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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMiller 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 voters 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 Trumps previous effort to cast Biden as Sleepy Joe, an establishment politician with deteriorating mental abilities. It marks the latest effort, orchestrated by the Trumps advisers, to shift the conversation from rising coronavirus infections and deteriorating public support for the presidents pandemic response, The Post explained.
Trumps 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 Trumps 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 Trumps reelection campaign.
The author of many of Trumps most pugilistic public statements, Miller has raised concerns to other White House aides that the campaigns 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.
Thekaspervote
(32,755 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)egged on by Pat Buchanan and his ilk.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)and the VN war.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)They were good at defining McGovern. No rest will this line work on Biden. It's almost laughable.
erronis
(15,241 posts)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.
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)D_Master81
(1,822 posts)It would seem that if that was the case it wouldve started when he was VP
Laelth
(32,017 posts)This messaging from Trump wont work because its at odds with what he has been saying for over a year about Joe.
-Laelth
lunasun
(21,646 posts)The WH is full of losers
trump is their leader
He is a leader of lame losers
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Phoenix61
(17,002 posts)Now Miller is running things and in a month or so, things will still not be going well. Then it will be someone else. Its 4 months until the election and he doesnt have a campaign.
JI7
(89,247 posts)before things go down.
But Miller has hateful views and wants to accomplish certain things.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)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.