Leonard Pitts Jr.: 'I'm closing the book on remorseful ex-Trumpers' [View all]

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https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article225433305.html?fbclid=IwAR21UfAmtf2zuSX6YK9pQFI2-OJzJRK3oQPznxMPbjW8Wxnh_mgkfT7x2Pw


‘I’m closing the book on remorseful ex-Trumpers’
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
February 01, 2019 07:34 PM,

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Point being, there is no element of Trump’s awfulness — not the racism, not the sexism, not the narcissism, not the lying, not the incompetence, not the bullying, not the corruption and not the deep and dismaying stupidity — that was not knowable, that was not as obvious as a neon sign in a mineshaft, before he was elected. So what’s changed? What do these people suddenly see now that they couldn’t then?

Speaking up then might have mattered, might have changed something. But they were silent, implicitly vouching for this man and his team. Now they’re writing books in order to … what? Rehabilitate image? Unburden conscience? Make some coin?

Not that the reason matters to me. Spending money — or time — on some book of Trump Remorse would only add vicious insult to crippling injury.

Give me Bob Woodward’s “Fear: Trump in the White House.”

Give me David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What The Trump Administration is Doing to America.”

Give me April Ryan’s “Under Fire: Reporting From the Front Lines of the Trump White House.”

But spare me some self-serving mea culpa from a Trump drone who claims to have just now figured out what the rest of us have known since Day One.

They can take their books and shelve them.