The problem with liars is that they forget what lies they have told and either tell them differently at a later date, or deny they ever said them. This is the leader of the Republican Party.
Donald Trump had this to say after the massacre in Orlando.
“It’s too bad that some of the young people that were killed over the weekend didn’t have guns, you know, attached to their hips, frankly, and, you know, where bullets could have flown in the opposite direction,” he told conservative radio host Howie Carr the day after the attack.
“It would have been a much different deal,” he continued. “I mean, it sounded like there were no guns. They had a security guard. Other than that there were no guns in the room. Had people been able to fire back, it would have been a much different outcome.”
First of all, let’s be the opposite of Donald Trump; let’s be logical. Anyone with a handgun in that nightclub would have become a target. The killer had a military assault rifle; he didn’t need to be accurate, he just needed to point and shoot.
Now Trump is backtracking.
A spokesman for the NRA, which usually believes that guns should be everywhere, including in schools, rebuked Trump.
“Of course no one thinks that people should go in a nightclub drinking and carrying firearms,” the NRA’s chief lobbyist, Chris Cox, told ABC’s “This Week.” ‘’That defies common sense. It also defies the law.”
Trump is now denying that he said the quotes above. The truth is that he didn’t want to look like what he is; an idiot.
On a secondary note, today Trump fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, just four weeks before the convention in Cleveland.
Lewandowski became a controversial figure when he was accused of assaulting a female reporter at a Trump rally. He was known as a Trump loyalist, but reportedly lost favor with Trump’s children after the incident.
“The Donald J. Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican Primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced that Corey Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign,” campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in a statement to the media Monday. “The campaign is grateful to Corey for his hard work and dedication and we wish him the best in the future.”
After the statement, Trump staffers had no comment and none has been forthcoming from the Republican Party’s standard bearer.
All of this comes amid growing opposition to Trump winning the party’s nomination on the first ballot. Paul Ryan has joined others who are encouraging the RNC to “vote their conscience” next month. Although Trump won sufficient delegates to be guaranteed the party’s nomination, there is no guarantee.
Maybe I’m wrong; maybe the protests inside Quicken Loans Arena will be more volatile than those outside. Either way, it’s going to be the best “reality show” you have ever seen.
Op-Ed
By James Turnage
The Truth With No Restrictions 