{"id":43972,"date":"2020-02-04T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43972"},"modified":"2020-02-04T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:35:43","slug":"trump-gloats-over-iowa-caucus-glitches-while-covering-up-prior-gop-debacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43972","title":{"rendered":"Trump Gloats Over Iowa Caucus Glitches While Covering Up Prior GOP Debacles"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no point in trying to understate the unfortunate problems delaying results from the Democratic primary in Iowa. It’s the sort of thing that only reflects badly on the party, despite the cause and\/or blame still being unknown. However, there are ways to overstate it. And Republicans are doing their best to demonstrate that with wild and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

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Chief among the mudslingers, of course, is the always hysterically hyperbolic master of harangue, Donald Trump. He eagerly embraced the botched returns as a welcome deflection from his impeachment affair<\/a><\/strong>. The morning after the Iowa caucuses, Trump took his usual post on the Twitter machine and blasted out missives intended to malign his Democratic rivals who had nothing to do with the glitches.<\/p>\n

Trump’s attack began with a tweet<\/a><\/strong> calling the caucus “an unmitigated disaster”<\/em> and declaring “a very big victory”<\/em> for himself. He followed that up with a bizarre tweet<\/a><\/strong> asking “When will the Democrats start blaming RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA?”<\/em> No Democrat has even hinted at that although, it is not unreasonable to assume that Russia would exploit this event after the fact to cast aspersions on Democrats on behalf of their “useful idiot”<\/em> in the White House. Then Trump closed with this:<\/p>\n

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The Democrat Party in Iowa really messed up, but the Republican Party did not. I had the largest re-election vote in the history of that great state, by far, beating President Obama\u2019s previous record by a lot. Also, 97% Plus of the vote! Thank you Iowa!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n