AT SOME POINT, TRUMP HAS TO GIVE OUT SOME POLICY DETAILS

…The way most of us see “The Donald”

 

Why don’t the experts require more specifics from Trump about, “Making America Great Again?

 

As much as I usually appreciate watching Morning Joe, I was very disappointed in their MSNBC “Town Hall with Donald Trump”.

 

Neither Joe Scarborough nor Mika Brzezinski actually “grilled” Mr. Trump about anything.  They also didn’t follow-up on their own questions, even when Trump slid past questions and went into his “I’m going to make America so great again.” stump recital.

 

And if you listened to Trump at the end of the Town Hall, you would have thought they had put him through the wringer.  His comment was, “It’s not easy.  It’s a lot of work. I mean, I’m here. I could be someplace else, to be honest with you. Okay, I’m being grilled by the two of you; I could be someplace else.”

 

When Joe and Mika asked “What do you replace Obamacare with?”  Out came the standard, “It will be a lot better and cheaper,” but as usual, he gave out no details.  When asked about his on-going, “Medically, we need to take care of everyone,” stump statement, he would just say that they [his presidential administration] would come up with a way to keep the poor from dying in the streets.  But once again, no details on a possible plan.

 

When asked about his statement that he had been against going into Iraq even before the invasion, he just said that since he wasn’t an elected politician back then, his ant-invasion comments were never published.  (And now there have been the recordings of him agreeing with the invasion.)  Someday, someone is going to have to stick with interviewing him on his allegedly early anti-Iraq war claims.  Neither Joe Scarborough nor the Meet the Press host, Chuck Todd, nor any Fact-Checkers have been able to find evidence of Trump saying that the Iraq war was a bad idea before the March 2003 invasion.  At some point, some news anchor is going to have to refuse to continue going on to other subjects.  That is until Trump can name some respected individuals that he had told of his early anti-Iraq-invasion opposition.  Until then, it’s just another one of Trump’s imaginations.

 

Now, as some of you may know, I have been a long-time fan of the Washington Post Op-Ed writer, Dana Milbank.  He and I are usually on the same page when it comes to the latest political news.  However, in one single paragraph, Dana Milbank has now rightfully capsulized and summarized Trump’s shameful record of racism, bigotry and rampant disrespect.

 

Here is Mr. Milbank’s summary:

 

Trump led the “birther” movement challenging President Obama’s standing as a natural-born American; used various vulgar expressions to refer to women; spoke of Mexico sending rapists and other criminals across the border; called for rounding up and deporting 11 million illegal immigrants; had high-profile spats with prominent Latino journalists and news outlets; mocked Asian accents; let stand a charge made in his presence that Obama is a Muslim and that Muslims are a “problem” in America; embraced the notion of forcing Muslims to register in a database; falsely claimed thousands of Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks in New Jersey; tweeted bogus statistics asserting that most killings of whites are done by blacks; approved of the roughing up of a black demonstrator at one of his events; and publicly mocked the movements of New York Times (and former Washington Post) journalist Serge Kovaleski, who has a chronic condition limiting mobility.

 

All of these comments are true and verified, and this is all about the same man that is currently ahead in the polls in most of the Southern states.  It will be highly embarrassing if the man that is described in the above paragraph ends up sitting in the Oval Office.

 

At the end of the MSNBC Town Hall, an audience member did ask Trump a question about civility: “My question is where do you think the line is between boldness and honesty, and disrespect and rudeness?” 

 

As usual, Trump just changed the subject and made some vague statement about how he handles the outbursts of people at his rallies.  So, more business as usual.  But instead of following up and getting him to actually answer the question, Joe Scarborough then jumped in and asked Trump if as president, he’d have any allies on Capitol Hill.  So, once again the questioner was giving total legitimacy to the billionaire bigot seated in the middle of the Town Hall.

 

It was all pretty disappointing.

 

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