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lastlib

(23,233 posts)
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 10:21 PM Sep 2016

A question I would like the news media to ask Donald Trump:

"Mr. Trump, do you believe that Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian dictator?"

No wiggle room here, it's a yes-or-no question. If Trump says yes, then why the hell is he having this bromance with an authoritarian dictator? If no, then Trump is clearly an idiot.

So of course, he will try to wiggle around it, maybe turn it around to attack Obama & Clinton. But that'll be so effin' transparent, that I don't see how it could work to his advantage. DU thoughts?

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A question I would like the news media to ask Donald Trump: (Original Post) lastlib Sep 2016 OP
I haven't heard interviewers call Ilsa Sep 2016 #1
Doesn't really matter what the news people call him-- lastlib Sep 2016 #2
I want them to ask this. bmstee01 Sep 2016 #3
+1, and "... I don't know... " is even worse uponit7771 Sep 2016 #4

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
1. I haven't heard interviewers call
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 10:26 PM
Sep 2016

Putin that, yet. They dance around it, aand I'm not sure of all of the reasons why. Today, PBO compared him to Saddam Hussein, etc.

bmstee01

(453 posts)
3. I want them to ask this.
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 10:51 PM
Sep 2016

Mr. Trump,
You said Putin is a great leader bc he has high approval ratings and Obama is a weak leader bc our country is so divided. By that standard would you say that Abraham Lincoln was a bad leader? The country was most divided during the American Civil War

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