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What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

Your vote in the midterms matters, because Republicans in Congress won’t restrain the president’s excesses.


By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

  • Aug. 28, 2018
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CreditCreditAl Drago for The New York Times
Sept. 3 (AP) — President Trump stopped his motorcade in Manhattan today, jumped out of his limousine and shot a man on Fifth Avenue who was shouting anti-Trump epithets. The shooting was recorded by the White House press pool as well as by dozens of bystanders with cellphones and by security cameras in the area. When asked for his reaction, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, We will need more information than is available at this point.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said through pursed lips that he was not going to comment on every up and down with this president. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he already had information indicating that the man whom Trump shotworked for the Clinton Foundation and may have been a relative of former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Fox News did not cover Trump’s shooting at the top of its broadcast, which focused instead on the killing of an Iowa woman by an undocumented immigrant. Fox’s only reference to the fact that the president shot a man on Fifth Avenue was that a New York City man died today when he ran right into a bullet fired by the president.

Senator Lindsey Graham quipped that Trump shoots as well as he putts and that this incident would not cause the South Carolina senator to cancel his coming golf round with the president at his Bedminster, N.J., course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/...on=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending


That’s because we all now know that Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would stick with him. We’ve seen him get away with too much by now. No restraint on Trump will ever come from his party or his base — especially after the passing of John McCain. So save your breath. Trump will be restrained only if his party loses the House or the Senate. That’s what is at stake in the midterm elections — so vote accordingly.

And for those Republican moderates, independents and suburban white women who voted for Trump in 2016 and are considering voting against G.O.P. House and Senate candidates in November to put some limits on the president and show their disapproval at G.O.P. lawmakers’ failure to act as an independent branch of government, let me describe the stakes in another way:

America, we all know, won the Cold War. Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia’s. But what is at stake in the 2018 midterms is who is going to win the post-Cold War.

Yes, that question is back on the table. Because what we are seeing in the behavior of Trump and his toadies in the G.O.P. is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics. Vladimir Putin could still win the post-Cold War.

At the Cold War’s height, noted Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future and an immigrant from the Soviet Union, Americans took seriously the notion that we had to serve “as a contrast” to the Russians.

Because the Soviets claimed to have built a worker’s paradise, it was important that we had strong unions, a strong middle class, less inequality and an adequate social safety net. The Soviets did not have the rule of law. So we had to have it more than ever.

“I came here from Russia in ’75,” Gorbis added, “and it was remarkable to me that in this society there were laws and norms and principles, and people abided by them. The idea that people actually paid their taxes was kind of remarkable to me.” In the Russia she grew up in, said Gorbis, “we did not have that; if there was a law, there was always a way to bribe and get around it.”

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But with the Cold War now far back in our rearview mirror, Trump has not only insisted on bringing America closer to Putin’s Russia geopolitically, but also politically. This, despite the fact that our intelligence agencies and biggest internet companies have confirmed multiple times that Russia interfered in our 2016 election and continues to meddle.
 
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What if Klaatu really DID land in Lafayette Park in his bright silver spaceship?
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

Your vote in the midterms matters, because Republicans in Congress won’t restrain the president’s excesses.


By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

  • Aug. 28, 2018
Image
merlin_140121612_db6bdfe9-7c5d-4cb8-9962-75cb84737ed8-articleLarge.jpg

CreditCreditAl Drago for The New York Times
Sept. 3 (AP) — President Trump stopped his motorcade in Manhattan today, jumped out of his limousine and shot a man on Fifth Avenue who was shouting anti-Trump epithets. The shooting was recorded by the White House press pool as well as by dozens of bystanders with cellphones and by security cameras in the area. When asked for his reaction, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, We will need more information than is available at this point.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said through pursed lips that he was not going to comment on every up and down with this president. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he already had information indicating that the man whom Trump shotworked for the Clinton Foundation and may have been a relative of former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Fox News did not cover Trump’s shooting at the top of its broadcast, which focused instead on the killing of an Iowa woman by an undocumented immigrant. Fox’s only reference to the fact that the president shot a man on Fifth Avenue was that a New York City man died today when he ran right into a bullet fired by the president.

Senator Lindsey Graham quipped that Trump shoots as well as he putts and that this incident would not cause the South Carolina senator to cancel his coming golf round with the president at his Bedminster, N.J., course.



