"I don't know that it's criminal to take bad advice from your attorneys."

[Pototan]

51. I understand the quest for political power

After all, that's what drives politicians, for good or ill reasons.

You can't affect change without holding office.

But I've been involved in dozens of campaigns, at all levels. And when the election is over, the candidates often "mend their fences" after a bitter campaign. But family members never forgive. Spouses, parents and children will often hold grudges for years.

But publicly denigrated a candidate's spouse or parents or children is, more often than not, unforgivable. Support for Donald Trump is not the norm. It's an aberration.

He's a buffoon con man who never built real political capital and yet the Republican Party treats him in a way that I've seen no other politician treated before.