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Post by Admin on Oct 19, 2021 15:29:54 GMT
“Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media,” Trump wrote in a statement released Tuesday through his Save America PAC. “Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!”
He continued to publicly bash John McCain after the Republican stalwart died in 2018. He attacked Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) in 2019 by implying her late husband John Dingell is in hell. Now, the former president is lashing out at Colin Powell the day after he died from Covid-19 complications.
Trump’s vitriol toward Powell isn’t surprising. The late veteran of three Republican presidential administrations had been fiercely critical of Trump, and announced in June that he was voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. “We have a Constitution,” Powell said at the time. “We have to follow that Constitution. And the president’s drifted away from it.”
Trump responded by firing off multiple tweets calling Powell, among other things, “a real stiff,” “so bad for the USA,” and “very responsible for getting us into the disastrous Middle East Wars.”
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2021 21:49:02 GMT
Donald Trump once again flunked history, this time getting a basic fact wrong about Thomas Jefferson.
New York City announced it was moving a statue of the Founding Father and nation’s third president out of its City Council Chamber due to his history as a slaveholder.
It’s not yet clear where the statue will go, but Trump predictably threw a fit over Jefferson ... even if he’s a little hazy on what, exactly, Jefferson did.
Trump called him “a principal writer of the Constitution of the United States.”
Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, but did not contribute to the writing of the Constitution, nor did he attend the Constitutional Convention as he was in France.
Trump has never had the firmest grasp of U.S. history, often getting key details wrong. In 2019, for example, he praised the Continental Army for taking over airports during the American Revolution.
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2021 4:05:58 GMT
Former President Donald Trump remains barred from Twitter and Facebook.
Those megaphones were useful for him during his presidency, but he won't have them in the years running up to 2024, when he could run for office again (Twitter has barred him permanently, and Facebook barred him until at least January 2023.)
But experts told Insider that he "absolutely" did not need them to win in such a scenario.
That's because his "loyal soldiers" and critics alike have already made up their minds about him, so reaching a large number of people through mainstream social sites wouldn't necessarily persuade them either way.
Experts also agreed that the right-wing media ecosystem was sufficient for him to get his message across.
"Trump doesn't have to tweet something or post something on Facebook to effectively use both platforms as the conveyance belt to frame the discussion and the narrative about whatever stupidity of the moment has come out of his mouth," Steve Schmidt, a GOP strategist and cofounder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, told Insider.
The bans will be fodder for Trump's 'grievance campaign' Trump may have had a direct line to millions of people via Twitter and Facebook during his presidency, but Jesse Ferguson - a Democratic political strategist and former press secretary for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016 - told Insider that platforms like Twitter were more about self-reinforcement for Trump, rather than part of a communication strategy.
"Donald Trump tweets things because he needs people to press like and retweet as if it's affirmation for him," Ferguson said.
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