Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:09 pm
Every big Trump policy speech contains a new embarrassment. During his speech on ISIS and the military, the Republican nominee engaged in some classic Trump projection as he tried to paint Hillary Clinton as reckless and unstable.
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Trump said:
The Middle East is in more disarray than ever before. Had we done nothing, we’d been in far better position. Meanwhile, China has grown more aggressive and North Korea more dangerous and belligerent than ever. Russia has defined this administration at every single turn. Putin has no respect for President Obama and has absolutely no respect for Hillary Clinton.
Sometimes it seemed like there wasn’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton didn’t want to invade, intervene in, or topple. She’s trigger happy and very unstable. Whether we like it or not, that’s what’s going on.
She’s also reckless. So reckless in fact, that she put her emails on an illegal server that our enemies could hack, and probably have. Then Clinton’s team used a technology called BleachBit, which is basically acid, and this is going to acid wash her emails. Who would do this, and nobody does this, because of the expense.
Donald Trump continues to humiliate himself on the campaign trail by taking potentially legitimate points and exaggerating them to absurd degrees. For example, BleachBit is not acid. It is a simple program that is used to remove clutter and free up disk space. It doesn’t burn the emails away or make them invisible. BleachBit is also not expensive. The software is free to download.
Trump may have had a legitimate point about Clinton’s hawkish tendencies, but he buried it under the nonsense of his own insecure projection. Donald Trump is the candidate who has not ruled out using nuclear weapons or allowing other countries to obtain nuclear weapons. Trump has been a picture of instability who changes positions by the day and is eager to go to war with ISIS.
When Donald Trump tries to give a “policy speech” he demonstrates to voters that he is a complete embarrassment who is unfit and unqualified to be the next President Of The United States.
Trump has moved into the I’m rubber, and you’re glue phase of his campaign, and it will likely fail just like everything else he has tried during this campaign, because it takes more than tabloid drama, projection, conspiracies, and insults to win the White House.
It takes a skill set that is completely lacking in Donald J. Trump.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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