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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Sun Oct 2, 2016, 05:51 PM Oct 2016

Trump Goes Way Off Script

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/02/trump-goes-way-off-script/

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“Donald Trump’s campaign announced Saturday evening that the candidate would soon deliver a nine-sentence critique of comments Hillary Clinton made months ago about many of the millennials supporting her primary rival, Bernie Sanders. It was an attempt to latch onto a new headline in hopes of finally escaping the controversies that had consumed his week,” the (Washington Post) New York Times reports.

“It didn’t work.”

“It took Trump nearly 25 minutes to read the brief statement because he kept going off on one angry tangent after another — ignoring his teleprompters and accusing Clinton of not being ‘loyal’ to her husband, imitating her buckling at a memorial service last month, suggesting that she is ‘crazy’ and saying she should be in prison. He urged his mostly white crowd of supporters to go to polling places in “certain areas” on Election Day to “watch” the voters there. He also repeatedly complained about having a “bum mic” at the first presidential debate and wondered if he should have done another season of ‘The Apprentice.'”


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Trump Goes Way Off Script (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2016 OP
That source mis-names the original report -- it came from the WA Post, not the NYTimes. n/t pnwmom Oct 2016 #1
Comedy gold. You cannot make this up. Hekate Oct 2016 #2
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