BTRTN: Unintended Consequences? Does Trump Have Any Intended Ones?

[tgards79]

A retrospective look at the month of July, as Trump careened around the world without a decipherable game plan:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/07/btrtn-unintended-consequences-does.html

"The Helsinki press conference brought into sharp relief perhaps the central enigma about Trump: what is he trying to encompass with his unabated Putin groveling? One reason why the “Putin must have something on him” theory (that underlies the “collusion” hysteria) has such force is that no one in Trumpworld has been able to offer a sensible alternative theory that explains any of his actions. The press conference – in which Trump backed Putin’s assessment of Russia’s interference in U.S. elections (“none”) over his own intelligence community’s unanimous assessment (“yes, to the max”) – was a stunner. There simply was no reason why Trump could not have at least chastised Putin publicly for the interference; doubtless that’s what Putin might have reasonably been expecting. And in the aftermath of outrage, in trying a rare “walk back” of his performance, Trump proved himself a parser on par with the master himself, Bill Clinton, in dissecting the difference between “would” and “wouldn’t” – as if that one syllable change tidily clarified his obsequious behavior throughout the entire press conference..."

[Nitram]

1. "on a par with Bill Clinton?" Clinton was denying he had a consensual affair, not that he had

betrayed the entire country by getting into bed with Putin. I object to this absurd example of false equivalence.