LOWER AND LOWER. So This Is What American Greatness Really Looks Like? - Joy-Ann Reid
LOWER AND LOWER
So This Is What American Greatness Really Looks Like?
Another week of new low after new low. If this is what making America great looks like, God help us when it arrives.
JOY-ANN REID
07.15.17 12:01 AM ET
This week, Garry Kasparov, former Russian chess champion and perennial critic of Vladimir Putin, tweeted about what autocrats do when caught: 1: Deny, lie, slander accusers. 2: Say it was a misunderstanding. 3. Boast & say What are you going to do about it?
The day after that tweet, Donald Trump stood on a dais in Paris beside the French president and said of his sons now-confirmed willingness to receive campaign help for his father from Russia: I think its a meeting that most people in politics probably would have taken.
That would be jaw dropping and bizarre coming from a mob boss at his pretrial hearing, let alone from the president of the United States. But that line is now standard issue among much of Trumps political party, which has come around to the notion that collusion with a foreign powereven an adversarial one like Russiais no big deal.
Trump, his family, and his defenders in the once Grand Old Party have mounted various defenses for his campaigns collusion with Russians and their cutouts to win the 2016 presidential election. They have tried to ignore Russiagate. They have said collusion with Russia never happened. They have blamed Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Loretta Lynch (Trump now says the Russian government lawyer who met with Donald Jr. was only in the country because Lynch let her in. It will surprise no one to discover thats not true.) And they have landed on the notion that even if collusion did happen, theres absolutely nothing wrong with it. Check off all three of the Kasparov boxes.
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