Morris Cranks Out More Trump-Fluffing — As Newsmax Hides That He’s A Trump Adviser

Posted on November 2, 2024

In the spring and summer, Dick Morris spun pretty much everything as a benefit to Donald Trump’s campaign. For instance:

In only one of those articles, however, was it disclosed that Morris is an adviser to Trump. This fall, in addition to his attacks on Kamala Harris, Morris served up even more Trump-fluffing:

None of these articles disclosed Morris is a Trump adviser. It wasn’t until an Oct. 26 article headlined “Dick Morris to Newsmax: Tied Polls Suggest Trump Leads in Electoral College” — which seemed to backtrack on his earlier “landslide like Reagan” claims — that it was disclosed that Morris is “a close adviser to former president Donald Trump.”

Morris was also serving up more long-form Trump-fluffing as well:

  • An Oct. 4 column declared that Trump’s claim he would veto a national abortion ban is “the coup de grace for the Harris campaign” and that “The Democrats can’t play the abortion card any longer.” Never mind, of course, that no sane person trusts Trump’s word on anything.
  • An Oct. 15 column parroted Trump’s talking points to justify his plan to dramatically raise tariffs on Chinese goods: “Morally, Trump rightly justifies the tariffs by noting that the rest of the world has been taking advantage of our generosity in racking up a $773 billion trade surplus with us last year and that it’s now time to even the score.”
  • An Oct. 22 column insisted that ” a consensus is indeed forming that [Trump] should be re-elected, and this is perhaps the first consensus we’ve seen in a decade,” baselessly claiming that “he is achieving consensus by triangulating on the thorniest issue in our politics: abortion.”

None of these columns disclosed that Morris is a Trump adviser. Nor did an Oct. 10 column slobbering over the fringe folks who have aligned themselves with Trump:

As he enters the final month of the campaign, Trump has unveiled three new cannons to add to his artillery: Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, and Melania Trump.

Each has his or her own field of fire and all are well stocked with ammo that Trump can use to devastating effect.

Musk’s cannon are aimed at the free speech issue, a focus forced on both him and Trump by government censorship directed against them.

[…]

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s field of fire concerns health issues like overuse of fertilizers and pesticides, as well as the perils of genetic engineering.

These issues rightly obsess Gen Xers, and have the potential to create the equivalent of the climate change issue for the Trump-Kennedy campaign.

Particularly among young mothers, this cluster of issues lends a new dimension to the campaign against the deep state and its many manifestations.

Morris didn’t mention that Kennedy is an anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist. Finally, he praised Trump’s wife, Melania, for trying to soften Trump on the abortion issue:

Melania’s espousal of the “individual freedom and rights” of women to control of their own bodies, combined with her husband’s pledge to veto any abortion ban, is a third field of fire for the Trump campaign.

The ambiguity of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), repealing Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973), leaves open many possible interpretations of the new law.

Melania’s affirmation of the basic right of women to sovereignty over their own bodies, gives a clear indication of Donald Trump’s personal priorities.

Given that Melania rarely campaigns with her husband –which, of course, Morris didn’t mention — it’s doubtful how “personal” any of this is to him.