Commentary: Donald Trump is faithless to commitments and individuals. How can believers...

[DonViejo]

Commentary: Donald Trump is faithless to commitments and individuals. How can believers who condemn false witness support him?

The Trump strategy of misdirection and obfuscation has worked. For the moment.

By Robert A. Rees and Clifton H. Jolley | For The Tribune
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Published: 5 hours ago
Updated: 2 hours ago

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning — knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain

“60 Minutes” may or may not air an interview with Stormy Daniels (initially scheduled for the evening of March 18) depending on whether Donald Trump (aka “David Dennison”) and his attorney (i.e., the attorney for EC, LLC, the corporation set up to pay $130,000 in hush money to Ms. Daniels, aka Stephanie Clifford and “Peggy Peterson”) can or even try to get an injunction.

If that seems way too tentative a proposition and way too many aliases to keep straight, then the Trump strategy of misdirection and obfuscation has worked. For the moment.

In the past week, our president has agreed to meet North Korea’s Kim Jung Un, fired his secretary of state, hired as head of the CIA a woman who oversaw “black sites” and torture, twittered up a storm and heaven knows what else, all for the arguable purpose of deflecting attention from Stormy Daniels or Vladimir Putin or …pick a number.

And it’s working. The Republicans in the U.S. House are shutting down their investigation of Trump colluding, or being influenced by, or whatever else you choose, as an alias for activities the president may or may not have known about that may or may not be prosecutable.

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[MineralMan]

1. He has broken most of the 10 Commandments, I'm sure.

Maybe all of them, for all I know. That people of faith still support him makes no sense at all, really. I think that says something about how committed people are to their religious beliefs. Not very committed, it seems to me. It's a paradox.

[Act_of_Reparation]

2. "How can believers who condemn false witness support him"?

Because they're full of shit.