This is a good time to ask Trump supporters, who hold their
hands over their ears and hum loudly when confronted with the litany of
blockheaded ideas and outright lies their hero is guilty of, what their
reaction would be if, say, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama were found to be in
business with Russia, had expressed admiration for former KGB operative
Vladimir Putin, and encouraged Russia to spy on America. Or if they had called the American military
a disaster, mocked an American flyer who was a prisoner of war for five years,
and belittled the parents of a dead soldier, as Trump has now done to Khizr and
Ghazala Khan. Answer: Apoplexy. They would be shouting the T word – as in
treason – from the rooftops.
And let’s be crystal clear with regard to whether he is
lying about this Russia question. Donald Trump Jr. said, “Russians make up a
pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of
money pouring in from Russia.“ Donald
Trump Sr. said, “I have nothing to do with Russia.”
So, that’s a lie.
Here’s another one: On national television he said, speaking of
Putin, “I got to know him very well.” A week or so ago, he said, “I never met
Putin.”
So, that’s a lie.
Conservative
columnist George Will said this: “Speculation about the nature and scale of
Trump’s financial entanglements with Putin and his associates is justified by
Trump’s refusal to release his personal and business tax information. Obviously
he is hiding something.”
The list of Trump
“ideas” that are foolish, uninformed, bigoted, dangerous, and just plain goofy
is a long one and gets longer every day.
And now this: Trafficking with an adversary of the United States – an
adversary that has nuclear weaponry trained on American cities and that for
decades has repudiated America and our way of life -- in a way that would send
Trump’s acolytes into orbit if it were
done by a Democrat; and, now disparaging the father and mother of an army officer who
was killed in combat.
So the question at long
last for Trump believers; What’s it going
to take?
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