These Three Disastrous Statements By Trump Tonight Should DOMINATE The News Cycle!

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[Johnny2X2X]

1. Putin

How about his voracious defense of Putin.

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34. yep, that's another one!

And Hillary is hitting him on it at her press conference.

[SummerSnow]

51. Steve king just made a statement about Putin. he said he is a better leader than Obama

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57. all his surrogates are complete idiots!

[Satch59]

2. Watching show now...

Hillary was level headed and Matt interrupted her way too much...

Trump is coming off as a no nothing insulting USA prick... He's really awful...

Good choice of the 3 highlights...amazingly telling of his absolute non qualifications to be President!!!

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4. about a half hour ago on MSNBC a Trump supporter was asked to respond to tonight's forum ...

He said, "Trump, President. Hillary, Jail."

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. WATCH THIS "SHOW" NOW!

[stopbush]

3. The fact that the media gives this guy any respect is disgusting.

He is an absolute buffoon.

This election season has been a stinging indictment of our lazy, stupid media.

[world wide wally]

7. This ^

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9. Hugh Hewitt on MSNBC just now said, "Trump won the night."

[stopbush]

11. Hewitt is a useless piece of shit.

I live about 5 miles from his place in Irvine and I can smell him from here.

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12. and General Barry McCaffrey agreed with that piece of shit

[stopbush]

14. Sad that.

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17. good grief ... on CNN commentator says it has not been a good day for Hillary

are the MSM living in an alternate universe???????

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45. I thought this guy was anti-Trump

I see he's changed his tune

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48. yep, he's now a supporter ... last week on MSNBC he stated he was very confident Trump

is going to win the presidency.

[stopbush]

56. An old Rw ploy.

Designate one or two publicly visible Rs to be "skeptical" about a RW politician or policy, then watch in amazement as they are miraculously "won over" by the politician/policy at a later date.

Hewitt was just one of the designated skeptics for 2016. He was never really anti-Trump. He was playing his assigned role.

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62. remember when Hewitt asked Trump about the nuclear triad ...

[uponit7771]

25. +1

[anamandujano]

55. They will have post election forums discussing and absolving themselves of any wrong doing.

They will conclude they were not lazy, stupid or bought and paid for Repuke shills.

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64. I remember when the media embraced Bush and the Iraq war.

They weren't reporting, they were cheerleading.

It was shameful.

[True Dough]

5. How about the U.S. should have siphoned off all of Iraq's oil?

"To the victor goes the spoils."

The moron's idea of foreign policy is as much as a gong show as everything else he advocates.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

42. Remember when some people

said that the Iraq War of being all about taking Iraq's oil and were accused of being paranoid/hyperbolic? Well, now we now have a Presidential candidate pretty much saying that that taking Iraq's oil (and, by extension, anybody's) would have been/would be justifiable. Why THIS would not immediately disqualify him as a Presidential candidate is beyond me.

[onecaliberal]

6. It's insane that he dissed the military to their faces while sucking up to a dictator and so many

Will still support him.

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18. I saw on MSNBC earlier a poll that showed that many veterans don't trust Trump with

the nuclear codes but still prefer him over Hillary.

[onecaliberal]

19. THAT is insane. That's the kind of stupid I wish would get the hell out of the country.

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20. ...

[TipTok]

21. As I've said in other posts...

Most of my military circle is voting for Johnson with a few rabid Trump fans.

Haven't found an overt Hillary fan yet.

YMMV...

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24. Virginia veterans were interviewed yesterday on MSNBC ...

One was for Stein. A couple were for Clinton, and the rest of them were for Trump.

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47. my guess is the military doesn't like

holding back when they can "win" with force.

Yes, they can "win" a place like Fallujah or Anbar Province but unless the US commits 10's of thousands of troops in each place we "win," we cannot hold these places.

[ffr]

8. K&R

It's like spinning out democratic votes. He's great, really, really great!

[applegrove]

10. 'Take the oil'

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31. Hillary is talking about that right now in a press conference

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50. is there a #taketheoil?

Must check twitter.

Update: yes, there is #taketheoil and looks like it's trending.

Donald has a great way of wording things; he makes it easy for hashtag trends.

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52. Take the oil violates Geneva Conventions: WSJ article

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/09/08/trumps-take-the-oil-plan-would-violate-geneva-conventions-experts-say/

snip: “It used to be, to the victor belong the spoils,” Mr.Trump said. snip

But Laurie Blank, director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law, said Mr. Trump’s proposal would be a violation of the fourth Geneva Convention, as well as international agreements made at the Hague Conventions in 1899 and 1907.

“Under the fourth Geneva Convention, when you are an occupying power, you are a caretaker, you are administering the territory,” Ms. Blank said. “The idea is to keep it as close to status quo as possible and give it back. It’s not yours to do with it what you want.”

She also said that because Iraq is a sovereign nation, the U.S. can’t simply take its natural resources.

[lonestarnot]

15. Someone here likened it to the gong show. Perfect assessment of everything I've ever heard him say.

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32. which one is Matt and which is Trump? :)

[lonestarnot]

33. Snort.

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36. :)

[brush]

16. Also him saying about Iraq, "we should have just taken the oil".

He's not just a douche bag, he's an imperialist douche bag.

