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highplainsdem

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Tue Aug 15, 2017, 08:11 PM Aug 2017

Frank Bruni on Trump: We Just Witnessed an 'Act of Self-Immolation Without the Flames' [View all]

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Source: Mediaite

President Donald Trump offered a dizzying, if not confused, explanation of his comments that followed the deadly protest in Charlottesville this past weekend, but also touched on a number of issues that are sure to be parsed and discussed on cable news outlets in the coming hours, days, millennia.

The takes are coming hot and fast, and NY Times columnist — and MSNBC contributor — Frank Bruni is out of the gates early, with some top-shelf hyperbole and graphic adjectives in describing Trump’s presser.

Bruni called it an “act of self-immolation by a man by a man who can’t take criticism,” without the flames. He went on to say that Trump “obviously meant what he said on Saturday,” (when he blamed the violence on “many sides”) adding that Trump’s comment yesterday, he “obviously only said what he said because he was being made to.”

For flourish, Bruni added that, in his view, Trump’s comments were akin to “a child pouting…a narcissist screaming,” finishing off with “whatever hole he was trying to dig out of he made three leagues deeper.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/frank-bruni-on-trump-we-just-witnessed-an-act-of-self-immolation-without-the-flames/



Video at the link.
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And yet, he is still POTUS with ZERO movment to impeach. broadcaster90210 Aug 2017 #1
I know! Delphinus Aug 2017 #2
I don't think anything will trigger it. broadcaster90210 Aug 2017 #3
I agree Delphinus Aug 2017 #4
Most kind. Thank you. broadcaster90210 Aug 2017 #7
Congress needs US to flood local offices furtheradu Aug 2017 #6
I like this a lot. broadcaster90210 Aug 2017 #8
Phones are a waste - voicemail boxes full. Email LuckyLib Aug 2017 #9
+1000 smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #12
You can't impeach a president for "being an asshole." DFW Aug 2017 #13
He'll fire someone and blame them. truthisfreedom Aug 2017 #5
DDD. Deliberately Digging Deeper. dchill Aug 2017 #10
Just the other day Trump thanked a bot on twitter Wash. state Desk Jet Aug 2017 #11
It won't matter. Nothing will. DFW Aug 2017 #14
Locking - this is opinion, not news in its own right muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #15
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