“That’s politics!”
Maggie Haberman reports that Trump is again confiding in us about just how sleazy and morally empty he really is.
“Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent,” Mr. Trump posted on his Twitter account just after 10 a.m. “That’s politics!”
Of course. That’s what sleazy morally empty people do – they say everybody does it, they say you would do it in a heartbeat if you had the chance, they say everybody is as sleazy and morally empty as they are. It’s a lie – a sleazy and morally empty lie. Donald Trump is a moral vacuum, but that does not mean that everyone else is. Even in the US, where that brand of “character” is cheered on, it’s not universal.
The president has insisted he learned of the meeting only a few days before The Times article. His aides helped write his son’s initial statement describing the meeting as they flew back with the president from the Group of 20 summit meeting in Europe.
His son’s initial statement that was a lie and had to be revised as soon as the Times reported again.
The US government is a moral sewer at present. All we can do for now is try to keep track.
The US government has been a moral sewer for a long time; it’s just become very blatant.
Modern sewers, even moral ones, tend to run underground, unseen and largely ignored. Trump seems to have gone back to the pre-Victorian system of open sewers that put all of the nasties right under everybody’s noses.