TS #8 - Brad Charlassier

For my 8th tutoring session I met again with Dojun over Skype. Continuing our theme of current events, we discussed the hacked DNC emails. I explained to him what had happened as best as I could, since he was unaware of the situation. He believed that the United States instantly pointing fingers to Russia is peculiar. He also thought that even if it was Russia that hacked the emails, it was Hilary's campaign that had those underhanded techniques against Bernie Sanders. Dojun also said he didn't understand why members of the same party would do such bad things toward each other. He thought that this sort of behavior displays a really poor image of the Democratic political party. I taught him what DNC stands for (Democratic National Convention) and what exactly it is. We also talked about Donald Trump, of course, since were on the topic of politics. Dojun asked me what it is that Americans find so appealing about Trump as a Presidential candidate. I answered honestly and said that I am really not too sure. After taking a minute to think about it, I came up with the idea that people who hate Obama, love Trump. Also that people who are racist, love Trump. Americans who think that our country needs to return to its former glory and are not happy with the direction our country has been taking and want to go to war, support Trump.