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The presidents tweets have been powerless against images of migrant children in the news media.
By JACK SHAFER June 22, 2018
Donald Trump is good at many things, but his greatest gift may be his ability to distract the newshounds by shouting Squirrel! and sending them sniffing for a new story. But this week, the dogs wouldnt stop gnawing on the presidents leg, no matter what he said.
His Cabinet secretaries might be grateful. The crying-babies, kids-in-cages news coverage about the U.S.-Mexican border pushed a Forbes story about Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross foreign investments to the inside pages. And as for every reporters favorite Trump administration piñata, the border story has been as great for Scott Pruitt as it has been horrible for Donald Trump.
A couple of months ago, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator was Washingtons hottest copy, with the press corps lighting him up again and again for his profligate, unethical and dodgy ways. Reporters busted him for everything from dispatching aides to run personal errands to giving political aides huge backdoor raises to renting (at a steep discount) a condo from a lobbyists wife.
As Pruitts rap sheet expanded and the news momentum gathered, he looked like a goner. Calls for him to resign came from the usual liberal voices in the environmental protection-industrial complex as well as from unexpected places, including slews of Capitol Hill Republicans, the Weekly Standard, National Review and even a minor Fox News host. As Pruitt twisted in the wind and the media morticians measured him for interment, he was saved twice by other news storms that displaced him as Topic A: The April Bill Cosby verdict and then the on-again, off-again North Korea talks, both of which clogged the headlines like bacon fat poured down the drain.
Then the border crisis shifted the press gaze once more, turning Pruitt into a three-peat winner. But perhaps for the first time in Donald Trumps presidency, thanks to contradictory policy moves not even his supporters could understand, the president came out the loser.
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Chemisse
(30,817 posts)Several lines stand out, such as this one:
"If you want to beat Trump, hit him in the heart because he doesnt seem to have one."
duforsure
(11,885 posts)With his propaganda tactics he normally uses to claim they're lying. He should be impeached and convicted of child abuse. Anyone else would be, or republicans, is he above the rule of law?