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Steve Schmidt: A picture worth millions of words
Article & tweets:
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/a-picture-worth-millions-of-words
I have always loved photo journalism. Photography can capture a mood, a feeling, a single moment that defines an era, a generation or a crisis. Below is such a photograph:
This is a picture of our shared American crisis that has been caused by Donald Trump. The disdain that the American people feel for him was fully on display in Iowa. The rage they feel for his assault on our country was palpable and loud. Donald Trump was visiting America yesterday, not Mar-a-Lago, or a propaganda set built by a news network:
It should be noted that Ron DeSantis and the grifter Vivek Ramaswamy fared no better at the game. They received no mercy from the crowd.
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I think it is a perfect portrait of 2023. Anger on the edge of the storm.
It should be noted that Ron DeSantis and the grifter Vivek Ramaswamy fared no better at the game. They received no mercy from the crowd.
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I think it is a perfect portrait of 2023. Anger on the edge of the storm.
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Former President Donald J. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the front-runners in the Republican primary, both appeared at the game: Mr. Trump, in a private suite, and Mr. DeSantis, in the stands alongside the state’s popular governor, Kim Reynolds.
It was the first time the two were at the same event since the Iowa State Fair, at which Mr. Trump and his supporters taunted Mr. DeSantis, who was heckled and cursed at as he strolled the fairgrounds with his family.
A month later, at Jack Trice Stadium, the roles appeared to be reversed, with Mr. Trump on the receiving end.
The former president entered the game to a mix of applause and audible boos, as a plane with a banner reading “Where’s Melania?” flew overhead — a nod to the absence of his wife from the campaign trail. Some attendees gave him the middle finger from the stands while he looked on from the glass-paneled box from which he watched the game.
While Iowa voted for Mr. Trump in 2020 with an eight-percentage-point margin, the state’s two major college towns — Ames, where the game took place, and Iowa City, home of the rival Iowa Hawkeyes — are quite blue.
It was the first time the two were at the same event since the Iowa State Fair, at which Mr. Trump and his supporters taunted Mr. DeSantis, who was heckled and cursed at as he strolled the fairgrounds with his family.
A month later, at Jack Trice Stadium, the roles appeared to be reversed, with Mr. Trump on the receiving end.
The former president entered the game to a mix of applause and audible boos, as a plane with a banner reading “Where’s Melania?” flew overhead — a nod to the absence of his wife from the campaign trail. Some attendees gave him the middle finger from the stands while he looked on from the glass-paneled box from which he watched the game.
While Iowa voted for Mr. Trump in 2020 with an eight-percentage-point margin, the state’s two major college towns — Ames, where the game took place, and Iowa City, home of the rival Iowa Hawkeyes — are quite blue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/us/politics/iowa-football-trump-desantis.html
https://archive.ph/mE3LX
but it was televised, anybody know if the TV cameras broadcast any of P01135809's one finger salutes? 
