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This is not what Trump was saying. Attempting to cover for the orange asshole is a bad look.Have you ever, perchance, heard of a thing called "Combat"?
More bullshit.It's where you have weapons, and your opposition has weapons, and ya'll try to kill each other with them.
It is also, clearly, based on both his words and context, what Trump was talking about in this instance.
Covering for the orange asshole is a bad look.
Nonsensical bullshit.It's still a gross and wrong attack. Democrats were wrong to make it in the mid 2000's, and Trump is wrong to make it now.
Nonsensical bullshit.But when folks in the media and on the left generally try to turn it into a twisted, hyperbolic, version that he did not say, they turn the story into their inaccuracy, and mean that he won't face any consequences for it. All that will happen is that this will tie people more to him, because his opponents will look dishonest, discrediting their other criticism of him.
This kind of crap immunizes him from losing supporters, because they point to the falseness or tortured attempts to make something worse than it was as a way of shrugging off valid criticism.
How many times have you heard MAGA use "Russiagate" as a means of brushing off stories about Trump's abuses?
Yeah - he's talked about having military tribunals for domestic political opponents. He's a would-be autocrat. He's dangerous.
So we should stop helping him by distorting what he says, which discredits criticism of him.
Nobody distorted anything.


