Thursday, July 28, 2016

Donald Trump's the media once again





"And as for the MSM, one sage word of advice. Learn to understand when you have been played. And Donald played you big time on this one."   



I am going to say what many said during the Republican debates and primaries. Donald Trump is nothing less than a genius in how to play the media. He really is. And he knows he is. He would often brag about how little he would spend on his campaign compared to the other candidates (in particular Jeb!). Somehow, through his bluster and brashness, Donald Trump was able to suck all the oxygen out of the air each and every day. Translation: rather than paying for media, he was able to get the media to cover him for free.

I personally don't think Trump either loves or hates the media. Like a businessman, he looks at the media as nothing more than a tool. As a manager, he looks at the media as something to be managed. And manage them he does.

That comment he made yesterday about the Russians put me in a real LOL moment. It is not often I have a guffaw moment instead of a chuckle. Trump's request to the Russians to release the 30,000 hacked emails was one of those moments. The only ones who could have thought that more amusing than I were the Russians themselves.

Getting back just for a second on how Donald plays the media. Smack dab in the middle of the DNC Convention, that one snarky comment by Trump garnered him front page headlines in the Star Tribune this morning. I know, I know - hard to believe. 

Why do I say the media has been played? When the hacker Guccifer was asked about hacking Hillary's illegal State Department server, Guccifer was not kind in his answer. To paraphrase his words, he said "It was simple." And now that the original Guccifer is out of the picture, a new Guccifer has arrived on the scene. He calls himself (or herself) Guccifer 2.0. And Guccifer 2.0 claims to be the one who hacked the DNC server.

The bottom line is this - I don't care who hacked Hillary's illegal server nor the DNC server. The point is this - if it was Guccifer, Guccifer 2.0, Wikileaks, some computer nerd eating cheese puffs while living in his mother's basement, or the Russians. If you have mail you don't want read by others, don't put it on unsecured servers!!!! Period!

Finally, this. Whomever (if anyone) has copies of the hacked 30,000 Hillary emails, please release them. The DNC release cost Debbie "Blabbermouth" her job. Maybe the release of some of the 30,000 Hillary emails will cost Hillary her shot for the White House.

And as for the MSM, one sage word of advice. Learn to understand when you have been played. And Donald played you big time on this one.   

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