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Jacky Smith's avatar

Very, very odd.

But when you look at other peculiar things happening in the Whitehouse atm - who knows?

Gayle Frances Larkin's avatar

Thank you for your interesting close reading of this statement. As always, your view was informative and shows us another way of seeing beyond the written word.

Stephen Alexander's avatar

Feels like yet another clumsy misdirection. There have been so many.

d. a. t. green's avatar

Clumsy, yes.

But I am not with you with this distraction/misdirection conspiracy stuff. It is possible for them to be crap at everything at once.

Ian Wood's avatar

Many thanks for this interesting post. Making this statement certainly seems an odd thing for her to do. Regarding the stumbles, I don't think she speaks in public that often so I imagine that might be a factor. But I think you might downplay the second language question - I'm reasonably fluent in Italian but I think I would stumble more reading an Italian text (especially one that I hadn't written) than I would reading an English one. Of course all this begs the question of why she didn't practice it first.