Trump Is Clinging on to Hillary Clinton Like Grim Death -- Is It Actually Working?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump filed the paperwork to run for reelection on January 20th, 2017, the day he was inaugurated. He officially announced his intention to seek a second term just over a year later, earlier than any president in history. The “launch” that took place in Orlando Tuesday night was nothing more than an excuse to raise money, hold another rally and, one would think, lay out a fresh set of issues to campaign around for the next 17 months. This didn’t happen.

What Trump said over the course of the near hour-and-a-half he spent onstage at the Amway Center was no different than what he’s said at any of his previous rallies, nor was it much different than what he said when he was running for president the first time. He whined about the press; he demonized immigrants; he called Democrats anti-American and, nearing on three years after the 2016 election, he continued to bash Hillary Clinton and reminisce about his first campaign.

“33,000 emails deleted!” Trump brayed. “Think of it!”

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The crowd — including a giddy Lindsey Graham, who once called Trump “completely unhinged,” and Marco Rubio, who once said Trump couldn’t be trusted with the nuclear codes — loved it. So did Fox News, which may be more obsessed with Clinton than Trump is. As Matt Gertz of Media Matters pointed out earlier on Tuesday, Sean Hannity has mentioned Clinton on every edition of his show since May 1st (and likely well before that).

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[rampartc]

1. is it working? for who?

his deplorables consider ms Clinton to be pure evil.

[RKP5637]

2. Someone needs to wake him up and tell him it's the 2020 election. I guess his dementia is getting

in the way, still stuck in 2016. It's obvious he's terrified of Hillary.

[qazplm135]

3. yes

His campaign is wrestling influenced. He's the wrestler and he needs a foil, a heel to his face.

Hillary serves that up until there is a Dem nominee or likely nominee, and then he/they will simply transfer all of their hatred for her onto that person.

[mr_lebowski]

7. And his idiot supporters think the Kayfabe ... is real ...

Many of them are probably (fake) wrestling fans, I'd imagine.

[qazplm135]

10. I actually have watched wrestling

it's a silly fun male soap opera. If you watch it that way, it can be enjoyable (not WWE some of the other ones like WCW and for about a two year period TNA).

But yeah, this idiots probably think it's real.

[Turin_C3PO]

12. I used to watch WCW back in the mid to late nineties.

The nWo was all the rage. I was addicted to the drama lol. (Naturally, I knew it was staged)

[qazplm135]

14. the way they played Sting was masterful

Keeping your top star silent and out of wrestling for an entire YEAR just to build up the tension was a risky masterstroke of genius.

Seeing him FINALLY come out and beat Hogan was epic.

But then they were out of ideas lol No idea how to follow that up, and they quickly degraded into one bad storyline after another.

To go from beating the WWE to being bought by them in the space of about 3 years was craziness.

[Turin_C3PO]

15. Yea the Sting storyline kept me glued to the TV

every Monday night.

[qazplm135]

16. Scorpion Deathlock

for the win!

[Turin_C3PO]

17. Yes!

[trev]

26. I was never a fan, but I watched occasionally.

I quit after Hulk Hogan got hurt.

[saidsimplesimon]

4. It's a shame Mrs. Clinton is

not running. This is like getting free, media earned recognition every time he attacks a Democrat. We need to turn the narrative around when the media invites Democrats to appear on air.

[teenagebambam]

6. HRC should...

...March into one of his rallies (secret service detail in tow), take the stage, and let his sheeple witness how he won’t say sh*t to her face

[rufus dog]

8. Years ago, maybe 2005 or 2006 I had to drive around LA a lot

Which meant being stuck in traffic. So a lot of radio time. I came up with a game. Switch from the classic rock station whenever a Clapton song was played, switch from NPR whenever they didn’t substantiate a story, and from Hannity a soon as he said Clinton. If none happened then I would switch after 30 minutes. The results, I would usually be on NPR for 45 minutes an hour and Hannity rarely made it five minutes.

So I’m having lunch with RW father in law one day. He starts in on how his friend went to a Hannity event and how cool it was. I laughed and said how many years could they thrive on the Clinton hate? And told him about my game, which he discounted. So we jump in the car and say how about a bet. We are 5 minutes from home, tops, for $1 I bet Hannity will say Clinton before we get home. He takes the bet. Switch the station to Hannity, put the car in reverse and CLINTON. Didn’t even make it out of the parking space. I offered double or nothing the entire way home, he just laughed and said turn it off.

Now the lesson learned, I thought they would finally bore of the mind fucking numbing bullshit. Over ten years later and they haven’t. So, the answer seems to be, they will never get tired of the mind fucking bullshit. They likely can’t even realize what they are subjecting themselves to daily.

FREEBIRD!

[stillcool]

9. Maybe Barr is figuring out a way...

to charge Hillary with something.

[NewJeffCT]

20. They might "trump up" some charges against her

that will hopefully fall apart once it gets to court. However, the big headlines of "CLINTON INDICTED" will carry the news cycle for weeks.

[stillcool]

24. an awful thought....but

these days the impossible is so very possible. If what's his name on Fox has mentioned Hillary so many times since May 1st, the coinky-dink makes my mind go places.

[trev]

27. I honestly believe this is part of the plan. nt

[Vinca]

11. Trump's rally was like a rerun of an event from 2016. He ought to at least come up with some new

hate material for the nitwits.

[a kennedy]

13. Exactly right Lindsey Graham giddy....he looked absolutely ridiculous

laughing like a fool in the audience.

[moose65]

18. I know WE are all sick of it, but...

doesn't that shit get old with his base too? If I was listening to a politician and they kept bringing up stuff that happened three years ago and their schtick hadn't changed one iota, I think I'd get sick of it! Doesn't his base ever just get sick of him? He never has anything new to offer them - just the same old tired "lock her up" bullshit. I don't get it!

[Initech]

19. Lindsay's head is so far up Trump's ass that he ran into Hannity.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Good one

I'm going to have to remember that.

[struggle4progress]

21. "People don't know this, you know. I mean, she was the one who had Lincoln assassinated.

That's what people say. I don't know but that's what people are saying. Many people. Many many people"

[Submariner]

23. Thanks for that explanation, now I understand why it was so easy for her to shoot Vince Foster

[Andy823]

22. He doesn't have just one person

to attack when he was running against Hillary, so he has to stick with what got him the republican nomination in the first place, attack Hillary. The constant repeating of his stump speech over and over and over again has to include his worst "enemy" in order to keep the cult followers happy. It's like religious cults who repeat the same agenda over and over and over till their followers are programed to accept anything the leader, or leaders, say as the truth.

It's like the Jehovah's witnesses having the same information put out world wide for every meeting, and they repeat their basics like, they and they alone have the truth, all others not JW's are following Satan, and of course they say all the worldly people will lie to you about them, and the "proves" they, the JW's, are telling the truth so don't listen to what anyone says, but the leaders. Trump does the "press is the enemy" line to convince his followers he is the only on they can believe. It's the cult mentality, and sadly it works on a lot of people.

[duforsure]

28. He enjoys demonizing others, especially women

He's weaponizing the justice department with Barr, and soon will be telling him who he can prosecute for political reasons.