It’s that pesky old “proof” thing that always seems to confound Trump and company.
I recently had a conversation with a Twitter troll. I don’t usually engage the citizens of Trollandia, but I made an exception. I was planning on writing this blog for a few weeks and this gave me the chance to try out my ideas on the road before opening night.
Here’s the gist.
I Tweeted the following while sharing an article from CNN.
The response was to say that WAPO is the one doing the whining.
I’m going to assume that he focused on the hashtag #whinylittlebitch because he either didn’t understand ( or wanted to ignore) the bigger issue.
Trump wants to win the Presidency in order to carry out vengeance on any and all who have been critical of him.
As reported in Politico, Trump said the following:
Trump went on to say (emphasis is mine.)
“You see, with me, they're not protected, because I'm not like other people but I'm not taking money. I'm not taking their money. We're going to open up libel laws, and we're going to have people sue you like you've never got sued before."
I only refer to my Twitter exchange because I’ve heard and seen this defense of Trump’s libel law comments before.
It’s a typical conservative tactic — ignore the point and move the discussion to something tangential in the hopes that one will start arguing the deflection and not the actual point.
So to all my conservative friends:
We don’t care about the banning of reporters from private events. The concern is Mr. Trump’s desire to weaken the primary process for protecting the freedom of the press as prescribed in the 1st Amendment.
The sad thing (there are so many sad things involving Mr. Trump) is that when he says he wants to “open up the libel law” he has no idea (does he ever?) what he’s talking about.
John Daniel Davidson explained this brilliantly in his March 22, 2016 article in the Federalist. Trump Doesn't Understand Libel Laws
The Never Ending Story
This issue, of course, is not an isolated incident. If you are one of the Trump Sheeple (Treeple? Trumple?) you have neither the time or inclination to figure out which of his words make sense or not. It’s not that hard, obviously, since the nonsense far outweighs the sense.
So when you hear him talk about libel laws, immigration laws, trade policy, you start end and with the concept that he’s 100% correct.
This is the dangerous part. People who think they love him (they actually just love his anger) rally to his cries and will defend his ideas with everything they’ve got.
It seems highly unlikely that there are enough Treeples to actually get him elected — but his complete disdain for the parts of our constitution that don’t personally benefit him -is scary.