{"id":131672,"date":"2016-09-28T22:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T04:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/donald-trumps-very-brief-bout-of-courage.html"},"modified":"2016-09-28T22:27:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T04:27:25","slug":"donald-trumps-very-brief-bout-of-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/donald-trumps-very-brief-bout-of-courage.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump's very brief bout of "courage""},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump's son, Eric, says he's very proud of his father for not bringing up Bill Clinton's infidelities in response to Hillary Clinton's attacks on Trump's misogyny and sexism.<\/p>\n

Eric Trump — the son of Trump and his first wife, Ivana, who was granted divorce after the Donald's adulterous affair with Marla Maples became public, ahem<\/i> — says it shows real "courage" to decide not to raise the matter with Chelsea Clinton in the audience.<\/p>\n

Which might be plausible or even admirable — if<\/i> Trump hadn't made a point, in the debate,<\/i> of trying to score points by saying he wasn't going to bring up something very "rough" — and if<\/i> he hadn't gone on to talk about exactly what it was mere minutes after the debate in the press room — and if<\/i> he and his proxies weren't busy speculating today as to whether the Donald would find an opportunity to bring the matter up at the next debate. <\/p>\n

Waiting a quarter hour before making a "rough" attack doesn't net you "courage" points, Donald — your son's pride in you notwithstanding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nEric Trump: It Took “Courage” For My Dad To Not Mention Bill Clinton’s Infidelity<\/a><\/span>
\n“That was a big moment for me and probably will actually become — my life and this campaign — and probably will be something I’ll always remember,” Eric Trump said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Trump's son, Eric, says he's very proud of his father for not bringing up Bill Clinton's infidelities in response to Hillary Clinton's attacks on Trump's misogyny and sexism. Eric Trump — the son of Trump and his first wife, Ivana, who was granted divorce after the Donald's adulterous affair with Marla Maples became public, ahem … Continue reading “Donald Trump's very brief bout of "courage"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131650,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/on-the-paying-of-taxes-as-a-presidential-hopeful.html","url_meta":{"origin":131672,"position":0},"title":"On the Paying of Taxes, as a Presidential Hopeful","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Sep-16 11:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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