{"id":1312137,"date":"2019-07-05T20:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/shannon-column-trump-fake-endorsed-by-a-turk\/"},"modified":"2019-07-05T20:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T02:52:01","slug":"shannon-column-trump-fake-endorsed-by-a-turk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/shannon-column-trump-fake-endorsed-by-a-turk\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon column: Trump fake endorsed by a Turk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Associated Press Gotcha Patrol has discovered President Trump\u2019s Facebook man-in-the-street campaign videos are using actors instead of supporters. Even worse, many of the streets are in Turkey or Paris.<\/p>\n

Take the bearded \u201cThomas from Washington,\u201d who is more likely Mohammed from Izmir. Thats a city in Turkey, a country that\u2019s barely an ally, much less a supplier of hipster endorsers of Trump.<\/p>\n

Mohammed says, Trump is \u201cin our prayers for strength and wisdom from God almighty.\u201d Substitute Erdogan for Trump and Allah for God and the ad\u2019s veracity is absolute.<\/p>\n

Reporter Bernard Condon has a valid point when he writes, \u201c[Using actors] raises the question why a campaign that can fill arenas with supporters would have to buy stock footage of models.\u201d<\/p>\n

The use of models is a shortcut. A shortcut any experienced political ad maker would not take because of the potential for stories like this. As GOP media consultant Fred Davis remarked, \u201cWhoever did this is probably 22 years old, and they\u2019re going through pictures and thought, \u2018This is a great picture.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Using normal people for commercials means finding someone who is camera-worthy, articulate and will pass a background check. The process involves travel, recruitment and hours in the edit bay taking snippets of the interview and building an ad. And that\u2019s just before the commercial airs.<\/p>\n

After the broadcast the campaign ad team has to hope the supporter isn\u2019t arrested, hit with a restraining order or changes sides and endorses the opponent.<\/p>\n

The use of overseas models all those variables, besides I thought the Opposition Media was in favor of global free trade.<\/p>\n

Realistically, Trump\u2019s use of paid models is just as authentic as his promise to build a wall, stop illegals crossing the border and deport the illegals already in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the latest adventure of the \u201cgang that couldn\u2019t administer straight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the Department of Commerce is part of the executive branch and is in charge of the census, determining what questions are asked should be a routine executive function.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the slapstick Trump he\u2019s in a governmental civil war and as Carl von, Clausewitz posited, \u201cWar, is very, simple, but in, War, the, simplest, things become very difficult.\u201d Adding a citizenship question that asks, \u201cIs this person a citizen of the United States?\u201d in this environment is the very definition of simple but difficult.<\/p>\n

The census is crucial because it determines the number of congressmen each state has and it\u2019s used as part of the formula for federal handouts. Counting illegals and other aliens gives political power to leftist sanctuary states at the expense of states that don\u2019t go out of their way to welcome a criminal class.<\/p>\n

It stands to reason that a census of the United States should be a census of citizens of the U.S. and not citizens of Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and points south.<\/p>\n

The administration should\u2019ve been prepared for a court challenge. Commerce either was not prepared or \u2013 in keeping with usual Trump personnel office polices \u2013 it picked a team of Resistance collaborators to defend the question.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court upheld previous rulings deporting the citizenship question, although Chief Justice John \u2018The Weathervane\u2019 Roberts gave Trump an out when he said the administration could resubmit the question with a justification that made sense.<\/p>\n

Naturally Trump\u2019s legal team enthusiastically embraced surrender. Team leader Joshua Gardner evidently learned the lesson of Sally Yates. Instead of refusing to defend administration policy you personally dislike, just do a lousy job and celebrate your defeat.<\/p>\n

The Tweeter-in-Chief may have realized that voters might cut you some slack on building a giant border wall. They could understand how deporting 29 million illegals would require some preparation time. But dropping the ball on a nine-word question was something else again.<\/p>\n

Trump tweeted he was \u201cabsolutely moving forward\u201d with the question.<\/p>\n

Currently in-house Resistance is telling Trump no can do. It\u2019s imposible! The administration must move muy pronto to make the deadline. This is correct only if lawyers move at their usual foot-dragging, government worker speed.<\/p>\n

Hugh Hewitt, a lawyer in the Reagan administration, suggested Trump bypass court altogether, issue a \u201cnew executive order\u201d directing Commerce to \u201cadd such questions for particular reasons\u201d and conduct the census.<\/p>\n

Trump and his micro attention span are in the driver\u2019s seat. The Resistance has thwarted Trump when he wanted to take an action, but they don\u2019t have a response to inaction. Trump can simply sit on the census until he gets a questionnaire that\u2019s best for citizens and not criminals nervous about being caught.<\/p>\n

When you get right down to it, delaying the census beats accelerating the takeover by immigrants in our country illegally.<\/p>\n

Michael Shannon is a commentator and public relations consultant, and is the author of \u201cA Conservative Christian\u2019s Guidebook for Living in Secular Times.\u201d He can be reached at mandate.mmpr@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press Gotcha Patrol has discovered President Trump\u2019s Facebook man-in-the-street campaign videos are using actors instead of supporters. Even worse, many of the streets are in Turkey or Paris. Take the bearded \u201cThomas from Washington,\u201d who is more likely Mohammed from Izmir. Thats a city in Turkey, a country that\u2019s barely an ally, much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 04:21:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}