It's nearly November in an even-numbered year, so President
Trump went to the old standby when on Monday he
Never one to let a terrorist atttack(s) interfere with a good nationalist campaign rally, the head of Fitzpatrick's party appeared in Mosinee, Wisconsin Wednesday evening. Feigning independence, the President
After a terrorist attack on a cable news organization, the candidate who knew he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose anyvotes is the President who knows he can demonize the media, lose no votes he hadn't lost a long time ago, and drive his horde of haters to the polls.
That is a fellow with a whole lot of comprehension.
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said he would propose a tax cut for middle-class Americans
next week “of about 10 percent” and that Congress would vote on it soon,
but he offered few details and lawmakers did not appear to have any plans to
act on his announcement.
Speaking to reporters before a trip to Texas, Trump said the
White House was looking at putting out a proposal next week, which he said
would be “a very major tax cut for middle-income people. And if we do that
it’ll be sometime just prior to November.”
“We’ll do the vote after the election,” Trump said, again
suggesting a cut after floating the idea on Saturday.
Aside from saying the tax cut would be about
10 percent, the president offered no details.
It may not pass and if it does, will benefit the wealthy
and/or corporations more than the middle class, thereby rendering it advisable to offer no details. However, Trump knew to signal
to conservative and moderate, Republican and independent, voters that he wants
to cut their taxes, if only those evil Democrats will let him.
Bipartisan "cred" is all the rage in politics
now. The Twitter page of a US Representative from suburban eastern
Pennsylvania blares "Brian Fitzpatrick- Ranked #1 Independent Freshman
Congressman" with an obvious intent to hide his partisan (Republican)
affiliation.
Never one to let a terrorist atttack(s) interfere with a good nationalist campaign rally, the head of Fitzpatrick's party appeared in Mosinee, Wisconsin Wednesday evening. Feigning independence, the President
again directed the crowd’s attention to his bipartisan
efforts: “By the way, do you see how nice I’m behaving tonight?” he asked.
“Have you ever seen this? We’re all behaving very well!”
Not only bipartisanship, but self-awareness: Have you
ever seen this? We're behaving very well!
By contrast, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker responded
to these acts of terrorism by issuing a statement reading
There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the
White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media. The
President, and especially the White House Press Secretary, should understand
their words matter. Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.
Oh yes, they have. Politico Wednesday reported
when White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was
announced as the keynote speaker at the Lincoln Dinner in Lexington, Ky., in
August, the event sold out in under two hours...
Unwelcome in swaths of the nation’s capital, some of the
most controversial White House officials have become the hottest “gets” ahead
of the midterm elections — thanks in part, allies of President Donald Trump
say, to a damning disconnect between liberal elites and the regular people who
make up the president’s base...
“Republicans love the most visible people who are constantly
doing battle with the people they hate the most, which is the media,” said
Kentucky Republican strategist Scott Jennings, who served as the emcee of the
dinner Sanders headlined. “It’s why Trump is the president, and why people like
Sarah Sanders and Kellyanne Conway are such big celebrities.”
And so, though making the obligatory bipartisan remark, the
President on Wednesday knew to add "The media also has a responsibility to
set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and
oftentimes false attacks and stories. Have to do it." He stayed on message
Thursday morning, tweeting
A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018
After a terrorist attack on a cable news organization, the candidate who knew he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose anyvotes is the President who knows he can demonize the media, lose no votes he hadn't lost a long time ago, and drive his horde of haters to the polls.
That is a fellow with a whole lot of comprehension.
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