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| TRUMP: Answering back before attacked? |
Trump,
the tough-talker who’s particularly vehement when communicating via Twitter,
said he ventured to the land of Little Egypt (how the locals think of
themselves) because, “we can’t let evil change our life and change our
schedule.”
NOW
THERE MAY be an element of truth that Trump wouldn’t want to cancel out on his
appearance meant to bolster the re-election bid of Bost just because some bigot
decided to bust into a synagogue armed with a rifle and pistols and start
shooting the place up.
Some
11 were killed, others were wounded, and it is being called one of the
bloodiest attacks on Jewish people in this country. Even Trump is calling it an
“antisemitic attack at its worst.”
But
I can’t help but think of more crass motivations in play for why Trump felt a
flight on Air Force One to a remote part of Illinois was so important to make.
It
will be just a few days before none-other-than Joe Biden, the former Vice President
under the chief executive whose memory Trump would love to erase from the
history books, will take place.
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| BOST: Beneficiary of Trump goodwill? |
FOR
BOST IS the guy being challenged by St. Clair County Brendan Kelly, who is the
Democrat seeking to knock Bost from the House of Representatives, and one of
some two-dozen Republican members of Congress whom Democrats think might be
vulnerable on Election Day.
Personally,
I’m inclined to think that Southern Illinois has changed significantly since
the days when it was a working-class region (with many union member coal miners
living there). Bost (whose moment of national prominence came back six years
ago when he shouted, screamed and threw documents around during a session of
the Illinois House of Representatives) may well be safe politically –
particularly since that region is the lone part of Illinois where Trump is
taken seriously.
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| HULTGREN: Will he get Trump help? |
I
have no doubt that Trump on Saturday was in a place where he felt much
political love. Reinforcing his belief that he really does represent what this
country is about.
Exactly
the kind of sentiment that could be threatened if the perception got out there
that Trump somehow got scared off, intimidated of sorts, into not showing up in
Illinois.
JUST
THINK OF how much trash talk Biden could spew come Wednesday when he appears on
behalf of Kelly at a union hall in East St. Louis.
Which
will come a few hours after Biden appears in suburban St. Charles to campaign
for Lauren Underwood, who’s the nurse with political aspirations challenging
Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Ill., for his congressional seat.
He’s
probably more vulnerable than is Bost, but you can be sure Biden will go out of
his way on Halloween to bash both congress members by tying them as closely as
possible in every possible way to Trump.
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| BIDEN: Dumping on Trump come Wednesday? |
I
don’t doubt Trump would not like the notion of Biden appearing in Illinois
twice while Donald himself would not at all. It would probably seem to him like
he’s surrendering to the former Vice President. And I suspect an unanswered taunt
is the biggest evidence of political cowardice that exists in Trump’s mentality.
SO
I SEE a touch of self-righteousness in Trump, feeling the need to answer back Saturday
in anticipation of the Illinois-oriented insults he’s likely to get on Tuesday.
He
may actually feel a touch of sympathy for Jewish people, although I suspect that’s
largely because daughter Ivanka likely would read him the riot act in private
if he didn’t (she did convert her religious faith when she married Jared
Kushner).
One
can talk about high-minded ideals as much as they want. But when it comes to
political people, there’s usually a selfish motive behind anything they say or
do – particularly when it comes to “the Donald.”
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