New ad taunts Trump to take stand in hush money trial - or admit he's a coward
Source: UK Independent
1 hour ago
Donald Trump has been taunted to take the stand in his New York hush money trial in a new advert which uses the former president’s own words against him.
The ad, from centre-left group Third Way, implores Mr Trump to “take the stand” or “admit you’re a coward” by featuring a 2016 quote from the former president where he asks, “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth?”
Mr Trump originally made the comment during a campaign rally about investigations into Hillary Clinton and her staff. Since then, the former president has changed his tune. He pleaded the Fifth Amendment during a deposition with the New York Attorney General in 2022 and has played a will-he won’t-he game about testifying in his hush money trial.
“Donald, why won’t you testify? After all, you believe only guilty cowards take the Fifth,” the voiceover mocks Mr Trump during the 30-second ad. The ad, titled “Coward” launched on Friday in the Palm Beach, Florida area – where Mr Trump lives at his Mar-a-Lago residence, according to POLITICO’s Playbook.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ad-coward-trial-stand-b2546989.html
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It was derisively known on DU as "Turd Way" and represented the position of the "blue dog Democrats" (social liberals but fiscal conservatives) and "neoliberals". 
By MICHAEL KELLY SEPT. 26, 1992
Seeking to counter this week's Republican offensive portraying him as a leftist, tax-mad, big-government liberal, Bill Clinton today began an effort to once more position himself as a "third way" Democrat, neither of the left nor the right. At the same time, the Democratic Presidential nominee sought to turn President Bush's attack against him, depicting his opponent as a "do-nothing" President who is "out of touch, out of ideas and out of time," and who clings to the "stale, failed rhetoric of the past." Mr. Clinton introduced his new defense in a noontime address that was almost preachily earnest to a small crowd of invited guests at the University of Connecticut at Hartford, in West Hartford.
He echoed it, in a looser fashion, before a passionate, mostly young crowd of more than 10,000 people packed shoulder-to-shoulder near the historic Faneuil Hall here. 'A Can-Do Country'. "You cannot permit this election to be about false choices from America's past, about the same old categories, the same old boxes we try to put people in," Mr. Clinton said in West Hartford. "We are living in a new world, at the end of the cold war, and we have new challenges and new opportunities and we had better seize them, and we had better be willing to park all this aimless hot-air rhetoric at the door and deal with the people's problems and the people's agenda.
"I think this is a can-do country," he continued. "This should not be an election about the stale, failed political rhetoric of the past. If we let this be about tax and spend and trickle-down, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. This is about whether we have the courage to face up to the realities of modern life."
In truth, Mr. Clinton evinces no shame in discussing the Republicans' theory of trickle-down economics, which he mocks in most speeches. But his distaste for the words "tax and spend" is both profound and well-founded; the charge of liberalism, if it sticks, can be fatal to a Democrat seeking the White House.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190301094321/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/26/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-says-he-s-not-leaning-left-but-taking-new-third.html
The org is still there sort of sitting the background, so it is interesting seeing them resurface again (they pretty much got wiped out in 2010 with Democrats dumping the moderate and conservative Democrats, with those elected officials being replaced with Koch-fueled astroturf teabaggers) - https://www.thirdway.org/
napping.
