Donald Trump cast himself in a poor light this week by backpedaling on his debate agreement , as experts said it made the "big, bad tribesman" look "weak." “ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, is not worthy of holding a Debate, of which I hope there will be many!” Trump posted on Truth Social , using a demeaning name for newsman George Stephanopoulos. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, longtime Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher said the move makes Trump look bad.
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In a previous segment, he noted Kamala Harris is "the most famous unknown person." The first several days of her new campaign have been about defining herself to America , and Republicans have failed in their first week. Belcher explained that one of Trump's biggest fears is " looking weak " and running away from Harris, and the debate is making it worse.
"Right now, he looks weak," the pollster said. "He particularly looks weak — like he's running from a woman, which is something -- you know, the big bad tribesman never wants to do. I think he's in a really awkward position.
At the same time, he knows, in fact, if he has a debate with her, the prosecutor, she's going to prosecute the case effectively against him." It puts Trump in a no-win situation, Belcher said. "It looks weak on his part for him to be running away from the debate, and she is doing the absolute right thing," he closed.
"The campaign is doing the right thing, not letting him get away with it. Calling him out, because the last thing he wants to do is seem weak. Right now, he seems weak.
" The Rev. Al Sharpton also joined the conversation, saying that comparing Harris' resume with that of Trump or his running mate, Sen. J.
D. Vance (R-OH), "it's almost a joke to try to compare the two." See the comments in the video below or at the link here .
'He looks weak': Pollster says of Trump 'running' from debate with Kamala Harris youtu.be I’m feeling a feeling unusual; It isn’t my usual mope. It’s a curious, happy-type feeling; The feeling I’m feeling is hope! It’s because of events quite momentous.
It’s about whom we may now elect. There’s a shift in our sense of the future. It must be the Kamala Effect.
At the moment Joe passed the baton, She was ready to enter the race. In fact, she seems more than just ready. She’s setting a vigorous pace.
She seems filled with energy contagious, Prompting thousands of new volunteers. The money floods in in the millions. Her crowds are erupting in cheers.
Can it be that she’ll be the difference? Can she o’ercome the lead of the Don? Will this country remain a Republic? On Harris a lot’s riding on. So far we’re a party united. Our differences quenched for a time.
Let’s just get out the vote, make some his’try. Help Harris to victory climb! Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl is the former deputy inspector general for inspections at the Central Intelligence Agency and co-author of “ The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze .” CONTINUE READING Show less Former President Donald Trump plans to hold a rally in the name of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter fatally shot during the assassination attempt against Trump at his Pennsylvania rally earlier this month.
"I WILL BE GOING BACK TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, FOR A BIG AND BEAUTIFUL RALLY, HONORING THE SOUL OF OUR BELOVED FIREFIGHTING HERO, COREY, AND THOSE BRAVE PATRIOTS INJURED TWO WEEKS AGO," Trump wrote on Truth Social . "WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE — FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS." Comperatore's family said that he dived on top of his wife and two daughters to protect them when the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who was also killed in the attack, opened fire on the former president.
Trump himself escaped with just minor injuries to his ear. Read also: The strange reason Trump showed off misspelled jacket for firefighter killed at rally His family refused to take a condolence call from President Joe Biden, in honor of Comperatore's commitment to Trump. "He would not have wanted me to talk to him," his wife told reporters.
She added: "I don’t have any ill will towards Joe Biden." Trump himself ultimately did not attend Comperatore's funeral, with officials citing security concerns. He did, however, show off Comperatore's firefighting uniform at his nominating convention in his honor.
No motive is still officially known for the attack, although the few details that are known appear to suggest that Crooks himself came from a heavily Republican background and his motivation for the killing was not partisan politics, as he also apparently researched how he might plan an attack on Biden as well. All of this comes as Trump's campaign tries to regain its footing after Biden's exit from the race and Vice President Kamala Harris takes over as the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. CONTINUE READING Show less A body language expert who viewed Donald Trump's photo with Benjamin Netanyahu Friday broke out into song when he identified a hand gesture he'd never before seen the former president exhibit.
"When I think about you," Dr. Jack Brown sang, "I touch myself." Brown , a physician whose expertise has been featured on CNN and ABC News among others, spoke to Raw Story hours after Trump shared a photo of him meeting with the Israeli prime minister in Florida .
At Raw Story's request, Brown took a close look at a posed photograph, which can be found below, of Trump and Netanyahu shaking hands. The musical outburst was in relation to an odd handshake in which Trump laid his left hand on top of the right, which is grasping Netanyahu's hand. "I don’t think I’ve seen him do that before," Brown said.
ALSO READ: Boebert, MTG and far-fight friends derail Speaker Mike Johnson’s summer plans The photograph shows Trump standing on the left side of the frame — a position of dominance, according to Brown — with his right hand shaking Netanyahu's. Trump's right hand is rotated above Netanyahu's, which Brown explained was "something of a dominance display." That did not surprise Brown, who argues Trump displays physical signs of the Dark Tetrad , which Psychology Today defines as four interrelated negative personality features: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism.
"He’s got all four of those," Brown said. "Narcissism is just a tiny bit of his Dark Tetrad." What shocked Brown was the placement of Trump's left hand, which rested gently on top of his own, already dominantly placed, hand.
"Why are you touching your own hand?" Brown said. "Why is he touching himself when he’s shaking another guy’s hand?" It was this question that inspired Brown to sing the chorus of the Divinyls' 1990 hit "I touch myself." "He’s having to self-touch and self-soothe," Brown said.
Brown then posited the determined gesture signified one of the four character traits that define the Dark Tetrad. "It’s another sign of his narcissism; he’s putting him at the center, he’s doing this for himself," said Brown. "Everything he does is transactional and this is another sign of that.
"Touching himself is a perfect sign of narcissism and his ego." See the picture below or at this link. CONTINUE READING Show less.
