The anti-Donald Trump media has turned "BabyGate" against the Republican presidential nominee without merit, the Toronto's Star's Daniel Dale reported Sunday.
"For people who see Trump as cold and cruel, the story is irresistible," Dale wrote. "It's also not true."
Dale's first-person report of the controversy, sitting just one row from the mother and baby, was Trump turned to the media contingent and merely joked — no matter how "insensitive, heartless," and "ordinary-person-embarrassing"—"You can get the baby out of here."
"Trump's tone is eternally hard to read," Dale admitted. "But, to my eyes, it certainly was not an ejection — it was an unusually barbed endorsement of the mother's own decision to depart."
Dale contends Trump was not truly ejecting a baby, because he only made the off-beat comment after the mother was leaving on her own accord and they both were allowed to return without incident.
"One other salient fact is missing from all the pieces on babygate," Dale wrote, "mom and baby, very much not kicked out, came back to their seat a bit later. The baby was sucking a pacifier, silent."
Trump initially showed compassion for the crying baby and the mother at the Ashburn, Va., rally.
"Don't worry about that baby, I love babies," Trump said. "I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it. I like it. What a baby, what a beautiful baby. Don't worry, don't worry. The mom's running around — don't worry about it."
The "scandalous" part that got Trump in media's hot water was he saying:
"Actually, I was only kidding. You can get the baby out of here. That's all right. Don’t worry. I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I'm speaking? That's OK, people don't understand. That's OK."
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