David Frum: That would be huge...

[Dennis Donovan]

David Frum
Do you think somebody possibly has video of Trump mocking the handicapped, demeaning US prisoners of war, boasting about sexually assaulting women, praising Vladimir Putin, or urging a violent attack on the US Capitol? That would be huge.
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[Moostache]

1. Not that it matters now..

But I remember years ago that David Frum was an interviewee on the Rachel Maddow Show shortly after Rachel first got a show on MSNBC as the lead into to Countdown with Keith Olbermann... She got into a bit a verbal spat with him because he accused her of being flippant and unserious... Just file that under "things that make you go...HMMMMM".

[Meadowoak]

2. I never used to like David From back then.

I do like him now, he's became much less of an asshole than he used to be. But he's very smart and tells it like it is.

[Moostache]

3. I agree...

He is light years apart from me on policy and ideas still, but he is at least an old-school Republican, even a Reaganite (who by the way would have been run out of the MAGA insanity by now). Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace are similar to me.

But atoning for one's sin (if you believe in such concepts and conceits) is not for man to forgive or forget...

[Bev54]

12. It took a lot for me to even listen to him, being Canadian I knew he was an ahole but

it does seem Trump was a step too far for even him.

[PatSeg]

21. Oh yes, I can remember a time

when it would be impossible to believe I would ever like or agree with Frum. The last few years he has been right more often than wrong.

[Initech]

5. What's really disturbing is to know that his threat of going full Hitler isn't a deal breaker for some.

[soldierant]

28. That's not a Threat. It's a promise.

[pnwmom]

30. In the run-up to Hillary's defeat, I had to stop watching Rachel because she was often flippant

and it was painful to me that she didn't seem to take the threat of Trump seriously.

I switched to CNN, because at least some people there understood the threat.

Obviously, Rachel eventually learned not to be flippant about Trump and I can watch her again.

[surfered]

4. He would just say don't believe what you saw.

[Hekate]

15. May I introduce you to the real David Frum: deeply intelligent and an old-school Conservative.

He is being ironic in this post — very, very ironic. Every single one of us here at DU has seen Trump say and do these things on audio and video, and so has Frum.

[Abstractartist]

25. Frum being....

I actually believe Frum was being very sarcastic. He was saying, yeah ok what other video can you put out that would change this MAGA shit from being a destructive hoard of scum to law abiding, understanding, compassionate citizens…. NOTHING… why? Because we ourselves saw trump mock the handicapped, demeaning US prisoners of war, boasting about sexually assaulting women, praising Vladimir Putin, or urging a violent attack on the US Capitol? And the MAGAs are still on his side. Nothing will change the MAGA views, but the republicans that have pride for their country and community will see and vote Kamala.

[surfered]

26. Yes, got it. I meant Trump would just say don't believe what you saw. Like the light bulb joke: Q: How many GOPers

does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. Trump just says he did it and they sit in the dark and applaud.

[lodownhodown]

27. Trump depravity will not cost him

MAGA know Trump, and they his Jim Crow .
https://www.facebook.com/share/ob883yHYNCg7URsB/

[soldierant]

29. He forgot to include the /s tag.

Not yjat most of us would need it - i certainly didn't and meither did you - but I try always to include it as a courtesy., particularly to those on the spectrum, but there are also others whdon't process snark all that well.

[Postal Grunt]

23. TFG would just say

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

[Katcat]

6. On twitter

Word is that there’s video of trump groping an underaged girl

[radical noodle]

10. Just locker room behavior

Boys will be boys, men will be men. I can almost hear the magats saying it.

[Beartracks]

7. But being a traitor and an asshole is "just Trump being Trump," dontcha know. n/t

[kimbutgar]

8. That already happened and his MAGAloons went yawn!

[kellytore]

9. Mark Halperin is reporting

that there is a story floating around that if true would end Trump's candidacy. He added that he doesn't believe it, but just to have an asshole such as Halperin reporting this might mean there is some truth to the story, so the Maga's are trying to get ahead of it.

[Quixote1818]

11. Is he being facetious here? Sadly. Nt

[Hekate]

17. David Frum is a Never Trumper and already knows there are videos & audios of all this behavior

He is being ironic

[PedroXimenez]

13. I heard there's a tape of him asking an official to "find me 11,000 votes"

sounds crazy but that's what i'm hearing

[CousinIT]

14. ONLY if it was a Democrat who did it. N/t

[Grumpy Old Guy]

16. He was one of the first Republicans to denounce TFG.

I'll give him that much. Does that make up for being Bush 43's speechwriter? Probably.

[Hekate]

18. Thank you for knowing this. Frum is an old-school conservative who has seen Trump for what he is from the get-go

[Hekate]

19. TY Dennis D. Frum's use of irony & sarcasm is refreshing.

[UTUSN]

20. K&R

[ColoradoHoosier]

22. Pretty good summation...

...showing just how far down the 'normalization' hole this country has fallen

[Martin68]

24. They do, and it wouldn't be huge. Trump's supporters don't care. some of them like him BCAUSE

he does that stuff.