Posted by Tina
Donald Trump took questions from the press for almost an hour this morning, unscripted. He answered the questions honestly and openly, including confronting the press for it’s own slanted coverage. You can watch it at C-SPAN.
As would be expected the press today has grabbed whatever they could and spun it toward the negative, after all, many of them see their job as agents to protect and promote Hillary. I advise checking their notions about what Trump was communicating with what he was communicating. That’s not always an easy task. We have to be willing to let go of what we believe to be true, at least temporarily, to get what the speaker wants us to know. Hearing isn’t the same as getting.
As many of you know I was not impressed by Trumps early blustery, bombastic, New York style, though I understood it. Today he showed that he is growing into his roll as a political leader. Without mimicking his style he handled the press like Reagan handled Sam Donaldson in the 1980’s.
Trump clarified many of his positions. I’m more impressed today than I was following the Republican Convention. You can judge for yourselves.
It’s interesting to note that Karl Rove on the Republican side has changed his tone about Trump this morning. It is also interesting to note that Democrat strategists and analysts Pat Cadell and Doug Shoen have been disappointed in the tone of the Democrat Convention.
If Donald Trump continues to speak to the people through the press as he did this morning he will be our next president.
Back when Reagan was Governor, I used to watch his weekly press conferences now and then. The media reporting on Reagan’s responses always made me wonder if those reporters actually ATTENDED or LISTENED to what was said.
Was reinforced when watching the daily reports during the Desert Storm. So often the questioners hadn’t listened at all to the briefing before asking their question and were only interested in their time on TV.
And now the media presstitutes have gone from reporting news to creating news stories crafted from hot air. Three important words to remember regarding stories from the media: Consider The Source!
I had the exact same reaction J. when Reagan was governor. “That’s not what he said,” was always falling out of my mouth.
Re: Desert Storm…remember how they were there to greet us? This era of journalism will also be recorded by historians and they won;t be looked upon kindly (If we remain a free country).
“Members of the intelligence community are worried that Donald Trump ― who has deep ties to Russia and is apparently the preferred presidential candidate of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin ― could have access to highly classified national security briefings as early as Friday. ”
Trump is clearly not trustworthy to receive classified information. Last week he changed the official Republican platform to be more favorable to Russia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/putin-trump-national-security-briefings_us_57963cd6e4b02d5d5ed2476b
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/putin-trump-national-security-briefings_us_57963cd6e4b02d5d5ed2476b
Jim, what we know for a fact is Hillary lies and put our security at risk with her emails, not because she intentionally did it, just that she didn’t appreciate the need for restrictions and perhaps her ignorance of computers. What some now assume about Trump has yet to be a fact, so we have to be careful and detremine fact from inundo.
Trump has ties all over the world, so if he has business ties in Russia so what? Where’s the security risk, unless you think he’s a traitor? He may be many things, but traitor is not one of them.
As for Trump admiring Putin, I can’t recall one instance where Trump actually said he admired him. I do see where the media has regularly read into Trumps comments and made it seem that way. So, I can’t place too much stock on that one either Jim. No, I’m not being blind, I’m just not going to read into anything or twist Trumps comments around. There’s nothing here Jim…nothing.
Next, Trump didn’t gut anything in the platform as the media claims, lol, that was a total con job! You’re talking about the GOP policy resolution and some of the Trump staffers and pro-Trump delegates tabled an amendment and it was eventually amended to remove sending “military aid”, replacing it sending “appropriate assistance” to the Ukraine. It’s just a word play, nothing else, and thats what delegates and staffers do. That is your favorable language for Russian, thats hard gutting. See how laughable that is? That’s all there was too it. The media spun that one so hard I would call it an outright fabrication.
Jim, you were just played by your own people and the leftwing media. I’m sorry, but they lied to you!
Look, we’ve both got to be careful during this election cycle. There are too many low people trying to manipulate both sides for their own purposes. They don’t have an ounce of character and it’s up to us to sort out the truth. This time they got you, maybe next time it will be me and you can help me get to the truth?
Isn’t it cool what a couple of $100 M “investments” will get you?
I’m not sure that even your “white working-class male” voter is going to pass on this.
Don’t it just boggle the mind, though? It’s all so ham-handed and dumb. Or … it fairly reeks of contempt for us citizens. I can’t make up my mind. I guess we’ll know when and if the white working-class male voter DOES pass on it.
Crazy.
Jim, please supply evidence that Trump has “deep ties” to Putin or anyone in power in Russia. Assertions by leftist newspapers is not enough. Trump said this morning his only ties to Russia involved a possible building projects that he chose not to develop.
Trump could at least pass a security clearance. Hillary purposely compromised security to hide her work, tried to destroy the evidence, and then lied repeatedly about it. The system is rigged or she would be facing criminal charges today as were laid out in detail by Comey. He later answered questions before Congress that a punctuated her transgressions:
The intelligence community is very worried about Clinton; she’s already shown herself to be untrustworthy, a sneak, and a liar:
Her extreme recklessness involved five security agencies:
Daily Beast reports: “These weren’t just ordinary secrets found in Clinton’s private server, but some of the most classified material the U.S. government has.”
If there are people in our intelligence community that are not very concerned about Hillary Clinton receiving security briefings, or that think she could pass one, they should be immediately dispatched!!!
Re : “Donald Trump took questions from the press for almost an hour this morning, unscripted. He answered the questions honestly and openly, including confronting the press for it’s own slanted coverage.”
It will be a cold day in Hades that you EVER see Hillary hold a similar press conference.
Love Dr. K. Here’s his reaction I referred to.
Krauthammer’s Take: Trump’s Russia Comment ‘Set a Trap That the Clinton Campaign Fell Into’:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/438428/
Also Pat Caddell – who has been 100% right re TheDonald for over a year now – had this to say:
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/07/28/pat-caddell-democrats-walked-right-into-the-trap-donald-trump-baited-with-hillary-clintons-email/