The summary of today's Trump presser: Trump defended Kyle Rittenhouse

x Trump actually offers a defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, his right-wing supporter who killed two protesters. “I guess he was in very big trouble, he probably would've been killed.” pic.twitter.com/XFBtDOHP8y— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) August 31, 2020

x To be clear, Rittenhouse was trying to get away from the crowd only after shooting a man 4 times. They chased him trying to take his gun. He’s been charged with murder. And the president is defending him https://t.co/s4UXIOmyCL

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) August 31, 2020

Apparently the RW is “shy” for Trump. Trump is trying to get Biden to help brand antifa. Trump did another campaign speech and fled even earlier when challenged by reporter.

x So Trump’s whole thing is Biden won’t condemn violence but Trump won’t condemn a murderer? Shame on every jackass who carried water for this asshole.

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 31, 2020

x Trump to OANN, in an interview last week, about his news conference strategy: “What I do now is, if I don't like a question I'll say, “Thank you very much. Bye bye.' And I leave…What happens then is that everybody gets angry at the reporter that asked that obnoxious question.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

x YouTube Video

x It helps when reporters ask a straight question with less than 20 words. Otherwise they lose his attention after the 1st 19. https://t.co/qjH6m84i3K — SaysDana 💛 (@SaysDana) August 29, 2020

x Here’s what a real president sounds like. pic.twitter.com/IFmapZ2Kjc

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) August 31, 2020

x The candidate on one side is openly inciting violence. The candidate on the other is not. A top advisor to the side that is inciting violence has publicly stated that they think violence benefits them politically. This is not a hard call.

— Adam Jentleson 🎈 (@AJentleson) August 30, 2020

x 102 of 175 arrested in Kenosha were not from Kenosha. the murderer drove from Illinois. an Idahoan organized the caravan of antagonists who drove from Clackamas through Portland. Trump warns violent crime will be driven from cities to suburbs, but the opposite has been true. https://t.co/TiA3ThONuu

— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) August 31, 2020

x President Trump is again threatening to take unspecified federal action in Portland after clashes this weekend between a caravan of Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters. https://t.co/qTTxMRa7ae

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) August 31, 2020

x I have spent the past few days pouring over right wing media in order to address the most pervasive lies that continue to spread about Kyle Rittenhouse and what happened in Kenosha. You can read it here: https://t.co/n30UzDKFtV

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) August 31, 2020

“These are not images of some imagined Joe Biden America in the future. These are images of Donald Trump's America today…He keeps telling us if he was president, you'd feel safe. Well he is president, whether he knows it or not.”

x Trump yesterday retweeted a tweet that falsely blamed “Black Lives Matter /Antifa” for a black man assaulting a white woman. 1) BLM/Antifa had nothing to do with it. The man charged is a serial offender on the NYC subway system. 2) The video was posted by a white nationalist.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

x “Sunday was not the first time Trump has amplified videos of a Black person committing a crime against a White person, nor even the first time he has shared this particular video. It comes days after RNC speakers forcefully argued that he is not a racist.”https://t.co/usbROYimZQ — Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 31, 2020

x I thought all you had to do was comply and you wouldn’t be shot or brutalized by police. 🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/b1lVsuRx5i

— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) August 28, 2020

x usual disclaimers: presidents don't control stock markets (whether they're going up or down), the market is not the economy, etc.

But since Trump has wanted credit for stock market performance before, here's how S&P500 looks under him vs. same point in Obama's presidency pic.twitter.com/6YBdNHALqY

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 31, 2020

x Nowhere is the reader informed that the Swift Boat campaign was a dishonest smear job, it’s just credited with a “takedown” of Kerry. The future of our democracy hangs in the balance, but it’s still just a sport for these people. https://t.co/akfmFX34ZY

— Matt Duss (@mattduss) August 31, 2020

x A new study suggests polls are missing shy Trump voters https://t.co/hKPwbt5ZaB

— Businessweek (@BW) August 31, 2020

A new online study finds that Republicans and independents are twice as likely as Democrats to say they would not give their true opinion in a telephone poll question about their preference for president in the 2020 election. That raises the possibility that polls understate support for President Donald Trump.

Some 11.7% of Republicans and 10.5% independents said they would not give their true opinion, vs. 5.4% of Democrats, according to the study by CloudResearch LLC, a Queens, N.Y.-based company that conducts online market research and data collection for clients. Among the reasons they gave was that “it's dangerous to express an opinion outside of the current liberal viewpoint,” according to Leib Litman, the co-chief executive officer and chief research officer.

CloudResearch conducted the survey online but inquired about surveys that are conducted by phone. It first asked participants for their political preference, then asked how they felt about divulging their preference for president in a phone poll. Later, it asked whom they actually did support for president.

