Because Trump 2.0

[rmgill]

1 hour ago, Stefan Fredriksson said:

The NABJ forum is 100% fake! Not only were they rude to him by asking questions, they also somehow made his hands look tiny. Disgraceful.

Do you think Kamala will go into non friendly media space? 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Has Fox News invited her?

[Stefan Fredriksson]

2 hours ago, rmgill said:

Do you think Kamala will go into non friendly media space? 

Right on queue. 👍

Honestly I have no idea, you will have to ask her.

[DKTanker]

7 hours ago, Mr King said:

I have not seen the whole interview yet, but this was a decidedly based moment when Trump turned it back on the idiot interviewing him. The gasps from the crowd are the cherry on top.

When asked directly if he thought Kamala a DEI hire he equivocated.  Trump missed an opportunity. He could have turned it around by saying, "Of course she's a DEI hire, President Biden said as much. Why is that a bad thing?"

[Josh]

11 hours ago, Mr King said:

I have not seen the whole interview yet, but this was a decidedly based moment when Trump turned it back on the idiot interviewing him. The gasps from the crowd are the cherry on top.

 

 

And Trump is right of course

 

 

I don’t think this was as successful of an attack as you seemed to think it was. Trumps own campaign apparently ended the interview almost half an hour early, and i doubt it was because he was knocking it out of the park.

[Josh]

3 hours ago, DKTanker said:

When asked directly if he thought Kamala a DEI hire he equivocated.  Trump missed an opportunity. He could have turned it around by saying, "Of course she's a DEI hire, President Biden said as much. Why is that a bad thing?"

That might not have been the optimal answer but it certainly would have been a huge improvement. I assume Trump took this interview to gain or retain black voters. If so, his combative stance and questioning who gets to be black is not the right tone to set.

[17thfabn]

29 minutes ago, Josh said:

That might not have been the optimal answer but it certainly would have been a huge improvement. I assume Trump took this interview to gain or retain black voters. If so, his combative stance and questioning who gets to be black is not the right tone to set.

A good answer  would have been "Ask Joe Biden, he picked her. Ask why he picked some one who got ZERO delegates in 2020 and was polling at 2% among Democrats. 

[rmgill]

Note, Tump wasn't reading from a prompter. It wasn't a scripted event. He was off the cuff and ad libing. Looks like he did pretty good. 

He probably did better than Kamala would do at an event hosted by the Daily Wire. 

Naturally if she was in front of a CNN Studio audience she'd have the questions ahead of time and EVERYONE would have been vetted. She won't make the same mistake Hillary made when she asked Coal Miners why they weren't supporting her. So don't expect to see Kamala Anywhere near coal country, or the auto-unions or any other blue collar regions with out triple vetting of anyone who might be able to ask a question. 

Edited August 1 by rmgill

[Josh]

25 minutes ago, 17thfabn said:

A good answer  would have been "Ask Joe Biden, he picked her. Ask why he picked some one who got ZERO delegates in 2020 and was polling at 2% among Democrats. 

Now THAT would have been the right answer.

[rmgill]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

Now THAT would have been the right answer.

Do you have an answer for why she was picked? 

[Ivanhoe]

https://rumble.com/v59bkxh-catherine-herridge-identifies-bombshell-from-secret-service-senate-hearing-.html

Drone defense system inop during Butler event.

[Josh]

10 minutes ago, rmgill said:

Do you have an answer for why she was picked? 

I think she was picked to add color to the ticket, of course. Normal political practice. A lot of Republican strategists wanted Rubio instead of Bance for the same reason.

[bfng3569]

14 hours ago, Mr King said:

Celebrities threatening to leave the US if a Republican gets elected has been happening at least as far back as George W Bush. It seems to me to be an exercise in pure narcissism. They are threatening conservatives with a good time and giving them reason to support said candidates even more. Of course I cant think of any that actually carried thru with their threat to leave the US. 

 

Honest question, did he proclaim the same last time?

i'd love to see how many 'celebs' are saying this again, that said it before, and did nothing.

plus he tries to hard to sound British when he sings, he can get the f* out just for that.

[bfng3569]

12 hours ago, Josh said:

I was really wondering why NABJ was interviewing Trump at all, and now I think I understand: they were just giving a format in which to hang himself. I haven’t watched it yet but based on a couple of the quotes I’ve heard, it already sounds like a Vance level disaster his staff and supporters will be digging him out of for the rest of the week.

you should try hearing a few more, probably from sources you don't usually listen too... or you might end beleiving he screwed with her water bottle.....

[Josh]

33 minutes ago, bfng3569 said:

you should try hearing a few more, probably from sources you don't usually listen too... or you might end beleiving he screwed with her water bottle.....

I’ll give it a full unedited run through over the weekend. It seems if the goal was winning black voters, he failed.

[JWB]

 

[rmgill]

Theres no big tech censor ship!

[DKTanker]

9 hours ago, Josh said:

I don’t think this was as successful of an attack as you seemed to think it was. Trumps own campaign apparently ended the interview almost half an hour early, and i doubt it was because he was knocking it out of the park.

Was that the same group of whom Harris declined an invitation?

