Another
bad week for Trump is in the books, but the current one is starting on an
equally poor footing. After a debate performance to forget, unless you happen
to exclusively watch Fox News, Trump decided to double down his attacks on a
former beauty queen (WSJ).
He followed this up with a rather desperate attempt to challenge Hillary
Clinton for staying with her philandering husband (NYT).
And that followed a week when he painted America in the most bleak tableau
possible, decry the state of our economy, rampant violence (while not
supporting gun control of any kind) and claiming blacks are in the worst shape they
have “ever, ever, even” been (WP),
even as he has run the most overtly racist campaign since Wallace in 1968.
In just
the past few days, we have discovered that Trump may not have payed taxes for
the past 20 years, after reporting almost a billion dollars in losses to the
IRS in 1995 (The
New Yorker). Some of his surrogates have now tried to claim him as a “genius”
for avoiding taxes, but this does bring up the pesky issue of his rather poor
business dealings in the past; beyond simply refusing to pay many of his
contractors and employees. The most recent story comes from his hometown of New
York, where the attorney general has demanded that he cease accepting donations
for the Trump Foundation, which he hasn’t contributed a penny to since 2008,
because they are not properly certifying those donations (WP).
And just today, he told
a group of military veterans that some members of the military develop mental
health issues because they are not "strong" and "can't handle it”
(WP).
So let’s connect the dots – draft dodger belittles injured
war veterans, tax dodger refuses to come clean on his finances, philanderer attacks
Clinton for not leaving her own philandering husband, sexist degrades beauty
queen winner of his own competition and philanthropist who doesn’t contribute
to his own Foundation. Well, that certainly sounds like a subset of
hypocritical Americans currently living off the toil and hard work of others,
but someone who can make America great again? Maybe a bit of a stretch …
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