Can Anyone Find Evidence Of This?

[seanD]

Not sure myself. I'm guessing he's trying to impress evangelicals with how tough he is and how 'on God's side' he is so as to shore up their vote for him in the fall.

I don't think he was trying ro impress evangelicals, as evangelicals are already impressed with him, as you've lamented about incessantly on this board. The act is so bizarre and pointless in any political sense in a situation like this, that I suspect there's something else to it.

[Mountain Man]

It was ordered by Barr to facilitate Trump's photo op.

That's the frothing-at-the-mouth liberal narrative at least. Is there any official confirmation?

[Mountain Man]

This stunt has hurt Trump significantly.

I doubt it. The people who already hate Trump still hate him. The rest of us don't care.

[Mountain Man]

Hope Hicks is being blamed. That means this whole fiasco rests at Trump's feet. EoD.

The article you linked to is just one big bald assertion without any sources or official comments, so...

[DivineOb]

The article you linked to is just one big bald assertion without any sources or official comments, so...

Oh... you want underlying documents now, hypocrite?

[Mountain Man]

Oh... you want underlying documents now, hypocrite?

No, I want more than a reporter's mere say so, dumbass.

[DivineOb]

No, I want more than a reporter's mere say so, dumbass.

Had you read the transitively linked articles you would have gotten your wish.

Not to mention that what you think passes for evidence comes from people who don't even qualify as reporters .

[DivineOb]

I doubt it. The people who already hate Trump still hate him. The rest of us don't care.

Trump has lost Pat Robertson, but do go on.

[Mountain Man]

Had you read the transitively linked articles you would have gotten your wish.

There were no links in the article or any quotes from named sources to support the claims.

Trump has lost Pat Robertson, but do go on.

And...?

[DivineOb]

There were no links in the article or any quotes from named sources to support the claims.

Ok, I will admit I thought I had posted the Salon article which had a link to the NYT article.

And...?

Your claim was

I doubt it. The people who already hate Trump still hate him. The rest of us don't care.

Robertson doesn't hate Trump and the throngs who still care what Robertson thinks don't hate Trump. So, as I said, this stunt has hurt Trump.

[Ronson]

I doubt it. The people who already hate Trump still hate him. The rest of us don't care.

I don't hate Trump but this isn't good optics. It really backfired.

I've never voted for Trump but was considering voting for him in 2020. This won't affect that. What I am waiting to see is if he puts the US military in US cities for policing. That's the deal breaker.

[DivineOb]

Updated reporting places the blame on both Hicks and Kremlin Barbie.

[Mountain Man]

"...unnamed source..."

You idiots fall for this every... single... time...

[rogue06]

I would not be at all surprised if this was planned.

The MSM had been characterizing Trump as scared and cowardly, hunkered down in the White House.

He had just finished talking about the need for mayors and governors to take back the streets.

Lafayette Park was one of the main sites for rioting and St. John's had been vandalized.

This looks like Trump giving a demonstration of what he was telling others needed to be done.

No rogue. This is Trump. You are exhibiting irrational paranoia wrt the news media when need to just accept this is who the person running our country is - as I have been saying for a very long time now.

Was that a knee jerk rejection without bothering to have read what I wrote?

I'm saying that I think this was likely planned and then give some reasons for it, and you see that as

exhibiting irrational paranoia wrt the news media when need to just accept this is who the person running our country is

[Cow Poke]

Trump has lost Pat Robertson, but do go on.

Pat has lost his mind - long ago. Still, I go a little beyond "isn't cool" and don't think using the US military is a good idea. (aside from your misrepresentation of "attacking the protesters")