That’s because we all now know that Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would stick with him. We’ve seen him get away with too much by now. No restraint on Trump will ever come from his party or his base — especially after the passing of John McCain. So save your breath. Trump will be restrained only if his party loses the House or the Senate. That’s what is at stake in the midterm elections — so vote accordingly.

And for those Republican moderates, independents and suburban white women who voted for Trump in 2016 and are considering voting against G.O.P. House and Senate candidates in November to put some limits on the president and show their disapproval at G.O.P. lawmakers’ failure to act as an independent branch of government, let me describe the stakes in another way:

America, we all know, won the Cold War. Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia’s. But what is at stake in the 2018 midterms is who is going to win the post-Cold War.

Yes, that question is back on the table. Because what we are seeing in the behavior of Trump and his toadies in the G.O.P. is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics. Vladimir Putin could still win the post-Cold War.

At the Cold War’s height, noted Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future and an immigrant from the Soviet Union, Americans took seriously the notion that we had to serve “as a contrast” to the Russians.

Because the Soviets claimed to have built a worker’s paradise, it was important that we had strong unions, a strong middle class, less inequality and an adequate social safety net. The Soviets did not have the rule of law. So we had to have it more than ever.

“I came here from Russia in ’75,” Gorbis added, “and it was remarkable to me that in this society there were laws and norms and principles, and people abided by them. The idea that people actually paid their taxes was kind of remarkable to me.” In the Russia she grew up in, said Gorbis, “we did not have that; if there was a law, there was always a way to bribe and get around it.”

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But with the Cold War now far back in our rearview mirror, Trump has not only insisted on bringing America closer to Putin’s Russia geopolitically, but also politically. This, despite the fact that our intelligence agencies and biggest internet companies have confirmed multiple times that Russia interfered in our 2016 election and continues to meddle.
What if a frog's ass was made of glass?
He would only hop once.
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

Your vote in the midterms matters, because Republicans in Congress won’t restrain the president’s excesses.


By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

  • Aug. 28, 2018
Image
merlin_140121612_db6bdfe9-7c5d-4cb8-9962-75cb84737ed8-articleLarge.jpg

CreditCreditAl Drago for The New York Times
Sept. 3 (AP) — President Trump stopped his motorcade in Manhattan today, jumped out of his limousine and shot a man on Fifth Avenue who was shouting anti-Trump epithets. The shooting was recorded by the White House press pool as well as by dozens of bystanders with cellphones and by security cameras in the area. When asked for his reaction, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, We will need more information than is available at this point.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said through pursed lips that he was not going to comment on every up and down with this president. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he already had information indicating that the man whom Trump shotworked for the Clinton Foundation and may have been a relative of former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Fox News did not cover Trump’s shooting at the top of its broadcast, which focused instead on the killing of an Iowa woman by an undocumented immigrant. Fox’s only reference to the fact that the president shot a man on Fifth Avenue was that a New York City man died today when he ran right into a bullet fired by the president.

Senator Lindsey Graham quipped that Trump shoots as well as he putts and that this incident would not cause the South Carolina senator to cancel his coming golf round with the president at his Bedminster, N.J., course.



That’s because we all now know that Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would stick with him. We’ve seen him get away with too much by now. No restraint on Trump will ever come from his party or his base — especially after the passing of John McCain. So save your breath. Trump will be restrained only if his party loses the House or the Senate. That’s what is at stake in the midterm elections — so vote accordingly.

And for those Republican moderates, independents and suburban white women who voted for Trump in 2016 and are considering voting against G.O.P. House and Senate candidates in November to put some limits on the president and show their disapproval at G.O.P. lawmakers’ failure to act as an independent branch of government, let me describe the stakes in another way:

America, we all know, won the Cold War. Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia’s. But what is at stake in the 2018 midterms is who is going to win the post-Cold War.

Yes, that question is back on the table. Because what we are seeing in the behavior of Trump and his toadies in the G.O.P. is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics. Vladimir Putin could still win the post-Cold War.

At the Cold War’s height, noted Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future and an immigrant from the Soviet Union, Americans took seriously the notion that we had to serve “as a contrast” to the Russians.

Because the Soviets claimed to have built a worker’s paradise, it was important that we had strong unions, a strong middle class, less inequality and an adequate social safety net. The Soviets did not have the rule of law. So we had to have it more than ever.

