At his core a dishonest and untrustworthy man
At this point the people who don’t think Trump is a confirmed resolute habitual liar would fit comfortably inside a boutique coffee shop in Sausalito. Dana Milbank won’t be sharing a table with them.
In the three hours I sat transfixed in Room 216 of the Hart Building, 15 feet behind the fired FBI director, the line that chilled me more than any other was Comey’s account of why he wrote extensive, real-time notes of his conversations with Trump. “The nature of the person,” Comey explained in part. “I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting, and so I thought it really important to document.”
The nature of the person.
This was the essence of Comey’s testimony: that the president of the United States is at his core a dishonest and untrustworthy man. It was judgment on character, not a legal opinion, and even Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee made no real attempt to dispel it.
Dishonest and untrustworthy as well as self-interested and greedy as well as malevolent and aggressive as well as too stupid and ignorant to hide any of that.
(And yet with all that he still got elected. That says something about us, and that something is not a good something.)
Republicans on the committee defended Trump on some technical points but not on matters of integrity. Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) called Comey’s testimony “as good as it gets” for legal writing and accepted that “we know exactly what happened” between him and Trump. Collins said Trump “never should have cleared the room, and he never should have asked you, as you reported, to let it go — to let the investigation go.”
Trump is growing lonely in his protestations of his own probity. Friday morning he inexplicably claimed “total and complete vindication.” Trump’s spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders vouched that “the president is not a liar. I think it’s frankly insulting that that question would be asked.”
She’s one of the customers at that coffee shop. I hope the scones are good.
I hope the baker spit in the batter.
Well, ok, literally speaking I hope the scones are stale and full of weevils.
All it says about us is that the disgusting inhabitants of the vast wastelands of the US have political power greatly disproportionate to the it population…
Two Senators? Multiple electoral votes?
Don’t you mean basket of deplorables? Oh, dear, are you criticizing the good wholesome people in flyover country? The people I work with? The people that surround me every day? I can tell you – you’re not being harsh enough!!!!!
Well iknklast, I usually refer to the areas as “sheepfucker country” and its inhabitants as subhuman trogs, human garbage, etc… the negative descriptions can continue to infinity.
I work with these same people, but fortunately can escape to the rest of the PNW in my free time…
Blood Knight in Sour Armor #3, #5 / iknklast #4
It’s obviously not going to happen, but for what it’s worth (a.k.a. nothing), I still think the blue states should all secede. As far as I’m concerned there is no benefit of staying married to that notoriously abusive husband known as the red states that could possibly outweigh the cost. The S.A. are already U. in name only, so I say it’s time to make it official. Easy for me to say as a foreigner, I know…
Oh, if ONLY we had listened to the concerns of racist morons. So we could ‘offer them a real alternative,’ unlike Clinton? I’m still hearing this crap.
This ignores an unfortunate reality on the ground–namely, that a good many of those red states are only just-barely ‘red’.
Look at this:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/countymap30701024.png
Those big swaths of blue down south? Those are folks fighting in ‘enemy territory’ for the right to be heard. Abandoning them for the North’s convenience would, frankly, be the cowardly way out.
This may makes it all even more dramatic:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/countymap30701024.png
That one is pretty much the same map, but then distorted so that it is population-representative. The whole ‘blue state/red state’ thing is part of the FOX News bullshit, actually–we’re a very ‘purple’ nation, and the GOP hegemony has more to do with some weird lucky coincidences, coupled with naked gerrymandering.
Hence the “obviously not going to happen” part and the “easy for me to say” part.