He IS a lobbyist. Instead of paying the GOP for a candidate, he’ll just do it himself.
Look lady, and Terr, if you want to support Trump because you think he’s an unfiltered asshole, go ahead. But quit this delusion that he’s somehow above the fray when it comes to political influence. He is the influence. He’s the guy paying the SuperPACs, the guy keeping dead-end candidates going months after their expiration date. He just decided this time he’ll do it himself.
I don’t really care if you believe that or not, but I’d like to know if you’re ok with simply electing a lobbyist. If you believed he was a lobbyist, an influence peddler, a guy giving a Congressman a sack of money with a dollar sign on it, would you still be ok electing that type of person?
Perhaps I should have specified the US press, but I wouldn’t generally put British and Qatari media outlets as part of the LSM (sic.) I would certainly exclude Salon, The New Yorker, and The Daily Beast, none of which offer what I would think of as straight news pieces.
I linked to a CNN piece in my original response, though it appears the link broke sometime between then and now. Here’s another CNN article from 8/8. Literally the first hit from googling “Donald Trump Megyn Kelly blood site:cnn.com”.
You said that the LSM (sic) claimed that Trump must have been referring to menstruation. This is false.
I watched the GOP debate follow ups and the weekend shows on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, as well as several others. The three words which stood out, and were repeatedly used at that time, were “menstruation” and “Kelly” and “Trump”.
That’s the only response someone who claims that The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Beast, International Business Times, Salon.com, Al Jazeera America and The New Yorker are not “mainstream media” deserves.
As it should have been. It’s a reasonable interpretation. It’s not the case that the LSM (sic), even if it had a hive mind, asserted that menstruation was the only possible interpretation, as you claimed.
Trump was asked for a clarification. Trump provided a clarification. The haters refused to accept the clarification.
The media outlets continue to ask Trump about Kelly. Trump answers their questions. The haters then complain that Trump is still talking about Kelly. I assume that some day, eventually, maybe, the haters will figure this out. Or not.
Yes, your claim is that the LSM (sic) began claiming that Trump must be talking about Kelly’s menstruation. Not that they talked about it as a possibility amongst other interpretations. I’m okay with it if you want to revise your statement to the latter.
Ramos, who has been critical of Trump’s stance on immigration, said he was waiting for his turn to ask a question on the subject when Trump ordered him out.
Really? He was "waiting for his turn to ask a question? It’s like he thinks this was not videotaped and can lie about his behavior.
Second time that you did not pay attention, I already said that I think Ramos was out of line; but we are not going to vote for him, deal with the fact that Trump did lie and in front of reporters and the American people, and not only on that but about many other more important issues or he is an ignorant that will make things worse for America.
I was not talking about him being out of line. I was talking about him lying about it. Do you agree he lied?
See, Ramos’ statement is a provable lie. Trump’s statement that he didn’t know who Ramos was is quite possibly the truth. He obviously knew he was from Univision, but how do you know Trump knew what Ramos looks like?
Yes, and this is not hard to get: it does not take away the lies of Trump.
Because he already disparaged Ramos on instagram weeks ago, really since Univision was involved in the Ms Universe Paegant it is really unlikely that Trump did not know who he was.
How does the fact that he “disparaged Ramos on Instagram” prove that Trump knew what Ramos looks like?
I mean, I heard Ramos’ name before, quite a few times. That is, I “knew who he was”. The first time I saw what he looked like was on that video of his blowup at the press conference.
It doesn’t matter how Ramos behaved. Trump’s the one running for President. And the impression he gave is somebody who can’t handle the heat.
A President can’t build a bubble around himself. If Trump can’t stand having Jorge Ramos in the same room, how is he supposed to handle it when he has to deal with Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping? Does he think he can just say “Nope, I’m not putting up with this. Take him away.”
Trump has spent his career surrounded by yes-men. It makes him ill suited for politics.
Knowing who someone is does not require that you know his face, I know about many famous authors but I’m not sure to recognize them on the street. But it is very unlikely that with the beauty contests and the many interviews with politicians in the past that Trump did not know who he was.
In this case I do remember that that some poster claimed early that Ramos had a Univision badge, clearly that was not the case:
That, together with trump almost right away telling Ramos to “go back to Univision” shows to me that he did know who he was talking to.
Whoever source the poster used that claimed that Trump looked at a badge to identify Ramos as a Univision reporter is also telling lies, there was no badge in the picture and the videos. Trump knew who he was.