NBC News
By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
August 26, 2015
Trump's constantly moving targets
When
he first entered the presidential race, Donald Trump attacked Mexico
and Mexicans. Then he targeted John McCain. Then it was Lindsey Graham
and Rick Perry. After
the first debate, Trump picked a fight with Megyn Kelly and Fox News.
Next it was Jeb Bush. And then yesterday, in a span of less than 12
hours, Trump blasted Kelly and Fox News (again), Univision's Jorge
Ramos, and even Marco Rubio, per NBC's Ali Vitali.
Whew, got all of that? Indeed, you could argue that all of Trump's
moving targets have become one of the secrets to his political success
so far: There are so many, it's hard to track -- let alone remember --
the latest outrage. Here's Red State's Leon Wolf
(hat tip: MSNBC's Benjy Sarlin: "Watching Donald Trump speak and answer
questions … is like watching a billion targets appear in the sky all at
once, for a political opponent. Each thing he says is so bizarre, or
ill informed, or demonstrably false, or un
presidential in tone or character, that it becomes impossible to know
which target to lock on to or focus on." More: Donald Trump is the
political equivalent of chaff, a billion shiny objects all floating
through the sky at once, ephemeral, practically without
substance, serving almost exclusively to distract from more important
things - yet nonetheless completely impossible to ignore." Exactly.
Trump: "I am not a bully"
That
said, the overall story about Trump is the same: He's attacking someone
out there. On "Today" this morning, NBC's Matt Lauer asked Trump is he
was a bully. Trump
replied, "I am not a bully; in fact, I think it is the opposite…
[Univision's Jorge Ramos] gets up and starts ranting and raving."
By
the way, it's not just Donald Trump who's mixing it up with Megyn Kelly
and Fox News. When Kelly repeatedly asked Ted Cruz last night what he
would do with the 11 million
undocumented immigrants, Cruz responded by saying that's "the question
every mainstream media liberal journalist wants to ask" and "the
question Barack Obama wants to focus on." Yet given that exchange as
well as Trump's battle with Univision's Ramos, it's
worth considering this thought exercise via the Washington Post's Greg
Sargent: Would the Trump phenomenon and the 11 million question even
exist right now if House Republicans voted on the Senate immigration
bill last year? "If Republicans had simply held
votes on immigration reform in 2013 or in early 2014, it probably would
have passed," Sargent writes. "That likely would have made it harder
for Trump-ism to take hold to the degree it has so far."
For more information, go to: www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
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