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Old 06-30-2017, 09:36 AM
 
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I hold the President to a higher standard.
A double standard. They can attack him in the most unprofessional of terms, but according to you he can't hit back.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:37 AM
 
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A double standard. They can attack him in the most unprofessional of terms, but according to you he can't hit back.
He should not have tried to blackmail them. He is going to regret that.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:37 AM
 
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The bar is so low for Trump that Larry Flynt can now be considered presidential material.
And if Larry Flynt went to DC to break some eggs of the professional career politicians and the MSM elite which support it, so that average Americans get a voice, I'd have absolutely no problem with it.

Qualifications for President are spelled out by the US Constitution, BTW.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:39 AM
 
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It is truly sad that some people have such low standards for the presidency.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:39 AM
 
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It's the standard set by most other Presidents who served the office. It's worked out pretty well so far. I should hope that the person who leads our country isn't so thin skinned that he has to react to every piece of negativity thrown towards him. We have middle schoolers with thicker skin than him.
Haha. If Trump was thinned skinned he would have never made it to the first primary.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:40 AM
 
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He should not have tried to blackmail them. He is going to regret that.
Blackmail is a crime. Here's the code in Washington, DC

https://beta.code.dccouncil.us/dc/co...s/22-3252.html

22–3252. Blackmail.

(a) A person commits the offense of blackmail, if, with intent to obtain property of another or to cause another to do or refrain from doing any act, that person threatens:
(1) To accuse any person of a crime;
(2) To expose a secret or publicize an asserted fact, whether true or false, tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule; or
(3) To impair the reputation of any person, including a deceased person.
(b) Any person convicted of blackmail shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:40 AM
 
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A double standard. They can attack him in the most unprofessional of terms, but according to you he can't hit back.
No not a double standard. I was very clear.

To me the Office of the President of the United States should be held to a higher standard.

It is my opinion that your comment implies I would tolerate this behavior from any other President. Iw ouldn't.

To be clear -- my disgust with Trump's comments have little to do with him being a Republican.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:45 AM
 
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No not a double standard. I was very clear.
I was very clear too.

You think it's OK for anchors on major news channels to attack Trump in the most unprofessional manner, but not OK for Trump to respond.

That is a double standard.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:46 AM
 
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She's not the president.
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Old 06-30-2017, 09:47 AM
 
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A double standard. They can attack him in the most unprofessional of terms, but according to you he can't hit back.
That's right. To be President you need to have a thick skin. Obama put up with insults for years, some of it led by Trump. Eventually Obama had to produce his birth certificate after years of badgering by Trump. The vast majority of the nastiness against him, he let it go. You have to behave with dignity as President, not send out juvenile tweets every time someone says something you don't like.

Remember: "When they go low, we go high."

But with Trump, when they go low he goes even lower.
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