The footage was first reported by The
Washington Post, and shows President Trump going back and for with his team,
including Ivanka Trump as they shoot his address.
The Post states that “Over the course of an hour of
trying to tape the message, Trump resisted holding the rioters to account,
trying to call them patriots, and refused to say the election was over”
In the outtake,
Trump at one point cuts himself off to say that he does not want to say “the
election’s over” while reading a script from a teleprompter.
The script on the teleprompters reads ’But this election is now over. Congress has certified the results...."
Trump responds "I don’t want to say the election’s over, I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election’s over”
Ivanka Trump is heard in the background drafting a new line for her father,
including, “now, Congress has certified—.”
In the final cut
of the video, Trump said “Congress has certified the results,”.
In another
outtake, Trump took issue with a section that condemned the rioters and responds as follows
“’ And to those who
broke the law, you will pay. You do not represent our movement, you do not
represent our country, and if you broke the law’ — can’t say that I’m not
gonna, I already said you will pay,”
The following are key portions of the WaPo piece that referred to the leak.
“The hearing will lean heavily into the idea that Trump’s dereliction disqualifies him from holding office again. Trump has repeatedly signaled he intends to run for president in 2024.”
“Among the possible recommendations, according to people with knowledge of those discussions - passing a law implementing the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment, which could pave the way to attempting to bar Trump from office in the future”
The goal of this Stalinist propaganda trial is, was, and always has been to prevent Trump from running again in 2024. This is a sequel to the Russia collusion probe whose goal was to force Trump to quit the Presidency.
There are two aspects to the leak, the act of leaking and the contents.
Let's look at the act of leaking itself.
The leaking of the footage of Trump recording his address falls is the same level of violation as the leaking of Supreme Court draft documents.
Every individual in positions of power from Presidents to Supreme Court Justices deserves to have a secure work environment where they can discuss ideas freely with their team.
Recording a speech is a collaborative process, among the speech writers, the advisers, and the President. Anybody who has written articles or delivered speeches knows that texts frequently evolve. Authoring a text is not mathematics where there is only one answer. The merit of a text is purely subjective. A text may seem perfect to one and full of flaws to another, it is up to the speaker to decide what can be included in the final draft.
The public has the right to judge a President on the basis of his public statements. The public is not entitled to know the thought or ideas or the portion of prose that was rejected as the speech was crafted.
We will never ever see footage of Biden taping an address. The establishment will not do that to one of their own.
Let’s focus on the content first.
Leaking only works when they reveal hypocrisy.
If Trump had used pejorative words for his supporters or had talked about throwing them under the bus it would have been doubtlessly scandalous. But nothing of the kind occurred. Trump's utterances during the outtakes are consistent with his every public statement. Trump refused to concede defeat, for which he had good reason. Trump stood by his supporters calling the Patriots.
If anything this footage makes Trump look good to his supporters.
It also reminds people of the good old days, when the US had a President whose cognitive abilities were fully functional and who was truly in command. The last word was always his.
The footage demonstrates President Trump’s deep involvement in his speeches. Trump clearly knows the impact of the words and engages in wordsmithing minutely.
Contrast that with Joe Biden who reads softly and listlessly off the teleprompter even the instructions.
Sadly this is not the end of it, in the coming days there will be more violations of norms as the Democrats head to the mid-terms where they are likely to face certain defeat.
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