Trump apologists have often accused him of playing 4D chess. Which is a fancy way of saying that he’s so smart that he runs his adversaries in circles. Although I’ve been a Trump supporter from the early days I’ve never fully bought into this idea of 348 dimensional underwater chess.

Until I re-watched the debates.

At the end of September 2016 Alicia Machado, which was Miss Universe when Trump owned the beauty pageant business, revealed to the NYTimes that Trump told her to lose weight to continue her career. Hillary Clinton put her on the shield and accused Trump of being a sexist. Again.

At the time I didn’t make much of it and thought that everybody would forget about it in a couple of days. Just another smear attack in a highly personalized election. Trump, however, had different plans.

The night after this story broke he tweeted the following

Not only he didn’t apologize but accused the “victim” of basically being a porno star. It goes without saying that the next morning every newspaper and radio/tv shows talked incessantly about these tweets and whether it was appropriate for a presidential candidate to stay up late at night to tweet about a woman sex tape he once called fat. Trump was and still is famous for being an early tweeter (5–6am) but to tweet at 1.30am was indeed a novelty in Trump world.

They literally ate him alive and even I thought he couldn’t possibly be so stupid to voluntary step on this landmine.

Lo and behold, a couple of days later, during the second debate, Anderson Cooper swung right at it and asked him the obvious question “Is it presidential to tweet about sex tapes at 3 in the morning”?

Hillary Clinton looked gleeful and probably thought what everybody else thought: “how’s this moron going to dig himself out of this hole?-”

Before I show you, let me take you back to the spring of 2008.

Barack Obama is a nobody from Illinois and Hillary Clinton is the queen of politics waiting to become the rightful presidential candidate for the Democrats. An ad highlighting her experience is broadcast on all major TV networks, in which Queen Hillary can be seen answering a life or death kind of call in the middle of the night securing the safety of all American children.

Unfortunately, for her, the ad didn’t do the trick; Barack Obama becomes President and appoint her as Secretary of State.

Fast forward 4 years to September 2012: the US embassy in Libya is under attack and the Department Of State receive (hundreds?) of calls from Benghazi requesting backup support, 1 Ambassador and 3 CIA agents die. Hillary Clinton is grilled for 11 hours in front a congressional committee.

Ok, I think you’re now ready to witness the grandmaster dig himself up from the hole he created and throw Hillary in it.

Make no mistakes, any other politician would have apologized or pretended the story didn’t exist.

Trump took a fairly innocuous accusation of him, made it into a big deal by doubling down with the nightly tweets, made sure everybody noticed by adding the incendiary “sex tape” part, waited for somebody to bring them up during the debate so that he could used a 7 years old Hillary Clinton ad against her.

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