@jonallendc posits Trump’s reaction is a considered attempt to “send a clear message.” It’s not. It’s the reaction of a childish buffoon who hits back at anyone who says negative things about him.pic.twitter.com/W2UPuNDE7p
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This was a long time coming and the thoroughness of the response - a point-by-point rebuke of Bannon - suggests either that Trump had been formulating for a while or allowed those who had been formulating for a while to let loose. I think it was intended to send a clear message.
The reporting yesterday said Trump dictated it himself to Hope Hicks. Is that wrong?
I know a few oldtime reporters and some lawyers who speak in 266-word bursts in paragraph form, but usually they've thought out what they were going to say.
Oh I don’t believe the story either. The statement was Trumpian but cleaned up. Plus they must have known the book was coming. But I still think it was driven by Trump’s desire to attack any person who is negative towards him, not from political calculation. The book is huge now.
The smarter play for Trump, imo, would have been to let surrogates go after Bannon and not give the book a huge lift.
trump is not capable of strategery. anything remotely complex, someone did it for him
I feel it was essentially Trump striking out feebly and vengefully with someone else having made an attempt to make Trump's response seem more coherent. Trump is senile and not capable of strategy.
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