The White House was under siege.
Domestic abuse allegations against a senior aide were ignored, pointing to a potential high-level coverup. Two Cabinet secretaries were caught charging taxpayers for luxury travel. A Playboy centerfold alleged an extramarital affair with the president. And the special counsel’s Russia investigation was intensifying. The tumult was so intense that there was fervent speculation that President Trump might fire his chief of staff.
But a gun massacre at a Florida high school last Wednesday, which left 17 dead, seemed to shift the media glare away from the Trump scandals and gave embattled aides an opportunity to refocus on handling a crisis not of their own making. While the White House mourned the loss of life in Parkland, Fla., some aides privately acknowledged that the tragedy offered a breather from the political storm.
A tentative plan for White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly to address the news media from the briefing room Wednesday — where he would have faced intense scrutiny over his role in the mishandling of the domestic abuse allegations against former staff secretary Rob Porter — was scuttled.
One White House official said the shooting forced the White House to focus on critical and serious issues — like consoling the victims and trying to heal the nation — rather than getting bogged down in what they view as more trivial West Wing drama.
“For everyone, it was a distraction or a reprieve,” said the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal conversations. “A lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or eight days of just getting pummeled.”
The official compared this media change of focus to the one that happened after the Las Vegas shooting which claimed 58 lives.
Isn't it nice that all of these innocent Americans keep laying down their lives so that the White House can take a break from talking about Trump stream of infidelities and his possible collusion with Russia?
What kind of scumbags are we allowing to occupy the People's House?
The entire Trump klan are repulsive - especially The Donald! They are a family that is despised around the world and especially in their own country.
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DeleteThere ya go. That's the word that describes them to a 't'
So 17 young people killed gives them a 'reprieve'. We are talking about sociopathic monsters.
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"“propaganda to peddle a fake news narrative” saying survivors of the Parkland shooting “have been brainwashed by government-funded indoctrination camps – pardon me – public schools.”"
ReplyDelete"takes a page out of the “Rules for Radicals”, Starnes tells us, “turning innocent children into propaganda pawns to peddle a fake news narrative.”"It’s a sign of how potent these kids are, just speaking for themselves, that the pro-Trump media has turned to efforts to discredit and slime them,” the New York Times’ Nick Confessore wrote over the Gateway Pundit “article”.
All of this is going on around a Trump White House whose reaction to the Florida massacre was relief that they were getting a reprieve from the horrible coverage THEY’d been suffering under."
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/20/wake-florida-massacre-fox-news-host-accuses-media-using-innocent-children-fake-news.html
They had best be very careful. It won't just be the kids of Parkland that will be voting in 2018 and then 2020 and so forth.
DeleteOther high school students are paying close attention.
Smear a generation and you risk fallout for decades.
Attached those Parkland survivors that are speaking out risks turning a generation from the GOP to the Democrats or other liberal organizations. They won't be voting for any politician that is funded by the NRA.
They will become one issue voters and it won't be abortion. It will be second amendment but not in they way they want. These will be a mass of voters that have had enough and want more regulations, not less.
If Trump thinks he can appease them with some puny back ground checks and at the same time attack their motivations and character, he is going to doom the GOP to losing a generation of voters.
NRA will become toxic. (as it should). They will be lumped in with Nazi, Nationalist and White Supremacists as being against what the United States stands for.
OH, and might I add you cannot be anti-abortion and pro-second amendment. Not in the current climate. You want to be pro-life, they it's going to have to be for more than just a live birth. You're going to have to be against school shootings and that is going to mean gun regulations. More of them. Tougher ones.
You're either pro-Life or you're against it.
See how the GOP swallows that one.
Sorry scumbags no reprieve. We’re coming after you until you get out of our house.
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lOOk down a barrel...
Not sure if this is good or not, but a Military School has accepted one of the victims posthumously so that person will receive full miltary honors at burial.
ReplyDeleteAnybody think the whole Pee Pond might be Russian bots? No really - so nasty stupid and crazy. Some Russian troll farm’s idea of nutty right wing Americans. Think about it. Except for that loon St Louis XI of course - he’s always telling his real name and where he lives. It would actually be a relief to know they’re all fake.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes you think St. Louis XI isn't Russian? They stole identities. He could very well be Russian too. He gives A name and AN address but are they real?
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