{"id":44088,"date":"2020-02-15T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44088"},"modified":"2020-02-15T10:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T18:02:56","slug":"trumps-phony-fits-of-sympathy-for-bernie-sanders-are-just-what-putin-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44088","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Phony Fits of Sympathy for Bernie Sanders Are Just What Putin Ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party primary is beginning to roll out in earnest as the first states have completed their voting. And no one is more captivated by the process than the reality TV game show host currently occupying the White House. Donald Trump apparently fancies himself a political pundit now, and he has much to say about the electoral prospects of the party that he has literally and grossly disparaged <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42338\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the true enemies of America<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-putin-lap.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38123\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3317013541646751\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since early January Trump has been spreading a baseless conspiracy theory that the Democratic Party is rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders. If that were true it would be one of the least effective attempts at rigging an election considering the remarkable success that Sanders has enjoyed. That success was even acknowledged by Trump just a few days before he launched his conspiracy ranting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow! Crazy Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls, looking very good against his opponents in the Do Nothing Party. So what does this all mean? Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1216435180220620807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For those who bothered to stayed tuned, Trump served up a barrage of tweets that flagrantly contradicted his original premise. For instance, Trump rage-tweeted that&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1218195021930926082\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">They are rigging<\/a> the election again against Bernie Sanders, just like last time, only even more obviously.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1218668999086694400\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">They are taking<\/a> the Democrat Nomination away from Crazy Bernie.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1219974660915388416\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">They are taking<\/a> the nomination away from Bernie for a second time. Rigged!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1220453276275150855\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Crazy Bernie takes the lead<\/a> in the Democrat Primaries, but it is looking more and more like the Dems will never allow him to win! Will Sleepy Joe be able to stumble across the finish line?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1223837731056427009\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Many of the ads<\/a> you are watching were paid for by Mini Mike Bloomberg. He is going nowhere, just wasting his money, but he is getting the DNC to rig the election against Crazy Bernie, something they wouldn\u2019t do for @CoryBooker and others. They are doing it to Bernie again, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1224317265702801408\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The DNC on Bernie Sanders<\/a>, \u201cLooks like they\u2019re going to do it to him again, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d @SteveDoocy @foxandfriends<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1228341384131772416\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">It is happening again<\/a> to Crazy Bernie, just like last time, only far more obvious. They are taking the Democrat Nomination away from him, and there\u2019s very little he can do. A Rigged System!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of absurdity clogging up Trump&#8217;s Twitter feed there. First he asserts that the Democratic Party was deliberately disadvantaging Sanders by forcing him to attend the impeachment hearings so that he would not be able to campaign. But that was also true for Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand. So by Trump&#8217;s ignorant and perverse logic the Party was rigging the election against every Democratic senator in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Following that, Trump first attributes the Party&#8217;s alleged bias to be for the benefit of Joe Biden. But that didn&#8217;t last long. He later claims that Mike Bloomberg was the intended beneficiary. As usual, Trump&#8217;s inane allegations are flailing out in every direction with his familiar brand of incoherence. Make no mistake. Trump doesn&#8217;t give a damn about any of the Democrats or the conduct of their primary. And if he was actually concerned about Sanders he wouldn&#8217;t be using the insulting and infantile nickname, <em>&#8220;Crazy Bernie.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>None of this, of course, is Sanders&#8217; fault. There are reasons for Trump&#8217;s asinine histrionics that go beyond his everyday indecency and immaturity. What is actually behind Trump&#8217;s Bernie fetish can be distilled into two rather obvious explanations: Fear and chaos!<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPLANATION #1: FEAR:<\/strong> Trump sees that Sanders is leading a movement much like the one that Trump regards himself to be leading. Sanders has amassed the largest base of small donors in history. And his supporters have a profound loyalty to his candidacy that his based on common American principles and values. Unlike Trump&#8217;s cult following that is wholly comprised of glassy-eyed MAGA disciples who can&#8217;t articulate a policy that exceeds the four words of his slogan and who continue their support despite his lies, crimes, and hate mongering.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, there is a peculiar appeal that crosses over from Trump to Sanders that is linked to the theme of shaking up the establishment. But here there is also a profound difference. Sanders has been doing it with sincerity for decades, while Trump is a dishonest, exploitative newcomer whose credibility is worthless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPLANATION #2: CHAOS:<\/strong> The other explanation for Trump&#8217;s obsession with Sanders is that it fulfills the agenda of Trump&#8217;s benefactor, Vladimir Putin. The primary Russian objective in interfering with U.S. elections has been to sow division and distrust. By stirring up animosity between the various Democratic candidates, Putin hopes to diminish them all and form opposing camps who work against their common goals and their eventual nominee, whoever it is. Additionally, he hopes to create chaos and an impression that the election is rampant with fraud and the results unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is purposefully advancing these anti-democratic and anti-American objectives. And he doesn&#8217;t need to discuss it with Putin to know what they are or what&#8217;s expected of him. Just like he didn&#8217;t need to have explicit conversations with Putin to benefit from Russia&#8217;s interference in the 2016 election. As was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42279\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">affirmed by special counsel Robert Mueller<\/a><\/strong>, <em>&#8220;Trump and his campaign welcomed and encouraged Russian interference,&#8221;<\/em> in 2016 and <em>&#8220;lied about it to cover it up.&#8221;<\/em> All without (so far as we currently know) any explicit conversations between Trump and Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who doesn&#8217;t think the same thing is happening now is either complicit or terminally naive. It is imperative that the American people be aware of these Russian-initiated tactics that Trump is obediently undertaking like the lapdog he is. We must not allow Putin and Trump to sow the discord they hope will return Trump to the White House. So feel free to vote your hearts in the primaries. But in November we must come together to support the Democratic candidate, whoever he or she is. Failing to do that is failing America.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party primary is beginning to roll out in earnest as the first states have completed their voting. And no one is more captivated by the process than the reality TV game show host currently occupying the White House. Donald Trump apparently fancies himself a political pundit now, and he has much to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1200,8],"tags":[484,218,554,1140,377,1056,1072],"class_list":["post-44088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-michael-bloomberg","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-putin-lap.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bt6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44182,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44182","url_meta":{"origin":44088,"position":0},"title":"PROOF: The Russian Plot to &#8216;Help&#8217; Bernie Sanders is Being Led By Donald Trump","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/22\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This week there were a couple of bombshell reports that revealed how alarmed the intelligence community is about Russia's intentions to undermine this year's presidential election. 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