A reckoning awaits
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By David Remnick
4:32 P.M.
... His infantile character, duplicity, cold-heartedness, and self-dealing greed are evident not merely to the majority of the poll-answering electorate but, sooner or later, to those who make the decision to work at his side ...
Sooner or later, Trump’s satraps and lieutenants ... compete in their synonyms for the President’s modesty of intelligence ("moron," "idiot," "fool" ); his colossal narcissism; his lack of human empathy. They admit to reporters how little he studies the basics of domestic policy and national security; how partial he is to autocrats like himself; how indifferent he is to allies. They are shocked, they proclaim, absolutely shocked ...
... When Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary, left his job after charges, and evidence, of abuse from his two ex-wives became public, the President showed not a trace of sympathy for anyone but Porter himself ...
Kellyanne Conway, whose defenses of Trump’s most preposterous statements are sometimes so tortured that they become the stuff of late-night satire, could not bear to back the President on this one ... "In this case, you have contemporaneous police reports, you have women speaking to the FBI under threat of perjury," Conway said."You have photographs, and when you look at all of that pulled together, Rob Porter did the right thing by resigning." This was hardly a condemnation, but, in the context of this White House and these times, she showed, if fleetingly, common sense ...
... even Trump's closest aides know that a reckoning is coming ...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-reckoning-with-women-awaits-trump
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