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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Tells His Voter Fraud Panel: Find Me Something
After his henchmen droned on about how the commission has no preconceived notions, Trump cut through the cant and commanded them to bring him the dirt.
Michael Waldman
07.20.17 1:00 AM ET
Give President Trump credit. Hes invented a new kind of political gaffe. It was on display at the first meeting of the voter fraud commission held at the White House today, when he blurted out a real motive for the whole sorry exercise: to find something.
Of course, the whole notion of a gaffe is somewhat quaint at this point. The dictionary says that a gaffe is a social or diplomatic blunder. Spilling the soup on the hostess, mispronouncing a name. Such missteps involved breached decorum. Over the years, in the political world, it has come to mean a statement by a public figure that inadvertently causes a scandal or controversy. A faux pas, a blooper.
The journalist Michael Kinsley famously explained that a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Ever since connoisseurs have known this as a Kinsley Gaffe.
Michael Waldman
07.20.17 1:00 AM ET
Give President Trump credit. Hes invented a new kind of political gaffe. It was on display at the first meeting of the voter fraud commission held at the White House today, when he blurted out a real motive for the whole sorry exercise: to find something.
Of course, the whole notion of a gaffe is somewhat quaint at this point. The dictionary says that a gaffe is a social or diplomatic blunder. Spilling the soup on the hostess, mispronouncing a name. Such missteps involved breached decorum. Over the years, in the political world, it has come to mean a statement by a public figure that inadvertently causes a scandal or controversy. A faux pas, a blooper.
The journalist Michael Kinsley famously explained that a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Ever since connoisseurs have known this as a Kinsley Gaffe.
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Donald Trump Tells His Voter Fraud Panel: Find Me Something (Original Post)
CousinIT
Jul 2017
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riversedge
(70,347 posts)1. And after Trump suggested Comey had Tapes-He directed the FBI to find them..
underpants
(182,949 posts)2. The unicorns did it
Yes plural. More than one. It was a conspiracy.
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)3. This is a fishing expedition
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)4. He can't get over losing the popular vote
So he's demanding that someone find "something," anything, that shows he didn't really lose it. Find voter fraud or just make shit up.