{"id":355532,"date":"2018-04-06T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/conveniently-timed-terrorist-attack-could-help-trump-in-mid-terms\/"},"modified":"2018-04-06T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:01:56","slug":"conveniently-timed-terrorist-attack-could-help-trump-in-mid-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/conveniently-timed-terrorist-attack-could-help-trump-in-mid-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cConveniently Timed Terrorist Attack\u201d Could Help Trump in Mid-Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Says catalyzing event could help Trump rally the base<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>April 6, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/trumpblue-e1515526172818.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>A co-host for the Young Turks thinks that a \u201cconveniently timed war\u201d or \u201cterrorist attack\u201d could help Donald Trump turn out Republican voters for the mid-terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">In an article for C<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/05\/a-blue-wave-in-the-midterms-may-not-be-enough-to-fix-a-broken-system.html?recirc=taboolainternal\">NBC<\/a>, John Iadarola, a left-wing political pundit, warns that the \u201cblue wave\u201d that is expected to see Democrats regain the House may not transpire if Trump can rally his base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cThe base that today might be weary of Trump could rally to his defense if they believed they faced some true threat, in the form of a conveniently timed war, terrorist attack, or existential threat to Donald Trump\u2019s presidency itself,\u201d writes Iadarola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Iadarola does not clarify whether the \u201cconveniently timed\u201d war or terrorist attack could come about as a result of conspiracy or mere happenstance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">He goes on to complain that there is a right-wing \u201cdefamation campaign against Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u201d and that \u201cracist defunding of polling places in lower socioeconomic areas\u201d could cost Democrats crucial votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">This is not the first time that a terror attack has been suggested as a way Republicans could keep hold of the House this November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">In January, the Washington Post published a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/new-alarm-among-republicans-that-democrats-could-win-big-this-year\/2018\/01\/13\/9be31acc-f8a8-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?utm_term=.2811f00d8e6a\">report<\/a>\u00a0that Trump was telling his advisers, \u201che doesn\u2019t think the 2018 election has to be as bad as others are predicting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The report claimed that Trump went on to highlight how Republicans enjoyed mid-term success in 2002 as a result of the September 11, 2011 terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">This prompted a rash of alarmist responses from left-wing outlets like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/trump-suggests-terror-attack-could-help-republicans-2018-midterm-elections-report\">Alternet<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/1\/17\/16893408\/donald-trumps-2018-plan\">Vox<\/a>\u00a0which implied that Trump was somehow hoping for a terror attack to improve his fortunes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUBSCRIBE<\/strong> on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>Follow on Twitter: <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @PrisonPlanet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.j.watson.71\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.j.watson.71<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">*********************<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Paul Joseph Watson is the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/young-turks-co-host-conveniently-timed-terrorist-attack-could-help-trump-in-mid-terms.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says catalyzing event could help Trump rally the base Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comApril 6, 2018 A co-host for the Young Turks thinks that a \u201cconveniently timed war\u201d or \u201cterrorist attack\u201d could help Donald Trump turn out Republican voters for the mid-terms. In an article for CNBC, John Iadarola, a left-wing political pundit, warns that the \u201cblue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}