Politico notes that for Trump the 'truth doesn't seem to hurt.'
"The facts are no match for Donald Trump."
"Trump, who is already viewed “very unfavorably” by half of the country’s women, refused to criticize or discipline his campaign manager after he was charged Tuesday with battery for grabbing a female reporter."
"Rather, Trump defended him — and blamed the reporter for causing the altercation, which was captured by surveillance at Trump’s Florida estate where it occurred earlier this month, and then embellishing her story by accusing Corey Lewandowski of throwing her down."
“Did anybody see the tapes?” Trump asked the 1,000 supporters crammed into a hotel ballroom here Tuesday afternoon. “What did you think?”
“Nothing!” several people shouted.
"The video did show something. It showed Lewandowski, who called Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields “delusional” for claiming he grabbed her, doing just that. It also cut the factual foundation out from under Trump’s campaign, which repeatedly denied any wrongdoing on the night of March 8, when the incident occurred following a press conference at Trump’s resort in Jupiter, Fla."
"But in the hours between the tape’s release and Trump taking the stage here, any chance of it separating Trump from his fans vanished. As the networks played the tape on loop, the footage — much like Trump itself — became a Rorschach test, with everyone seeing what they wanted to."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/for-trump-the-truth-doesnt-hurt-221369#ixzz44NzmYqrD
I have to say that in actually looking at the footage released yesterday it's hard to know what to make of it. She doesn't looked anywhere close to being 'knocked to the ground.'
At the time there was footage of her after the incident. She was a little surprised 'Oh my God, that is so unprofessional' but she did not sound traumatized exactly.
I do think part of why the media is beating its breast so much over this is the principle of the thing-they are protecting their own. I mean she was hardly roughed up like Dan Rather in 1968 or something.
He shouldn't have touched her or 'grabbed her' but it's still sort of being puffed up for him to be arrested. What are Field's damages? She showed some pictures of her arm being a little bruised but has she had medical bills? As she had any ongoing pain or injury?
I agree his supporters will probably just love him all the more. And in standing by Lewandowski, I think we have an interesting study in contrasts.
Think about what happened with Ted Cruz when he was pressured to come down on his trusty campaign manager, Rick Tyler. Cruz immediately gave the Beltway its pound of flesh. Tyler's sin was mischaracterizing something Marco Rubio had allegedly said about the Bible.
"In a bizarre, blindingly fast revolving-door situation, Rick Tyler, the Ted Cruz campaign spokesperson who was fired Monday for lying about how Marco Rubio feels about the Bible is now a “political contributor” for MSNBC, appearing for the first time Friday afternoon. Who...who asked for this?"
"Tyler was asked to resign from Cruz’s campaign after sending out an incorrectly subtitled video of Cruz and his dad reading the Bible; it claimed Rubio walked by and said, “Got a good book there, not many answers in it.” He didn’t say that."
http://theslot.jezebel.com/ted-cruzs-fired-campaign-spokesman-rick-tyler-got-a-job-1761593123
The contrast between Trump and Cruz couldn't be more stark. Cruz immediately bailed on a guy who seemed pretty devoted to him. Trump damns the torpedoes and stands behind his guy.
"Trump wrapped up the hour-long town hall by portraying Lewandowski, a former police officer, as a sympathetic family man wrongly accused, and later — in yet another hour of national television afforded to him — portrayed himself as a defender of the downtrodden who stood with his maligned staffer when others wouldn’t. “At first I said, ‘Oh this is terrible’,” Trump said. “And then I saw the tape. She bolts into the picture, she hits me on the arm and then he goes by and maybe he touched her a little bit,” Trump continued. “It was almost like he was trying to keep her off me, like he was trying to help her.”
"Trump’s critics saw a misogynist caught lying to defend another misogynist, and the condemnations came from all corners. Trump’s GOP rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, both condemned Lewandowski’s behavior and Trump’s reaction to it. Democrats pounced, and a host of groups waiting for Trump should he reach a general election gave him a taste of what’s in store."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/for-trump-the-truth-doesnt-hurt-221369#ixzz44O3iaxUE
Exactly. As usual, critics and supporters will come to diametrically opposite conclusions.
P.S. Another thing Trump said last night at the Town Hall was 'I don't discard people.' This idea of being loyal to someone rather than throwing them overboard at the first sign of trouble. a la what Ted Cruz did to Rick Tyler, will have some appeal for his supporters.
Exactly. As usual, critics and supporters will come to diametrically opposite conclusions.
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