After all, yesterday in his big talk before the Religious Right groups he tried to raise questions about her religion. He suggested that this has been kept secret-though it actually hasn't. Everyone knows she's a Methodist and she's talked about this.
As Jamil Smith says:
"How long until Trump calls for @HilllaryClinton's birth certificate?"
https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/745320267392647168
"Donald Trump may finally be officially out of insults. He ramrodded his way through the republican primary by taking down one lightweight opponent after another with the use of simple insults that were aimed at highlighting their most obvious deficiencies and knocking them off their game. But now that he’s emerged from the primary race, he’s facing his first legitimate competition of his political life in the form of Hillary Clinton. None of his standard-form insults have put a dent in her. So now he’s been reduced to suggesting that, as with President Obama, Hillary might also secretly be a Muslim."
"Trump rather desperately needed a distraction today in order to shift people’s attention away from yesterday’s headlines about him firing his campaign manager and his campaign being almost completely out of money. But he seems to be completely out of ideas as to how to do that. It was lame enough that his insults at Hillary thus far have mostly been recycled phony scandals that others couldn’t gain any traction with in years past. But now he’s reduced to recycling his own failed material, in a way that doesn’t even fit."
"It was one thing to accuse the black President with the Muslim-sounding name of secretly being something other than a Christian; that lie had a good chance of resonating with racist white conservative voters. But now he’s also questioning whether Hillary Clinton is really a Christian, tacitly suggesting that she might also secretly be a Muslim like buddy Obama. Of course that claim won’t even resonate in the eyes of the racists, because after all, Hillary is white woman who was born in the midwest state of Illinois and spent much of her life in the deep red state of Arkansas."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/trumps-well-of-insults-runs-dry/24999/
Yes, the famous 'There's something going on' argument.
Well, at least maybe she's a 'Muslim lover.'
The media is giving Trump's coming speech today a decent deal of fanfare. It won't have any meat on the bone-with Trump what you see is what you get.
I guess a big part of it is he's going to be attacking her on the Clinton Foundation.
I have no idea what the CF has been demonized. Unlike Trump U, it's a philanthropic organization which has done a lot of good in the world for poor people globally.
The idea that you don't take charitable donations from Saudi Arabia doesn't actually make any sense. If you can help people in need, does the source of the money matter very much?
Meanwhile, Trump says he has donated all this money. Maybe sometime he'll release his tax returns so we can see this contributions in the flesh.
As Jamil Smith says:
"How long until Trump calls for @HilllaryClinton's birth certificate?"
https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/745320267392647168
"Donald Trump may finally be officially out of insults. He ramrodded his way through the republican primary by taking down one lightweight opponent after another with the use of simple insults that were aimed at highlighting their most obvious deficiencies and knocking them off their game. But now that he’s emerged from the primary race, he’s facing his first legitimate competition of his political life in the form of Hillary Clinton. None of his standard-form insults have put a dent in her. So now he’s been reduced to suggesting that, as with President Obama, Hillary might also secretly be a Muslim."
"Trump rather desperately needed a distraction today in order to shift people’s attention away from yesterday’s headlines about him firing his campaign manager and his campaign being almost completely out of money. But he seems to be completely out of ideas as to how to do that. It was lame enough that his insults at Hillary thus far have mostly been recycled phony scandals that others couldn’t gain any traction with in years past. But now he’s reduced to recycling his own failed material, in a way that doesn’t even fit."
"It was one thing to accuse the black President with the Muslim-sounding name of secretly being something other than a Christian; that lie had a good chance of resonating with racist white conservative voters. But now he’s also questioning whether Hillary Clinton is really a Christian, tacitly suggesting that she might also secretly be a Muslim like buddy Obama. Of course that claim won’t even resonate in the eyes of the racists, because after all, Hillary is white woman who was born in the midwest state of Illinois and spent much of her life in the deep red state of Arkansas."
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/trumps-well-of-insults-runs-dry/24999/
Yes, the famous 'There's something going on' argument.
Well, at least maybe she's a 'Muslim lover.'
The media is giving Trump's coming speech today a decent deal of fanfare. It won't have any meat on the bone-with Trump what you see is what you get.
I guess a big part of it is he's going to be attacking her on the Clinton Foundation.
I have no idea what the CF has been demonized. Unlike Trump U, it's a philanthropic organization which has done a lot of good in the world for poor people globally.
The idea that you don't take charitable donations from Saudi Arabia doesn't actually make any sense. If you can help people in need, does the source of the money matter very much?
Meanwhile, Trump says he has donated all this money. Maybe sometime he'll release his tax returns so we can see this contributions in the flesh.
No matter what you want to say about the CF, just compare it to Trump U. This is not an argument Trump can win.
As to the talk about Trump's 'frontal assault' Peter Daou:
"Right, because attacking her marriage, her faith and calling her a crooked liar hasn't been a "full frontal assault"
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/745587130005622785
"Right, because attacking her marriage, her faith and calling her a crooked liar hasn't been a "full frontal assault"
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/745587130005622785
Mike, I think Nate Silver nails it here, regarding the convention:
ReplyDeleteNate: "I’d put it like this. I don’t know how much magic Trump can work at the convention. But it’s one of his best/only chances to reintroduce himself to America. If Dump Trump tries and fails, it could make the convention a shitshow and make it really hard for him to do that. In fact, close turns things into sorta the worst of all possible worlds, where Trump is still the nominee but the party is even more split, and good luck getting any sort of a convention bounce."
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dumptrump-is-doomed-but-we-cant-take-our-eyes-off-it/
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