The bill is coming due for those who sold their souls to Trump
Opinion by Jennifer Rubin
Columnist
Between President Trump’s Rose Garden rant on Tuesday (which Mary L. Trump should definitely include in the paperback version of her book delving into her uncle’s erratic behavior) and the White House’s excuse that it never authorized trade representative Peter Navarro to write a screed attacking the world’s leading infectious-disease expert, it has become a wee bit difficult for in-house lackeys, elected Republicans and card-carrying members of the right-wing media to keep up the pretense that Trump and his administration are functioning normally — or even functioning at all. (One wonders how the Hogan Gidleys, the Marc Shorts, the Mark Espers and the rest justify continuing to regurgitate his lies and sing his praises.)
Increasingly, the White House operates not so much as the head of the executive branch but as a site for Trump’s personal and political breakdowns. It is hard to see that any official business is performed in an administration obsessed with covering Trump’s lies, catering to his ego, attacking his opponents and providing emotional refuge for those whose identity depends on venerating the Confederate flag and excusing systemic racism. There is almost no actual policy happening and no rationale for the administration’s continued existence.
Let’s turn, then, to the Senate Republicans who voted to acquit him (that would be everyone except Utah Sen. Mitt Romney), the House Republicans who mouthed Russian propaganda in his defense and the horde of right-wing pundits and media figures who both financially sustain and humiliate themselves with never-ending rationalizations for a president who struggles to complete a sentence, let alone think through complex policy matters.
The elected Republicans should be confronted at every turn by mainstream media and voters:
Do you think President Trump is fit even to complete his term?
Do you regret supporting his exoneration in the Ukraine scandal?
How can you support a president who clings to the Confederate flag and defends the killing of African Americans by police by saying more white people are killed?
How can the administration address the pandemic when members of the administration heap scorn on Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases?
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That's my favorite idea tonight.
Not from Trump. Not from those who didn't vote (I know you're out there). Not from the cable news network who for some reason took this guy serious.
I want an apology for all those who voted for Trump. You get no pass for hating Hillary. You are the reason we are in this condition. Our once great country is now getting pitied by the rest of the world.
