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- This lying by Trump really pisses me off. As the late President Bush stated flatly in a video that I saw the other day: “Character matters.”
Martin Winfree
December 6, 2018
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For those of you who are conversant with the Bob Dylan “protest songs”, this is my “Masters of War” post. This lying by Trump really pisses me off. As the late President Bush stated flatly in a video that I saw the other day: “Character matters.” You will note in all of these Political Analysis posts that I hardly talk about Trump’s policies at all. Trump won; Clinton lost; he has the right to push his agenda without a doubt. Mostly, I am talking about other things. The final paragraph below is one that I am particularly proud of.
POLITICAL ANALYSIS, PART IV:
“No collusion” has been and continues to be Trump’s favorite phrase of his Presidency. Maybe there was, and maybe there wasn’t – we still don’t know what Robert Mueller has come up with. But either way, it sure wasn’t for lack of trying on Trump’s part: Three senior members of the Trump campaign – Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner – took a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with (among others) a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya. As Wikipedia tells it: “Veselnitskaya is a long-time lawyer for Pyotr Katsyv, who is the vice-president of the state-owned Russian Railways, and was formerly the Moscow region’s minister of transportation.”
Also from Wikipedia: “When the New York Times was about to report on email exchanges between [Rob] Goldstone and Trump Jr., Trump Jr. himself admitted that Goldstone had stated in an email to him that the Russian government was involved, and that the purpose of the meeting was to get ‘dirt on Clinton’, and that the meeting concerned a ‘Russian effort to aid the [Trump] campaign’. In early July 2017, it was reported that President Donald Trump himself drafted Trump Jr.’s initial misleading statement [about the Trump Tower meeting]. The report was later confirmed by the president’s attorneys.” Rob Goldstone is the Donald Trump buddy who set up the Trump Tower meeting. It is quite a juicy story that is well worth looking up if you have forgotten the details.
Apparently, there was nothing to it, no dirt on Hillary Clinton after all; but of course, we have to take their word for that. (In case you have forgotten, originally they said that the Trump Tower meeting was all about adoptions of Russian children). And if there has been a defining characteristic of the Trump administration on truly a daily basis, it has been the lies that have been generated on an industrial scale, starting with the laughable assertion on January 21, 2017 that Trump had the largest inauguration crowd in US history that was immediately demolished by aerial photographic evidence. There are people in the press (God bless ’em) who actually go to the trouble of fact-checking and listing the Trump administration lies; the count of those that have been conclusively proven to be lies is in the range of 5,000 now.
But of all of the Trump lies, the most colossal lie, the most stupendous lie, the most bald-faced lie, the lie with the highest possible “pants-on-fire” rating – that topper above all the toppers has got to be that the major-league control-freak Donald J. Trump did not know in advance about the Trump Tower meeting that included his own son Donald Trump Jr. and his own son-in-law Jared Kushner; this meeting that took place in Trump Tower, the building where he lived and the building where he worked. Trump said that again in the written statements that he supplied to Robert Mueller just last month.