WSJ editorial: Trump will never live down 'disgraceful' conduct even if he's not convicted

[DonViejo]

Brad Reed
February 11, 2021

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Thursday delivered a damning verdict on former President Donald Trump's "disgraceful" conduct during the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol building.

At the start of the editorial, the editors credit House impeachment managers for "laying out a visceral case that the Capitol riot of Jan. 6 was a disgrace for which President Trump bears responsibility."

The editors note that Trump continued to escalate his rhetoric even as court after court found his campaign's claims of mass voter fraud to be utterly meritless.

"Mr. Trump told an apocalyptic fable in which American democracy might end on Jan. 6, and some people who believed him acted like it," they write. "Once the riot began, Mr. Trump took hours to say anything, a delay his defenders have not satisfactorily explained."

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[exboyfil]

1. In 4 years

WSJ headline:

Trump rises from the ashes.

[handmade34]

3. hate to be cynical but...

he got away with so much in the past 5 years and people with limited thinking forget so easily... he could "rise from the ashes" if he is not convicted in this impeachment trial and then tried for all his other crimes, in the courts

[sop]

11. Even if Trump is convicted and barred from holding future office, the POS will likely run again,

using his political victimization as another motivating grievance to further radicalize his moron base, and damage the GOP.

[SlogginThroughIt]

2. Horsecrap.

THEY. DO. NOT. CARE.

Trump and all the ugliness he brings is not a defect to these people. It is the feature. They look at all of this ugliness and call it patriotism.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

4. 100%

I'm in total agreement.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Don't understand your post.

The OP is not horsecrap at all.

[The Polack MSgt]

5. WSJ can eat a sack full of assholes. That's it that's the post. nt

[tinrobot]

6. But Senators who vote to acquit are hoping to curry favor with his supporters

Doesn't add up.

[JHB]

7. Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Oh, WSJ, you're such cards!

He has his cult and if he's not convicted it will mean that the "reasonable" Republicans once again knuckled under and fell in line. And, of course, it's pointless to ask him the "At long last..." question, because we already know the answer: no, he has no shame and never did.

The only things he can't live down are things that have clear, unbendable consequences. He fears those the way he feared the concrete cobblers when he was just starting off in the 70s.

[uponit7771]

8. For the real world maybe but in his world he's a hero and has 85% approval rating in kQOP

[thucythucy]

9. Isn't the Wall Street Journal owned by the same company that owns Fox "News"?

They should look in a mirror if they need someone to blame for all this.