Trump has destroyed his own moral legitimacy

[DonViejo]

Russia manipulated, Trump concealed.

By Jennifer Rubin May 18 at 10:30 AM

President Trump won in the electoral college in 2016, but lost the popular vote by about 3 million ballots. (California, take a bow.) He is the president and cannot be removed against his will, except by impeachment or at the ballot box in 2020. But moral legitimacy is another matter.

The sinking sense that he really didn’t win fair and square — that he and a foreign power tipped the scales — has now been fortified by a raft of information unknown to voters when they cast their ballots. Consider all the things he concealed which, if known at the time, could possibly have swung about 80,000 votes in three states.

Thanks to the special counsel, the media and the Senate Intelligence Committee we know:

• Russian President Vladimir Putin, the leader of America’s most formidable international foe, hatched a multipronged, sophisticated plan to help Trump get elected. Trump got illegal foreign help. (Though it’s not like we’re going to indict Putin.)

• While Trump claimed he had no deals in Russia, his lawyer, Michael Cohen, pursued a Trump Tower deal as late as May 2016. Going back to 2013, Trump has made numerous efforts to strike deals in Russia — quite apart from the investment in his businesses from Russians.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/05/18/trump-has-destroyed-his-own-moral-legitimacy/

[Lotusflower70]

1. Wait what?

How can you have moral legitimacy if you have no morals?

[unblock]

2. he never had any moral legitimacy.

he was raised to be completely immoral.

[niyad]

3. he never had any to begin with.

[kwassa]

4. Trump never had morals. Ever.

[Leith]

5. Jennifer Rubin? Of Course It Was

She's one of the never-trumpers we like so much around here. Let's not forget ever again that she is and always has been a rethug.

Moral legitimacy my ass.