Sunday, October 20, 2019

And a Brief Comment on Elizabeth Warren's Campaign

Donald Trump has so many faults, and is such a master of projection, that almost anything he accuses his opponent of, he is guilty of by a factor of many.

During the last election, he accused Hillary Clinton of mishandling classified information, evading disclosure laws, and using her foundation as a slush fund.  Meanwhile, he had a longstanding history of using his foundation as a slush fund and evading disclosures of all kinds.  The only reason he had never mishandle classified information was that no one was so crazy as to allow him access to it.*  Conor Friedersdorf wisely commented:
Absurdly, many seem to have convinced themselves that Trump, who won’t release his tax returns, as every presidential candidate has for decades, will be better on transparency; that a man whose finances we don’t even know, who used his charitable foundation to illegally funnel money to an attorney general investigating him for fraud, will be better on conflicts of interest; that an erratic man who blurts all manner of things out on Twitter and has shady ties to Vladimir Putin will somehow be a more trustworthy guardian of classified information.
He denounced Hillary Clinton as "Crooked Hillary."  At the same time that Trump University was facing a multi-million dollar fraud lawsuit.  Any number of investigations into Trump Enterprises has raised evidence that it was based on fraud.  He has also run a series of resorts and steered business to then while serving as President, abused classification procedures to hide politically embarrassing phone calls, intervened to obtain security clearances for cronies, and blurted out code-word level information to Russian delegates.  Also, the latest scandal has revealed that State Department employees involved were sending messages on private servers, which the last election established as the most heinous offense and American can commit.

In the current election, Joe Biden, the current front runner, has been accused of having retrograde attitudes on race and being too touchy-feely with women.  Somehow this is supposed to make us prefer an open race-baiter who brags about routine sexual assault.  And now Trump is denouncing Joe Biden because his son used his family name to obtain business opportunities. 

Kamala Harris has been denounces as an overzealous prosecutor.  Amy Klobuchar has been denounced as an abusive boss. 

But of Elizabeth Warren, Team Trump has finally come up with accusations that can't be turned against him.

It seems a safe assumption that Trump has never sought to benefit from affirmative action by claiming to be anything other than white, and that he has never alleged (truly or falsely) that he lost a job for being pregnant.

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*Some wag commented that Trump was such an obvious security risk that the only way he could ever get clearance was to be elected President.

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