“I came here from Russia in ’75,” Gorbis added, “and it was remarkable to me that in this society there were laws and norms and principles, and people abided by them. The idea that people actually paid their taxes was kind of remarkable to me.” In the Russia she grew up in, said Gorbis, “we did not have that; if there was a law, there was always a way to bribe and get around it.”

ADVERTISEMENT

But with the Cold War now far back in our rearview mirror, Trump has not only insisted on bringing America closer to Putin’s Russia geopolitically, but also politically. This, despite the fact that our intelligence agencies and biggest internet companies have confirmed multiple times that Russia interfered in our 2016 election and continues to meddle.
That satirized news article was really funny. And not-funnily true.
 
Klaatu? you say ? This is real.....
America, we all know, won the Cold War. Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia’s. But what is at stake in the 2018 midterms is who is going to win the post-Cold War.

Yes, that question is back on the table. Because what we are seeing in the behavior of Trump and his toadies in the G.O.P. is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics. Vladimir Putin could still win the post-Cold War.
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

Your vote in the midterms matters, because Republicans in Congress won’t restrain the president’s excesses.


By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

  • Aug. 28, 2018
Image
merlin_140121612_db6bdfe9-7c5d-4cb8-9962-75cb84737ed8-articleLarge.jpg

CreditCreditAl Drago for The New York Times
Sept. 3 (AP) — President Trump stopped his motorcade in Manhattan today, jumped out of his limousine and shot a man on Fifth Avenue who was shouting anti-Trump epithets. The shooting was recorded by the White House press pool as well as by dozens of bystanders with cellphones and by security cameras in the area. When asked for his reaction, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, We will need more information than is available at this point.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said through pursed lips that he was not going to comment on every up and down with this president. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he already had information indicating that the man whom Trump shotworked for the Clinton Foundation and may have been a relative of former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Fox News did not cover Trump’s shooting at the top of its broadcast, which focused instead on the killing of an Iowa woman by an undocumented immigrant. Fox’s only reference to the fact that the president shot a man on Fifth Avenue was that a New York City man died today when he ran right into a bullet fired by the president.

Senator Lindsey Graham quipped that Trump shoots as well as he putts and that this incident would not cause the South Carolina senator to cancel his coming golf round with the president at his Bedminster, N.J., course.



That’s because we all now know that Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would stick with him. We’ve seen him get away with too much by now. No restraint on Trump will ever come from his party or his base — especially after the passing of John McCain. So save your breath. Trump will be restrained only if his party loses the House or the Senate. That’s what is at stake in the midterm elections — so vote accordingly.

And for those Republican moderates, independents and suburban white women who voted for Trump in 2016 and are considering voting against G.O.P. House and Senate candidates in November to put some limits on the president and show their disapproval at G.O.P. lawmakers’ failure to act as an independent branch of government, let me describe the stakes in another way:

America, we all know, won the Cold War. Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia’s. But what is at stake in the 2018 midterms is who is going to win the post-Cold War.

Yes, that question is back on the table. Because what we are seeing in the behavior of Trump and his toadies in the G.O.P. is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics. Vladimir Putin could still win the post-Cold War.

At the Cold War’s height, noted Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future and an immigrant from the Soviet Union, Americans took seriously the notion that we had to serve “as a contrast” to the Russians.

Because the Soviets claimed to have built a worker’s paradise, it was important that we had strong unions, a strong middle class, less inequality and an adequate social safety net. The Soviets did not have the rule of law. So we had to have it more than ever.

“I came here from Russia in ’75,” Gorbis added, “and it was remarkable to me that in this society there were laws and norms and principles, and people abided by them. The idea that people actually paid their taxes was kind of remarkable to me.” In the Russia she grew up in, said Gorbis, “we did not have that; if there was a law, there was always a way to bribe and get around it.”

ADVERTISEMENT

But with the Cold War now far back in our rearview mirror, Trump has not only insisted on bringing America closer to Putin’s Russia geopolitically, but also politically. This, despite the fact that our intelligence agencies and biggest internet companies have confirmed multiple times that Russia interfered in our 2016 election and continues to meddle.
What if a frog's ass was made of glass?
He would only hop once.
Seems like Trump has a glass ass Wants to stifle our media He is a horses ass as are his supporters
 
Klaatu? you say ? This is real.....
America, we all know, won the Cold War. Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia’s. But what is at stake in the 2018 midterms is who is going to win the post-Cold War.

