There are generally two types of “October Surprises.”
There are the sorts of nasty political surprises that can actually hit a campaign right on the head. You can usually identify these by the response — or lack thereof — to the surprise.
And then, there are the, pun very much intended, trumped up surprises that are so heinously manufactured, the surprise can’t help but fall apart under the slightest bit of scrutiny.
(Of course there are good surprises, too.)
Guess what sort of “surprise” the latest one targeting former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is?
For those of you who are blissfully unaware of the mainstream media’s more diabolical tactics, Trump came under some fire this week when a report from The Atlantic attributed some offensive quotes to the former president.
The blaring headline that everyone — CNN, MSNBC, People magazine — ran with was certainly a buzzy quote: “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
But was it an actual quote?
Because a quote that damning that would surely be vetted by the establishment media … right?
The answer to both of those questions is, apparently, a middling, “Not really.”
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