{"id":26663,"date":"2019-11-12T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26663"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T23:32:20","slug":"its-a-hint-to-the-trumpist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/11\/12\/its-a-hint-to-the-trumpist\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s A Hint To The Trumpist"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you consider Trump to be your guy, you may want to consider this post<\/a> by Steve Benen, where he lists the four<\/strong> points Republicans are being instructed to use, and then analyzes them:<\/p>\n

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The first point is\u00a0wrong<\/a>,\u00a0rejected<\/a>\u00a0by many Republicans, and oblivious to the fact that the scandal is\u00a0about more<\/a>\u00a0than just Trump\u2019s July 25 phone meeting with Zelensky. The second point has\u00a0never made any sense<\/a>. The third point has been\u00a0debunked<\/a>,\u00a0as has<\/a>\u00a0the fourth.<\/p>\n

But other than that, it\u2019s a great list of talking points.<\/p>\n

I probably shouldn\u2019t be surprised, but I thought it was at least possible, given how many weeks Republicans have had to work on this, that the party would\u2019ve come up with a more compelling list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the link to Benen’s post to see the points, but I assure you, they really are underwhelming. Benen probably thinks the real point is obvious, but it’s worth explicating:<\/p>\n

If you’ve been confused by the GOP<\/strong><\/em> theatrics such as the ‘invasion of Republicans’ of the inquiry depositions (some of whom already had permission to be there), the constantly shifting talking points, and the general confusion emanating from the White House, this is not the result of devious Democrats and their sneaky ways.<\/p>\n

It’s the result of a White House steeped in mendacity and incompetence. If Trump had a defense, it’d have been deployed and there wouldn’t be a scandal, there wouldn’t be the employment of chaff in attempts to confuse the situation, there wouldn’t be an inquiry. The Democrats might still be steamed about the 2016 election, but without a valid allegation of corruption, they’d just have to sit on it.<\/p>\n

Instead, we’re looking at an Administration which is simply flailing about, unable to mount an effective defense of the President’s actions. This should be a clue, even for the Trump zealot.<\/p>\n

The contents of your brain shouldn’t be How can I help the President?<\/em><\/p>\n

It should be<\/p>\n

If you can’t mount an effective defense, something’s wrong. You shouldn’t be in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is simply the hard-nosed American thing to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you consider Trump to be your guy, you may want to consider this post by Steve Benen, where he lists the four points Republicans are being instructed to use, and then analyzes them: The first point is\u00a0wrong,\u00a0rejected\u00a0by many Republicans, and oblivious to the fact that the scandal is\u00a0about more\u00a0than \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26664,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26663\/revisions\/26664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}