The latest evidence of Trumps unfitness may be the most revolting - By Ruth Marcus
Every week nearly every day brings fresh, stomach-churning evidence of President Trumps unfitness for office. The latest may be the most revolting.
Confronted with incontrovertible proof that his son leapt at the prospect of meeting with a Russian government attorney offering to dish dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of Russia and its governments support for his candidacy, the president took the position that this was political business as usual.
His first public reaction, in an interview with Reuters, was that many people would have held that meeting. The next day, Trump ratcheted up that astonishing assertion, from many to most, asserting, I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. . . . Politics isnt the nicest business in the world, but its very standard.
No. It. Isnt.
Donald Trump Jr. at least had the decency to admit, in his interview with Fox Newss Sean Hannity, that, in retrospect, I probably wouldve done things a little differently. Not his father. I know being Trump means never having to say youre sorry. I understand the fierce parental instinct to defend your erring child, even if that child is a 39-year-old father of five. But this meeting was unacceptable. It was not even in the exurbs of appropriate. Hard to believe this really requires spelling out, but apparently it does, so here goes: A candidate for president of the United States and his campaign have no business, none, trucking with an emissary of a foreign government peddling incriminating information about their opponent.
That this meeting was explicitly described as an element of a Russian plot to influence the U.S. election is icing on an already repulsive cake. That the target of this feeler the candidates son embraced such meddling rather than recoiling from it only adds to the sordidness of the episode.
And that the intended beneficiary, now the sitting president of the United States, is unable and unwilling to accept that fact should be chilling to every patriotic American. Perhaps he is incapable of ever acknowledging wrongdoing. That only adds to the chill.
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Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Constantly....
PatSeg
(47,277 posts)"people are telling me" folks. Maybe they are the voices in his head.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,429 posts)Trumpy makes it up. He's always made things up. He's the publicist who bragged about his own supposed sexual conquests. He's the bevy of investigators who found damning material on Obama's birth certificate. He's the source of evidence that concludes that HRC was engaged in criminal behavior. Trumpy's been making up stories for decades. The only way people can be surprised by his compulsive lying is if they don't know Trumpy's history.
PatSeg
(47,277 posts)It is so obvious, I can't believe there are people who don't see it. I've been around my share of compulsive liars and the more they lie, the more they lie. They even lie about the small stuff, whatever pops in their head. It is all performance to him, but now he is no longer the outrageous celebrity looking for headlines, he is the president.
Baitball Blogger
(46,684 posts)lastlib
(23,159 posts)YOU know: MOBSTERS. Mafiosi. Criminals.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)But no real Americans.
Stop lying to America, greedy Comrade Casino,
you altogether ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Who the hell do people think is the Don of this criminal operation, his wife? his daughter? Hell no, the pussy grabber himself. When you are rich, you can do what you want ....
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)but Senior doesn't do "delegate."
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)dlk
(11,514 posts)Is there anything about this man that isn't completely revolting?
DK504
(3,847 posts)lastlib
(23,159 posts)(it even came out orange!)