The abuse of Joe Scarborough by Trump just drew a Wall Street Journal Rebuke. Trump will NOT stop. FTR, even after the husband asked Trump to stop
Why this is noticeable. The WSJ has been obsequious with regards to Trump for 3 years and this is the first time the WSJ drew a line as to asking for common decency with the written admonition that they did not expect any such restraint from Trump. Continuation of such abuse, and a win at any cost set of behaviors is going to lead to MASSIVE cracks and defections from Trump's base. I.e. the revulsion in the WSJ editorial is showing that Trump has already crossed a red line and Trump is too mentally ill to get it as to how serious this break in his base really is. See the headline, i.e. "Trump imitates the Steele dossier in attacks on Joe Scarborough"
If I were a thinking human being, and not Donald Trump, there would be an abrupt change of course.
Why Trump will not change course, i.e. His Norman Peale fixation comes to play here and it is that HE, Trump can will in his own reality,i.e. that Joe Scarborough is "obviously guilty" since he (Trump) willed Scarborough to be "guilty". Furthermore I.e.continuation down this road will lead to Trump allies concluding that Trump is insane.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/wall-street-journal-rips-donald-trump-to-pieces/29074/
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Wall Street Journal rips Donald Trump to pieces
Bill Palmer | 12:01 pm EDT May 27, 2020
Print ArticleThe Wall Street Journal is conservative-leaning in its ideology and, at times, embarrassingly pro-Trump in its political coverage. But even the WSJ appears to have finally had enough of Trump’s antics, as its Editorial Board is now ripping Trump to pieces.
In a new piece tonight credited to the entire Editorial Board, the Wall Street Journal is condemning Donald Trump for falsely accusing MSNBC host “Morning Joe” Scarborough of murdering an intern twenty years ago. The WSJ spells out that the coroner identified that the woman died of a heart defect, and that there was no possibility of foul play.
The WSJ ended with this powerful missive: “We don’t write this with any expectation that Mr. Trump will stop. Perhaps he even thinks this helps him politically, though we can’t imagine how. But Mr. Trump is debasing his office, and he’s hurting the country in doing so.”
Notably, this WSJ article came after the woman’s husband called on Donald Trump to stop making these false allegations, and called on Twitter to delete Trump’s tweets about it.
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Here is the beginning of the WSJ editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-presidential-smear-11590535397
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A Presidential Smear
Trump imitates the Steele dossier in attacks on Joe Scarborough.
By The Editorial Board
May 26, 2020 7:23 pm ET
Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories—recall his innuendo in 2016 about Ted Cruz’s father and the JFK assassination—but his latest accusation against MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is ugly even for him. Mr. Trump has been tweeting the suggestion that Mr. Scarborough might have had something to do with the death in 2001 of a young woman who worked in his Florida office when Mr. Scarborough was a GOP Congressman.
“A lot of interest in this story about Psycho Joe Scarborough. So a young marathon runner just happened...
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Why this is noticeable. The WSJ has been obsequious with regards to Trump for 3 years and this is the first time the WSJ drew a line as to asking for common decency with the written admonition that they did not expect any such restraint from Trump. Continuation of such abuse, and a win at any cost set of behaviors is going to lead to MASSIVE cracks and defections from Trump's base. I.e. the revulsion in the WSJ editorial is showing that Trump has already crossed a red line and Trump is too mentally ill to get it as to how serious this break in his base really is. See the headline, i.e. "Trump imitates the Steele dossier in attacks on Joe Scarborough"
If I were a thinking human being, and not Donald Trump, there would be an abrupt change of course.
Why Trump will not change course, i.e. His Norman Peale fixation comes to play here and it is that HE, Trump can will in his own reality,i.e. that Joe Scarborough is "obviously guilty" since he (Trump) willed Scarborough to be "guilty". Furthermore I.e.continuation down this road will lead to Trump allies concluding that Trump is insane.
Summary
Trump is now so far gone that his allies will no longer be able to stomach his "total war " tactics. i.e. that the WSJ brought up the Steele Dossier and admonished Trump for duplicating what they said was guilt by association means that Trump no longer has the unconditional backing of financial houses and bankers. If he loses Wall street due to this "morning Joe" smear, then what else will go ?
Recall that President Hoover lost any chance of re election in 1932 by having General McCarthur apply bayonet wielding soldiers on veterans asking for financial backing in the wake of the Great Depression. Tanks and worse were unleashed on encampment of veterans and their children, when they were starving next to Washington DC, and Hoover afterwards did not have a chance.
I argue that the "Morning Joe" smear may lead, in the era of ultra fast news media dispensation of news a similar break. But in this matter, Trump is too far gone and aggressive to care as to what his (Trump's) attack on "Morning Joe" says about him (Donald Trump)
Andrew Beckwith, PhD