{"id":39092,"date":"2018-09-07T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39092"},"modified":"2018-09-07T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:44:40","slug":"trumps-incoherent-whining-on-fox-news-about-anonymous-op-ed-in-ny-times-actually-affirms-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39092","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Incoherent Whining on Fox News About Anonymous Op-Ed in NY Times Actually Affirms It"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re two days into the news cycle on the anonymous op-ed<\/a><\/strong> that appeared in the New York Times announcing a “resistance”<\/em> inside the White House to Trump’s dangerous unfitness for office. If anything, the temperature has increased with more insiders coming forward to warn about Trump’s unbalanced mental state.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Trump is proving the allegations against him by bellowing at his staff and behaving even more paranoid than usual. He can’t trust anyone around him but his children, and even that might be assuming too much. The effect this has had on him is obvious and profound. He’s tweeted about this, and the related book by Bob Woodward<\/a><\/strong>, eighteen times already. He’s clearly obsessed with these credible depictions of his mental infirmities by people who have access to him and reason to know.<\/p>\n

So naturally Trump rushed frantically to Fox News in order to get a good tongue bathing in an environment where he would be safe from well deserved criticism. He was interviewed by Fox and Friends co-host Pete Hegseth before the crowd at his Montana cult rally. And the part of exchange that covered the New York Times op-ed pretty much tells you everything you need to know about Trump’s rupturing psychoses. It’s a wholly incoherent rant that he seemed to disgorge in a single, panicky breath. (video below):<\/p>\n

Hegseth:<\/strong> Folks here might have seen an anonymous column written in the New York Times. [Audience boos] And I think this audience would say that an attack on you was an attack on the people that voted for you. Are you any closer to knowing who did it and what should be done if you find out who did it?
\nTrump:<\/strong> Well number one, the Times should have never have done that because really what they\u2019ve done is, virtually, you know it\u2019s treason. You can call it a lot of things, but to think that you have somebody in all of the cabinets \u2013 some many people as you know they came forward, they\u2019re writing editorials. They\u2019re all saying you know it\u2019s got to be at a fairly low level. Because so many people today, I was just coming out, and I see all the people that are saying such great things. We have a lot of love in the administration, and the White House is truly as you would say, a well-oiled machine \u2013 it is working so well. You know we have \u2013 I heard you say yesterday, we have thousands of people that in theory could qualify. So they take one person out of thousands, but what\u2019s unfair \u2013 I don\u2019t mind when they write a book and they make lies cause it gets discredited. We just discredited the last one, we discredit all of them because it\u2019s lies. But I\u2019ll tell you, when somebody writes and you can\u2019t discredit because you have no idea who they are \u2013 usually you\u2019ll find out, it\u2019s a background that was bad, it may not be a Republican, it may not be a conservative, it may be a deep state person that\u2019s been there a long time. You don\u2019t know where \u2013 it\u2019s a very unfair thing. But its very unfair to our country and to the millions of people that voted, really for us. They voted for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, go back and read the question. Trump came nowhere near anything that might be considered an answer. What you have there is an insane person insisting that he’s completely sane while proving that he isn’t. Trump began by charging the Times with treason. Obviously, he has no idea what the word means or how to apply it. And this wasn’t a hypothetical comment. On Air Force One this morning Trump said<\/a><\/strong> he was asking his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to investigate the Times as a “national security”<\/em> matter. However, he couldn’t explain how a critical op-ed endangered national security. He also said he’s looking into taking some unspecified action against the paper and the author. That would be a flagrant breach of the Constitution’s First Amendment.<\/p>\n

Trump went on to extol the “love in the administration,”<\/em> despite the unprecedented turmoil, resignations and terminations during his first two years in office. His senior staff are reported to have called him “an idiot,” “a moron,” “a liar,” “a baby,”<\/em> and more demeaning, but accurate epithets. If this is his idea of a “well-oiled machine,”<\/em> what, in heaven’s name, would a squeaky one look like?<\/p>\n

Trump also told Hegseth that “I don\u2019t mind when they write a book”<\/em> because “we discredit all of them.”<\/em> Notice that he doesn’t say that he refutes them or offers substantive rebuttals. He astonishingly admits that he goes straight for character assassination. He affirms that by complaining that he can’t discredit the author if he doesn’t know who it is. Of course, he could dispute what was said, but the only thing he’s interested in is attacking the person, not the allegations. That’s because he can’t attack allegations that are demonstrably true.<\/p>\n

The more Trump defends himself from charges of mental infirmity, the more he is demonstrating the validity of the charges. And he’s behaving like the cornered animal that lashes out wildly at any perceived threat. That’s the same behavior he’s exhibited with regard to the investigation by special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Trump is clearly afraid and in panic mode. And that is turning his responses to these situations into more evidence against him. So keep ranting, Donnie. You’re signing your own impeachment order.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
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