Posted on 05/18/2020 2:20:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK -- Accusations of a “deep state” conspiracy. Allegations of personal and family corruption. Painting an opponent as a Washington insider not to be trusted.
It’s 2016 again. Or at least that’s President Donald Trump’s hope.
Eager to distract from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 89,000 Americans and crippled the economy, Trump and his advisers have started their fog machine again, amplified by conservative media as it was during the Russia probe and impeachment investigation.
The strategy already centered on playing up allegations that Biden’s son, Hunter, profited off the vice presidency. And it kicked into overdrive last week when Trump seized upon revelations that Biden was informed of the investigation of ties between Russia and Michael Flynn as evidence of a plot to undermine a presidency before it began.
Trump’s ability to distract, deflect and dominate headlines remains peerless among politicians.
Trump’s attempts to turn the routine into the sinister has also fueled his latest effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, which identified substantial contacts between Trump associates and Russia but did not accuse him of a crime or allege a criminal conspiracy between his campaign and the Kremlin.
Biden allies display something approaching amusement as they tick through the attacks Trump has leveled against the former vice president, including calling him “Sleepy Joe.”
The campaign is responding with a two-fold approach: detailed defenses of Biden on the merits and then arguing the attacks demonstrate Trump’s own weaknesses.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Yes and AP and all the others will be able to help Biden as much as they helped Hillary.
AND Trump can point out that he cancelled flights from China while dems howled and dem governors sent little old ladies to their deaths by bringing the virus to them in nursing homes.
We were all stuck in our homes but it made sense to those governors to force covid patients on nursing homes when hospitals were NEVER at full capacity.
not for a minute
And military ships laid empty right offshore. Maybe 10 or 20 patients.
The MSM can no longer control the message, so they can no longer influence elections like they did in the past...and this is just driving them crazy!
It’s like having the buggy whip monopoly when the age of the automobile arrives.
Hahahaha. The routine!
And the derps would love to get rid of Trump so they can go back to the 'routine'.
not that hard to label him an insider hes been in washington almost 50 yrs how in the world is he going to help anything.
I didn’t even read that line. Thanks for making me sick after just finishing a bunch of chicken wings at 5:40 a.m. :-)
Yes Italians eat chicken wings! :-)
I got too sick after the first few lines to read anymore. I’m so sick of it.
What Trump has access to 70 million people via Twitter and we have radio news and fox is at least somewhat unbiased and sometimes even on our side.
There’s that new station, well not so new that people around here watch.
At least it’s not the Walter Cronkite era
I said two years ago that the dumbest thing the Democrats could do in 2020 would be to nominate Joe Biden ... because that would give Trump the opportunity to do something that should be impossible in a presidential election: run as the fresh, new candidate while serving as the INCUMBENT.
Lol
I guess that’s what some gangsters say somewhere. :-)
Probably not in Italian gang :-)
Maybe the bloods :-)
Ummmmm, racist!
I'm tellin'.
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The Associated Propagandists can shove it up their lying lefist arses.
“during the Russia probe and impeachment investigation”
That’s “during the FAKE/CONTRIVED Russia probe and FAKE/TREASONOUS impeachment investigation”
Media wankers like these are the ones who just spewed/regurgitate the lies out of the dems, instead of doing the job real Journalists are supposed to do - to investigate and then expose the truth - the whole REASON they have those Constitutional protections.
By not doing it they have thoroughly proven they are merely partisan propagandists, and I have little doubt will pay severely for their betrayal of the American People.
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i’m tellin
lol
maa!!!!
Obama/Biden spied on the AP without pretense and these battered wives still defend them.
Prescient Dems "knew" the woman was a "shoo-in." Trump would NEVER be president.
Look at how that turned out.
Instead of having daily arguments with Bill about his overuse of Air Force One to get babes,
Hillary is fighting to get Bill to go to the liquor store for her twice a day.
And Trump is running roughshod over the Democrat dream machine.
Uh...earth to the AP...Biden was elected to the senate in 1973, 47 years ago. That makes him the ultimate Washington insider.
Just wait until his to brain surgeries come into focus. Nothing to see he just Trump desperation. The Biden camp is confident my ass. Joe can’t even recite the alphabet
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