Should be more honest about His Jerkiness
By Benjamin Hart
February 10, 2018
6:42 pm
On Friday, President Trump declined to release the Democratic rebuttal of .. the dud .. that had purported to blow the lid on a vast FBI conspiracy ...
Then, on Saturday, Trump tweeted .. complaining that "due process" was being trampled in the pursuit of vigilante sexual justice ...
If Trump tweeted that he is against releasing the Democratic memo simply because he thinks the opposition party is trying to take him down, it would be consistent with his previously expressed beliefs — that the FBI is out to get him, that he is the victim of a vast left-wing conspiracy, and so on. Thanks to Trump’s own advancement of these opinions, they have become mainstream among the Republican Party. So why the need to disguise them?
Similarly, if Trump simply said, “I’m skeptical of any woman who tells a story of abuse” — a sentiment that reflects his true beliefs — it probably wouldn’t really change anyone’s opinion of the president. Trump, after all, has made it clear on camera many times that his sympathies lie with accused men, not abused women. It’s not like he has a pristine reputation to hang onto ...
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