That is a valid question. We are trying to encourage that over what some of the other users are doing and what you arguably came close to earlier. You can't explain away every critique of a president with "well I guess he got some intel we just aren't privy to." After a while that looks foolish and I've seen people from all political ideologies do that from time to time. It could possibly be true that every time there was information we didn't know I guess, but it does raise legitimate red flags if we can't pin things down. I don't think he's crossed that line at all, I think generally people are still jumping down his throat when he makes any unclear statement or anything that could possibly be construed as wrong. Like backing off on China, from what I understand Trump was wrong about their currency manipulation practices, at least as of late, and he did the right thing to back off. But people are counting that as a strike against him.

We have a problem with that in this country in general, and on the internet it is even worse. We are trying to combat that here, so I would encourage you and anyone else reading this to please be very aware of a criticism that is baseless, and the tone and tack taken when making a valid criticism. We don't like banning or reprimanding... or even just politely correcting people. But I especially don't like to ban for our Rule 11, because we aren't intending to just quash all valid criticisms of Republicans. It is more to combat baseless accusations, intellectually dishonest critiques, and overall Republican bashing disguised as legitimate critiques. Generally speaking a Republican shouldn't just bash a fellow Republican, you trust your fellow Republicans the way you trust your teammates. You speak positively about your fellow Republicans and hesitate to speak critically of them... you might have to be critical on occasion, so when we must be, it holds more weight if people weren't just implying that Trump was likely embezzling money through his power as President earlier in the thread.

So again, please be aware of that because as much as we like some users and think they are otherwise reasonable (and you seem to be a reasonable person), we have banned several otherwise reasonable for those things. Again, we don't want to shut down criticisms altogether, contrary to what the liberal subs will tell you, we are not fascists. We just want to make sure people aren't being shitty criticisms. So we will use rule 11 when we have to.