Steve Schmidt: The quote that kills MAGA

[thesquanderer]

14. My takeaway was that it was a bad article. It's a spin that misinterpreted what happened.

It's the kind of thing that many on the left as eager to jump on, but is not honest.

Watch the video... Trump was saying that, in negotiating with Iran, his only focus is on stopping them from getting a nuclear weapon. Which, itself, may or may not be entirely true, but it is not unreasonable.

Listen to the actual question the reported asked. Listen to how he answers it. He didn't say "I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation" *ever*. He said he didn't think about it within the context of his negotiations with Iran, where (ostensibly) his only focus is on nuclear weapons.

There is so much about him that is genuinely horrible, I think it is distracting to get into semantic games to make it seem like he's saying something other than what he was saying.

Which, I suppose, doesn't mean it couldn't be effectively used in an ad. But let's not kid ourselves, it would be a deceit.

Make no mistake, I *DO* believe he doesn't care about the financial welfare of average Americans. I just don't think he was "admitting" to that here, as the article puts forth.