MEET THE MAN WHO OUTMANOEUVRED THE POLITICAL MEDIA ON FRIDAY

Elijah Okon

Chief Political Editor, DBliss Media

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Trump pulled off his Friday game big time. He and his campaign touted a "major" announcement at his newly opened hotel in Washington, D.C., at 10 a.m. where he would declare that President Obama was born in America while also laying the blame for the birther movement at the feet of Hillary Clinton. True to his world he did it. According to him "Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it," Trump said. "President Obama was born in the United States. Period."

The Washington post cried on Friday morning that ‘the most amazing thing was that it took the Republican nominee 29 minutes to deliver those three sentences. The event was slated to start at 10 a.m. Eastern time. It wasn't until 11 a.m. that it actually began — with Trump touting his new hotel and proclaiming that it is likely to be one of the best in the world. He then ceded the stage to a parade of decorated military veterans who testified to his toughness, his judgement and his temperament. Cable networks seemed to not know what to do. 

"President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period."

All three of them — MSNBC, Fox News and CNN — stayed with the generals' testimonials for the better part of 20 minutes. That's a remarkable amount of free cable time to dedicate to a series of surrogates testifying how great one of the two party nominees is. The networks eventually cut away from the generals, but then Trump was back at the mic — roughly 90 minutes after his event was originally slated to start. Meaning that he drew an hour and a half of live coverage’. This priceless free media’.

Friday Evening, here comes Trump again, in a master move to completely obliterate the media attention on the birther issue, called for the disarmament of Clinton’s bodyguards and "see what happens." 

With that statement he paints the picture of a highly disliked Hillary, who at any moment of security carelessness could be harmed. And he managed to connect with the electorates who believe that Hillary wants to take their guns from them, giving more people a good reason to turn out and vote for him. 

See what happened! 

Everybody is now talking about Trump, the liberal media is crying foul and any how he manages to remain on the headlines in this 2016 election campaigns and is getting a lot of free airtime.

Is Trump winning the media war?

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