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Related: About this forumdigby: He knows exactly what he's doing
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/08/he-knows-exactly-what-hes-doing.html?fb_ref=DefaultWednesday, August 10, 2016
He knows exactly what he's doing
by digby
I was watching this rally and heard him call out Katy Tur by name. I thought it might be possible that the crowd would harm her:
Just one day after Donald Trump tried to incite his supporters to violence against his opponent Hillary Clinton if she defeats him in the election, it turns out this isnt the first time Trump has done something like this toward a woman who got under his skin. MSNBC reporter Katy Tur, who has spent more than a year traveling with the Trump campaign, revealed today that the Secret Service had to protect her from Trumps crowd after he attempted to incite them against her.
While Tur was covering a Trump rally in Mount Pleasant, he took his longtime grudge with her public. He didnt approve of how she had covered an earlier incident, so he privately demanded that she apologize, which she refused to do. So Trump retaliated by pointing to Tur and saying to the crowd. What a lie. Katy Tur. What a lie it was. Third. Rate. Reporter. Remember that.
The crowd of Trump supporters turned so fiercely against Katy Tur that she says the Secret Service had to protect her while she was walking to her car, simply to keep her safe. Shes referring to it as an extraordinary step. The agents are specifically tasked with protecting people such as Presidential nominees, and it is in fact rare that they would feel compelled to protect a reporter due to the unsafe situation shed been placed in by the candidate theyre protecting.
While Tur was covering a Trump rally in Mount Pleasant, he took his longtime grudge with her public. He didnt approve of how she had covered an earlier incident, so he privately demanded that she apologize, which she refused to do. So Trump retaliated by pointing to Tur and saying to the crowd. What a lie. Katy Tur. What a lie it was. Third. Rate. Reporter. Remember that.
The crowd of Trump supporters turned so fiercely against Katy Tur that she says the Secret Service had to protect her while she was walking to her car, simply to keep her safe. Shes referring to it as an extraordinary step. The agents are specifically tasked with protecting people such as Presidential nominees, and it is in fact rare that they would feel compelled to protect a reporter due to the unsafe situation shed been placed in by the candidate theyre protecting.
He knows very well what he's doing. He's intimidating people, especially women, into going easy on him by threatening to sic his violent cretins on them. There was no other reason to publicly name her.
His "rigged election" talk is very likely to inspire a few of these crazies to try something.
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babylonsister
Aug 2016
OP
#ComradeTrump's Republican TurdShirts are the nucleus of Major Hateful Ugly Darkness
RapSoDee
Aug 2016
#2
The man is a jackass and MSNBC should have reported this and discussed it on their shows.
CentralMass
Aug 2016
#3
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)1. Trump the magnificent manipulator
Yes I agree that everything Trump said is intentionally designed to provoke a reaction. Trump doesn't care about good or bad PR, he's building a bonfire that he hopes will spin out of control. And it is. Trump knows he can benefit from chaos. It's 'how to become a despot 101'. Hence Trump needs to be utterly defeated, completely ruined, in this election. We can't leave anything to hope or chance. GOTV or else.
RapSoDee
(421 posts)2. #ComradeTrump's Republican TurdShirts are the nucleus of Major Hateful Ugly Darkness
Therefore it's up to us all to shine light every which way.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)3. The man is a jackass and MSNBC should have reported this and discussed it on their shows.
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)4. The media corps are letting him off way too easy.
This is not going to end well.