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If The Media Treated Trump Like Other Candidates, Yesterday Would Have Ended His Campaign
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-media_us_574f07c1e4b0ed593f12e5d0

On Tuesday, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee had the kind of day that, for any other candidate, would be a political nightmare. It started with a press conference in which Trump made misleading statements, attacked reporters for applying relatively routine levels of journalistic scrutiny, and questioned the impartiality of a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University.

The day ended with newly unsealed documents from that same lawsuit that revealed credible, if contested, allegations of shady business practices at the for-profit adult education program. The trove included a Trump University “playbook” that taught salespeople how to coax registration fees, which could run into the tens of thousands of dollars, from those desperate to get rich. One sales manager called the enterprise “a fraudulent scheme” that “preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money.”

Nothing new was in this story. Quite a few new details have emerged about the sales tactics of Trump U that basically encouraged sales people to convince or if the standard pitch didn't work, to hector people into raiding retirement accounts or to run up their credit card. All the while selling Trump as the source of secret knowledge, which wasn't even close to the truth.

In the article, the author asks a good question:

So what happens now? Suppose that the tantrum about hostile media had come from Bernie Sanders or Ted Cruz. Suppose that the revelations about questionable past business activities involved Marco Rubio. Better still, suppose that the candidate at the center of these controversies was Hillary Clinton — and on top of it all, that there was reason to think she had lied and then acted, clumsily, to cover it up.

The press wouldn’t let go of the story. It’d be fodder for nonstop conversation on “Morning Joe,” “The Situation Room,” and, of course, Fox News. Commentators would say the statements disqualify her from serving as president, and a few would probably call on her to drop out of the race. The New York Times would run long analysis pieces on Clinton’s honesty problem, and whether the lies were evidence of campaign disarray, a lack of integrity, or some combination of the two. “She wouldn’t be criticized or questioned,” Paul Waldman observed Tuesday in the Post. “She’d be crucified.”

It’s possible Trump will end up getting that kind of treatment. The Times just ran a story on conflict within the Trump organization, prompting Trump to mock the reporters who wrote it. And as of Wednesday morning, the Trump U. story was getting plenty of attention on television. But — and, yes, this is a subjective judgment — Trump’s controversies never seem to get the kind of sustained attention that controversies dogging other candidates do. They fade into the background, as the conversation moves to other subjects.

It is interesting how Trump gets a free pass on his lies and idiotic statements. Is it just a matter of newness? Will Trump's shit start to stink enough so that even Flaming Poundcake and Nitrous will blanch? It seems to me that Trump is using up the ability for his supporters to suspend disbelief too early in the election. Or maybe the truth is just not important.
 
pnwmystery said:
I doubt he even knows what the notion of nation-state he just used is.
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He said of bunch of nothing. This country will never be a "sovereign state" it is a democracy with laws, rules and regulations. This will never be Utopia.

And Trump is not true in his convictions when he says what he says. You know full well he doesn't want a "sovereign state", the first thing that would go would be his wealth. And that is how he identifies himself. Losing his wealth would be losing his identity, his sense of self-worth.

He is speaking to the gullible dip-shits who buy into his nonsense.
 
Fogdog said:
It is interesting how Trump gets a free pass on his lies and idiotic statements. Is it just a matter of newness? Will Trump's shit start to stink enough so that even Flaming Poundcake and Nitrous will blanch? It seems to me that Trump is using up the ability for his supporters to suspend disbelief too early in the election. Or maybe the truth is just not important.
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The media gives him a pass because his statements are outrageous, they garner ratings. Media is a business, more ratings = more revenue. Trump has gained more than $2 billion in free media this cycle because of that.

The truth is absolutely not important to Trump supporters
 
see4 said:
There was nothing for you to be "mean" about. You were the one who suggested it.

Derp.
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Well, I have decided to be nice to everybody and I have to say some people have waited for years to get that award. I am glad that you seen enough promise in the new poster that he was granted your highest award so quickly. Right on see4. nitro
 
nitro harley said:
Well, you can relax. Because I would like to stay for 30 days after Trump wins but...Rolli told me to be extra nice to you and not call you names about your smartness or I wouldn't make it much longer. LOL TRUMP!
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Bullshit. Rolli said no such thing. Now you making stupid shit up.
 
nitro harley said:
I wouldn't make that up. He ask me not to call you names about your smartness. The nice part was me and I have decided to be nice to you and everybody. At least for awhile. TRUMP!
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I think you are now realizing that Trump is going down hard. Trump University coupled with his crazy press conference has got him off center.
 
londonfog said:
I think you are now realizing that Trump is going down hard. Trump University coupled with his crazy press conference has got him off center.
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London, I haven't seen where Trump is going down hard. I think he is doing great and there are many students that pay a lot of money to go to school and end up being pretty worthless in the work force. And that was a bad ass press conference , more like a media thrashing. I liked it and you didn't like it I guess. There is a lot of time left so don't get to worked up over what some stupid people thought was going to make them rich quick from real-estate sales. TRUMP!
 
Padawanbater2 said:
The media gives him a pass because his statements are outrageous, they garner ratings. Media is a business, more ratings = more revenue. Trump has gained more than $2 billion in free media this cycle because of that.

The truth is absolutely not important to Trump supporters
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Yeah, that's become startlingly apparent, not just towards Trump but against his opponents too. I think he's going to wear this tactic out by the end of this summer. But really, Ronald Reagan never was called out for his idiocy and Bush II made his butchery of language and his poor understanding of events into a virtue. So, its nothing new but it only works for Republicans. Because they really don't care about getting to the truth of things, as you say.
 
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