Jophiel wrote:
I watched it. I also read the news articles it generated from everyone who was so supposedly sure that he was just joking.
Him rolling his eyes and saying in a obviously sarcastic voice that "well, I'm not sure it was the Russians, or the Chinese, or some fat kid on a couch, but... Hey... I've got an idea! Maybe it was the Russians. And maybe they have the 30 thousand emails Clinton erased too! And if they do, wouldn't that be interesting to read...", maybe was a big hint? You have to be dumb as dirt to not have immediately realized he was just having fun with the whole thing and taking it to deliberately ridiculous extremes. He was mocking Clinton for suggesting that he had anything to do with it. And she took the bait and doubled down on stupid.
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But hey, super clever trap. Nothing like a days worth of stories about how you're encouraging foreign espionage, are deeply tied to Russian investment (despite your denials) and won't commit to assisting our Baltic NATO allies to show how you punked everyone. He tricked all those reporters into it with his obvious joke!
A days worth of stories about the Democrats failing to get that he was making fun of their gullibility and willingness to grasp at the most ridiculous claims to divert attention from their own actions, by doing it again, and again, and again. All the while making themselves look like idiots. And along the way, we're all watching Trump talking and not the Democrats. Think about it.
This is what I don't think you are getting. This is the same stuff Trump did in the primaries. He'd say something that seemed absurd, over the top, offensive, or whatever. He'd wait for his opposition to jump on it, and he'd get days of his face on TV, and a week of free media time doing interviews talking about how stupid and wrong those people who misunderstood him were. And they kept doing it because they assumed that at some point people would view Trump negatively for this, and we'd all return to a normal political process with that silly Trump business out of the way. I've been warning for a while now that Clinton can't make the same mistakes if she wants to win, but here she is doing
exactly the same thing.