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His tweet about the 75-year-old man who was pushed down by police and suffered a bleeding injury to his head wasn't "aiming a scanner" at police. That is a completely meaningless statement. No such device exists, in reality.
We can all see what happened in the video of the incident. He was in the cop's way, so the cop shoved him hard enough to make him fall backward, injuring his head. Trump didn't see the video. He simple passed along a lying report from OANN, his Trump News Outlet.
But, we saw the video and know his tweet is bullshit.
Thank goodness, some legitimate news media outlets are calling him on his ridiculous lie about a "scanner."
Raven
(13,899 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)He is behaving irrationally. He should resign for reasons of health. Mental health, that is.
progree
(10,918 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)being someone who thinks he can achieve "global domination." Both require a narcissistic personality disorder and no respect for ethical or moral norms. Both are sociopaths.
A con man cheats his victims. An evil madman wants to physically kill them.
It's an easy transition for a sociopath to make.
progree
(10,918 posts)been a sociopath. But in the last several months with his insanely insane tweets, it seems like he's become a perfect "evil madman" like in the comic books, except that it's not humorous at all. Especially with the nuclear suitcase and all that.
Though that probably doesn't work (intentionally) ... "Error 404 - Launch Codes Not Found."
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)flying_wahini
(6,646 posts)Several more judges into office AND still get re-elected.
Stay tuned! 🤓
Farmgirl1961
(1,494 posts)I honestly don't know. We are coming apart at the seams and Trump is doing all he can to rip it further apart and destroy everything in his path.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)He still has time to destroy what is left of our nation. Between COVID-19 and racial injustices, he already has a couple of things working toward that destruction. What will he come up with next?
flying_wahini
(6,646 posts)I smell an event headed this way in about 60 days.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)"Scanner" my ass.
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)when he is standing in the midst of a bunch of police officers??
A scanner is for listening to the police broadcasts (so you don't get caught for speeding) or you can remotely keep track of what the police are doing.
Once again, the idiot-in-chief shows his "smarts".
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Don't remember the description, but if it's ours it's for traitorous purposes. Right?
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...he *always* seems to be becoming "more unhinged"...hopefully, though, this time there seems to be truth to it. I'd love to see him dragged, screaming and drooling, out of the White House the day after the election. I think a total breakdown after November is as likely as his pulling off some massive constitutional crisis...not that I discount the latter possibility...
Initech
(100,102 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)His information sources are all ones of his choice, and all are wrong.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)Jack Dorsey, once he sees new bot swarms yet again, will probably have to suspend 45's account, since this election would present the apex of the very pollution he's tried to rid Twitterworld of.
45 will lose his major general election platform, and have to double down elsewhere. Which will be a real falling off.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Just wait until election eve.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)The inevitable vortex of doom will have its way with this doofus.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Dan Scavino writes his tweets, so if you are reacting to it, its all part of the media manipulation game..
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/magazine/dan-scavino-the-secretary-of-offense.html
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)This is a thought out strategy from his advisers.
I wonder if any of our lawyers here think this is actionable, as in a defamation lawsuit.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)to dead president pictures hanging on the WH walls.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I certainly didn't notice him "scanning" anything in the first several views of the incident on MSNBC, etc., but the video accompanying the hostile media description did really kind of look like he could be moving a device as if scanning.
Whether this particular one was falsified or not, we have to expect and look for this kind of thing.
onetexan
(13,058 posts)to get reelected, so he can evade prison for his crimes.