just a continuation of the strategy outlined by NYT, allegedly as a Clinton invention:
Wikileaks Podesta emails: From: “Healy, Patrick New York Times
29 Feb 2016
Hi Angel, hi Tina, Hope you’re both well. Amy Chozick and I are doing a story about how the Clinton campaign and its supporters view Trump as a general election opponent and plan to run against him. The story will run in tomorrow’s paper...
President Clinton, like others, thinks that Trump has his finger on the pulse of the electorate’s mood and that only a well-financed, concerted campaign portrayed him as dangerous and bigoted will win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election...
He, Mrs. Clinton, and the campaign all agree that they will need to seize on opportunities to paint Trump as extremist and recklessly impulsive...
Happy to talk this over by email or phone before 6pm today. Thanks, Patrick
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59194
Jennifer Palmieri, who was copied in the above, was quoted in the NYT piece, but not on the bigotry slant:
29 February 2016: NYT: Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump
By Amy Chozick and Patrick Healy
They were confident that his incendiary remarks about immigrants, women and Muslims would make him unacceptable to many Americans. They had faith that the growing electoral power of black, Hispanic and female voters would deliver a Clinton landslide if he were the Republican nominee...
‘Against Bigotry’
The greatest weapon against Mr. Trump, the Clintons believe, is his tendency to make outrageous, even hateful comments that can come across as unpresidential...
In South Carolina and Tennessee, Mrs. Clinton began to lay the groundwork for what advisers call “a campaign against bigotry,” in which she will present herself as the fair-minded foil to Mr. Trump...
During the Republican debate on Thursday, the Clinton campaign posted an image on Instagram that said, “These are not American values: Racism, sexism, bigotry, discrimination, inequality.”...
Mr. Trump emphatically denies being bigoted, saying he is simply not “politically correct.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-general-election.html
immediately following the NYT/Clinton lead, there were dozens of pieces such as the following:
1 March 2016: The Daily Beast: NASCAR Sponsor: Donald Trump Too Racist to Endorse
1 March 2016: Time: Trump’s Views Are More Dangerous Than the KKK
1 March 2016: WaPo: Donald Trump and David Duke: For the record
2 March 2016: NPR: Journalists Struggle To Describe Trump’s Racially Charged Rhetoric
remember HuffPo running the following Editor’s Note at the bottom of their 2016 campaign articles:
3 March 2016: HuffPo: Growing Number Of GOP Politicians Refuse To Back Donald Trump In The General Election
By Amanda Terkel
Editor’s Note: Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59194
why haven’t the Republicans tackled this issue head-on? demand the Clintons & MSM explain how they all went along with this “plan”, given Trump was not called a racist until he ran for President as a Republican.
Because the Uniparty does not attack its own. Trump is, of course, not of theirs.
(W)hy haven’t the Republicans tackled this issue head-on?
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.That is what the GOP has been for probably before those books were published, and that is what Trump is up against, this being more entrenched than it was during Reagan’s two terms.
— Communist goal #15, from chapter 12 of “The Naked Communist”
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
What finance? They own 99.5% of the media with day and night propaganda against Trump. So blatantly unfair. Nots "news"--free promotional advertising. And looks real, not like "paid announcement" on an ad.
They even today repeat the canard that Trump meant KKK types were fine people at Charlottesville. Liars.
To MAGAthon: great post with very good info. Thanks for it.
Great Dig!