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all about war. it is all about him puffing himself up. it is all about the former draft dodgers and wrapping himself in the flag. it is instruction to see how narrow a base he is. it is not just white men. it is not just white evangelical men. it is evangelical men who are upset of weapons. he narrowed his base so and i think there is a large segment of women in america, we saw this in 2018, i think we ll see this in 2020 who has just had it. they do not want to see them. it is interesting to make that point of the split screen of the trump administration of donald trump s obsession creating military backdrop. now he wants to be the military sort of autocrat. if you are a woman voter right now, that s what you are seeing. those two images.
anti-semitic punk on reddit and took it out there from the world to see from his presidential handle. let s play the what if this was barack obama game. people had a fit because the man used dijon mustard because he wore a tan suit. they made up these little fake media spectacles. now you have a president of the united states who is literally out there, pummeling the media, using a military backdrop to actually blast the media, when the media are the group of people who dig deep into the va scandals, who make sure that our military men and women get the coverage and care that they need. i m trying to figure out why it s okay for donald trump to have a bar of expectation that comes up to my knee when we often times, as we should, hold the president up to a higher standard. it s just unjust. bakari, i love you, but this is one you re stretching. people tweet things all the time and retweet them and copy and paste them. now you re trying to we re not talking about people. zblet me a
military prep school in the 60s. even though he got multiple deferments to avoid service in the vietnam war, he told his biographer he believes he did be in the military because of that expensive prep school experience. he told him, i felt that i was in the military in the true sense. donald trump was not in the military. but he did use a pretty military backdrop tonight to raise money for a nonexistent veterans group. which endorsed him formally as part of his introduction. he said they have hundreds of thousands of members. and they don t. and so the whole thing is fake. the whole thing is made for tv. except for the fact that presumably he did raise money for this guy tonight. and this really is the front-runner for the republican nomination for president of the united states. by a mile. and so far, republican voters do not seem to care that it is all made up. joining us now steve schmidt, senior advisor to the 08
300 i mean, how it s weird enough to see a candidate like donald trump be the front-runner for the republican nomination. . it is weird enough to see him campaigning for president standing 0 and a decommissioned battle ship when his only connection is he went to a military prep school in the 60s. even though he got multiple deferments to avoid service in the vietnam war, he told his biographer he believes he did be in the military because of that expensive prep school experience. he told him, i felt that i was in the military in the true sense. donald trump was not in the military. but he did use a pretty military backdrop tonight to raise money for a nonexistent veterans group. which endorsed him formally as part of his introduction. he said they have hundreds of thousands of members. and they don t. and so the whole thing is fake. the whole thing is made for tv. except for the fact that