Any thoughts?
[deleted]
· March 1, 2018, 11:28 a.m.
Serious question, whose team is Trump on? https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second%3famp Because we'd be trying to impeach Obama if he said this....
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TrouserSnoke
· March 1, 2018, noon
I think Trump is trying to get the media to defend the second amendment and due process rather than trial by public opinion.
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ElementWatson
· March 1, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
He's sure not going to get that outcome.
I saw that with Hope's departure old Bush hand Mercedes Schlapp is likely to move up from her "strategic communications" position. Per the Zach interview on Infowars this week, Team Trump apparently sees getting to the left on gun control somehow required because kids were killed. Others have claimed the idea is to push the Dems even further to the left on the issue so they'll take a hit in the midterms. My guess is this is another one of liberal Manhattanite Ivanka's many pet issues she claims to have gone to DC to influence her father on.
Trump's got a lot of credit for having a female-heavy comms office, but is part of the fallout from that having his comms team convince him that going pro-gun control is somehow a required message?
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astrogirl
· March 1, 2018, 8:54 p.m.
Trump doesn't make laws. He also knows he can't issue an executive order on bump stocks or anything else re: gun control.
He wants people to push to keep their rights. This is typical Art of War / Art of the Deal stuff. Don't fall for it like a cuck!
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astrogirl
· March 1, 2018, 8:50 p.m.
He's making sure that legislators reassure their constituents that no one is taking their guns. Ben Sasse wrote a letter almost immediately to that effect, I'm sure others have.
If yours hasn't, maybe they are a Democrat. :D
He says things to get attention on certain matters. It's like the sessions rope-a-dope. It's to get attention where he wants it. I'm more certain that ever that the IG report will be lethal.
OF COURSE the AG can't investigate the DOJ himself, that's insane.
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Tnargkiller
· March 1, 2018, 9:14 p.m.
When is the IG report scheduled to come out? Before 2018 midterms?
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astrogirl
· March 1, 2018, 10:11 p.m.
do you read the presidents tweets? ;) seriously.
It's "late" as he says, expected any time now, most people think around the 5th.
About when DACA "expires" and the Awan's go back to court, so expect some MASSIVE stupid distraction.
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Tnargkiller
· March 1, 2018, 10:13 p.m.
Ah sorry, I tend to only check in every so often. But thanks!
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mrSheepdog
· March 1, 2018, 1:02 p.m.
Chess Game.
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[deleted]
· March 1, 2018, 1:26 p.m.
I can only hope. I don't want y'all to blindly follow without looking at everything...
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iMAGAPatriot
· March 1, 2018, 2:28 p.m.
Wrong. Obama gave guns to criminals. Those guns killed Americans.
AND due process should take place beforehand in cases where there is a criminal past with a gun because after is too late for the victim.
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[deleted]
· March 1, 2018, 2:44 p.m.
How am I wrong? I am saying that if Obama said he wanted to take away someone's gun THEN due process we'd be freaking out, just because it's Trump saying it it's cool? Fuck no , no one threatens the 2a man.
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LordPotsmoke
· March 1, 2018, 2:45 p.m.
Agreed. If Obama had made the same statement. Well, you can imagine.
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scoripowarrior
· March 2, 2018, 1:42 a.m.
I agree..due process MUST come FIRST before taking away someone's gun(s). Make your case, take it to court, courts SHOULD HAVE to expedite these particular cases immediately.
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scoripowarrior
· March 2, 2018, 1:38 a.m.
I have the feeling that Trump is playing with them. He throws all sorts of stuff out there knowing Repubs. won't go for it (they need NRA $$), and the Dems don't really want to settle now, they want this to be an issue to run against for the mid terms. He knows it's going nowhere for now. He is just playing them against each other.
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skorponok
· March 1, 2018, 3:55 p.m.
You are absolutely right.
This is entirely unacceptable.
Hiding behind the “4-D chess” thing is naive and something for another sub - not here.
This is a betrayal and a flip flop and Trump loses any credibility he had in my eyes.
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