This seems like a trick Trump learned from how “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy peddled his Red Scare fake news back in the 1950’s. Since Trump’s long-time favorite pit bull lawyer Roy Cohn began his career as the legal pit bull for McCarthy (that strategy was likely the brain child of Cohn, who seems to have passed it along to Trump).
McCarthy would stand up, wave papers, and say he had a list of 300 or 600 or some number of known communist agents working in the State Department. (I always wondered why, if McCarthy had such evidence of national security betrayals he never released the list or just called the FBI to report his findings — oh yeah, just like the Trump campaign’s refusal to call the FBI when they were offered “dirt” on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, as we were reminded by George Stephanopoulos’ interview with Trump on Wednesday).
But this excellent Toles ’toon hits the mark: the real bottom line is that, when Trump promises detailed policies and proposals, he is just shooting blanks.
This seems like a trick Trump learned from how “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy peddled his Red Scare fake news back in the 1950’s. Since Trump’s long-time favorite pit bull lawyer Roy Cohn began his career as the legal pit bull for McCarthy (that strategy was likely the brain child of Cohn, who seems to have passed it along to Trump).
McCarthy would stand up, wave papers, and say he had a list of 300 or 600 or some number of known communist agents working in the State Department. (I always wondered why, if McCarthy had such evidence of national security betrayals he never released the list or just called the FBI to report his findings — oh yeah, just like the Trump campaign’s refusal to call the FBI when they were offered “dirt” on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, as we were reminded by George Stephanopoulos’ interview with Trump on Wednesday).
But this excellent Toles ’toon hits the mark: the real bottom line is that, when Trump promises detailed policies and proposals, he is just shooting blanks.