The Bigger Question

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I was watching, with interest, comments made by the former President about Liz Cheney.

At first glance, it appears that he was suggesting she go before a firing squad. 

Specifically, he said:

"Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

But, in the interest of balance, I tuned in to see how his friends at Fox News could possibly defend his comments, when he also said:

"You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’"

So here's the problem . . .

Technically, in context, you might  agree with his Fox friends and think he was simply saying that Cheney should be sent into battle to see how she would like it.

Maybe he was. 

Maybe he wasn't.

But honestly, I'm not totally confident that the same people who "misinterpreted" his comments on January 6th will not take these latest comments as another call to arms. (Not to mention his latest comments stating he would be comfortable having people shoot through the media to get to him.)

As he often does, he leaves the interpretation of his comments open,  keeping plausible deniability for himself. How many times has his campaign team had to clean up the messes he has left behind? "This is what he was trying to say. This is what he really meant. He was joking," etc.)

I think the bigger question--since he routinely plays loose like this--is whether or not we want a leader whose words can so often be misinterpreted. 

Do we want a leader that cannot be clear when making his point?

Or, IS he being clear about his point and nobody believes he could possibly mean what he says?

What if this happened on the world stage?

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 Janet Cassidy
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