The president cited the former presidentās comments in seeking to increase pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson to allow a floor vote on a $95 billion package of security aid for Ukraine and Israel approved by the Senate.
Does anyone have a link showing what actual American conservatives are saying about Trumpās quote? How are they trying to defend this? (Not the media - actual people, on the street, as it were)
They will likely never even know about this. Right wing media is incredibly insulated. They live in a different reality most of the time. Theyāre programmed to shut out and discount any and all information that doesnāt fit with their worldview.
I am more than a little bit doubtful that theyāve heard anything about it. On the Fox News website, I can find exactly two articles about it:
One titled āTrumpās NATO comments trigger fierce media and European opposition: How serious is he?,ā which focuses more on European response to the message (and in fairness does have some pretty strong words for Trumpās statement), but was written by Howard Kurtz, who is generally considered a āRINOā or worse by rank & file MAGAts. That article currently has about 500 comments.
And one titled āWhite House responds to Trump encouraging Russia to do āwhateverā they want to some NATO members: āUnhingedā,ā which focuses (as suggested by the headline) more on the White Houseās response to Trumpās statement than on the statement itself, before going on to provide an apologia for Trumpās remarks in the form of a weird, pseudo-self-righteous paraphrase of a section of the NATO charter. That article currently has about 4,500 comments.
The big comments on both articles are either regurgitations of Trumpās statement itself, regurgitations of the apologia in the second article, or a spectrum from āhe was just using a rhetorical device to make a pointā up to āI support him, countries that donāt pay should be punished.ā
Does anyone have a link showing what actual American conservatives are saying about Trumpās quote? How are they trying to defend this? (Not the media - actual people, on the street, as it were)
They will likely never even know about this. Right wing media is incredibly insulated. They live in a different reality most of the time. Theyāre programmed to shut out and discount any and all information that doesnāt fit with their worldview.
āServes them freeloaders right!!!ā
They will just repeat what Trump said with a shit-eating grin. There is no original thought going on there.
I am more than a little bit doubtful that theyāve heard anything about it. On the Fox News website, I can find exactly two articles about it:
One titled āTrumpās NATO comments trigger fierce media and European opposition: How serious is he?,ā which focuses more on European response to the message (and in fairness does have some pretty strong words for Trumpās statement), but was written by Howard Kurtz, who is generally considered a āRINOā or worse by rank & file MAGAts. That article currently has about 500 comments.
And one titled āWhite House responds to Trump encouraging Russia to do āwhateverā they want to some NATO members: āUnhingedā,ā which focuses (as suggested by the headline) more on the White Houseās response to Trumpās statement than on the statement itself, before going on to provide an apologia for Trumpās remarks in the form of a weird, pseudo-self-righteous paraphrase of a section of the NATO charter. That article currently has about 4,500 comments.
The big comments on both articles are either regurgitations of Trumpās statement itself, regurgitations of the apologia in the second article, or a spectrum from āhe was just using a rhetorical device to make a pointā up to āI support him, countries that donāt pay should be punished.ā