Until now, I was not in favor of Trump running for a third term. I thought the constitutional order and the rule of law should be respected.

Then I saw dozens of Dem leaders both social and political claiming that Trump’s comment, which was that temporary high gas prices were a small price to pay to prevent American cities from being taken out with an Iranian nuke, was secretly a threat by Trump asking Iran to nuke a Dem city. Secretly, despite being said in public at a televised speech attended by thousands.

Of course, I saw that speech, and heard the sentence in question. The sentence was in that abbreviated fashion he unfortunately uses, for he expects his audience to understand the topic and the context. This is the way everyone in all walks of life talk in all ordinary times.

The only people who speak otherwise are these two:

1. Engineers and doctors and theologians use a technical jargon to minimize ambiguity.

2. Lawyers and politicians expect opposition to misquote or misinterpret their words aggressively, and so speak with careful qualification or hidden nuances to allow for later repudiation.

Of course the unedited clip is readily available. Like the Bloodbath hoax and the Very Fine People hoax, one has to be vehemently and devoted uninterested in the real meaning of what was actually said not to listen to the sentence fourteen seconds before and after the clip, and hear the obvious meaning.