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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've Heard That Biden Set A Trap For Tr**p....
I'm not sure I understand what that trap was and how Tr**p fell into it.
Could someone explain that to me?
claudette
(3,550 posts)But Id be curious to know the answer if he did
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked Into It.
At his Pennsylvania rally, the former president gave exactly the narcissistic display his Democratic nemesis tried to provoke.
By David Frum writer at The Atlantic.
Yesterday, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Trump addressed a rally supposedly in support of Republican candidates in the state: Mehmet Oz for the Senate; the January 6 apologist Doug Mastriano for governor. This was not Trumps first 2022 rally speech. He spoke in Arizona in July. But this one was different: so extreme, strident, and uglyand so obviously provoked by Bidens speech that this was what led local news: Donald Trump Blasts Philadelphia, President Biden During Rally for Doug Mastriano, Dr. Oz in Wilkes-Barre.
Yes, you read that right: Campaigning in Pennsylvania, the ex-president denounced the states largest city. I think Philadelphia was a great choice to make this speech of hatred and anger. [Bidens] speech was hatred and anger, Trump declared last night. Last year, the city set an all-time murder record with 560 homicides, and its on track to shatter that record again in 2022. Numbers that nobodys ever seen other than in some other Democrat-run cities.
Trump spoke at length about the FBI search of his house for stolen government documents. He lashed out at the FBI, attacking the bureau and the Department of Justice as vicious monsters. He complained about the FBI searching his closets for stolen government documents, inadvertently reminding everyone that the FBI had actually found stolen government documents in his closetand in his bathroom too. Trump called Biden an enemy of the state. He abused his partys leader in the U.S. Senate as someone who should be ashamed. He claimed to have won the popular vote in the state of Pennsylvania, which, in fact, he lost by more than 80,000 votes.
Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)wishstar
(5,269 posts)doubling down on his attacks against DOJ and FBI and making false accusations and even featuring a speaker who was mother of a convicted Jan 6 insurrectionist with history of anti-semitism.
spooky3
(34,444 posts)W_HAMILTON
(7,864 posts)By giving the speech that he did, Biden essentially said it is not a referendum -- it is a choice. Democracy or fascism. He called out Trump and his fascist supporters and Trump and his fascist supporters responded as you expected they would. Most Republicans were hoping to put Trump on the backburner for these upcoming elections because he is deeply unpopular and instead try to put the focus on Biden and the Democrats. By Trump responding like the narcissist we know him to be, he is basically thrusting himself back into the limelight and instead the conversation is on him and him fascist tendencies, both of which are very unpopular among the general electorate.
Understand now?