Political party preference was the only characteristic that correlated consistently with reluctance to share presidential preference, Leib says. There was no correlation with age, race, education, or income. Cloud Research conducted the study two ways and got basically the same result both times, he says: In one, 1,000 respondents were evenly divided among Democrats, Republicans, and independents, and the second asked a different set of 1,000 respondents picked to precisely match the demographics of likely voters, regardless of party.

The question of whether “shy Trump” voters were undercounted in polls before the 2016 election was part of an exhaustive post-mortem published by the American Association for Public Opinion Research. “Some Trump voters who participated in pre-election polls did not reveal themselves as Trump voters until after the election, and they outnumbered late-revealing Clinton voters,” the AAPOR study said, adding, “This finding could be attributable to either late deciding or misreporting (the so-called Shy Trump effect) in the pre-election polls.”

www.bloomberg.com/…

x “I've been disowned, I've been canceled by friends, by family.” Yesterday, a Trump supporter in Los Angeles talks about the price of her support for President Trump during a pro-Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/YHpyuH04xM — The Hill (@thehill) August 31, 2020

x Actually savage. pic.twitter.com/OXwzPpm9SH — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 31, 2020

x Here's how OANN's Chanel Rion began her White House “interview” with the president last week: pic.twitter.com/DZVZyBuVjx

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

Trump arrives at 545pm, pimps stock market

x Trump begins by boasting about the stock market; he says people are very happy with their 401(k)s. He then starts boasting about the situation with the “China virus.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

“rapid point-of-care tests”

spin on vaccines warp-speed blah-blah

“left-wing political violence in Democrat-run cities”

claims to have arrested over 200 people

attacks Portland OR mayor

implies there’s no RW political violence” repeats three times

x “I also want to provide an update on left-wing political violence,” Trump says — declining, at least at the moment, to acknowledge any right-wing role in recent events.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

“It can be solved very easily”

It’s now a political campaign speech

now cites Rand Paul where people said not-nice things after RNC (police “took heavy hits” — cop tripped over his bicycle)

thank goodness it’s not a drinking game at least 10 times for “left-wing”

Trump attack Biden “antifa” blah-blah “anarchy, agitators, looters”

x Trump calls Biden's speech today “strange,” criticizing Biden for not specifically naming “Antifa.” (Biden delivered a thorough denunciation of all violence, looting, rioting.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

x Trump accusing Biden of telling a “monstrous lie” that rioters are peaceful protesters. Biden has called peaceful protesters peaceful protesters.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

Trump lies again about Wisconsin and federal response

Trump mispronounces Harris’s name

now left wing indoctrination of universities

more Trump lies about DNC “under God” blah-blah

Trump apparently hasn’t read the prepared remarks before, and is veering away.

“if you don’t name it you don’t solve it”

Trump attacks NYC mayor

Trump mentions Venezuela

Trump mistakenly refers to “the mob” as in organized crime, then refers to political mobs. (LOL parapraxis)

“we’re ready to move in immediately” with federal troops…

x Trump says the unnamed they, on the left, want to let the Boston bomber vote. (Sanders did propose to allow people to vote from prison, but Biden rejected that idea, saying voting rights should be restored for people who've completed their sentences.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

Now on to statues continuing the lie about enforcement

x Trump again misleadingly describes his executive order on monuments and statue damage. It does not provide for 10 years in prison. It simply cites existing laws under which 10 years is a maximum discretionary sentence.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

Trump now goes bafflegab with Operation Legend

Trump lies about crime data

Mentions trip to Wisconsin

x Again, a campaign speech.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

QUESTIONS

Q: Wisconsin governor doesn’t want you there?

Trump insists he’s going

Q: meeting with Jacob Blake family?

Trump spoke with pastor, refused to speak to family lawyer

x Asked why he's not meeting with Jacob Blake's family, Trump says he spoke with “the pastor” but thought it would be better not to do anything where there would be “lawyers involved.” He says he thought that was “inappropriate.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

Q: What about RW political supporters in Portland

Trump goes stupid talking about bullets versus paintballs, claims his supporters were peaceful. dodges followup (Kaitlin Collins).

x Asked why he's denouncing Biden for not mentioning left-wing violence while not mentioning right-wing violence, including Trump supporters shooting paintball guns, Trump says, “Paint is a defensive mechanism. Paint is not bullets.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2020

x If someone ran up on the Presidnet and shot him with paint balls, the Secret Service would, rightly, have a different view of this. https://t.co/Xztsio33Gy

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 31, 2020

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“we have to give our cops back their dignity” refers to cops who “choke” when they make a mistake keeps referring to “quarter of a second” veers off to attacking left.

Trump flees 611pmET.