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Clinton & Trump are criminals and should be in jail. /sarcasm
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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 336700" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>So, I notice that we are wandering further and further away from the question of whether Trump was lying about his phone being tapped. I guess I can assume, from the responses, that a few of you on here believe he was telling the truth. I doubt we will agree on that.</p><p></p><p>As for his use of wiretapping as a broad metaphor, I think that is really straining at gnats and swallowing camels. I have noticed that Trump uses quotes indiscriminately. After being challenged by AE 87 on this I went back and tried to find some examples and here are just a few:</p><p></p><p></p><p>The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even......</p><p></p><p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/835104946034991106" target="_blank">February 24, 2017</a></p><p></p><p>Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how "kind" President Obama was to them. Not me!</p><p></p><p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827478751931924480" target="_blank">February 3, 2017</a></p><p></p><p>For eight years Russia "ran over" President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and added missiles. Weak! <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends" target="_blank">@foxandfriends</a></p><p></p><p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/839101660886614016" target="_blank">March 7, 2017</a></p><p></p><p>...is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total "witch hunt!"</p><p></p><p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837492425283219458" target="_blank">March 3, 2017</a></p><p></p><p>The race for DNC Chairman was, of course, totally "rigged." Bernie's guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez!</p><p></p><p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/835814988686233601" target="_blank">February 26, 2017</a></p><p></p><p>We must keep "evil" out of our country!</p><p></p><p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827655062835052544" target="_blank">February 3, 2017</a></p><p></p><p>My own interpretation is that Trump does not know why he uses quotes or even what they mean exactly. When he says "Fake News" does he mean it really isn't fake, that other people are calling it fake or that he really doesn't mean it is intentionally fake? I have no idea. One could go on and on with whether he thinks "leakers" are literal or not, whether the DNC literally "rigged" Hillary's nomination or not, or whether Obama is "kind" in a literal or metaphorical way. </p><p></p><p>What I do know is that he is inconsistent. When he referred to variations of wiretapping or wiretapped or tapped, three out of five times he did not use quotes. Once on twitter he did it this like this- "example" and once on twitter he did it like this- 'example.' When he spoke of it publicly he never used air quotes and never qualified what he meant by it by getting more specific. This allows him, I suppose, a certain amount of deniability when it comes to getting caught making stuff up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 336700, member: 1640"] So, I notice that we are wandering further and further away from the question of whether Trump was lying about his phone being tapped. I guess I can assume, from the responses, that a few of you on here believe he was telling the truth. I doubt we will agree on that. As for his use of wiretapping as a broad metaphor, I think that is really straining at gnats and swallowing camels. I have noticed that Trump uses quotes indiscriminately. After being challenged by AE 87 on this I went back and tried to find some examples and here are just a few: The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even...... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [URL='https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/835104946034991106']February 24, 2017[/URL] Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how "kind" President Obama was to them. Not me! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [URL='https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827478751931924480']February 3, 2017[/URL] For eight years Russia "ran over" President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and added missiles. Weak! [URL='https://twitter.com/foxandfriends']@foxandfriends[/URL] — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [URL='https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/839101660886614016']March 7, 2017[/URL] ...is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total "witch hunt!" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [URL='https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837492425283219458']March 3, 2017[/URL] The race for DNC Chairman was, of course, totally "rigged." Bernie's guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [URL='https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/835814988686233601']February 26, 2017[/URL] We must keep "evil" out of our country! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [URL='https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827655062835052544']February 3, 2017[/URL] My own interpretation is that Trump does not know why he uses quotes or even what they mean exactly. When he says "Fake News" does he mean it really isn't fake, that other people are calling it fake or that he really doesn't mean it is intentionally fake? I have no idea. One could go on and on with whether he thinks "leakers" are literal or not, whether the DNC literally "rigged" Hillary's nomination or not, or whether Obama is "kind" in a literal or metaphorical way. What I do know is that he is inconsistent. When he referred to variations of wiretapping or wiretapped or tapped, three out of five times he did not use quotes. Once on twitter he did it this like this- "example" and once on twitter he did it like this- 'example.' When he spoke of it publicly he never used air quotes and never qualified what he meant by it by getting more specific. This allows him, I suppose, a certain amount of deniability when it comes to getting caught making stuff up. [/QUOTE]
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