Quote:HANNITY: So you OK with a Donald Trump candidacy?
BENNETT: No, I'm not OK at all!
I have no illusion that proving false attribution of this hysterical, in both senses of the word, conspiracy theory fueled rant will change your belief in its absurd content.
The ONLY people I ever receive similar false attribution, fact-challenged allegation filled email screeds from are ass-on-fire conservatives. WTF is it with you folks?
Another simple question. If it is so stand alone slam dunk persuasive, why does it need false attribution?
Quote:An Interesting Take on Trump
Conservative commentator William J. Bennett did not pen an essay hypothesizing that Donald Trump would be killed before he could be elected President.
www.snopes.com/bill-bennett-donald-trump-quote/
CLAIM : Conservative commentator William J. Bennett penned an essay hypothesizing that Donald Trump would be killed before he was elected president.
FALSE
EXAMPLE: [Collected via email, November 2015]
Bill Bennett: "They will kill Trump before they let him be a president." Did he really say this?
ORIGINS: In November 2015, a conspiracy theory essay positing that Donald Trump would be assassinated before he might become President began circulating via email and online message boards. Most iterations of the essay were titled "An Interesting Take On Trump," "DONALD TRUMP: WHAT THEY ALL FEAR MOST!" or " "What I See Happening In a Trump Presidency" and attributed to conservative commentator Bill Bennett:
They will kill him before they let him be president. It could be a Republican or a Democrat that instigates the shutting up of Trump. Don't be surprised if Trump has an accident. Some people are getting very nervous: Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Jon Corzine, to name just a few.
It's about the unholy dynamics between big government, big business, and big media.They all benefit by the billions of dollars from this partnership, and it's in all of their interests to protect one another. It's one for all and all for one.
It's a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich, everyone except the American people. We get ripped off. We're the patsies. But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared. The over-the-top reaction to Trump by politicians of both parties, the media, and the biggest corporations of America has been so swift and insanely angry that it suggests they are all threatened and frightened like never before.
Donald Trump can self-fund. No matter how much they say to the contrary, the media, business, and political elite understand that Trump is no joke. He could actually win and upset their nice cozy apple cart.
It's no coincidence that everyone has gotten together to destroy The Donald. It's because most of the other politicians are part of the a ood old boys club. They talk big, but they won't change a thing. They are all beholden to big-money donors. They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations, and multinational corporations ... like Big Pharma or Big Oil.
The above-quoted essay was not written by Bill Bennett. It was originally posted on the web site Reality News Media on 17 September 2015 and circulated for several weeks with no attribution attached to it.
It wasn't until mid-November 2015 that Bill Bennett's named started to appear alongside the title in an apparent attempt to lend credibility to the essay.
Bennett's views on Donald Trump are not in line with those expressed in the essay. While the unknown author writes that Trump would make a good President since he is self-funded and does not play by the rules, Bennett said in an interview with Sean Hannity that he was not okay with a Trump presidency:
Because I look at a man and the totality of his acts and his record and the things he has and stood for. And I think, probably, he's not very principled in terms of his convictions anyway, except he, you know, is a businessman who does things his way, his own idiosyncratic way.
I do understand the appeal. People are angry, mad. And he seems big enough to kind of encompass that anger ...
... Here's Trump with a record, you know, longer than your arm, wrong on all these things, getting all this support. That's what makes me a little angry and makes me think there's a lot of irrationality on it...
... Look, if Trump's the nominee, Sean, I will support him because I won't support Hillary.
LAST UPDATED: 30 November 2015
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 30 November 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/10/21/...ort-after/
HANNITY: So you OK with a Donald Trump candidacy?
BENNETT: No, I'm not OK at all!
HANNITY: Why not?
BENNETT: Because I look at a man and the totality of his acts and his record and the things he has and stood for. And I think, probably, he's not very principled in terms of his convictions anyway, except he, you know, is a businessman who does things his way, his own idiosyncratic way.
I do understand the appeal. People are angry, mad. And he seems big enough to kind of encompass that anger.
HANNITY: I think it's...
BENNETT: He's the big guy.
HANNITY: I see a guy that wanted to keep his workers working in New York, where Democrats outnumber Republicans, you know, 8 to 1...
BENNETT: Right.
HANNITY: ... a guy that played the game because, you know what? That's the system. He didn't set it up. And I've asked him specifically on the economy, I've asked him on health care, I've asked him on immigration, I've asked him on Planned Parenthood...
BENNETT: Right. No more single-payer for him, right?
HANNITY: No, but he -- no. He said to me...
BENNETT: And no more impeachment of George W. Bush.
HANNITY: He said to me...
BENNETT: No more supporting Pelosi and Reid.
HANNITY: Listen, you can say all of these things...
BENNETT: Well, they're true.
HANNITY: ... but he said to me he supports health care savings accounts. He'll control the border. Immigration's a huge issue right now. I thought his economic plan was really good. Paul Ryan even said it was good.
BENNETT: Well, now, that's interesting, isn't it, that we cite Paul Ryan. Here's Paul Ryan, who's being skewered by a lot of our friends, a lot of people who are my friends in the House, Paul Ryan, for deviating on a couple of points, the trade deal -- people don't like that, and his view on immigration...
HANNITY: Immigration.
BENNETT: Here's Trump with a record, you know, longer than your arm, wrong on all these things, getting all this support. That's what makes me a little angry and makes me think there's a lot of irrationality on it.
HANNITY: Here's...
BENNETT: Look, if Trump's the nominee, Sean, I will support him because I won't support Hillary.
HANNITY: All right, tell...
BENNETT: But I think there's so much uncertainty, Sean...
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