Posted on 05/29/2023 9:28:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The criticisms that some conservative critics of President Trump have is that he had too much "baggage."
The "baggage" is Trump's confrontational style, his "mean" social media posts, and the myriad "scandals" during his administration. They complain that Trump's "baggage" makes him impossible to defend. They complain that Trump often invites trouble.
In Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, they think they have their ideal candidate: someone who purportedly stands for the MAGA agenda but is devoid of "baggage."
So does the "baggage" make Trump a target?
The eminent thinker and military historian Victor David Hanson enumerated the "baggage" that President Trump doesn't have but the Democrats do.
1) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by destroying federally subpoenaed emails and devices in order to hide evidence.
2) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by sending classified government communications on her own, through an unsecured home-brewed server.
3) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by hiring a foreign national, who is prohibited from working on presidential campaigns, to compile a dossier to smear her presidential opponent.
4) Trump did not violate federal campaign laws, as did Hillary Clinton, by hiding her payments (as "legal services") to Christopher Steele through bookkeeping deceptions.
5) Trump did not, as did Bill Clinton, use a crony to search out a high-paying New York job for a paramour in order to influence her testimony before a special counsel.
6) Trump did not, as did Bill Clinton, receive a $500,000 "honorarium" for speaking in Moscow while his wife, our secretary of state, approved a longstanding and lucrative desire of the Kremlin for North American uranium to be sold to a Russian consortium.
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If the “baggage” made them targets, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden, and others would have been targeted by the media, probed by agencies, and destroyed. Instead, they are lauded as model politicians and unifying figures.
So what makes Trump a target?
He won the presidential election in 2016, despite a sustained campaign of the establishment on various fronts. He won by standing against the establishment. He didn’t crave approval from the establishment. He relished mocking the “saints” of the establishment for their hypocrisy and incompetence.
It was the first time in modern history that a candidate not endorsed by the establishment won the highest office in the country. It was the first time in modern history that a grassroots movement won the White House. Trump had made the Establishment appear irrelevant.
Anybody that says to ignore Trump’s baggage is setting themselves, Americans, Republicans, and conservatives up for failure.
RE: Anybody that says to ignore Trump’s baggage is setting themselves, Americans, Republicans, and conservatives up for failure.
OK, let’s not ignore the “baggage” ( note the quotes ). Let’s discuss them and compare them to the Cintons, Obama and Biden.
After you -— cite for us the worst baggage of all and let’s see how serious it is.
It’s not so much his baggage, it is his track record of picking people( see MCCarthy.)
RE: It’s not so much his baggage, it is his track record of picking people( see MCCarthy.)
Which McCarthy are you referring to that he appointed?
It’s irrelevant what the Clintons did with respect to 2024. He’s not running against either of them. Hey Trump doesn’t have as much baggage as James Curley, the crooked former Mayor of Boston either!
“In Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, they think they have their ideal candidate: someone who purportedly stands for the MAGA agenda but is devoid of “baggage.”
Seems DeSantis has his own ‘baggage’, a freaky-looking warmonger with ties to Ukraine as his spokesman, for example. Incredible how that bunch has worked themselves into positions of power.
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1661891307558559744
He threw all his support behind Kevin McCarthy.
Under Trump they certainly did.
What people think is Trump’s “baggage” is nothing but the spoils of the war waged against him by the deep state.
Doesn’t take a genius to see this.
Nothing held against Trump can stand.
She’s a true deep state warmonger with ties to the CIA.
“She’s a true deep state warmonger with ties to the CIA.”
He’ll have to dump her to be viable...but then, should he win, she WILL be back, for that I’m sure.
Trump picked McCarthy, McCarthy sold us out.We lose again, I’m getting so tired of losing.
The “baggage” is that liberals hate him and make up ugly stuff to justify it to themselves. It’s not Trump’s fault that they’re liars.
Running against Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump won, because people voted more against Clinton, than for Trump.
Running against Joe Biden, Donald J. Trump lost the people who had voted against Hillary. And, Trump’s putative Twitter record, also accounts for some of Trump losing some of the prior anti-Hillary vote.
Nonsense.
The only people who think we’re losing are the generations raised on video games.
This process will take longer than a video game. The cabal has built their mafia over a matter of centuries. The fact that Trump is taking them out in less than a decade’s time is an unbelievable achievement.
We’re not losing? Well we are seeing pushback on the gay agenda, starting with Disney. DeSantis stood up and fought that battle. This deal is a TOTAL loss for the US.
“Running against Joe Biden, Donald J. Trump lost the people who had voted against Hillary.”
Baloney. Trump got 11 million MORE votes in 2020 than he did in 2016.
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