{"id":44859,"date":"2020-07-11T13:12:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=44859"},"modified":"2020-07-11T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:12:56","slug":"projection-putin-and-puppetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=44859","title":{"rendered":"Projection, Putin and puppetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

With everything Trump says and does, the utter horror of this time,<\/a> my memory bank consistently replays one incident, one statement that, for me, crystallizes Trump.<\/p>\n

Do you remember the October 2016 debate between Trump and Hillary, the “Putin’s puppet” exchange?<\/p>\n

It began when Trump said Putin had no respect for Hillary. She responded with the memorable line that Putin would much rather have Trump, his puppet, in the White House.<\/p>\n

Here’s where Trump went totally Trumpissimo. He muttered, “You’re the puppet, you’re the puppet.”<\/p>\n

I can’t forget how shockingly stupid he sounded, how sulky, how 7-year-old bully boy, how incompetent. He’s the one who brought up Putin, yet he had no better defense to Hillary’s remark than that?<\/p>\n

She said he was a puppet and all he could do was project it immediately back on her. “You’re the puppet, you’re the puppet.”<\/p>\n

Trump has no intelligence, no spontaneity. He has no defense in his playbook.<\/p>\n

All he can do is be on offense, when someone has programmed his moves.<\/p>\n

All Trump can do is project — accuse his opponent of having his own pathological weaknesses.<\/p>\n

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