Trump, Giuliani, Hannity and others are trying to set a "narrative".

[kentuck]

They believe everything can be defined as a PR problem.

We can see their strategy. Trump continues to say, "no collusion". He has been "cleared" and he wants all his supporters to know he has not been charged with anything. He says it is now time to stop the Mueller investigation.

Everything he and Giuliani and Hannity have said in the last 24 hours is for public consumption. They are setting a "narrative" they believe will be deceitful enough to work on those that are mentally deficient. Their goal is to maintain their "base".

This is the extent of their present strategy , in my opinion.

[japple]

1. I read yesterday that Newt Gingrich has joined the swelling chorus.

The rest of the faux snooze team are alreading lining up.

[pangaia]

3. Jeeze, is he still alive? Was he EVER alive?

[guillaumeb]

2. Clearly, in their eyes, a winning strategy?

I might agree, but the extent and frantic nature of Trump's tweets suggests a man who is terrified of the truth being exposed.

[kentuck]

4. This is his only defense.

He is depending on the stupidity of his supporters.

[guillaumeb]

15. And he can count on that.

But at best they are 38% of the population.

[Botany]

5. I might be wrong but I'm willing to bet everything I own that both Hannity and Trump were ...

.... involved in this act of treason/war against the people of America up to their eyeballs. Rudy
through Stone and Eric Prince and Hannity by having a pipeline into his office directly from Vlad/
Cambridge Analytica.

Lock 'em up.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I agree.

At the very least they will be found guilty of obstruction. I just heard this on Ari Melber.

[kentuck]

13. And Hannity will attempt to get everyone at FOX to agree with him.

Most of them will.

[Botany]

14. I want to vomit anytime I see Hannity with his American Flags/Eagles/Patriotic background.

He is so un-American that is ridiculous. That piece of shit got death threats against
a friend of mine in 2008 running stories about a link between Ohio's Sec. of State
and ACORN trying to steal the election in OH for Obama. A few of Hannity's mouth
breathing listeners who were too stupid to know reality acted on his misinformation.

[alwaysinasnit]

6. It's not like they have anything better.

[kentuck]

7. True.

They have nothing.

[alwaysinasnit]

10. Maybe we should be glad they don't? I'm beginning to feel a bit of shaudenfreude.

[dae]

8. It has worked so far.

[PJMcK]

11. Nope

Look at Robert Mueller's results. They are profound! He's not finished and neither are any of the other investigations.

In January, a new Congress will be a bit more aggressive in their investigations of the crimes that have been going on in plain sight since 2015.

Trump's PR nonsense will not work in the long term.

[PJMcK]

9. It won't work

It's too late for Trump. The legal nets are surrounding him and there's nothing he can do because his pursuers are far smarter than he.

Giuliani has morphed into something really weird. He was always an asshole but now he's just a freak.

[Eyeball_Kid]

16. It is surprising how FEW people control the narrative.

Maybe a dozen or two control it most of the time. Two dozen people, give or take a few, control the narrative for 330 million people. That's who we are, eh? A few of these people are Trumpy, the aforementioned Guiliani, Hannity, Murdoch, Koch, Limbaugh, and even some on the so-called left: MSNBC talkers, radio hosts, etc. Information is very much centralized around a couple of nests. Those nests compete for control of the narrative. Weird.