Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

Herself?

My understanding of the recall system is if the recall is successful then whoever gets the most votes wins. So a governor could lose with say 49% on the recall and his replacement might only get 20% of the vote for governor. Whoever came up with that system if my understanding is correct is an idiot.

The recall system is fine and rarely used. Those sulking about it I assume were dead quiet when it was used on Scott Walker.

Elder should not have been on the ballot, black boomer Trump is not a good fit for California.

Its a reminder how skilled Manchen, Collins, Hogan etc are winning elections they have no right to.

In a move which might recoil on him, Trump is suing his niece and the NYT over coverage [release of] of his tax records. I won't link the move directly with his CFO's statement/admission that more court charges are [probably] coming down the line for Trump, just that the two may not be purely coincidental. He may [no pun] be trying to trump his CFO's statement by beginning the above case. It'll give both respondents a chance to reveal more of what they know/have access to in court which is risky for Trump if the knowledge has not been made public by either the prosecutor/s in NYC or the respondents. They may even call witnesses from the Trump side to rebut Trump's case in court as a sensible person would remind the witnesses they are not on nor liable for trial in respect of evidence they give against Trump himself. He's claiming they had an insidious plot against him to get his records.

So we are back to blaming the media again?

So if they don't show it they are suppressing the real stories because of their hate for Trump, and if they do show up and no actual supporters do it means they are heartbroken?

The lack of support is the story, plenty for the media to talk about. The wide angled shot showing nobody could be bothered to turn up, that like Trump himself, his supporters won't bother.

Trump doesn't win in 2016 without CNN. They gave him so much free publicity and yes obviously Fox done some work but without Jeff Zucker Trump does not become president.

Without Trump they and all other traditional media platforms right or left in America are screwed thus anything associated with Trump gets absurd coverage. MTG and Tucker have became much bigger stars due to the media obsession with trying to fill the Trump void.

CNN are an odd one, deserve huge criticism for 2016 but is still a relatively balanced channel (Acosta and Cuomo aside), but they are clearing fighting the temptation to go full MSNBC (Democrat propaganda channel aka Fox is for the GOP) as that is where the money is.

Its a broken model though though when so reliant on Trump I think we can both agree.

In reality, Trump's good at faking the news and the media across the board doesn't resist making copy of it for several reasons [only one of which is 2nd amendment honest about telling the public the truth] the rest being to avoid losing sales. Several months back, a US newspaper cartoonist took a look at the US media and put up an image of a reader ranting at the media for lying about Trump and the election. The cartoon had the reader using a four-letter word beginning with the letter H to describe how much he very strongly felt about the media not telling the truth about Trump's success in the 2019 election.

I was around that time getting dispirited about CNN's coverage of Trump on it's late night news show as I saw it as being biased like FoxNews where Trump was/is concerned, only in a reverse aspect. That being said, I believe Trump is a pernicious evil eating away at the US ability to be a unified nation with his ability to play the media at their own game, it's all about the headlines for him.

It's true. People still buy Budweiser because they have great ads, even though the beer is pigswill.

That won’t go down well. If it’s true I’d love to see how the governor spins it. I’d pay cash money to see that press conference.