OldBrownsFan Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 Is Trump softening on his core issues? That's the question asked this week at the Washington Examiner, and by RedState for months, and the answer of course is "yes, inasmuch as you can sustain the pretense that he was ever serious in the first place." After his offering of the "benefit of the doubt" for Hillary, Trump was less than certain about the prospect for building his wall. Near the end of the hour-long pro-Trump broadcast, Hannity asked Trump about the confidence he had that he would actually deliver on his campaign promises. "How certain does the wall get built? How certain does Obamacare get repealed?" Hannity asked. "You can never say 100 percent, but I'm telling you pretty close to 100 percent the wall gets built," Trump responded. "We need it." You might dismiss that statement as slight hedging against future opposition, if it weren't for the million other things that Trump has said. For example, when he was asked about surrogate Chris Collins suggesting the wall might really just be a "virtual" wall, Trump said this a few months ago: "Look, everything, honestly, is going to be up .. we're going to negotiate. I can't make these decisions myself. We have congress ... we have to deal with a lot of people. I mean, you know, I can't just take executive orders like Obama and .. it's me, and lots of congressmen and lots of senators and lots of everything. So I would say that certain things will be changed That's politician talk, people. He's saying the same thing about the wall that he's already said about the Muslim immigration ban and his supposed list of Supreme Court justices. He's saying he can't promise you anything and whatever happens, happens. Open your ears. If anyone but Trump offered this much equivocation, everyone would "know" that he had no intention of following through. But because of this absurd election, all his supporters "know" he doesn't mean the things he says that they don't like, and absolutely means the things he says that they do like. But you can't deny reality. Is the wall certain? No. It's not. It's less than certain. Trump said so himself. Even Trump fans must admit at least that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 It was populist nonsense he said to con a bunch of people who thought that it was possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbedward Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 "You can never say 100%" = "TOLD YOU SO! Politicians talk for it's not happening OОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒ How can he say it's not 100% Wow. It's not happening. " - Redstate, still salty --- "You can never say 100%" is simply the truth. Nothing more, nothing less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbedward Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 FWIW 2006 Secure Fence Act Hillary Clinton ✔️ Barack Obama ✔️ Joe Biden ✔️ But it's ridiculous and can't be done. Of course it was never finished because nobody in congress would continue funding it. Even though it was on the GOP 2012 platform....and the GOP owns the senate and the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 We all knew that he knew it was a long shot. No story here. It was just meat for his rallys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 Get triggered harder Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 "You can never say 100%" Whatever happened to certitude? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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