Trump plays media

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/09/1...iddle.html
Donald Trump played the Mainstream Media like a Charlie Daniels fiddle today -- and it was music to my ears.
He was holding court inside his brand new Washington, D.C. hotel while breathless reporters and drooling anchors jumped into wall-to-wall coverage -- waiting to hear Trump apologize.
And he kept them waiting and waiting and waiting.
Reporters thought he was going to launch into a tearful, soul-searching mea-culpa over President Obama's birth certificate.
But it turned out - he resolved the issue lickety-split.
"Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” Trump said. "President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.”
Mr. Trump was referencing a memorandum written by Mark Penn, her chief strategist at the time.

... and how did they do that? I want to see exactly where Clinton's campaign asserted Obama wasn't born in the US.

How can you not respect a man like this?

Seriously? I can think of ten reasons in less than as many seconds.

All the other politicians cower when faced with heavy media scrutiny. This man turns their ill intended conference into Million dollar Free infomercial on his new hotel, a stunning public military endorsement that can not be denied now, AND he laid the bomb of responsibility for this whole 'birther movement' at the 08 Hilary campaign's feet. (with documented proof)

Stunning? Really? Ask Romney how many military endorsements he had. And what documented proof? Really. Show us.

I am absolutely loving this! Win or loose got to respect the man for playing people who think themselves smarter than he is into covering an event that did nothing but benefit him!!!

Nothing Trump does is for any other purpose than to benefit himself.

When will 'smart' people learn. You can't fall off a turnip truck into a billion dollar empire. That money is hard fought for and earned by people way, way smarter than those in politics and the talking head crowd.

Evidence Trump has a billion-dollar empire. Oh, right. You can't possibly prove that because the man refuses to release his tax returns.

When will they get, allowing your enemy to think himself smarter than you is the cornerstone philosophy in the art of war? When is the last time we had a president savvy and confident enough to play to his opponent preconceived ideas about him, and let things go to the time he can benefit?

When has Trump done any of this?

If I were trump, I'd let the media have a bone maybe two (a couple of stories or tweets or something they can use to their benfit) before I'd hit them again with another big bomb like this just before the election.

I wouldn't vote for Trump if you were him either.

... and what big bomb?

But we will see..

We will.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I'm no Clinton fangirl, but I'd vote for my left toe before I'd vote for that slimy, self-serving buffoon.