Vincent J. Curtis
19 Sept 2016
Two terrorist episodes took place in the United States on
Saturday: two actual bombings in New York City and in New Jersey as well as
unexploded devices found, and a stabbing attack in Minnesota. Investigations are ongoing, but an Islamist
connection has already been made in both instances.
Donald Trump heard about the New York – New Jersey
explosions and announced them at a campaign rally in Colorado Saturday night. He used the incident to argue that the United
States is in peril. He called the
explosions “bombings” before the New York police said so. “Just before I got off the plane, a bomb went
off in New York and nobody knows exactly what’s going on,” he said on an
airport tarmac.
Then, this report
from The Daily Mail: “Hillary Clinton appeared to criticize her rival Donald
Trump on Saturday night for immediately referring to the New York City blast as
a bombing, only moments before calling it a bombing herself.”
“After landing in
White Plains, New York, a noticeably tired-looking Clinton told reporters she
had been 'briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey and the attacks
in Minnesota.'
A reporter then asked what she thought about the Republican
presidential nominee appearing to pre-empt New York City officials when he
declared a 'bomb went off' in New York City before officials had released
details.
'Secretary, do you have any reaction to the fact that
Donald Trump immediately took the stage tonight, calling the explosion a
'bomb',' the reporter asked.
'Well I think it's important to know all of the facts about
an incident like this,' Clinton said.
'That's why it's critical to support the first responders,
the investigators who are looking into it, trying to figure out what did
happen.
She added: 'I think it's always wiser to wait to until you
have information for making conclusions, because we are just in the beginning
stages of trying to determine what happened.' “
The
visuals of Hillary’s press session aboard her plane were not good. She looked and sounded like “a zoo animal
that had been hit with a tranquilizer dart,” according to Fox News’s Chris Stirewalt.
She looked
like she was out on her feet. She called
it a bombing and then, in response to a question regarding Trump calling it a
bombing, she attacked him for precipitateness - not realizing what she herself
had just said. A boxer who is reduced to
fighting on instinct will lash out in such a manner: see target, punch
target. She heard the name Donald Trump
and her immediate response to was attack him.
This time it made her look like she was unaware.
This,
combined with her duplicitousness about her heath issues – and there seems to
be growing awareness of them – is not going to help her cause. She may be more palatable than Donald Trump
to many, but a crucial number of those who prefer Hillary may not vote for her
because they feel that she is physically not up to the job.
Look for
growing calls among Democrats and the media for Donald Trump to “come clean” on
his physical fitness. That would be the
obvious alternative narrative to combat worries about Hillary’s fitness – to question
the fitness of Trump. If Hillary is sick
– then Trump is sick also.
Hillary’s
visuals did not look good, and her responses were formulaic and exhausted. Trump would do well to encourage her to rest
and regain her health.
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