The pig is such a hateful mess of the garbage found down deep in the humanoid gene pool that it’s hard to pick any one horror to focus upon, but i’ll try.
It’s this:
Apophasis is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony.
He regularly relies upon this to convince his (easily convinced) core self (not quite a soul, but close enough for purposes of this discussion) that he can weasel his way out of anything he wants, just by being the biggest asshole in the room.
Nobody ever seems to call him on it, that i have noticed.
Here is today’s example, speaking about the wife of this person:
Donald Trump responds to the Khan family: `Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say’
“She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me,” Trump continued. “But a plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet, and it looked like she had nothing to say. A lot of people have said that.”
Get it ? There are two parts:
- i’m not saying this … don’t blame me … my hands are clean … i would never say such stuff
- i’m just repeating what others say … here it comes
So he gets his garbage out there, while simultaneously claiming that his hands are “clean”.
He pulled the same stunt on Ted Cruz’s dad, quoting the National Enquirer. Paid for that one.
Problem is, apophasis may appear to be a get-out-of-asshole card, but only to dimwits. Guess what … the stink persists.
And when you stink of trump, and deny it, it becomes quite revealing to watch who claims not to notice.