Trump calls North Carolina redistricting ruling 'unfair'

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Friday tore into a court's ruling this week that struck down the state's GOP-drawn redistricting map as an unconstitutional gerrymander, suggesting that "there has to be something going on."

“How unfair is that?” Trump said during a speech at a GOP fundraising event in Charlotte, N.C., attended by several Republican members of Congress, according to White House pool reports.

“No, it’s very unfair to have an election in less than 60 days and they change the district on you? And you’ve already won primaries? How does that work?" Trump continued.

"You’ve all gone through primaries — or some of you have — and it’s been districted for years, and now you have to redraw lines to have a new district? Even though you won a primary in another district? I don’t know. There has to be something going on.”

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/404651-trump-calls-north-carolina-redistricting-ruling-unfair

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Video at the link.

[sandensea]

1. Which, of course, can only mean one thing:

That it was good ruling.

[WestIndianArchie]

4. nothing he says means anything to rational people

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Maybe they should have redrawn them the first time they were ruled illegal.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's actually fair and balanced

Both parties have to scramble on the district boundary changes

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. Thanks don. You dont need to comment on every thing.Save it for the big stuff.

[wolfie001]

6. Liar in Chief!

What a turd! Piece of shit!

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Oh screw him

If I want to hear whining, I'll step on my cat. Act like a president for once.

[SergeStorms]

13. Something else Trump is first in.

Whining. There's never been a president that whines and complains as much as Trump. Of course all of our other presidents didn't act like spoiled 5 year olds, either.

If whining was winning, Trump would be the greatest president ever.

[Mc Mike]

17. "tRump Blubbers." Nt

[bullimiami]

8. They drew the original gerrymandered districts, lost in court, fought it, lost, had to change them..

Drew new illegal districts, lost in court, fought it, lost again..
And now whining that its too late to change them???

Because the goal all along was to drag it out so its too late and they win even though they lose.

And to make a point.
There are 2.6M Ds and 2.0M Rs registered in NC. Yet Rs have a 75-45 majority in the House and a 34-16 majority in the Senate.
And thats just the State Houses.
In US congress they have gerrymandered an even larger 10-3 advantage.

[iluvtennis]

10. Spot on.

[SergeStorms]

15. To borrow a line from Trump...

"that's so unfair. SAD"!

[Bradical79]

9. If your Republicans did it right the first time, you wouldn't have this problem :-P

[Solly Mack]

11. That hate-filled POS knows precisely what he is saying.

He wants to rile the racists up even more.

[LakeSuperiorView]

12. Less than 60 days? Why does he have to lie about everything?

He lies about easy provably facts. The GOP's reason for impeaching Clinton was lying about sex. If they weren't such hypocrites, every single day would yield impeachable offenses.

[truthisfreedom]

14. He's right. There's something going on. America is waking.

[noneof_theabove]

16. Rule I live by...

If you don't have to do it right, when will you have time to do it over. [and over and over, ad nauseum]

Same thing about writing shit for laws and then pawning off to the courts to fix, and whining how unfair the court is.

VOTE THEM OUT 2018 ! ! !

1percent4all
$5 Trillion / day pass through the banking system.
Tax incoming and outgoing 0.5% = $18.25 Trillion per year and dump the unfair IRS 3,000 pages of tax code.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. He sure uses "unfair" a lot.

I guess he believes that he and he alone is qualified to judge the fairness of a process, and then take steps to remedy it.

It will be interesting to see what he does about N.C. Once again he's facing his old nemesis -- the Judicial Branch of the government.

[meow2u3]

19. New Trump-to-English dictionary entry

Unfair - unfavorable to Trump's dishonest, devious desires.