News Nation Now: Donald Trump Goading JB Pritzker Into Confrontation: Geraldo Rivera

"As President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker continue to trade barbs over the possibility of National Guard troops in Chicago, NewsNation contributor Geraldo Rivera says Pritzker may be taking Trump’s bait." 

Source:News Nation talking to longtime talk show host and TV anchor, Geraldo (don't ever call me Gerry, if you know what's good for you) Rivera. 

From News Nation

At risk of sounding like Chris Cuomo (who is also a News Nation anchor) and sound like I'm trying to have it both ways and agree with both sides here, or argue that "both sides are at fault", etc... I'm going to take that risk anyway and for this reason: Geraldo Rivera is right that this Federal takeover of big cities when it comes to their law enforcement, is a distraction for Democrats. But I just wouldn't use the language that he would used here. 

I think the best way to describe Donald John Trump as a politician, is that he's a machine gun politician. Because the President is a machine gun politician, he can do so much damage, to so many people and things, including our most valuable and important institutions, that his opponents never have the time and resources to focus on every important bad thing that he does. 

That's 1 way you can govern in this country with a 40% (give or take) approval rating and a 55% (give or take disapproval rating) because the people (at least anyone who pays attention to all his irresponsible nonsense) see 1 bad thing, or several at a time and simply don't have the time to get all the information that they need about every bad action that Machine Gun Trump takes. 

The President can strike so many people and things and the exact same time, that his opponents, including Republicans, don't have the time or resources to focus on everything and leave out important issues, like the Federal takeovers of municipal police departments, when Democrats should really just be talking about Donald Trump's tariff driven, weak economy and his attempted coverup up the Epstein files. If Democrats leaders, including governors, were politically smart (and it never snowed in Chicago again) they would not put this police takeover aside... but what they would essentially say is something like: 

"Our crimes rates are actually lower than what you see in rural red states and small towns. (On a per-capita base) We completely disagree with this Federal overreach here and we're going to see President Trump to court on this". 

And move on to bigger and more important things, like the bad Trump economy and the coverup of the Epstein files. 

But since since a lot of these Democratic politicians are so politically inept, (stupid, would be more accurate) and perhaps can only get elected in deep blue states like Illinois and can sound like dishwashers trying to give a lecture on how to perform brain surgery, or Donald Trump trying to give a lecture on aviation (which he actually tried to do) as far as how they practice politics, they get the media talking about how they much they dislike President Trump, as well as crime in big, blue cities... but also calling him every name in the book that they can possibly think of, while they're doing live press conferences. Which might be good for the left-wing, partisan base of the Democratic Party, but hurts them everywhere else, perhaps even with their own voters. 

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