Well it sure as hell ain't common decency or common sense.
As an outsider looking in, I think it's two things:
1) They want to offer the lying, scheming media types a "positive" counterpoint to all of the negative stuff in the news about their crazy boy.
Maybe that will distract them from their goal of destroying the country through reporting negative (but mostly true) stuff about our first Fringe President.
You know - that might be an apt name. I don't consider Trump a conservative or a liberal or anything in between. He's just in it for himself. So instead of "Republican Party" or "Democratic Party" - neither of which should have claimed him had one of them not been Whoring for Victory
- he represents the Fringe Party. They make up their beliefs on the fly depending upon audience and change their morals and convictions like most people change their underwear; if they happen to wear any.
2) Some of them need something to feel good about. Something that reinforces (for some) their fading perception that they did the right thing by supporting bombast over substance and putting this lunatic into the White House.
On a different matter - I saw a report the other day about Fringe Boy's unsubstantiated allegations that he had been wire tapped and spied upon.
What might have made him think such a thing?
Why, things that he saw in the media.
The same media that are the enemy of the American people; the same media that he so completely distrusts.
They made him think and say that he had been wire-tapped.
I guess that on some significant level of insanity that rather proves his point - he saw their info, he believed their info, he acted on their info; and it was apparently completely wrong.
That makes him right of course in the sense that pretty much anything you choose to think or believe is right - it can't be anything but right - when your faculties attain a certain, advanced state of detachment from reason and reality.
From the report:
In his first interview since his unsubstantiated claim that he was wiretapped by former President Obama, President Trump said the sources of information behind his tweets were primarily news reports.
"Well, I've been reading about things," Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson that aired Wednesday night.
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[/SIZE][/SIZE]"I said, wait a minute, there's a lot of wiretapping being talked about," Trump said. "I've been seeing a lot of things."
I don't doubt that he's been seeing a lot of things. I suspect that he is also hearing a lot of things. "Voices" come out of nowhere within his head and tell him things - like he's being wire-tapped by Obama and that the Mexicans are going to pay to build a wall just because Trump wants them too; or at least wanted his followers to think that he really thought that.
And if the excerpts above aren't bat-shit crazy enough for you, he continued and he delivered nothing less than what I would expect from the guy:
Asked why he wouldn’t just approach the intelligence agencies to verify whether his claim is true, Trump said he didn’t “want to do anything that's going to violate any strength of an agency.”
Trump repeated some of the clarifying comments made by his press secretary Sean Spicer, saying his tweets about wiretaps were “in quotes” and thus meant surveillance in a broader sense.
“And don't forget, when I say wiretapping, those words were in quotes,” Trump said. “That really covers, because wiretapping is pretty old fashioned stuff. But that really covers surveillance and many other things. And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that's a very important thing.”
But only two of the four tweets by the president related to wiretapping included the phrase in quotes.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
At least it does compared to some of the especially special nonsensical stuff that he says and tweets.
I have got to remember to start putting everything in quotes.
That "really covers" and can make whatever you say mean whatever you want it to - perpetually.
I have to hand it to the guy though in one sense - he's consistent.
Here's a link to the whole story:
https://gma.yahoo.com/president-trum...pstories.html#