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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Times For Panic?

The front page of the New York Times today gives a major message that the editors of that paper are getting close to panic.  There are two headlines that say it all; both deal with Trump's visit to Mexico and immigration speech in Arizona last night.  In one headline Trump's invitation to Mexico by the president of that country is called a "historic mistake".  In the second headline, Trump's trip and speech are derided as a risky gamble by the candidate.  It's rather obvious that the headline writers were looking for a way to bash Trump and help Hillary as they do most days.  All they could come up with is that Trump made a high stakes move in the campaign and that the Times doesn't like the fact that the president of Mexico invited both Trump and Clinton to meet with him, an invitation to which only Trump responded favorably.

Let's translate these stories and headlines:  the Times understands that the trip and the speech were major positives for Trump.  Trump did, indeed, take a risk, although it was the standard type of risk that any presidential candidate would take.  That risk paid off, big time.  In fact, by taking that risk, Trump showed that he had good judgment, something that Hillary has never demonstrated.  Think about it.  For nearly a year, the media and the Democrats and Hillary herself have told us that Trump could never get along with the Mexicans.  They told us he would be completely rejected by Mexico.  Indeed, during Trump's trip to Mexico City, Hillary told a small crowd in Ohio just that line.  Then Trump lands in Mexico City at the invitation of the president of that country, spend two hours discussing issues with the president and holds a joint press meeting in which both men talk about the need for cooperation and the expectation by both that they could and would work together.  In twenty minutes, the president of Mexico blew up the whole argument that the Democrats and the media have been making for a year.  The trip could not have gone better.  President Nieto of Mexico laid the foundation for very good relations between the two countries during a Trump administration should it come.  Since that undermines the Democrat/media narrative, the Times calls it a historic mistake.  Nieto did something good for his country, but since it might hurt Hillary, the Times calls it a mistake.

The truth is that the Times understands what happened yesterday and how it will help Trump.  That's why we're seeing the silly headlines.  It's called panic.

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