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Old 18-03-2017, 11:01   #831
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Re: U.S President: Donald Trump

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Originally Posted by Mr K View Post
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39300191

Opening your eyes up is top advice Mick.
Using Fox News as Donald's 'intell' doesn't seem to be working out. Doh!
Trump's strategy to date of repeating lies that suit him (like Obama's birth country) and decrying negative news as "fake news" has served him well. As we've seen from forum posters here in the UK, there's plenty of people who will happily follow his lead on issues when the evidence points in the opposite direction.

Why do intelligent people do this? People have invested a lot of emotion and reputation in Trump and if they stop defending him, then they need to rethink their entire beliefs system.... and that's a big deal. Easier to go along with another Trump lie than to rethink their whole beliefs. They can convince themselves that they are not jumping to conclusions but waiting for the evidence. Trump labelling reliable sources as biased aids this approach as they will just ignore a lot of the evidence. When the contradicting evidence does arrive, if people haven't forgotten about it, Trump will find a way of spinning it away, usually in a passive-aggressive manner. For example, his comments on Obama's birth certificate that suggested some people still felt it didn't look real.

So far, this approach has worked well for Trump so he has continued to deploy it. But this wire-tapping allegation seems to be one step too far. He's dragging in the UK, he's dragging in the Constitution, he's dragging in a popular ex-President and he's dragging in the security services. He's up to his neck in it and for once, I can't see an easy way out for him.
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