Editorial: State GOP chairwoman’s defense of Trump disturbing
The Republican Party’s reaction to a 2005 videotape that showed its presidential candidate Donald Trump bragging in the most obscene terms about sexually forcing himself on women ranged from those calling on him to step down, such as Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, and those who stopped short of that call but said they would no longer vote from him, including Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and others deplored the comments but did not pull their support from their nominee.
And then there was Susan Hutchison, since 2013, chairwoman of the Washington state Republican Party, who employed an apologist’s hybrid of excuse and misdirection.
“He [Trump] was a Democrat at the time and he was channeling Bill Clinton,” Hutchison told KOMO-TV. “And the hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton to say this man does not belong in the White House, when her husband defined this behavior, is just absurd.”
Read that first sentence again. Slowly.
He was a Democrat at the time and was channeling Bill Clinton.”
Translation: Since accepting Republican values into his heart, Mr. Trump has renounced the sins of the flesh that were typical of his opponent’s philandering husband.
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