Trump won't accept blame if GOP loses house
Source: TPM
October 17, 2018 7:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing the prospect of bruising electoral defeat in congressional elections, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he won't accept the blame if his party loses control of the House in November, arguing his campaigning and endorsements have helped Republican candidates.
No, I think I'm helping people. Look, I'm 48 and 1 in the primaries, and actually it's much higher than that because I endorsed a lot of people that were successful that people don't even talk about. But many of those 48, as you know, were people that had no chance, in some cases. We look at Florida, you look at Donovan in Staten Island. He was losing by 10 points, I endorsed him and he won. I could give you a long list of names. Look at Georgia governor of Georgia. And many, many races. And I will say that we have a very big impact. I don't believe anybody's ever had this kind of an impact. They would say that in the old days that if you got the support of a president or if you've got the support of somebody it would be nice to have, but it meant nothing, zero. Like literally zero. Some of the people I've endorsed have gone up 40 and 50 points just on the endorsement.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-wont-accept-blame-if-gop-loses-house
2nd paragraph from link below, (more complete statement) first paragraph from original link
Entire AP interview is at this link:
https://www.apnews.com/ce719c7d6664400cb6b720ba84af2bc2
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)but he'll blame someone else - anyone else - for things that don't go well. He does it every damn time.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)Except when it's cloudy, of course, and then it's someone else's fault.
DFW
(54,436 posts)It's his all the same. He can't get rid of it any more than he can get rid of his left femur.
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)the few republicans who are not in bed w/ him when the wipeout happens in Nov. 2018, and then they'll finally realize that the boat that they are on is sinking. The holes can't be patched as they are too many lies, too many holes, too many disgusting creatures of the night running around in this administration, corrupting the word of the law in every manner possible.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)The GOP members who have had it with Trump will be working with Dems to shut Trump down.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)like his SCOTUS choices as well as his tax cuts for the wealthy not to mention his attack on the free press.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)But he could take out his own left femur with a bone saw. Put him in a trap with KFC/Cola ten feet away and toss him a bone saw.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Stuart G
(38,445 posts)Maybe he hasn't figured that out yet..but either way..he is.
DFW
(54,436 posts)Mitch McTurtle is probably furious at the overtime he is having to put in running the country, but it is his own fault for letting his hatred for Obama and Hillary overcome what tiny vestige of patriotism he had left in him.
As for King Yertle the Turtle, that is surely all Trump really wanted to be. He probably read the original book by Dr. Seuss when it came out in 1958, said to himself, damn, THAT's what I want, except for the unhappy ending when he falls all the way down into the mud.
Ten year old Trump was probably lulling himself to sleep with "I'm Yertle the Turtle, oh marvelous me, For I am the ruler of all that I see." All this other stuff with the Supreme Court, the budget deficit and foreign policy, he probably wished he could make it all go away with a swish of Harry Potter's wand. Removo toto!
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Shocked, I tell you.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)"...oh thank you very much..."
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Gregory Peccary
(490 posts)Who is smuggling crack into the White House?
avebury
(10,952 posts)It just boggle the mind why on earth they back this idiot when he will stab them in the proverbial back like does everybody else. They are like Charlie Brown and Dump is Lucy with the football.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Even thought he's quick to claim credit for the run up
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)n/t
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)rurallib
(62,448 posts)Donald it is you that is stinking the joint up!
Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)his mouth he says he's not to blame if the "vote for him" doesn't happen. Twenty first century schizoid man!!!
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Seems to me you got your ass handed to you, and considering the size of it, that is saying something.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)It's the thin skin, can't handle even the slightest criticism or he'll throw a tantrum like the mental 2-year-old he is.
absyntheminded
(216 posts)responsibility/blame for anything his entire life. As a baby he blamed his shitty diapers on someone else.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)he'd tell you someone else was shitting in his diaper.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)and got shocked he would not accept blame. his pathology does not allow that.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)Well said. and of course, total truth..!!!
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)Most people voting are because they hate his guts and like me angry he is destroying democracy in Our country.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Trump has never accepted responsibility for anything in his entire life. I'm sure he blames someone else for those rotten kids of his as well.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)elleng
(131,100 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)(From the AP interview)
"I've had the most successful two years in the history of this country as president."
IncaRoads
(97 posts)The shit-abyss.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)the GOP, and he is responsible for its misfortunes.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)He never accepts blame for anything.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)Democrats because of way Trump lies about everything..........
First timers and last timers..taking a stand against the liar in chief. All time biggest liar.. About everything.. Even who is the person in charge of the Puke Party...no..it is Ryan, or Cruz, or McConnell..."It ain't me." says the liar in chief...
oh...but the so called, "exit polls" will say otherwise..