Yes, that question is back on the table. Because what we are seeing in the behavior of Trump and his toadies in the G.O.P. is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics. Vladimir Putin could still win the post-Cold War.
No it's not, you guys are morons....we don't take politics into account for crimes. OJ was a republican, he killed 2 people....he should be in jail or dead. Ted Bundy was a republican, I cheered when he was executed.
Again Trump made a joke as a commentary on politics and you guys are trying to make it a literal statement....do you guys ever learn?
 
Klaatu? you say ? This is real.....
America, we all know, won the Cold War. Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia’s. But what is at stake in the 2018 midterms is who is going to win the post-Cold War.

Yes, that question is back on the table. Because what we are seeing in the behavior of Trump and his toadies in the G.O.P. is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics. Vladimir Putin could still win the post-Cold War.

Not if the Democrats are defeated.
 
Klaatu? you say ? This is real.....
America, we all know, won the Cold War. Our values and economic system proved superior to Russia’s. But what is at stake in the 2018 midterms is who is going to win the post-Cold War.

Yes, that question is back on the table. Because what we are seeing in the behavior of Trump and his toadies in the G.O.P. is the beginnings of the Russification of American politics. Vladimir Putin could still win the post-Cold War.

WTF....which part of "WHAT IF" is real?
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

You want to play what if, ed?


WHAT IF Hillary and Bill moved to a state with a death penalty, (NY doesn't), like, say, California.

and, WHAT IF Hillary shot Bill dead, or vice versa, in view of 100 or so people, on Rodeo Drive.

Would the courts find her, or him, guilty, and sentence them to death?
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

You want to play what if, ed?


WHAT IF Hillary and Bill moved to a state with a death penalty, (NY doesn't), like, say, California.

and, WHAT IF Hillary shot Bill dead, or vice versa, in view of 100 or so people, on Rodeo Drive.

Would the courts find her, or him, guilty, and sentence them to death?
The question is Will can you ever support your boy Trump without mentioning Bill,Hill or Obama ? Trump imo is a cancer on America and the sooner he's gone the better
 
LOL the left and their pathetic schemes to drive a wedge between Trump supporters and the president. You bunch of dumb asses are the reason Trump supporters remain energized and ready to kick your ass in Nov. Turnout in the AZ and FL governors primaries, yep Rep turnout topped Dem turnout, and Trump took the FL governor candidate from a double digit loss to a double digit win. Poor libs :itsok:
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

You want to play what if, ed?


WHAT IF Hillary and Bill moved to a state with a death penalty, (NY doesn't), like, say, California.

and, WHAT IF Hillary shot Bill dead, or vice versa, in view of 100 or so people, on Rodeo Drive.

Would the courts find her, or him, guilty, and sentence them to death?
The question is Will can you ever support your boy Trump without mentioning Bill,Hill or Obama ? Trump imo is a cancer on America and the sooner he's gone the better

support?

amusing.

now, answer the question.

I would imagine if it happened in New York, the most that would happen to the living Clinton, is house arrest.

Disagree?
 
LOL the left and their pathetic schemes to drive a wedge between Trump supporters and the president. You bunch of dumb asses are the reason Trump supporters remain energized and ready to kick your ass in Nov. Turnout in the AZ and FL governors primaries, yep Rep turnout topped Dem turnout, and Trump took the FL governor candidate from a double digit loss to a double digit win. Poor libs :itsok:
Blues You just made my list .... Top 5 to lmao at after Nov elections,,,,,Keep trying ,,you might make #1 When you do the prize is ONE Trumpy bear
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

You want to play what if, ed?


WHAT IF Hillary and Bill moved to a state with a death penalty, (NY doesn't), like, say, California.

and, WHAT IF Hillary shot Bill dead, or vice versa, in view of 100 or so people, on Rodeo Drive.

Would the courts find her, or him, guilty, and sentence them to death?
The question is Will can you ever support your boy Trump without mentioning Bill,Hill or Obama ? Trump imo is a cancer on America and the sooner he's gone the better

support?

amusing.

now, answer the question.

I would imagine if it happened in New York, the most that would happen to the living Clinton, is house arrest.

Disagree?
Sure I disagree Republicans have been after her with BS for 20-25 years spending many millions on a wild goose chase Are they so inept that if she was guilty they couldn't get her?
 
