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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:02 PM Jul 2017

This is no rookie mistake. The team shouldnt even be on the field.

By Dana Milbank Opinion writer July 11 at 7:57 PM

... What I love is the defense of this attempt by senior Trump campaign officials to receive Russian help in the election. As my colleagues .. report, presidential advisers are explaining away the meeting .. as a “rookie mistake” by an “unsophisticated” campaign ...

There have been enough rookie errors to send this whole team back to Double-A ball. The longer this goes on — we’re now six months into Trump’s term — the less it looks like growing pains than incompetence and mismanagement aggravated by nepotism and dishonesty ...

Mistakes and outrages are so common that we become numb to them. But stack three weeks of the embarrassments together and the cumulative effect makes it plain that this is amateur hour for the greatest nation on Earth ...

... Among Junior’s conflicting explanations: It was okay because the Russian didn’t produce good dirt on Clinton ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-no-rookie-mistake-the-trump-team-shouldnt-even-be-on-the-field/2017/07/11/058faec6-6679-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html

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This is no rookie mistake. The team shouldnt even be on the field. (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2017 OP
DOUBLE-A ???? pangaia Jul 2017 #1
Rookie League?! meow2u3 Jul 2017 #4
I'm thinking more like T-Ball.... lib-ruhl Jul 2017 #2
these same republicans *ssholes insisted the white house was no place for on-the-job learning unblock Jul 2017 #3

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3. these same republicans *ssholes insisted the white house was no place for on-the-job learning
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 10:21 PM
Jul 2017

when *obama* was running for president. too inexperienced, they said.

but now it's a great p.r. asset for donnie, *any* mistake can merrily be blamed on his inexperience and gosh, how can we complain about that, right?

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