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Arkansas Granny

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1. I wonder how he expects the media to report on this since he wouldn't allow them
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 07:11 AM
Aug 2019

to accompany him. The only reports we have to rely on are his. This sums it up pretty well.


In visit to Dayton, Trump finds a victim — himself

President Donald Trump emerged from a Dayton hospital on Wednesday grieving — for himself.

After visiting with survivors of this weekend's shooting massacre in the mid-size western Ohio city, Trump took to Twitter to rage at Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley. He was furious about a press conference in which Brown said some of the hospital staff had "showed respect for the office" even after having indicated privately they were "not great admirers" of the president.
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In the time it took to hit "send," the president threatened to overshadow what should have been the easiest of non-partisan political victories for himself: a day of consoling shooting victims in Dayton and El Paso, Texas.

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The White House had set up the moment perfectly: Trump came in, the press did not. On his way out of town, the president and his aides distributed pictures and video. There was a good chance even critics would have to admit he looked "presidential."

Then Trump soothed himself with the Twitter war.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/visit-dayton-trump-finds-victim-himself-n1040241

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