After a week that included the release of an 11-year old video intended to cause Donald Trump to step down as a Presidential candidate, and ending with the second Presidential candidate debate, Trump goes into this week with his base more solidly behind him and Ms. Clinton exposed even more clearly as the hypocrite she is.
The video, coordinated by the Democrats and NBC to be released at a time they felt would be most harmful to the Trump campaign, would have absolutely derailed one of the Establishment Republicans’ carefully groomed candidates. They would do the typical Republican thing when the truth of something considered sexually scandalous is brought out in the open. They would do the “moral” thing and resign.
Donald Trump, however, had a better response. He said it was wrong, he’s sorry for saying it, and that’s not the person he was any more. Why did that work? Because he wasn’t posturing when he said it. He was showing, I believe, that he actually was examining his heart and realizing that if he was to become President there would have to be no talk like that - he was determining to separate himself from the playboy celebrity persona that he emulated in previous years.
Trump was caught saying what society legitimizes in Hollywood movies and on television all the time. He was saying something a lifelong politician being groomed for higher office would never say because he would never let himself be a part of that culture, or something that a life-long politician like Bill or Hillary Clinton would have learned to lie about and cover up with years and years of political deceit.
What is now the Usual Suspects list of Republicans re-unendorsed Trump in behavior the Democrats expected to happen once the video was released, much like you would expect a small-town Saturday noon siren to go off every week.
But many people I saw that were distancing themselves from Trump as a result of the video, were, I realized, never really in the Trump camp in the first place.
The Trump faithful, however, driven by utter hatred of where the political elite are taking this country, and seeing in Donald Trump a way to break through the Establishment’s lack of proper governance, determined to stick with a man who apologized and said he wasn’t like that any more.
Who was one who did not back off of his support for Trump? Senator Bob Dole. It was nice to find myself on the same side as Senator Dole on this one. While I had found myself at odds with Dole times when he sided with the Mitch McConnell establishment in the Senate, Dole saw this one with the wisdom of his years and without the fear of a legislator seeking re-election.
As I thought more about it all, I realized that Hillary Clinton has words much more damaging than anything The Donald has said in a locker room or anywhere else.
At a March 13 town hall meeting, Clinton was explaining her plans to shut down the coal industry: “We’re gonna put a lot of coal miners and coal companies outta business.” Those are hurtful and damaging words to tens of thousands of people working in the coal industry.
During the debate last night, one of the questions sent in by someone referred to a speech of Ms. Clinton’s that is in the latest Wikileaks release of information. Clinton had said, “You need both a public and private position on certain issues.”
Her response to that, and indicating that yes, she did say that, was to blame that viewpoint on Abraham Lincoln, to paraphrase, “Abe would do it that way.”
Then, to change the subject from her corrupt vision of how to be a politician, she said, “Let’s talk about what’s really going on here,” and proceeded to explain how what she said didn’t matter because “the Kremlin...are directing the attacks, the hacking of our accounts, to influence our elections, and Wikileaks is part of that.”
Trump clarified the matter in his reply: “We don’t know if it’s the Russians doing the hacking. Maybe there is no hacking. But they always blame Russia. And the reason they blame Russia because they think they are trying to tarnish me with Russia. But..I know nothing about the inner-workings of Russia, I don’t deal there...I have no loans from Russia.”
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Once again, words, words of falsehood directed for a hurtful purpose.
At one point Clinton says of one of Trump’s responses, "Everything he just said was absolutely false." What this meant was that she wanted her spinmeisters of falsehood (what she called 'fact-checkers') to know that they needed to post misleading information on each of those issues that Donald Trump had just raised. Another example of Hillary Clinton’s abuse of people with her lies and distortions.
She then tried to absolve herself of guilt in her deliberate mishandling of classified emails by speaking some legalese words to deceive: “There is no evidence that any one can point to at all – anyone who says otherwise has no basis – that any classified material ended up in the wrong hands.”
But her words proved helpful for a moment during the debate, as she gave what turned out to be a straight line for Donald Trump: “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”
Trump’s response: “Because you’d be in jail.”
Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years
After a week that included the release of an 11-year old video intended to cause Donald Trump to step down as a Presidential candidate, and ending with the second Presidential candidate debate, Trump goes into this week with his base more solidly behind him and Ms. Clinton exposed even more clearly as the hypocrite she is.
The video, coordinated by the Democrats and NBC to be released at a time they felt would be most harmful to the Trump campaign, would have absolutely derailed one of the Establishment Republicans’ carefully groomed candidates. They would do the typical Republican thing when the truth of something considered sexually scandalous is brought out in the open. They would do the “moral” thing and resign.
Donald Trump, however, had a better response. He said it was wrong, he’s sorry for saying it, and that’s not the person he was any more. Why did that work? Because he wasn’t posturing when he said it. He was showing, I believe, that he actually was examining his heart and realizing that if he was to become President there would have to be no talk like that - he was determining to separate himself from the playboy celebrity persona that he emulated in previous years.
