(08-25-2021 06:36 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-25-2021 06:22 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  If you want to believe and promote, or otherwise repeat the canard he was promoting injecting bleach, you are free to do so. That simply isn't what is there if and when one *actually* looks at the video and the interaction (yes, interaction) between Trump and another there.

The abject dishonesty of the media in blatantly misquoting Trump here and with regard to Charlottesville go to the very heart of the issue of trusting subject media.

I find any defense of Trump to be curious, but this one in particular makes no sense and just reveals bias IMO. I was watching this live, as I'm sure many of you were, and I had been reading/ consuming every bit of Covid-19 information I could- as I'm sure many of you were. He was being advised by people that had been studying virology and epidemiology their entire lives. He should have been AT LEAST as well informed as you and me.
Yes, this was in the form of a question, but it was maybe the dumbest question a president ever asked (in public anyway). He appears to have realized that because he immediately came back the following day to say that the question was to reporters and was "sarcastic" and "meant to "see what would happen".
But you all watched it- that was an earnest question posed to Debby Blix by what can only be described as a moron (we are all taught as children that disinfectant is toxic if ingested). How anyone can defend that statement.....

I'll just never understand the benefit of the doubt that people give Trump.

And to the suggestion he run for congress and become Speaker of the House- LOLOLOL. Have you paid any attention to this man? He doesn't give a s**t about governing, the American people or about anything other than glorifying himself and feeding his ego. You think he is going to take a position LESSER than the presidency? It boggles my mind how his supporters see what they want to see in him and ignore what is staring them in the face.

BTW- this is coming from a lifelong conservative and Republican. I have no love for the Democrats, Biden, or whatever. I just know a charlatan when I see one