{"id":137416,"date":"2018-11-06T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/donald-trump-is-a-menace.html"},"modified":"2018-11-07T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:34:44","slug":"donald-trump-is-a-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/donald-trump-is-a-menace.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is a menace"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, that’s hardly headline news. But it keeps coming more and more into focus, never so much so as in the waning days of the 2018 election campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat scares the crap out of me is that, when you\u2019re saying \u2018enemy of the people, enemy of the people,\u2019 \u2026 what happens if all of a sudden someone gets shot, somebody shoots one of these reporters?\u201d Vandehei pleads. Trump replies, \u201cIt is my only form of fighting back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the entire exchange, and take note of what Trump does not say here. The easiest answer Trump could give would be to deflect the concern as overblown. But at no point does he reassure the palpably frightened Vandehei that he is not inciting violence, and that his supporters understand that they should refrain from radical acts. Instead Trump lets the threat hang in the air, and justifies it as his only weapon against the slanders against him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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I know, that’s hardly headline news. But it keeps coming more and more into focus, never so much so as in the waning days of the 2018 election campaign. \u201cWhat scares the crap out of me is that, when you\u2019re saying \u2018enemy of the people, enemy of the people,\u2019 \u2026 what happens if all of … Continue reading “Donald Trump is a menace”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,358,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136116,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/trump-is-his-own-worst-enemy-his-opponents-best-ally.html","url_meta":{"origin":137416,"position":0},"title":"Trump is his own worst enemy, his opponents best ally","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Apr-18 2:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump continues to do more to both publicize and lend credibility to Comey's memoir than any other imaginable factor. 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