As for ending the interview early, the interview started half an hour late, fault of National Association of Black Journalists.  Trump, like everyone of his stature has a schedule he needs to maintain.  So the interview wasn't cut short, it was stopped when it was originally scheduled to end.

Lastly, Trump was enticed to attend with the provision that Biden (scheduled before the coup) or Harris would also be present.  So with Harris declining the invite it ended up with Trump being present under false pretenses by the organizers. 

[Rick]

8 hours ago, Josh said:

I think she was picked to add color to the ticket, of course. Normal political practice. A lot of Republican strategists wanted Rubio instead of Bance for the same reason.

My understanding is that Biden made a deal with the famous black South Carolina Democrat that if Biden put her up for Vice President he would deliver the black vote to Biden during the the Party's primary.  

[Josh]

5 hours ago, DKTanker said:

Was that the same group of whom Harris declined an invitation?

As for ending the interview early, the interview started half an hour late, fault of National Association of Black Journalists.  Trump, like everyone of his stature has a schedule he needs to maintain.  So the interview wasn't cut short, it was stopped when it was originally scheduled to end.

Lastly, Trump was enticed to attend with the provision that Biden (scheduled before the coup) or Harris would also be present.  So with Harris declining the invite it ended up with Trump being present under false pretenses by the organizers. 

That performance did negative value for Trump’s share of the black vote. If you feel differently, we will agree to disagree.

[DKTanker]

5 hours ago, Josh said:

That performance did negative value for Trump’s share of the black vote. If you feel differently, we will agree to disagree.

You do excel with the non sequiturs.

[bfng3569]

23 hours ago, Josh said:

That might not have been the optimal answer but it certainly would have been a huge improvement. I assume Trump took this interview to gain or retain black voters. If so, his combative stance and questioning who gets to be black is not the right tone to set.

You mean questioning this...

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Et Tu Kyle?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrlrzw5550o.amp

Conservative campaigner Kyle Rittenhouse says he will not vote for Donald Trump in November's US election because he thinks the ex-president is "bad" at protecting gun rights.

Mr Rittenhouse, now 21, shot dead two men during racial unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. He was cleared of all charges the following year after arguing self-defence.

Instead of Trump, he plans to write in former Libertarian presidential nominee Ron Paul on the ballot.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to protect Americans' right to own guns and to roll back Biden-era restrictions on firearms.

Mr Rittenhouse - who became a cause célèbre among some US conservatives during his trial - met Trump just a week after being cleared of charges in November 2021, with the president calling him a "fan".

In an online post early on Friday, Mr Rittenhouse - now outreach director for the group Texas Gun Rights - said that "unfortunately, Donald Trump has bad advisers, making him bad on the Second Amendment", which protects gun ownership in the US.

"If you cannot be completely un-compromisable on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you," he said on X, formerly Twitter. "We need champions for the Second Amendment or our rights would be eaten away and eroded each day."

"I support my decision and I have no takebacks," he added.

Soon after his post, Mr Rittenhouse shared another post from the leader of the National Association for Gun Rights outlining the group's criticism of Trump's record.

It cites his support while president for raising the minimum age for gun purchases and openness to expanded background checks. Trump quickly backed away from those ideas at the time.

The list also included Trump's 2018 ban on bump stocks, an accessory that allows semi-automatic rifles to fire hundreds of bullets per minute, similar to a machine gun. The Supreme Court overturned the prohibition two months ago.

[rmgill]

13 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Et Tu Kyle?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrlrzw5550o.amp

Conservative campaigner Kyle Rittenhouse says he will not vote for Donald Trump in November's US election because he thinks the ex-president is "bad" at protecting gun rights.

 

Well he's wrong because the biggest wins has been NYSRPA v Bruen. Gorsuch and Barrett were appointed by Trump.  Barrett replaced Ginsburg who I doubt would have found on the direction of Bruen. Gorsuch replaced Scalia and he would have by all accounts I am aware of. 
 

The largest battle in all of this is the Supreme Court which is why the left has now started making noises about leaning on the court in ways that they think they can. 

 

 

Edited August 2 by rmgill

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/02/secret_service_whistleblowers_acting_chief_cut_security_assets__151382.html

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Just days after Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe denied playing a direct role in rejecting repeated requests for added security measures and assets for former President Trump, whistleblowers have come forward refuting those claims and blaming Rowe for some of the agency’s security failures that led to the July 13 assassination attempt that nearly killed Trump and left rallygoer Corey Comperatore dead and two others wounded.

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Hawley said he had received detailed information that Rowe personally directed “significant cuts” to the Countersurveillance Division, a department that performs threat assessment evaluations of event sites before the events occur and did not perform its typical evaluation of the Butler site and was not present that day.

“This is significant because CSD’s duties include evaluating potential security threats outside the security perimeter,” Hawley wrote, adding that a CSD’s threat assessment likely would have provided more measures to protect the rooftop of the American Glass Research building where shooter Thomas Crooks perched and opened fire on Trump and the crowd.

“The whistleblower claims that if personnel from the CSD had been present at the rally, the gunman would have been handcuffed in the parking lot after being spotted with a rangefinder,” Hawley continued. “You acknowledged in your Senate testimony that the American Glass Research complex should have been included in the security perimeter for the Butler event.”

 

Every week its looking more and more like a setup.