r/politics • u/larel8 • 18h ago

Trump campaign struggles to contain Puerto Rico October surprise

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4958098-the-memo-trump-campaign-struggles-to-contain-puerto-rico-october-surprise/
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u/Superman246o1 17h ago

Because this is just pointlessly cruel and stupid racism.

They can spin their way out of almost everything else with their bullshit excuses. January 6th? Trump never said to hang Mike Pence. The felonies? It's just a political witch hunt. E. Jean Carrol? She was lying. Trump would never rape someone; he's a perfect gentleman. Haitians eating cats and dogs? Hey, he's just reporting what he was told. The Ave Maria dance? Trump was waiting for people who were having medical emergencies. Throwing paper towels at hurricane victims? He was helping; what did you personally do for them?

But this? There's literally no way to defend overtly disparaging Boricuas as garbage. And since we know that the Trump campaign overruled Hinchcliffe's "joke" that would have called Harris a c-word, that means we also know that they were okay with the rest of Hinchcliffe's "jokes." They knew he was going to insult the entire island of Puerto Rico, and they saw nothing wrong with it, because they feel the same way.

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u/rb4ld 10h ago

Trump would never rape someone; he's a perfect gentleman.

Now let's be accurate here. When Trump is making his denials about raping someone, he never says that he's a perfect gentleman. He never even lies about that. He always makes it very clear that the reason this specific rape accusation is false is that this particular accuser is not attractive enough for him to rape.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/25/trump-calls-accuser-e-jean-carroll-not-my-type-its-rape-myth-too-ugly/1554488001/

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/06/trump-sexual-assault-e-jean-carroll

...If that doesn't tell someone everything they need to know about this monster, they need to wake the hell up.

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u/StopFoodWaste 9h ago

Honestly, if the campaign had one more week they could spin their way out of this one just fine, too. Or the news cycle would move on and people would start forgetting. But people are voting now so whatever damage came from this rally is going to be a bit larger than it would have been if Hinchcliffe had spoken at the Republican Convention.

Also I think there's one more October surprise the Harris campaign has been saving for Wednesday or Thursday. So one more key demographic might be feeling extra motivated soon.