TYPICALLY, when politicians attack rivals in campaign speeches, they must distort their opponents’ words for maximum effect, or at least wrench them out of context. When Hillary Clinton used a foreign policy address on June 2nd to savage Donald Trump as a man unfit to be commander-in-chief, her speech gained much of its power by quoting the businessman’s boorish inanities more or less verbatim.
Striking a tone that mixed derision with indignation and disbelief, Mrs Clinton reminded an audience in San Diego that Mr Trump “says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.” As a point of pure fact, Mrs Clinton is right. Explaining his understanding of Russia in an interview with the Fox News Channel on May 5th, Mr Trump—the presumptive presidential nominee of the party of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush—declared: “I know Russia well. I had a major event in Russia two or three years ago, Miss Universe contest, which was a big, big, incredible event.”
“This is a man who said more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia,”...Continue reading
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