An example is how the Squad of 4 started to attack Pelosi. Trump slammed the 4 on Twitter and caused Pelosi to jump in and start defending them. This had the effect of making these left extremist Dems the face of the Democrat party. How does that benefit Trump? It makes the Dem party unpalatable to a majority of Americans, which turns 2020 into a cakewalk for him.
His Twitter pronouncements are so commonly contradictory to his actual actions or subsequent tweets that there's an entire subreddit of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump
1. https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/trump-busts-1500...
Debunking yourself in your own story is... special.
edit: Here's a thorough debunking of the core claim.
https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-t...
https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-t....
My favorite part of your thorough debunking article is where it was published a month before the one I cited.
Edit: plus, I wouldn't consider local TV stations, Breitbart and Townhall.com to be part of the MSM.
It's a debunking of the claim.
Church Militant's silly article was not the first to make the claim, nor was it the last. I can write a "the Earth is flat" article today with claims that've already been debunked for centuries.
> Trump's being dumb enough to publicly brag about the association is very on-brand, of course.
Trump is playing the main street media like a violin. If you are thinking he is doing something because he seems stupid, it's just part of the plan.
Trump did say back in 2012 that the pedophiles had to go. [1]
And, since his inauguration, the massive crackdown on them has largely gone unreported.
1. https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/2552948836...