Secret Service Pulls From Biden’s Protective Team to Guard Trump excerpt: "The reassignment of members of a president’s team to a candidate is unusual, said a Secret Service official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential policy matters. But the increased threat of violence against Mr. Trump, combined with Mr. Biden’s recent reduced travel schedule, made the step both necessary and feasible, the official added."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/16/politics/trump-fury-harris-switch-campaign-analysis/index.html excerpt: "As his remarks stretched into a second hour, a squadron of flies assembled, likely attracted by several packs of breakfast sausages sweating in the summer heat. The bizarre spectacle only heightened the incongruity of using Trump’s private golf club as the backdrop for an event meant to illustrate the pain faced by millions of Americans at grocery checkouts."
Trump still hasn't learned from the 2022 election when his rhetoric helped Republicans lose control of the U.S. Senate by essentially telling Republicans to not vote. He's making the same mistakes in GA in 2024 by attacking the governor and secretary of state because of a grudge he's still holding against them from 2020.
Trump puts his silver foot in his mouth time and again. He ends up insulting the entity he's tryng to praise, whether it's someone else or himself. Preceding the 2024 RNC convention, he talked about the host city Milwaukee like it was a crime-ridden shit-hole town. While praising the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, he insulted recipients of the Congressional Medal Of Honor by saying they were people who were already shot up and injured. When CBS journalist Leslie Stahl said he wasn't known for be the most humble of people, Trump interrupted her and said he was more humble than she'd ever understand.
Trump-endorsed Dr. Oz tried these same tactics that Trump is using that involve what he said were the high costs of food. Oz didn't give any remedy for inflation. He lost the U.S. Senate race in 2022 in PA by a large margin. Now Trump is doing it. Trump will make the inflation situation worse with his heightened trade war that he is promising in a second term.
Article from December 2016. Newly released private Donald Trump letters show he pledged to 'save Scotland' from 'Mad Alex' Salmond excerpt: "He insisted he wanted to “save Scotland” in order to “honour my mother”, who was from the Isle of Lewis. The next month, Mr Trump pulled out all the stops in his attempt to stop golfers who visited his course from seeing wind turbines out to sea. “The monstrous industrial machines that you want to litter all over the magnificent waters and shore of Scotland will destroy the environment and tourism sector. Ireland is very happy!” he wrote. “Do you want to be known for centuries to come as ‘Mad Alex – the man who destroyed Scotland?’"
Trump thinks wind turbines in Scotland disgraced his perceived family honor. Trump delayed the building of the wind turbines for so many years with his legal warfare that one of his last-gasp court arguments was that the turbine technology to be installed was now too old and outdated.
That remark is typical of Trump. He takes a personal issue he has with wind turbines and tries to bring other countries into his personal fight, like Ireland.
Trump does this again and again. He's like a kid in the school cafeteria who throws the food to start the food fight. It's difficult for people to not fall for it and become drawn into it. Another example is the big stink he created about players kneeling on the field during the National Anthem because he was frustrated that it was associated with protests against police brutality. Trump loves to start national fights and pit groups against one another.
For his 2024 campaign Trump is relying increasingly heavily on fear mongering about foreign terrorists coming into the U.S. Trump conjures up his own home-grown terrorists. Trump's rhetoric was incorporated into the manifesto of a mass shooter in El Paso who killed 23 people.
Trump’s fury over Harris’ switch with Biden is increasingly driving his campaign excerpt: "Deep into his ranting news conference on Thursday, former President Donald Trump told a truth that explained everything : “I’m very angry at her.” He was referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, whose late entry into the general election race has left him bitter, disoriented, and mourning the loss of the old campaign — the one he was winning against President Joe Biden. Trump’s discombobulation was laid bare in a self-pitying and raging stream of consciousness delivered at his New Jersey golf club that raised serious questions about the future trajectory of his quest to return to power."
Trump is sounding like those old 1970's self-pity Barry Manilow tunes (Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, Time In New England). He should be playing those at his rallies instead of The Village People.
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