HRC and her team played him and then some - they lured him into a trap and he willingly walked into it and got good and snared.
re: yesterday’s HRC speech (I had posted this in a Hive thread) there was some question about whether or not Donald suddenly stopped tweeting before or after Hillary had made the “Donald is probably tweeting right now” comment.
The speech was supposed to start at 2:30PM EDT but didn’t begin until 2:58 (I was waiting…) After a quick intro, Hillary started to speak just about 3:00PM. I went back and found where HRC made the twitter comment and it’s 19:22 minutes into her speech, as follows:
So the stakes in global statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury hotels. We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table – bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets – I’m willing to bet he’s writing a few right now.
So I’d have to say YES, her staff was waiting for a Trump tweet to throw that line into the speech and it is no coincidence that he immediately stopped tweeting.
What I find even more clever is that she never mentioned “Now, Donald will probably try to deny he ever said these things but we have the proof for every single statement”. The trap thus set, he fell for it, made his 6:13AM (eastern) tweet today declaring:
“In Crooked Hillary’s telepromter [sic] speech yesterday, she made up things that I said or believe but have no basis in fact. Not honest!”
Hillary’s direct response at 7:53AM:
“You literally said all those things.” along with a link to HRC’s The Briefing Site where the campaign takes each and every quote she attributed to Trump and gives the actual Trump quote.
It was a thing of beauty!