Jim Acosta's wrong...when Trump says "coup," he understands EXACTLY what he's saying.

[Miles Archer]

CNN’s Acosta rips Trump after he refuses to defend his repeated ‘coup’ claims: ‘I don’t think he understands what he’s saying’



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/cnns-acosta-rips-trump-refuses-defend-repeated-coup-claims-dont-think-understands-hes-saying/

Discussing the issue with Wolf Blitzer, Acosta sharply criticized the president for saying things that he couldn’t stand behind.

“I don’t think he understands what he’s saying, there, when he says an attempted coup,” said Acosta. “I suppose, he understands what the literal definition of an attempted coup is, but I think he is obviously engaging in hyperbole. He knows he’s engaging in hyperbole. And when he uses those kinds of words, he’s hoping that when he’s insulated inside his own conservative media cocoon, that nobody is going to challenge him on that.”

“That’s why he was saying there in those comments, ‘well, the fair media, they know what’s going on, they know what really happened,’ that is a code word for, well, when we start asking questions about whether or not he actually means that there was an attempted coup, that he can’t really defend those comments,” Acosta continued.

“And you just saw that demonstrated there,” he added. “He could not defend that comment, when I asked him about it, just a few moments ago, whether or not he believes an actual attempted coup happened with that Mueller investigation, because, obviously, one did not occur, Wolf.”

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Trump knows exactly what he's doing. His goal is to paint himself as victim and

get his base energized.

[mitch96]

3. "Trump knows exactly what he's doing"

Exactly... exciting weak minded people in his base to "rebel against the coup" i.e. pizzagate..
m

[meadowlander]

6. +1. And he did the same thing before just before the election

when he was stirring up the base by claiming that if he lost it was because the election was rigged.

And when he was dog whistling about "second amendment remedies".

And when he was talking about the police, military and biker gangs attacking his political opponents.

He is threatening violence against people who do not support him for the "crime" of not supporting him and, as you say, he knows exactly what he's doing when he does it.

[scarletwoman]

2. I agree with your take - the Orange Monstrosity knows exactly what he's saying, and he means it.

It's his Louis XIV absolute monarch conception of himself: l'état, c'est moi.

To commit an offense against the person of Donald Trump is to commit a treasonous act.

[StatGirl]

4. Yup. He's not demented, stupid, unhinged, or crazy.

He may be ignorant of how government runs, but that's because he doesn't care. What he says and does is deliberate, and it still seems to be working for him.

(I do think that "Hysterical Donald" would be a good nickname, though. He can't stand being seen as "womanish".)

[struggle4progress]

5. "Maybe if I used big scary words like 'coup', everybody would forget about Russia!"