Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[Mav]

Trump's spokeswoman blaming Obama and Clinton for killing Capt. Khan by changing their rules of engagement while Bush was President  :

“It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life.”

[flash=200,200]https://youtu.be/VAtxCRfU1g0[/flash]

[LP]

If we have them why can't we use them?

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"Three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons... at one point he asked 'if we have them, why can't we use them'," Mr Scarborough said on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman later the denied the claim, but it comes after Mr Trump asked MSNBC's Chris Matthews in March "why are we making them" if we never plan on using nuclear weapons, and said he wouldn't rule out using nukes in the Middle East - or, for that matter, in Europe. The Washington Post's fact-checking team documented several other times Mr Trump refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons.

[Mav]

In footy parlance, it's great to be unpredictable to opponents but you've got to be predictable to your team mates.  Paul Mannafort is well-placed to run messages between Trump and Putin but everyone else will be nervous.  And nervous nations sometimes jump at shadows.

I think we've all seen how Trump will react to real or perceived slights from overseas.  He will escalate and refuse to back down.  Just as his current campaign team are incapable of making Trump pull his horns in, his diplomats will be reduced to mere spectators.  If I were serving on a US aircraft carrier at the moment, I'd be taking as much leave as I could get in case Trump wins.  Trump will be sending the carriers all over the place like pinballs.

[Mav]

You know Trump's doing well when there's speculation about him withdrawing (or much less likely being pushed out) and the Republican National Committee replacing him.  Obviously, this is pretty unlikely.  But the 168 committee members would then vote armed with the number of votes that their states had delegates.  The RNC wouldn't be limited to candidates who ran in the primaries.  Cruz and Ryan would be considered in this scenario.  One practical problem is that various states have time limits for nominating candidates.

[madbluboy]

Trump needs to find some more emails.

[Mav]

Surely Paul Manafort made that a part of the deal that saw Trump look favourably on Russia's annexation of Crimea?  What's the point if Manafort's pro-Russian clients can't get that done?

But even if Trump gets help from the Russians, it won't be any use if Trump keeps on making himself a threat to security.  Who needs to hack emails to obtain classified material when Trump blurts out secrets in public?

Trump Boasts About Watching 'Top Secret' Iran Video Immediately After Becoming Eligible To Receive Classified Briefings, HuffPost.

[Mav]

Rubio: Trump ‘hopefully’ will pay attention to Zika, Politico, 3/8/16.

Sen. Marco Rubio called on both political parties in Washington to do more to fight the Zika virus, but he was almost mum Wednesday when asked about why his party’s presidential nominee has essentially said nothing about the disease now that it’s spreading in Miami and throughout Florida.

“I’m not a spokesperson for their campaign and so I’m not going to speak on their behalf,” Rubio said when asked by POLITICO about Trump’s relative silence on the spread of Zika. “I can talk to you about where I stand and what I’m saying about it. I think this is a big issue for anyone who seeks public office.”

When questioned more about why he wouldn’t discuss Trump’s position on Zika, Rubio noted he hadn’t either mentioned the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. But Clinton since March made it a priority issue and her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, took the time at a campaign stop in Daytona Beach to call out Trump for not talking about the disease.

"If you look at what Donald Trump has said about Zika, it's like, crickets," Kaine said, according to The Miami Herald. Just a day before the Centers for Disease Control issued a first-ever travel advisory warning pregnant women about traveling to Miami. The Zika virus can cause microcephaly in newborns.

Hope Hicks, Trump’s spokeswoman, could not be reached. Juan Fiol, the Trump campaign’s vice chairman in Miami-Dade County, where Rubio lives, recently bashed Clinton for discussing the issue and said her campaign was “sophomoric” for “taking on such an insignificant issue,” according to The Boston Globe, which also couldn’t reach Hicks.

“We have bigger mosquitoes to squash than Zika — like ISIS, the national debt, Iraq, and Afghanistan,” Fiol told the Boston Globe. “We have a wall to build to keep the illegals out. We have so many other issues that are more important than this.”

As I thought, Trump is incapable of handling the Zika issue with any common sense.  He needs Florida and Florida is concerned.  Therefore, he should be concerned too, whatever he might think of the issue.  The fact that Rubio thinks it's a major issue in his Senate re-election campaign should be a bit of a hint.  He doesn't say about terror that Americans have much less chance of being killed by a car or a gun in the hands of a non-terrorist.  Actual statistics don't stand a chance when confronting fear.  That's something he should well know given he ran an entire convention on the basis of scare-mongering. 

[LP]

Rubio: Trump ‘hopefully’ will pay attention to Zika, Politico, 3/8/16.
As I thought, Trump is incapable of handling the Zika issue with any common sense.  He needs Florida and Florida is concerned.

Didn't he address the Zika issue just a few days ago?

"Three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons... at one point he asked 'if we have them, why can't we use them'," Mr Scarborough said on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday.

[Lods]

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37029170

“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment,” he said, referring to the piece of legislation that gun rights activists claim gives them the right to bear weapons. “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is.”

Surely that's enough.
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Watching the Republican Party exact it's revenge on Trump supporters as they try to reclaim their party after this farce finishes is going to be fascinating.

[ElwoodBlues1]

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37029170

Surely that's enough.
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Watching the Republican Party exact it's revenge on Trump supporters as they try to reclaim their party after this farce finishes is going to be fascinating.

Didnt 50 senior republicans sign some statement say they will vote for Hilary just to stop Trump taking over their party and changing its values to his.....reckon that tells you plenty considering how much repubs hate Hilary..

Hilary will do a Bradbury and just stay on her feet long enough to cross the finish line...