Feinstein: "Trump is right"

[LiberalLovinLug]

62. what???

You are so reaching. All persons are created equal, but different statements from different politicians at different times talking about a different issue for different reasons............cannot both be put on the same judgmental scales.

Feinstein made a statement that implied Trump should be given even more of a chance to change with:

"“I think we have to have some patience, I do,” Ms. Feinstein, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee and a senior member on Intelligence, told the crowd. “It’s eight months into the tenure of the presidency … We’ll have to see if he can forget himself and his feelings about himself enough to be able to have the empathy and direction that this country needs.....................I just hope he has the ability to learn and to change and if he does he can be a good president. And that's my hope."

Personally I don't have much of an issue with this. She is a politician. She must always appear to be open. But some more reactionary Dems didn't like it because.....well we all know its impossible. As Hillary said, "this is who he is", and so she seemed to be giving him more undeserved slack.



Sanders made a statement that took advantage of a rare true Trump statement as a means to trap him and his supporters for being hypocritical about health care. Completely different. Yes....unequal.

There is not much in common other than a discussion of Trump is involved in both. For one, Feinstein never said "Trump is right about...." she implied he may be redeemable if only given more of a chance. Two very different things. Second, one was done to attack Trump and trap him, the other was, at least seen as, an excusing of Trump. One was sarcasm to make a point, the other was not sarcastically said at all.

BTW, she walked back that statement the next day:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/30/politics/dianne-feinstein-donald-trump-president/index.html

A day after she was jeered at a town hall for suggesting President Donald Trump could become a "good president" if he would "change," Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein issued a statement saying she is "under no illusion" he will.