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37. Trump Lays Out His Master Plan To 'Take The Oil' From Iraq

By TIERNEY SNEED
September 7, 2016

To the victor goes the oil!

That was the theme of Donald Trump's master plan for how he would keep the Middle East from reigniting after he swiftly dispatches the Islamic State as president.

Asked at the NBC News' Commander-In-Chief forum about he planned to keep the Islamic State out of Iraq once he defeated them, Trump returned to his oft-recited call for the U.S. to "take the oil" from Iraq, and even offered a few details how he would go about it as President.

"If we had taken the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS. ISIS formed with the power and wealth of that oil," Trump claimed.

Pressed to explained exactly how the U.S. should take the oil, Trump said, "You would leave a certain group behind and take various sections where they have the oil."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-take-the-oil

[Stonepounder]

39. Nobody seems to have followed up on that.

"Take the oil" How? Where is the infrastructure? How do you get the oil from the interior of a country where you just have a 'certain group' and then you 'take various sections' and ...?

The guy has absolutely NO specifics about anything and the media just lets him slide with these nonsense statements and 'the crowd goes wild'.

My country tis dying.... <sigh>

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41. "and the media just lets him slide with these nonsense statements"

Matt had no business moderating that forum.

NBC should have chosen Joy Reid!

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53. twitter talk but still no #taketheoil

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49. The Donald's "plan" to take the oil is the Zero Plan

Mr. Know Nothing has No Plan

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. "Come down hard" on rape?

Seriously?

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63. next week ... let's see if the media cover the story

[ecstatic]

23. They should, but they won't. The media and his racist/sexist fans

will let it slide.

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38. well after being pushed for a week, they are finally covering Bondi-gate

We just have to be tenacious.

[underpants]

26. I agree. Especially #3

#2 was based on his read body language and nothing else.

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40. his surrogate Boris the Bully was on MSNBC this morning defending the tweet

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61. Trump’s talking about classified briefing may be most reckless thing he’s done in a while

by James Fallows
September 8, 2106

Last night, at the “Commander-in-Chief” forum, Donald Trump characterized what he had heard from intelligence officials in a classified briefing, and said why he believed the briefers agreed with his political perspective and shared his disdain for the current administration. I am not aware of any previous nominee ever having done anything of this sort.

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According to a story by NBC, two former heads of the CIA share the view that Trump has crossed yet another line. As Ken Dilanian and Robert Windrem report:

Former CIA and NSA director Mike Hayden, who opposes Trump, told NBC News that in almost four decades in intelligence “I have never seen anything like this before.” (JF note: Hayden, a retired four-star Air Force general, is no one’s idea of a political lefty, and is in the camp of national-security conservatives who oppose Trump.)

“A political candidate has used professional intelligence officers briefing him in a totally non-political setting as props to buttress an argument for his political campaign,” said Hayden. … “The ‘I can read body language’ line was quite remarkable. … I am confident Director Clapper sent senior professionals to this meeting and so I am equally confident that no such body language ever existed. It’s simply not what we do.”

read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/09/trump-time-capsule-98-the-classified-briefing/499190/
https://twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/773956636016803841

[Ilsa]

27. The imperialist comment about stealing

Iraq's oil should be of concern, too.

[annabanana]

28. The oil was ALWAYS the real reason for that stupid invasion.

"Not many people know" how much oil is there

good god man

[underpants]

43. Operation Iraqi Liberty

They went through the whole planning stages with the acronym O. I. L.

It wasn't until they first said this to people outside of their meetings that they changed it to Operation Iraqi FREEDOM.

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44. he's like a mobster from The Godfather

Leave the gun, take the oil.

[Thor_MN]

29. Sad that Lauer had to coach him, not once, but twice not to spill details from the briefing.

[malaise]

30. K & R

Great post

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58. thanks malaise

that was a disaster last night

the media had better not push any other narrative

[Stuart G]

35. K and R

[spanone]

46. we have never had a more ignorant candidate ....ever.

he's totally full of shit. bluster. nothing below the surface.

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59. he actually said about defeating ISIS, "When I come up with a plan"

WHEN?????

I thought he had a secret plan.

Now he says he's going to give the generals 30 days to come up with a plan.

Where are the media demanding clarification?

[classof56]

54. Didn't have the stomach to watch that particular debacle of a so-called "forum"

But heard a caller on the Thom Hartmann show this morning report that Drumpf had stated he's going to unite the US under "One God".

As an atheist, I can only say--Lord have mercy!

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60. Donald Trump On The Record: We Will Be One People Under One God

On Tuesday, Donald Trump delivered another of his infamous harangues. He was shooting for a theme of unity, but made a statement that is pointedly un-American and discriminatory.

One God? And which God would that be? Trump is demonstrating his innate bigotry with the suggestion that there is a single faith in America that takes precedence over others and unites the whole nation. There may be some Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and a vast array of Christian sects that disagree.

Once again he proves that he doesn’t understand America, its Constitution, or the principles for which it stands. Nor does he understand the religion he pretends to practice.

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=32527

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65. Chris Hayes covering Trump's remarks about the briefers right now on MSNBC

Chris Hayes: "Trump threw his briefers under the bus."