So: Trump says Terrible Thing. Media reports Terrible Thing. Trump campaign spits out ludicrous rationale for why Terrible Thing actually didn’t mean Terrible Thing. Media reports Trump campaign’s ludicrous rationale, but without adding the damn evidence which makes clear how blatantly, contemptuously the Trump campaign was lying.
We saw this with the infamous anti-Semitic tweet, when the conversation became so focused on whether the star in the middle of the ad was a Star of David that nobody ever got around to noticing that the ad in question also featured the Israeli flag’s horizontal blue stripes. Case should have been closed a lot more air-tightly than it was.
Now it’s a new week and a new Trump outrage; in this case, his veiled assassination suggestion vis a vis Hillary Clinton and/or her future SCOTUS justices. It is so frustrating hearing, over and over, Hair Fuhrer’s instantly infamous lines from North Carolina yesterday:
Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.
Cue ludicrous campaign response: Trump’s off-the-cuff remark, we heard from Trump himself, Trump campaign officials, and various Trump campaign surrogates, had simply been meant to suggest that the political passions of Second Amendment supporters could stave off the dark coming reign of Hillary Clinton’s at the ballot.
Well. Okay. Now, confidential to EVERY FUCKING POLITICAL JOURNALIST IN AMERICA: the next time you write a blog post about this controversy, would it kill you to include the line Trump spoke next (see also the video in the linked article for confirmation that the transcript is accurate):
Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.
What horrible day would he be referring to? The horrible day when united Second Amendment supporters defeat Hillary at the ballot box? Or the horrible day when some Second Amendment supporter decides to take America’s political fate into his own (heavily, constitutionally armed) hands?