Dan Rather: Trump Is a Cunning Master in Running Offense Using Words

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RATHER: “Well, I think we need to see it in the context in which it's said. If this president says all kinds of outrageous things, and I would consider this by any objective analysis dangerous, accuse fellow Americans of treason. Particularly when it involves you, something you have or have not done personally. This is not the kind of language that we're accustom to president using. President Trump uses it because he does think it reinforces him with his base that he's not afraid to call people out, so forth. One can only hope that the public at large, and I do have great confidence in Americans in the audience, see this for what it is, that he's on the one hand playing defense because the Mueller report on the central, most important thing about conspiracy with Russia, did exonerate him. So he's playing offense on that. Then he's playing defense about what else may be in the report, the whole question of obstruction of justice and playing defense on a lot of other fronts, including this news of possibly closing the border which, by the way, could be really important in terms of negative effect on the but he's a master, and one has to give him credit, even if it's begrudging credit, sort of a cunning master of running a very strong offense using words, even words such as treason, when it benefits him, but then playing fierce defense on the other hand.”