DONALD TRUMP CAUGHT IN A LIE…..AGAIN
There was no intention of Trump actually having a Chicago rally.
It has just
come to our attention that last Friday night’s spectacle in Chicago where the
Trump Rally was cancelled, it was more of a reality show than a political
revolt.
We were
originally told, that the rally was canceled because local law enforcement
officials consulted with the campaign and concluded that scrubbing the event
was in the best interest of public safety. Donald Trump has since been taking
all the credit for doing the “right thing”
in cancelling the event to prevent any physical harm.
But there’s
one big problem with this concept. The
Chicago Police Department has said that never actually happened.
The first
question you need to ask is why did the Trump organization plan a rally in this
particular risky Chicago location in the first place.
The fact is
that the campus where the rally was planned sits in the middle of a city that
is so Democratic that it has not elected a Republican mayor since before
FDR became president. And that fact
makes the venue’s selection that much more bizarre.
When the news
broke early Friday night that the Chicago rally had been canceled because of
safety fears, you're immediately aware that Trump’s operation knew that they would
rule the political airwaves for hours on that Friday night. Trump was then able to reach a far larger
audience than he would have by just speaking at a rally.
This is the
approach that Trump has been using ever since he went down that escalator in
Trump Towers to announce that he was running for President of the United
States. Trump’s candidacy thrives on the
political chaos that he helps creates.
Joe Scarborough even wrote this week: “If it is true that opportunity and chaos are the same word in Mandarin
Chinese, Trump should stamp that word on a poster and sell it at his next
scheduled event. For this Manhattan billionaire, his manufactured chaos is just
as profitable for his brand as Paris Hilton’s sex tape was for hers.”
Trump
supporters later expressed surprise at the number of protesters that showed up
at the campus that was estimated as 25% Hispanic, 25% Asian and only 8%
black. William Daley, son of former Chicago mayor Richard Daley, did not share
that surprise. “Whoever picked that
location knew what they were doing as far as poking that sleeping dog there,”
He also suggested to the New York Times that the venue was
staged for the purpose of provoking protests that would energize Trump’s
own supporters. Cancelling the event
just increased the nation’s interest in what was going on in Chicago.
Those of us
old enough, we remember the riots in 1968 at the Democratic Convention in
Chicago. Trump would also remember how
Democratic downtown Chicago is, and I’m sure he anticipated exactly what did
occur last Friday night.
Those riots in
1968 had flickered across Americans’ black and white television screens while
the nation was still absorbing the shock waves that had ripped across the
country during the first half of that horrifying year. That was the year that a record number of
Americans were killed in Vietnam. In
fact, more than 500 American GI’s were killed in that one week alone.
As the city
was under siege, Americans like today were also more divided politically,
racially and culturally than any time since the end of the Civil War.
The next
month in ‘68, dozens of cities went up in flames following the
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Eight weeks later, Bobby Kennedy was gunned down in California after
winning that state’s Democratic primary.
And for those
of us that remember those riots, we also remember that the Republican Richard
M. Nixon was elected president that year.
But Friday
night’s farce was a made-for-television event with a handful of Trump
supporters squaring off against protesters offended by Trump’s presence on
their campus.
Trump says he
wants to be the next president of the United States. But that will never
happen unless Trump, the man who it appears is about to lock down the GOP nomination, drops his reality-show
routine. He then must start working on
uniting his party and getting serious about the task before him.
Knowing Trump,
that’s probably not on his play list.
At least
that’s what I’m hoping.
Copyright G.Ater 2016
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