Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
The BITEME institute rates the NYT story as correct in that the words were literally spoken but incomplete and biased by taking Trumps words literally while missing the real message.
Trump is not and has never been a polished communicator in the sense that most Presidents are - he uses heavy amounts of sarcasm and other methods to deliver his points, which land with his audience. That audience does not include the traditional media, who routinely fail to grab the right context of what he’s saying.
Were Trump a democrat he’d get that context added but since he isn’t…