Monday, December 9, 2019

Killer Act

They did a beta-test of Trump’s 2020 campaign rally here in Miami Saturday night.

Trump, speaking during a closed-door speech to Republican Party of Florida donors at the state party’s annual Statesman’s Dinner, was in “rare form” Saturday night.

The dinner, which raised $3.5 million for the state party, was met with unusual secrecy. The 1,000 attendees were required to check their cell phones into individual locked cases before they entered the unmarked ballroom at the south end of the resort. Reporters were not allowed to attend.

But the secrecy was key to Trump’s performance, which attendees called “hilarious.”

Riding the high of the successful event turnout — and without the pressure of press or cell phones — Trump transformed into a “total comedian,” according to six people who attended the event and spoke afterward to the Miami Herald.

He also pulled an unusual move, bringing on stage Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who Trump pardoned last month for cases involving war crimes. Lorance was serving a 19-year sentence for ordering his soldiers shoot at unarmed men in Afghanistan, and Golsteyn was to stand trial for the 2010 extrajudicial killing of a suspected bomb maker.

He’s a regular Bob Hope.  The best part was trotting out the war criminals.  That’s a killer act.

One bark on “Killer Act

  1. Funny you should mention Bob Hope. On TV he’s a nice, pleasant performer. But my brother was in the Navy and saw him live and says when the cameras are off, he swears like a Marine.

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