Why Trump's latest rhetoric about Clinton emails is so weird

[LetMyPeopleVote]

TFG is senile. The rant about Hillary Clinton's emails makes no sense

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It was deeply odd to hear Donald Trump tell Fox News last night that he had the authority to declassify documents “by thinking about it.” But as part of the same exchange with Sean Hannity, the former president shared a related thought about the FBI’s search at Mar-a-Lago:

“There’s also a lot of speculation because of what they did, the severity of the FBI coming and raiding Mar-a-Lago, were they looking for the Hillary Clinton emails that were deleted but they are around someplace?”

At that point, the host, apparently eager to help his guest, intervened to say that he wasn’t storing Clinton emails at his Florida property. The Republican responded that federal law enforcement officials “may have thought” that Clinton emails were at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump added, “And a lot of people said the only thing that would give the kind of severity that they showed by actually coming in and raiding with many, many people, is the Hillary Clinton deal.”

For the record, I couldn’t help but love the former president’s insistence that there’s “a lot of speculation” about the FBI seeking Clinton emails at Mar-a-Lago. That's plainly false. What we instead have is a former president who keeps bringing it up, despite the obvious fact that it’s stark raving mad.

If I tell a bunch of people that I might be the starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins this weekend, I don’t get to then say, “There’s a lot of speculation that I’ll be leading the team on Sunday.” There is no such speculation. There’s just me peddling absurd claims about my athletic prowess.

[tavernier]

1. There is a lot more speculation

That he is nuts.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. I agree

TFG has been impaired for a while

[BComplex]

2. This tells me that russia gave him the emails.

It never would have occurred to anybody if he hadn't said it. But now we know that there is SOMETHING there. What it is may be as twisted as the rest of trump's brain.

[PRETZEL]

3. Nothing weird about it at all,

hits all the RWNJ talking points,

I'm being treated unfairly...........

I' President and can do whatever I wanted in any manner I wanted..........

The MAL search was a "raid" by the far Left FBI........

NARA is another far Left radical organization........

Why am I being investigated and Hillary isn't.......


Lather, rinse, repeat.

[underpants]

8. As I posted last night, this was a keen insight into that world

The world of Fox News and particularly talk radio. The email claim came out of his a but the rest of it is common fare. They both knew each other’s lines. This is the crap that a large number of people consume and are consumed by every day.

[chowder66]

18. Yep. Petulant asshole throwing everything and anything at the wall to see what

sticks and/or brings in that cold hard cash.

[Martin Eden]

30. Yeah, pretty much

I doubt TFG actually believes half of what he says, but does it really matter?

His lying is so deeply pathological that the concept of truth or anything resembling facts or logic really never enter into it.

All that matters is airing his grievances and spinning narratives that exalt his status while trashing his enemies.

And his cult members eagerly swallow every word.

Who is more crazy -- the con man regurgitating absurdities or the conned who eat it up and beg for more?

[Bev54]

4. Once again it is Hillary's fault, if she didn't delete her emails they wouldn't be looking

for them at his place. It is not anything he has done, it is what Hillary did.

[allegorical oracle]

33. The dumbest thing the Clintons ever did was to become personally acquainted w/ the flaming fathead.

They went to tfg's marriage to Melania -- probably bought an expensive gift. And he's done nothing for the past six years but make Hillary's live pure hell. But she's tough.

[Demanchor]

5. His interview with hannity

Quote …”the Hilary Clinton deal…” caught my attention. These investigations may uncover what happened in 2016.

[Irish_Dem]

6. I wonder if Trump somehow came into possession of Hillary's emails.

So he figured the FBI was coming to take them back?

[LeftInTX]

13. I would not be surprised

Did he read them? No. Too boring

[Irish_Dem]

23. Yes. He would want anything he thought could be used as a weapon against his opponents.

So I agree, very possible he had them.

I also agree, I think he read only a small portion of the documents he stole.

[zuul]

31. Does he think emails are stored on paper? Like actual printouts of her emails?

I know he's stupid but he can't be that stupid. Wait, scratch that last statement.

[Irish_Dem]

32. He probably doesn't trust anything up in "the cloud."

He wants hard copies of everything.

[enough]

7. He got this straight off of QAnon.

They believe what is actually happening is a secret operation to convict Hillary and send her to Guantanamo. All of this is being lead by Trump, who never stopped being President. Executions will follow.

[LeftInTX]

15. Lol..I thought this was just political rhetoric

Like everything I heard in MSM..

[Walleye]

9. "Many different people say many different things"

[Cha]

10. DT says he "Lies Cheats & Steals....if

anyone falls for it it's on them"

[gratuitous]

11. And yet, despite all the opportunities to follow up

Disclaimer: Yeah, I know, it's Sean Hannity in this instance, not a real journalist. But real journalists have still not figured out to ask Needy Amin a follow up question: "There's also a lot of speculation . . ." Really? Who's speculating? I'd like their names, so I can ask them if they're as delusional as you are, Mr. Trump. I'll settle for just one name for all this speculation you claim is going on. Because it's not going on, is it?

[LeftInTX]

12. He declassified them in his head

He also declassified everything from forever

[Emile]

14. He has been blowing smoke out his ass for way too long! Nothing he says

makes sense, never has!

[Maeve]

16. Insanity on Hannity!!! Coming soon to Faux

[Mr. Ected]

17. It's a simple word/thought replacement

You say Trump crime, he says Hillary crime, they think Hillary's crime. It's really that simple. Roy Cohn probably taught him that. Vlad probably reinforced it. The magas are so easily manipulated.

[Orangepeel]

20. He just wanted to mention it as a "what about"

It makes no sense because it makes no sense, But he doesn’t think it makes sense. He just doesn’t care that it doesn’t.

[kentuck]

21. His supporters are "hot-wired" to just the mention of "Hillary"

He doesn't have to make sense. They are Pablovian.

[TNNurse]

22. But when you have no defense, you apparently just throw out words to try anything.

[ashredux]

24. This was easy, he's kind of cornered so he's learned to yell Hillary Clinton!!!

Used to work, someone needs to tell me that that one is long gone

[catbyte]

25. I saw it as a lame-ass joke and deflection because that's always worked for him.

As usual, it was ham-handed and just plain dumb.

[Tetrachloride]

26. I contend the narcissist lying far outweighs

any current dementia that Trump may have.

Lying is his control. Like my
dog at the piano. he plays a lot but not well

Scooby snack

[Martin68]

27. You know he's run out of ideas if he's falling back on, "but Hillary's emails!" It'll be "What about

Benghazi?" next.

[SWBTATTReg]

29. Once again, I ask (and in the process ignore the ongoing onslaught of the word salads coming out

of djt's orange anus/mouth...

What were your intentions on the classified documents that you still held onto at MAL? What did you do w/ the others not yet recovered (and not stored elsewhere in one of your other properties?).

Did you sell them to the highest bidder?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. The Daily Show had fun with the Clinton email rant by tFG

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