2017 10:20:32 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Very well said, and excellent use of the word “priggish”. Priggish and Trump are worlds apart, and that is one of the many reasons he won.


143 posted on 04/03/2017 10:30:38 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: LS
I do not criticize the 5 AM tweets because Trump had the wrong goal motivating those tweets. To the contrary, I think it was well directed to try to change the subject from his own alleged collusion with the Russians to throw the election to unlawful surveillance by the Obama administration. My only objection is to the manner of carrying that out. I expressed those objections clearly:

As I said on the very morning when he came out with these tweets at 5 AM, the style of the tweets was extremely ill advised. He has been drubbed unmercifully in the leftist media because his tweet was so ineptly styled. I said then and I say now, he should have consulted with competent attorneys, he should have mobilized the Attorney General, he should have presented his allegations to the public with the full panoply of his office and supported with at least some facts. He left himself open to criticisms for misusing the word "wiretap," for claiming that it occurred in the Trump Tower, and for alleging involvement by Barack Obama himself, without any support then or since then. The tweets were half cocked and the vindication has long since passed the attention span of the public.

That is a pity because it was so easily avoided.

The approval ratings are unanimous and across-the-board. I remind you, Trump lost the popular vote.

I also remind you that shortly after these tweets were released the Obama administration had to make a climbdown announcement that it would not be speaking more on the subject until the conclusion of congressional investigations. The optics of that climbdown suggested that they did not have the goods. More of the pattern of impulsive mismanagement which was not necessary. The same effects of changing the subject could have been obtained with more judicious announcements.

There was no danger of leaks if he managed the matter properly. Nor did he have to wait extended periods of time. Presumably he had some evidence which instigated Trump to tweet, surely some of that could have been alluded to. Lawyers, experienced in matters of proof, might well have told him whether or not they had the goods on Obama himself. They might have told him not to use the word "wiretap." They might have told him to allude to some bit of evidence for credibility. Anyone might have told him to consider a more formal announcement coupled with an announcement of initiation of an investigation. All of these things have been done for generations by savvy presidents working with their advisors. Trump should have availed himself of some of these and he would not have been the object of ridicule across the establishment media for weeks. Yes, of course they will criticize him but perhaps they might not be calling his sanity into question as they have been doing.

As I said, the pity is it was so easily avoided. The same results, turning the question around, could have been achieved without the downside at least in the conservative media although it is pretty clear that the establishment media was not going to cover his allegations seriously and have only begrudgingly started to do so with the revelations about Susan Rice.


148 posted on 04/03/2017 10:44:09 PM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: LS

“...Trump communicates to American people in normal language vs priggish “surveiled.”
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185 posted on 04/04/2017 12:57:55 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: LS
I have never in my life seen one single tiny statement so completely destroy and reverse a mainstream media meme as did that.

Trump currently reaches over 100 million followers of his various social media accounts, who would never hear anything close to the truth from the eneMedia.I agree with your statement,it is a brilliant way to command the dialogue.

270 posted on 04/04/2017 5:54:23 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: LS

Trump has a knack for pulling the string that starts the whole ball unraveling as well as an uncanny ability to create monikers that focus other peoples perception of an individual, low energy Jeb, Little Marco, Crooked Hillary.

The time of Trump has been a joy in so many way even if there is quite a bit of thunder, lightning and skies falling. All of a sudden I’m engaged & rooting for the team, and checking twitter.


314 posted on 04/04/2017 8:26:58 AM PDT by JayGalt
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