Again from Donald Trump when confronted….
“I’m the President…
You’re Not’…..
President Donald Trump defied climate scientists, intelligence specialists and even his own defense secretary on Sunday evening, capping a week of freewheeling press engagements with a sprawling primetime network television interview in which he portrayed himself as an isolated but eminently empowered commander in chief.
“I always used to say the toughest people are Manhattan real estate guys and blah, blah. Now I say they’re babies,” Trump told journalist Lesley Stahl during an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday evening.
“This is the most deceptive, vicious world,” the president said. “It is vicious, it’s full of lies, deceit and deception. You make a deal with somebody and it’s like making a deal with that table.”
Pressed by Stahl on whether the president harbored any regrets from his almost two years in office, Trump cited not his administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” immigration policy, his much criticized response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017, or the various scandals that have plagued several members of his cabinet.
Instead, he lamented that “the press treats me so badly” and said he should have moved sooner to terminate the NAFTA trade agreement with Canada and Mexico…..
image…CNN.Com
22 days before the midterms and is there any doubt that Republicans are a running as the Party of Trump?
The House is increasingly looking lost to tve GOP as the party cannot divide itself from Donald Trump and will pay in the suburban dostricts where the President is very unpopular. If the GOP holds its own in the Senate it is because of many Senate races being fought in states Trump won by large margins.
Maybe CG can point to any Congressional Repubkican candidates who are running away from Trump. All I say is embrace or resigned to defeat (I.e. Barbara Comstock)
Even in Rhode Island, the moderate Republican candidate to unseat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (Robert Flanders, a retired justice of the R.I. Supreme Court) is very modulated in any criticism of Trump, saying that he won’t hesitate to oppose him when wrong or support him when right.
Something like two fifths of Rhode Island voters voted for Donald Trump (or against Hillary Clinton) in 2016, and almost all of the Clinton cities and towns touched the ocean or Narragansett Bay (while the inland ones almost all went Red).
Off the top of my head, in targeted districts, incumbents Will Hurd and Carlos Curbelo. Both are now favored to win. In IL, Peter Roskam. He has tried to tie his left-wing Democrat opponent to Trump rhetorically.
All I see