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CincyDem

(6,347 posts)
2. Doesn't matter what we saw...
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 02:33 PM
Jul 2018


...what matters to Don is that Vlad saw him take action. What he said was "see...I can be just like you".

What an asshat. 2018 is the last chance boys and girls. by 2020, this chit is going to be normalized and cemented into daily life.

He spent today priming the pump...pointing out to his base that "Russia's not all that bad". So when Mueller shows up and says he knowing colluded with a foreign power to steal the election his response will be "what ??? not any foreign power...I worked with our good friends Russia". And the base will cheer like the Founders cheered France's help in the Rev. War.

What an asshat.

brooklynite

(94,489 posts)
3. This was NOT "press suppression"
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 02:34 PM
Jul 2018

The reporter had the right to make his protest. He did NOT have the right to do it at the Press Conference, and he didn’t have the right to abuse his press credentials to be able to do so.

Would you have supported someone from Breitbart launching a portent when President Obama announced the nuclear deal with Iran?

brooklynite

(94,489 posts)
5. The Press Conference hadn't started when he stood up and began waving his documents
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 02:48 PM
Jul 2018

Putin and Trump weren’t in the room, so he wasn’t in a position to ask a question; he was playing to the other reporters in the room.

brooklynite

(94,489 posts)
9. He wasn't stopped from being a reporter; he was stopped from being a demonstrator
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 02:57 PM
Jul 2018

I repeat my question: if Breitbart pulled the same stunt at an Obama press conference, would you be equally supportive?

brooklynite

(94,489 posts)
10. If he interrupted a press gathering? Yes.
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 02:58 PM
Jul 2018

More specifically, Obama's Secret Service would have pulled him, or any source of a disruption out of the room.

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