Posted on 10/26/2018 6:20:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump began his first public appearance after Friday’s arrest of a mail bomb suspect on a seemingly inclusive note, declaring as he read a script from teleprompters that “we must never allow political violence to take root in America” and pledging to “stop it and stop it now.”
But then he kept going.
Standing in the White House’s ornate East Wing, the president expressed annoyance that at least 13 bombs sent to Democrats and a news organization that Trump had long demonized had taken the spotlight from his Medicare drug prices announcement the day before. He told the black audience he was addressing that the Democratic Party has betrayed them. He laughed along as some in the crowd chanted “Fake News!” And he echoed a chant of “Lock him up!” about liberal philanthropist George Soros, one of this week’s bomb targets.
Ten days before the Nov. 6 elections and facing a host of controversies and crises, Trump has not merely struggled to unify the country — he has shown little interest in trying. Time and again, the former reality television impresario has sought to sow discord, betting that most Americans prefer his pugilistic, divisive style over the sanitized mold of his predecessors.
The midterm elections are increasingly becoming a test of the enduring power of Trumpiness: A brand of anything-goes, combative politics focused on personal attacks and demagogic rhetoric, with little consideration for the presidential tradition of providing moral clarity and unity at moments of tragedy or danger.
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isn’t this the same rag that posted a theoretical story about assassinating the President just this week??
F them. I am sick of their left wing crap. They had a piece of killing the president and then act all high and mighty.
It’s ironic that One of our few remaining constitutionally- recognized liberties ( freedom of the press) is being worked so hard to destroy America
I’m not gonna bother clicking the link.
The excerpt is enough to make me want to puke.
The very same NYTimes that just published its own fan fiction fanticizing about the assasination of Trump my his own Secret Service.
F’ the Times.
I just watched another awesome Trump rally in North Carolina. All the MSM, Marxist Left, and Deep State’s crapola isn’t going to work. The American people are on to their duplicity, lies, and anti-American bile
I’m personally up to the top with their treasonous hypocrisy and poisonous lies.
Comments anyone?
I think that the writer used the wrong word "demonized."
The news organization was called out for its lack of journalistic integrity and failure to report the actual news. Instead, the failing and unAmerican news organization consistently reports a warped and twisted version aimed at discrediting the President of the United States.
Their bias is obvious, tedious, and repetitious. So is the writer.
There’s no point expending any energy in the effort. The other side will oppose anything he says or does because they hate him, so unity is basically impossible.
Obama blamed Christians for a bisexual muslim Obama voter’s terrorist attack in Orlando Florida that was to voice his outrage over Obama’s airstrike drone attacks on muslim nations.
Barrack Hussein Obama never tried to unite this country. “Never let a tragedy go to waste”
Bet right where I'm concerned.
What crisis?? The migrant mob headed our way?
It took two jackasses to write this pathetic swill?
A hit dog howls. The Leftist media is shaken to its core that millions of Americans no longer allow the crooked media to tell them what to think.
Our fervent prayer should be that our gracious God will bless our President and the nation with a very successful election result
What the left means by unifying the country is unifying behind their progressive agenda. No sale. MAGA!
Excuse me you disgusting NYTimes a$$holes, a real president has unified the patriots of this country. You unAmerican drooling libs don’t even deserve consideration.
Let’s hear more about the sanitized mold of the predecessors. Did that start with Bill and Monica in the Oval office perhaps? Must have taken a lot of effort to clean that up.
It still bothers me that they never gave Trump or his family including Melania any sort of chance. They are so vile and hateful.
The days before he even was sworn in they were trying to say he shouldn’t have gotten the electoral college votes he earned legally. Then he’s vulgar for the p-word that THEY use along with worse all day long. f-in this and f-in that—just listen to them. Burning a limo on Inaugration Day.
Trying to claim he’s crazy then framing him with Mueller persecuting everyone on his staff and cabinet he could get to (Flynn,Manafort, more). He was no traitor with Russia and they know that. Distracting him from his work on world problems (Korea,Iran,China, Russia) and the economy.
Just think in an alternate universe if they had united just for a few weeks of “honeymoon” as for ALL past presidents, and given him a hearing on unbiased news show interviews.
May God protect us from the despicable evil of the Satanic demons we know as the Leftist Biased News media and Dems. Amen.
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