LOL the left and their pathetic schemes to drive a wedge between Trump supporters and the president. You bunch of dumb asses are the reason Trump supporters remain energized and ready to kick your ass in Nov. Turnout in the AZ and FL governors primaries, yep Rep turnout topped Dem turnout, and Trump took the FL governor candidate from a double digit loss to a double digit win. Poor libs :itsok:
Blues You just made my list .... Top 5 to lmao at after Nov elections,,,,,Keep trying ,,you might make #1 When you do the prize is ONE Trumpy bear

I will rub salt in your wounds daily after you fools lose in Nov and the GOP retains control of the House and Senate. Go ahead, make up an excuse for why Rep turnout was higher in FL and AZ. Here I'll just laugh in your face now :auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg:
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

You want to play what if, ed?


WHAT IF Hillary and Bill moved to a state with a death penalty, (NY doesn't), like, say, California.

and, WHAT IF Hillary shot Bill dead, or vice versa, in view of 100 or so people, on Rodeo Drive.

Would the courts find her, or him, guilty, and sentence them to death?
The question is Will can you ever support your boy Trump without mentioning Bill,Hill or Obama ? Trump imo is a cancer on America and the sooner he's gone the better

support?

amusing.

now, answer the question.

I would imagine if it happened in New York, the most that would happen to the living Clinton, is house arrest.

Disagree?
Sure I disagree Republicans have been after her with BS for 20-25 years spending many millions on a wild goose chase Are they so inept that if she was guilty they couldn't get her?


ed, we're talking about a murder, viewed by 100 people.

you think she could beat that charge?
(Anywhere other than NY?)
 
LOL the left and their pathetic schemes to drive a wedge between Trump supporters and the president. You bunch of dumb asses are the reason Trump supporters remain energized and ready to kick your ass in Nov. Turnout in the AZ and FL governors primaries, yep Rep turnout topped Dem turnout, and Trump took the FL governor candidate from a double digit loss to a double digit win. Poor libs :itsok:
Blues You just made my list .... Top 5 to lmao at after Nov elections,,,,,Keep trying ,,you might make #1 When you do the prize is ONE Trumpy bear

I will rub salt in your wounds daily after you fools lose in Nov and the GOP retains control of the House and Senate. Go ahead, make up an excuse for why Rep turnout was higher in FL and AZ. Here I'll just laugh in your face now :auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg::auiqs.jpg:
Would you like a Trumpy bear also ? I and dems will deserve you laughing at us if we let you take the House
 
What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?

You want to play what if, ed?


WHAT IF Hillary and Bill moved to a state with a death penalty, (NY doesn't), like, say, California.

and, WHAT IF Hillary shot Bill dead, or vice versa, in view of 100 or so people, on Rodeo Drive.

Would the courts find her, or him, guilty, and sentence them to death?
The question is Will can you ever support your boy Trump without mentioning Bill,Hill or Obama ? Trump imo is a cancer on America and the sooner he's gone the better

support?

amusing.

now, answer the question.

I would imagine if it happened in New York, the most that would happen to the living Clinton, is house arrest.

Disagree?
Sure I disagree Republicans have been after her with BS for 20-25 years spending many millions on a wild goose chase Are they so inept that if she was guilty they couldn't get her?


ed, we're talking about a murder, viewed by 100 people.

you think she could beat that charge?
(Anywhere other than NY?)
Come on Will be serious Anyone ,,,,,other than police ,would in your example get life or the chair
 
You want to play what if, ed?


WHAT IF Hillary and Bill moved to a state with a death penalty, (NY doesn't), like, say, California.

and, WHAT IF Hillary shot Bill dead, or vice versa, in view of 100 or so people, on Rodeo Drive.

Would the courts find her, or him, guilty, and sentence them to death?
The question is Will can you ever support your boy Trump without mentioning Bill,Hill or Obama ? Trump imo is a cancer on America and the sooner he's gone the better

support?

amusing.

now, answer the question.

I would imagine if it happened in New York, the most that would happen to the living Clinton, is house arrest.

Disagree?
Sure I disagree Republicans have been after her with BS for 20-25 years spending many millions on a wild goose chase Are they so inept that if she was guilty they couldn't get her?


ed, we're talking about a murder, viewed by 100 people.

you think she could beat that charge?
(Anywhere other than NY?)
Come on Will be serious Anyone ,,,,,other than police ,would in your example get life or the chair
ed, if I were you.....




I wouldn't bet on it.
 

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