Discussion: After A Week Of Scrutiny, Donald Trump Gives Tempered Primary Night Speech

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Yea, remember that one debate where he wasn’t a lunatic? This’ll last.

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“Semi-Reasonable Trump” (SRT) gives a speech. Then Racist, Intemperate Trump (RIT) takes the body back for the next couple of weeks, providing all new reasons for anyone whose attention might have been attracted by SRT to run screaming for the hills.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

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“…and none of my crooked schemes have worked lately and I’m very, very broke. I’d like to be very, very wealthy again. I can, if you fine suckers…er, citizens will follow your Douche without question!”

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If he thinks this week was bad, there are still a bunch more. If anything, it will get worse rather than better. The Dems and Hillary are just starting to attack him.

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“I will never, ever let you down.”

Too late!

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That was “tempered”?? OK, he wasn’t all red-faced and sweaty but the speech sounded pretty much like his usual collection of ridiculous exaggerations and lies.

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As a sign of just how much trouble Trump is in, I understand from insiders that the Trump University stuff, as damaging as it is, is really considered pregame material by the DNC and Clinton campaigns–something to pass the time until the main event.

They’re also shocked at how Trump has basically wasted the weeks between clinching the GOP nomination and now, when he’s had the field to himself and Clinton was still fighting a two-front war.

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I’m not so sure the “crooked” line is such a good line, especially when there’s proof that you paid of a state AG in order to avoid a lawsuit and bragged about paying politicians for favors.

And the play for Sanders supporters? If any Sanders supporter goes for Trump, they were not a Sanders supporter. All of their screaming about “oligarchs” and whatnot, they’re going to hitch their wagon to a self-styled oligarch’s horse? Thinkin it ain’t ever gonna happen.

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Yep. The press smells blood. It’s going to be a feeding frenzy!

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I was listening to this as I drove home. You could hear him veering off the TelePrompTer road (for example, I don’t think ‘bigly’ is an English word) and then landing back on the asphalt (complete sentences, reasonable statements, etc.). He promised a big speech attacking the Clintons Monday.

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Another lie from the mouth of Trump. I expect (and fervently hope) his supporters will be very, very let down next November.

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I can believe that Trump U is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of nightmares coming Trump’s way.

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Make that two state AGs.

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Everything else aside: has anyone noticed that weird, audible intake of breath he takes before EVERY sentence?

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What I think is really funny is that Nails, who had this big ol’ war chest and was supposed to be the Repubican nominee, has disappeared. Instead, they went with a Conspiracy Freak who is going to get his ass beaten like a gong in five months.

Since politics is usually a nut-cutting affair, I see President Obama, seconds after Hillary Clinton has won, calling a special session of Congress and announcing he is withdrawing the Garland nomination. The Democrats would be instructed not to clap and while Obama stood their grinning, the horrified silence in the room would be so total that you would actually be able to HEAR the sound of Republicans shitting their pants.

The only real question here is the Republicans have gerrymandered the House into a political fortress. We are going to get the Senate. Will the Republicans now have to ACTUALLY pour money into races to keep the House too?

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“Trump plays the GOP” should be the headline. Republicans are pathetic if they fall for this pathetic attempt by Trump.

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Critiquing tRump’s snoozey speech:

Nichole Wallace: I don’t think he needed to generate excitement tonight.

Rachel Maddow: He didn’t.

(I laughed out loud and almost did a spit take.)

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“been left out in the cold by a rigged system of super delegates.”

The lying conman and fascist is saying this and it is the same nonsense that Sanders has been vomiting up for the last month+.

But will the loud (though hopefully minority) segment of Sanders supporters now step back and realize that when Trump is aping your rhetoric, you might want to consider the validity of your premises.

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Hot damn, I cringed and almost fell off my seat when, near the end of Trump’s bs snoozefest, he said, “We’re going to take care of our African Americans.”
(Continuation of : ***“Look over there at my African American.”**???)
WTF was that??? ___ Confused Oliver Willis as well and he posted this classic:

https://twitter.com/owillis/status/740355543810838528

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