Krauthammer "... claimed that Trump’s single most important statement from his campaign launch was 'I am rich.'" Actually it was the most stupid one.

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COMMENTS:
*  Hey Slate, are you trying to be Fox News???  That headline is totally deceiving - he was not singling out Krauthammer, since he included George Will in that comment.  Not even a whiff of reference to his being in a wheelchair. I suppose shoddy headlines can be 'fun' if the true context is made clear in the first sentence.  But you have to watch the entire clip to see the problem.  Cynical and manipulative.  Aren't our politics bad enough?  More to the point, isn't Trump enough of a joke without have to make up stuff?
*  Even if Trump isn't a liberal plant designed to show the GOP in the worst light and trash the other candidates, he is successfully functioning as the unleashed GOP id: saying what they all think and caring for no one other than himself.  Right wingers' contempt for the disabled is legendary, and I've seen it first hand.  Sauerkrauthammer may carry the GOP's water, but they don't like him and never have, and they have absolutely no sympathy for him. 
*  Much though I dislike Krauthammer, a smart man who says and believes many stupid things, I despise Trump even more. His announcement that he is running for President was a masterpiece of out-of-control ego. There is no need for comedians to parody Trump: He could win an Emmy for self-parody.
*  Waving around a made-up "net worth" sheet doesn't satisfy the FEC requirements for financial disclosure.  Trump has not filed any paperwork with the FEC. Until he does, he is not a candidate, and FOX knows this.  I don't think Trump wants to disclose anything close to the truth about his finances that might impact his dealings.  I have no way of knowing, but this may be yet another Trump prank.
*  Fox lies again. No one "debates" whether Trump is fit for the White House. Everyone who isn't Donald Trump knows he's not.
*  Sorry, I can't stomach the Donald so I didn't watch the clip. If even one idiot gives this  walking pustule a penny in campaign money, then they need to have their citizenship papers revoked.
*   Trump is "diminishing the stature" of the other Republican candidates.  Got to give him some credit then, that's a pretty hard trick to pull off.
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Not classy: Donald Trump calls Fox News critic in wheelchair a “loser” who “just sits there”

Trump and Fox News columnist Charles Krauthammer have quite a history -- but this comment may have crossed the line 

By Colin Gorenstein, June 17, 2015

Newly minted Republican nominee Donald Trump is only a day into his 2016 campaign and is already, unsurprisingly, ruffling feathers. What is surprising, though, is that the outrage is being generated by the Fox News team.

On Wednesday, Trump told co-hosts of “Fox & Friends” that Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer, who uses a wheelchair, is a “loser” and that all he does is just “sit there” and do nothing but be a “jerk.”

The tasteless comment was fueled by Krauthammer’s Fox appearance Tuesday in which he claimed that Trump’s single most important statement from his campaign launch was “I am rich.”

“That’s the basis for the campaign,” Krauthammer said, going to explain that Trump was “diminishing the stature” of other Republican candidates who are actually serious about the presidency.

Trump, essentially making the argument for Krauthammer, explained to the “Fox & Friends” co-hosts that these comments were unfair to him because “Think about it, I’ve built a $9 billion net worth, I’ve employed tens of thousands of people. I do a television show, it becomes one of the biggest shows on all of television. NBC renewed it again, they’re begging for me to do it. I write a book called ‘The Art of the Deal,’ it’s the number one selling business book of all time.”

Elisabeth Hasselbeck cut in to tell Trump that she thought he was a “good guy” but “[loves] Charles Krauthammer, too. Quite a pickle!

“I’m going to shift gears here and let you both have your opinions about one another freely.”

Watch the clip courtesy of Raw Story below:


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