Vincent J. Curtis
28 July 2016
Donald Trump dominated the Democratic National Convention
yesterday in a way no one could have expected, but in a way characteristic of
The Donald. He made a lot of people look
ridiculous.
In the course of doing a press conference in Scranton,
Pennsylvania, yesterday, Trump impishly called upon the Russians for help
finding Hillary’s 33,000 missing emails.
The video of that remark and of several others were replayed over the
news networks in the course of the coverage of the Democrat convention that
nominated Hillary Clinton as candidate for president.
When one cable network ran a “crawl” headline that read, “Trump
calls on Russians for Help Finding Missing Emails” I almost busted a gut
laughing. My stomach muscles ached
afterwards, I laughed so hard. Not just
because Trump had the media talking about emails again, but because he made
Hillary, the Democrats, and the Obama Administration look ridiculous.
After the 19,000 DNC email dump by WikiLeaks that showed a conspiracy
to undermine the Sanders Campaign, the Democrats on Monday darkly hinted that
the Russians were the ones who had hacked DNC computers and fed the information
to WikiLeaks in order to boost the Trump campaign. Trump was benefiting from Russian
intervention into the American electoral process, Democrats alleged. They would not go so far as to say that they
knew the Russians had hacked the DNC for the reason below, and dark hints were
as far as they would go.
The Democrat talking points had to straddle two dangerous lion pits. One was to distract attention
from the content of the leaked emails, which showed a conspiracy against Bernie
Sanders. The other was the observation
that if the Russians had hacked the DNC server, how easy could it have been and likely it was that the Russians had
hacked Hillary’s unsecured private server that contained highly classified
national secrets.
The Democrats defended against the latter charge by saying
that there was no proof of a Russian hack; but of course Hillary destroyed the
evidence before handing her server over to the FBI, and the FBI were forced to
reconstruct the email record forensically, piece by piece, sector by sector.
Hillary never did hand over the 33,000 emails she claimed
were private, and were on her yoga classes, Chelsea’s wedding plans, and the
like. No national secrets. But they may contain evidence of criminal
conspiracy to enrich herself because of favors she granted as Secretary of
State in return for contributions to the Clinton Foundation or for Bill’s
speaking fees. These private emails on a
server that no longer exists were the ones Trump was referring to.
Thus when Trump playfully asked for help from Russian
hackers to find Hillary’s 33,000 missing personal emails, he was making the
Democrats look foolish for tying him in a dark way to the theory of Russian
interference in the election to harm Hillary, Hillary herself, and the Obama
Administration for their failure to recover Hillary personal emails and to
prosecute Hillary for criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Making the Democrats look foolish was Trump’s crime.
I couldn’t believe how stupid so many people looked in
criticizing Trump. Even apparent
grown-ups like Leon Panetta showed himself to be no brighter than dog turd, and
just as lacking in a sense of humor.
Panetta and others hinted that Trump was a traitor for
encouraging the Russians to hack American computers. Early in the day, Charles Krauthammer pointed
out the trap Trump had laid for Clinton by that remark and Clinton’s campaign
manager fell right into it. Democrats the
entire night jumped into the same pit like so many lemmings possessed by humorless
stupidity. If Trump was a traitor for
asking for Russian help, how much greater was the crime Hillary committed by
putting national secrets in a place that the Russians could get them!
Even some Fox News analysts started peering over the edge
nervously, considering the jump. Dana
Perino, a host of The Five, jumped with the Democrats. She tut-tutted Trump for not acting “presidential”
enough and lectured him that when running for president you have to check your
sense of humor at the door.
Trump has dominated the Democrat convention so far in a way
that could never be anticipated. The
Democrats and the media are still talking about emails and making themselves
look foolish to the average viewer for failing to see how ridiculous Trump is making
them all look. Trump is the only adult
in the room: he and the TV viewers.
He has a devastating sense of humor.
One can only await with relish the campaign in the
fall. I can only hope my stomach muscles
can hold out.
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