What Is Donald Trump Jr. Talking About?

[applegrove]

What Is Donald Trump Jr. Talking About?

by David A. Graham at the Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/what-is-donald-trump-jr-talking-about/500198/

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But the substance of Donald Jr.’s complaint deserves scrutiny too. He argues that Clinton has been allowed to slide on lies, and that his father could never get away with such behavior. The Democrat has faced some tough coverage over the last week over her delay in admitting she had pnuemonia and ongoing questions about the Clinton Foundation and her emails. These stories are worth pursuing, and a presidential candidate has to answer tough questions. But the idea that Donald Trump does not lie is comical. Trump lied about self-funding his campaign. He lies about what he said publicly. He admitted in a deposition to lying in business. He has amassed a long record of lies on PolitiFact. In fact, Trump’s innovation may have been to lie so frequently and so baldly that it voters and the press become desensitized. It’s a post-modern, post-truth candidacy.

Meanwhile, Donald Jr.’s sister Ivanka conducted a painful interview with Cosmopolitan on Wednesday, in which she seemed unprepared to talk about her father’s family-leave plan. It was barely two months ago that some pundits said Trump should get off the trail and let his kids do the campaigning. These days, maybe it’d be best to keep the younger Trumps out of the spotlight.

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. The gas chamber comment was offensive. The claims leading up to it were beyond delusional.

It's really opposite world with these nuts.

[Oldem]

2. He said,

"...they'd be warming up the gas chambers." And who is the "they"? The media or us? Or both. Either way, it's an old repug trope: the liberal media is out to get us, or dems are devils. He could have gotten that quotation directly from Hannity or Limbaugh. Maybe he did.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I'm convinced from the context he meant the media.

The amount of denial and delusion it must take to think most of the media is liberal and covering for the left while raking the right over the coals for the slightest infractions has always astounded me. Like everyone else would "get" their take on things if only the media would stop lying about them or picking on every little stumble.

Welcome to DU, by the way.

[Sunlei]

3. poor little rich boy.