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yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 04:18 PM Jul 2020

Miller directing new "slash and burn" attack on Biden.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/stephen-miller-is-behind-trumps-new-slash-and-burn-campaign-against-joe-biden-report/

This should add another 5 points to Biden's lead nation wide.

As President Donald Trump accuses Joe Biden of being a tool of the far left, The Washington Post reports controversial far-right White House policy advisor Stephen Miller is behind the shift in tone from the president.

On Saturday, the newspaper reported, “President Trump has launched a slash-and-burn campaign against an exaggerated caricature of his Democratic opponent, casting former vice president Joe Biden as a destroyer of basic freedoms and a threat to voter’s safety who would “let terrorists roam free” and ‘abolish the American way of life.'”

“His new dystopian vision, with militant and extreme language not typical in American politics, marks a sharp departure from Trump’s previous effort to cast Biden as ‘Sleepy Joe,’ an establishment politician with deteriorating mental abilities. It marks the latest effort, orchestrated by the Trump’s advisers, to shift the conversation from rising coronavirus infections and deteriorating public support for the president’s pandemic response,” The Post explained.

“Trump’s tweeted language, along with similar comments by him Tuesday in the Rose Garden, appear to be lifted directly from an internal White House document officials said was circulated in the building days earlier. In two concise pages, the document sent by White House senior adviser Stephen Miller laid out dozens of bullet-pointed attacks on Biden, along with a brief summary of positive points that describe Trump’s ‘vision for the future,'” the newspaper explained.

After spending the 2016 campaign attacking Hillary Clinton for her private email server, taxpayer-paid White House officials are reportedly now using private email accounts to help Trump’s reelection campaign.

“The author of many of Trump’s most pugilistic public statements, Miller has raised concerns to other White House aides that the campaign’s messaging has not been tough enough on Biden, officials said, and a cachet of White House officials have begun working on campaign issues through their private email accounts and text message chains,” the newspaper reported.

However, the attacks may not work. On Saturday, Trump embarrassed himself by attempting to falsely accuse Joe Biden of wanting to defund the police. Even though he was on Fox News, Trump received a brutal fact-check and the hashtag “Trump is a Laughing Stock” trended nationwide on Twitter.


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Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
14. Plus a pretty unknown senstor from a small state...
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 07:43 PM
Jul 2020

They were good at defining McGovern. No rest will this line work on Biden. It's almost laughable.

erronis

(15,241 posts)
3. But they keep trying. And eventually some of the slime sticks to the wall.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 04:47 PM
Jul 2020

That's how we ended up with Nixon and trumpf.

Another set of common lowest denominators: Cohn and Stone.

Altho the (R)atfucker party is loaded with them.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
7. Is Joe "Sleepy" or is he a radical firebrand?
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 05:42 PM
Jul 2020

This messaging from Trump won’t work because it’s at odds with what he has been saying for over a year about Joe.

-Laelth

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
9. Whaaaa? Did Joe wake up ? I thought trump said he was sleeping all the time. Now Biden is Godzilla 🙄
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 05:54 PM
Jul 2020

The WH is full of losers
trump is their leader
He is a leader of lame losers

Phoenix61

(17,002 posts)
11. Brad was running things and they were not going well.
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 07:17 PM
Jul 2020

Now Miller is running things and in a month or so, things will still not be going well. Then it will be someone else. It’s 4 months until the election and he doesn’t have a campaign.

JI7

(89,247 posts)
13. I think Parscale was mostly looking to profit as much as he could
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 07:34 PM
Jul 2020

before things go down.

But Miller has hateful views and wants to accomplish certain things.

Trenzalore

(2,331 posts)
12. They could try to fix the coronavirus thing
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 07:32 PM
Jul 2020

You know get us inline with every other 1st world democracy in the world as far as cases go....

They can call Joe the reincarnation of Lenin himself if they don't get that under control I don't think people are going to care much what they have to say.

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