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2 Stories That Have Been Getting A Lot Of Attention That Shouldn’t Be Getting Much At All…
Because rather than illuminating tremendously abhorrent behavior, they’re obscuring and diffusing it…
3 min readNov 20, 2019
- Trump suggestion he’ll “strongly consider” testifying to Congress as part of its impeachment proceeding against him. He won’t. Just because he Tweeted it in an otherwise smarmy/cutesy Tweet? There’s about as much chance Trump will testify (even in writing) as he was going to attend the inauguration of Ukraine President Zelensky, even though Trump never said he wouldn’t, and in fact said he’d “look into that…give us the date” during his earlier, even more “perfect” phone call, a rough transcript of which he released recently. Remember when Trump told the New York Times of a sit-down with Robert Mueller: “I’m looking forward to it, actually”? (He did in writing then, but really didn’t say anything except “I do not recall.” Many things. Many times.) And there’s no reason at all to believe he’d do it again unless he’s forced to. Yes, it’s the President, But when the President Tweets something that based on everything he’s ever said and done you know he isn’t serious about, couldn’t we just start ignoring those?
- Senior White House strategist Stephen Miller is racist. Of course he’s racist. He should be…
