"Turkey attacks US ally in Syria" - Trump betrays Kurds, because this dog needs to be wagged

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Wednesday October 09, 2019 · 9:05 PM PDT

2019/10/09 · 21:05

EGduBIEWsAEvZZu1 — exact quote from Trump remarks on Wednesday at the WH

Another strange day for disinformation, as Trump implied that the 11,000 Kurds who died fighting alongside US troops may have fought for something less. Like his prior attempt to withdraw from Syria by tweet, he remains unfit. And as a matter of accuracy, unlike Iran’s Grand Mufti’s collaboration with the Nazis, Kurds actually did help the allies win WWII.

Trump’s daily personal disinformation campaign continues on Twitter, but he may be beyond all that now. With failing polls and new impeachment revelations Trump’s desperation continues, “devoid of sound legal reasoning”.

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Trump appears to have gotten his "Kurds didn't help us at Normandy" line from a Kurt Schlichter column. https://t.co/jAbsP9VCQt pic.twitter.com/6HknvoZ0gl
Ã¢ÂÂ Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 9, 2019

Kurdish forces, did, however, fight alongside the US against Isis for nearly five years, losing roughly 11,000 fighters.

On Sunday, the president announced that US troops would withdraw from the region, and today, Turkey has launched an offensive into north-eastern Syria against Kurdish forces who control the region.

Trump said he learned that the Kurds didn’t help in Normandy from a “very, very powerful article”, and seemed to be referencing a column by conservative opinion writer Kurt Schlichter.

www.theguardian.com/...

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You know who else hasnÃ¢ÂÂt helped the US fight any wars? The Trump family. https://t.co/FBNDoNKKRQ
Ã¢ÂÂ John Scare-avosisÃ°ÂÂÂºÃ°ÂÂÂ¸ (@aravosis) October 10, 2019

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This American soldier told me the Kurds have not left their positions guarding the ISIS prisoners. In fact "they prevented a prison break last night without us."
"They are not abandoning our side (yet)."
The Kurds are "pleading for our support." We are doing "nothing."
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) October 9, 2019

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TrumpÃ¢ÂÂs impulsive policy reversal threatens to undo 5 years of fighting against ISIS and betrays US partners in that fight.
The SDF freed tens of thousands of square miles & millions of people from the grip of ISIS, and sustained nearly 11,000 casualties.https://t.co/NWU08g131Q
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) October 10, 2019

We have a president for whom betrayal comes naturally. This time, the cost will be measured in human lives. https://t.co/rVLZ4hzre3
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 9, 2019

Impeachment inquiry gets worse for the WH.

The guy Trump is quoting works for Sputnik, RussiaÃ¢ÂÂs state media organ. https://t.co/PkaOrOkWew
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) October 10, 2019

House committees investigating President Trump and Ukraine have requested that his former Russia advisor Fiona Hill appear for a deposition on Oct. 14, as well as turn over several documents dating back to January 2017 https://t.co/s2HhCEJYQm
— Anthony DeRosaÃ°ÂÂÂ½ (@Anthony) October 10, 2019

All day media is discussing whether Pence is an idiot or complicit. He's complicit Ã°ÂÂÂ¯ https://t.co/8hpui3KN8y
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) October 10, 2019

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Russian propaganda exploits American racism: Senate Intel Reporthttps://t.co/5oF0DNLGpJ

Cambridge Analytica propaganda exploits American racism: @chrisinsilico #Mindf_ck pic.twitter.com/MzOkupVvx8
— David Carroll Ã°ÂÂ¦Â (@profcarroll) October 10, 2019

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Always been odd to me, too. Along with the sensitivity in Congress asking any probing questions in public about them. https://t.co/JmdTgVHrG5
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) October 10, 2019

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Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge AnalyticaÃ¢ÂÂs Rise and FallÃ°ÂÂÂ The secretive data firm said it could move the minds of American voters. That wasnÃ¢ÂÂt its real victory.(includes Koch Data i360) https://t.co/7KFIPfndne
— seeshell (@Tentoads4truth) October 9, 2019

The reality is that repetition and amplifying the message may still outweigh any critiques of Trump’s Twitter behavior, considering that it is an insular audience including numerous bots that distort the size of his “followers”. Trump has occasionally stopped using Twitter and does delegate some messaging there.

About two months ago, the Center for American Progress Action Fund commissioned the firm Civis to test messaging that framed Trump not as corrupt or unethical but as “ineffective”—and to attribute that ineffectiveness to his being absorbed by his Twitter feed. The results were notable. Of the six messages tested on Trump, the idea that he was “more focused on his Twitter account than on delivering on his promises” was the only one that consistently moved the vote towards Democrats, including among Obama-Trump voters.

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Democrats are privately pushing polling showing that going after TrumpÃ¢ÂÂs Twitter addiction Ã¢ÂÂ and accusing him of being ineffective because of it Ã¢ÂÂ may be the partyÃ¢ÂÂs most effective message. https://t.co/uI4LzUzrcH
Ã¢ÂÂ Sam Stein (@samstein) August 19, 2019

Though CAP too has begun attacking Trump over his Twitter habits, not everyone in the party has rushed to adopt the framing, for fear that it merely goes after the medium on which Trump expresses his bluster and bigotry, and not the bluster and bigotry itself.

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Those who have worked on the messaging say that going after Trump for being a racist and for being distracted by Twitter to the point of ineffectiveness is not an either-or. But, they argue, the former comes with the risk of turning off his supporters by suggesting that they are comfortable with his worst traits, while the latter emphasizes a characteristic of Trump that virtually no one finds flattering.

In the end, Trump may be defeated by his greatest weakness: his achilles mouth. ItÃ¢ÂÂs all detailed in the epic poem: pic.twitter.com/nVDkxksxER
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) October 10, 2019

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