It will at least get some air time. Unless Trump is cutting the ribbon on a new golf course somewhere and promises some big reveal.
She has definitely decided to goad Trump.
I almost think this is tit-for-tat over the assassination threat.
Trumpâs thumb arthritis is about to have a severe flare-up.
âHe doesnât have a secret planâthe secret is he has no planâ
Was that last question from KellyAnne?
Well played, Madame President letâs wait for the Twitter-storm from DonnieâŚ
Wish the Democrats would all use words like âunstableâ or âcowardlyâ or âerraticâ to refer to Trump with the same level of consistency that the Râs use the same verbiage when referring to an issue or a Democratic candidate.
Those might provoke a response, providing his sitters havenât locked his phone away in a cabinet somewhere.
Pence will demand an apology, if he hasnât done already so in advance of the press conference.
âHe doesnât have a secret planâthe secret is he has no planâ was a great soundbite.
That was EXACTLY what I was thinking. Tony Schwartz at work here. I feel like next week is about prompting material for attacks at the debate. And he is going to comply.
If Americans want a thoughtful, reasoned, tough and serious approach to dealing with ISIS, Secretary Clinton provided it in this press conference. Two highlights for me were honing in on the intelligence surge as the area where government policy needs to step up w/private tech co cooperation and dismissing Trump as having a no plan âsecretâ plan to combat ISIS. I think those two statements are most telling and will carry the most weight on this question in the debate.
She is saying what Republican national security folks are saying. Itâs not a radical step. It keeps her on offense.
Well, if thereâs time. Since no oneâs ever asked an email Q, we must spend considerable time on it, before we move on to minor issues.
âSecretary Clinton, we have Donald Trump on the phone and he would like us to ask you why you sent your supporters to blow up that dumpster yesterday. As briefly as possibleâ
With todayâs political press corps, itâs all about âWhat have you done for me lately?â Whichever one is patting their heads and giving them personal access gets nice words.
When McCain was feeding them doughnuts on his campaign bus, he got glowing reviews. Now thatâs a thing. Unless the candidate coddles and praises the press, they get grumpy and couch all their stories in negative terms.
Except for Trump, oddly - the more he assaults them and insults them, the more they gush over him. I really donât get it. How many times do they have to be banned, excluded, âplayedâ and threatened before they start actually reporting the horror of his candidacy? I keep thinking the media might finally get a clue and escape their abusive relationship with Trump, but after every pounding, they come back for more.
Someone has mentioned Stockholm Syndrome before. Guess they are like lobsters in a pot - the heat gradually rises and they donât notice that theyâre done yet.
I called them akin to a battered woman the other day. Hopefully that birther âpress conferenceâ may finally be a turning point⌠in other words if even that one doesnât wake them up, we are screwed.