[sargon]

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

As shown by the above paragraph, your penchant for second-guessing the President is unparalleled. By the way, the President did put the words in "wires tapped" in quotes.

When President Trump issued that tweet, he immediately changed the Media narrative, and suddenly all the masturbatory reporting about the Russian angle stopped.

The President goaded the Democrats and Media (but I repeat myself) into changing the topic, and now they look like fools for wallowing in their partisan skepticism.

As I've said before, it's fortunate that the President doesn't find it necessary to rely too heavily on the peanut gallery here for suggestions on how to handle these situations with the Media.

Donald Trump seems to have been doing a passable job at this task now for the last year or two—gratuitous hand-wringing notwithstanding. He knew exactly what he was doing when he issued that tweet, and your inability to credit—or even comprehend—his strategy in doing so does not change that fact...

[nathanbedford]

My criticisms of the tweets were made virtually simultaneously certainly contemporaneously with their publication and my criticisms have been entirely borne out both by the establishment media's reaction and by his poll numbers which are in the tank.

The purpose of my criticisms is to get him to stop these impulsive tweets and start courting the public with the image of gravitas that his approval numbers reveal he so desperately needs. I advise him to do this not to rebuke him but to make him more powerful so that those policies of his of which I approve might succeed. Just as I reserve the right to criticize him for the artlessness of his tweets on occasion, I reserve the right to criticize him for policies which I do not like. I have also praised him, sometimes even for a tweet, when his policies meet my approval.

Before you take a cheap shot saying that proves that I am arrogant, all it proves is that I participate in a political forum for the exchange of opinions and I have some. Your admonition that my "inability to credit-or even comprehend" his strategy may be correct but the idea of a political forum is to express political views even when I believe his strategy is wrongheaded. To express our opinions is precisely why we gather here.

[Thickman]

True. The President is way ahead of the information curve as compared to before his election. He was owning the media even before he became POTUS -enlightened.

[LS]

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.”

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Bingo. Trump’s wire tapping tweet was intentionally exaggerated for incendiary effect — and he got it. He forced the discussion changed from “Trump colluded with Russia”, to “hey, just how did they get those Flynn transcripts and why were they spying on him?”

Trump is playing chess and is several steps ahead of his opponents, including the media. That tweet was brilliant. It caused the exact desired effect.

[COUNTrecount]

He knew exactly what he was doing when he issued that tweet, and your inability to credit—or even comprehend—his strategy in doing so does not change that fact...

Exactly correct. Trump reaches over 100 million followers with his various types of social media, and bypasses the eneMedia while directing the narrative. Nothing is left to chance, nothing.Anyone who thinks that Trump doesn't know exactly what he is doing needs to re think how Trump gets things done.