Posted on 11/05/2018 7:45:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Prior to the 2016 election, critics raised a genuine question that fueled much of the Right's concern about Donald Trump: With zero political experience and a capricious nature, would Trump's whims and most unhampered flaws threaten the civic norms that make our republic function?
Between his goading that he would pay the legal fees of his supporters if they "knock the crap" out of political dissidents and his flagrant hatred of the political press, Trump gave legitimate cause for concern that he would abuse his executive power to the worst possible excesses. But for the most part, he didn't.
Trump has said other terrible things in his presidency, most egregiously his remarks after the fatal violence in Charlottesville, Va., and at the Helsinki podium with Russian President Vladamir Putin. He certainly hasn't become more reserved in his visceral castigation of the press, and his Twitter feed has remained a political minefield for Republicans.
But Trump hasn't destroyed the republic. His Department of Justice hasn't surveilled or threatened any journalists as Obama Attorney General Eric Holder did to Fox News correspondent James Rosen. Even though he's mused about more inflammatory policies, such as barring transgender Americans from the military or ending birthright citizenship, on Twitter or in interviews, the so-called "adults in the room," notably his national security apparatus, have done a pretty fantastic job. We were supposed to suffer horrible defeats in the Middle East or enter nuclear war with China. Instead we're defeating Islamic State, killing bad Russians, and maintaining a significant, albeit fragile, peace with North Korea.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
No, he told them to knock the crap out of a security threat who was throwing things at his head on stage.
Inflammatory to end birthright citizenship? Uh, the vast majority of Americans support that. But yeah, stopping trannies from the military is admittedly a very divisive subject.../s
WRONG! not dissidents, jerks who were punching, grabbing and kicking attendees.
This woman is wrong on a number of issues, and she is only partially right in this piece.
Here is the 48-second clip where Trump makes the horrifying threat:
“knock the crap”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJdPc2Sb-4
Her gio on who she is sleeping with probably explains more. 8>)
Aw, come on! Give her some slack! She first learned the word "inflammatory" just last week. All the "cool" kids were using it, and so simply had to stick it in somewhere in her article!
Regards,
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