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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 09:40 AM Jan 2019

Trump Used Oval Office to Try to Create a Crisis


January 9, 2019 at 6:31 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Dan Balz: “Past presidents have used the Oval Office in prime time to announce military action, to lay out major initiatives or to calm the nation’s nerves in times of stress. President Trump chose the gravity of that venue for a far different reason Tuesday night — to try to create a sense of crisis in pursuit of an elusive campaign promise.”

“With the government in partial shutdown and talks with Democratic congressional leaders stalemated over funding for a border wall, the president used his address as a dramatic escalation in what has been an unsuccessful effort to sway opinion nationally and in Congress. As skillful as he is at dominating the national conversation, he has been singularly ineffective in this battle to change public minds or weaken the will of his Democratic opponents.”

Playbook: “This was not an address about a foreign conflict, but the president framed the situation at the southern border as a war.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2019/01/09/trump-used-oval-office-to-create-a-crisis/
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Trump Used Oval Office to Try to Create a Crisis (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
this is sick bdamomma Jan 2019 #1

bdamomma

(63,652 posts)
1. this is sick
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 09:43 AM
Jan 2019

tRump is a one man wrecking ball, he must be stopped. He has caused so much damage to the country and its' people.

If I could post what I would really like to say...................sigh.

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