In A Political Arena Where Optics Are Everything Rashida Tlaib Gives Donald Trump And Benjamin Netanyahu HUGE P.R. Victory https://www.redstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AP_17143610916487.jpg How the “Public Relations” wheel spins round and round. As I mentioned here yesterday in my piece here at Red State , I was worried that while Israel had every right to ban people coming into their country, they would get smeared P.R. wise. From my article… Pelosi is going to have to walk a fine line here. The one HUGE advantage she has is that Donald Trump has already mixed it up with these two. The media will run with picking on people of color nonsense and that he got Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to play along. While I had people arguing with me about the point, I still stand by it. Everything is run through a P.R. lense and if you want to win the war you better understand these battles. Just saying it doesn’t matter is not enough and quite frankly wishful thinking. Well, what a difference 24 hours can make. One of the stated reasons for this visit was for Congressperson Rashida Tlaib to visit her 90-year-old Grandma. As she stated in her request for a humanitarian waiver from the Israeli government she may never get to see her Granmum again who resides in the West Bank of Israel. (Sorry folks, there is no Palestine. You can blame the body double to former Beatle Ringo Starr, Yasser Arafat, for that debacle.) As my colleague Bonchie covered here earlier today in this piece Rashida Tlaib Shuns Her Own Grandmother To Trash Israel maybe she was not expecting that waiver to be granted. That request was granted by Israel with the only condition being that she not promote BDS. Within hours though, Tlaib had changed her mind. Think about what she’s saying. Her position is that she values promoting the anti-Semitic BDS movement so much that she’d rather let her grandmother die before visiting her if it means not getting to savage Israel for a few days. Who thinks like this? Oops. That backfired quickly. I’m going to run with the theory that they believed not only would Israel block both of them from going to protest but also block the humanitarian request. When the government of Israel granted her request to visit her Grandmum she was put in a position she NEVER anticipated and she had to come up with some screwball excuse. Yet that worked perfectly in favor of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu from a P.R. standpoint. Yesterday they ganged up on some harmless ladies just wanting to go on a tour of the Holy Land. Today with Tlaib scrambling to come up with an excuse for NOT visiting her 90 yr old Matriarch she turned the whole narrative around. In less than 24 hours. That is Trump-like impressive in terms of running a news cycle. I can’t wait to see what the ladies of the “Progressive Cheer Squad” come up with next to do to not only try to knock Trump down a notch but also give Nancy Pelosi such a splitting headache she might send them overseas and not allow them back into the country. Which would be very Trump-like also and be another P.R.victory for POTUS 45. God Bless America. ( LINK BELOW ) https://www.redstate.com/tladuke/2019/08/16/rashida-tlaib-gives-donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-huge-p.r.-victory