Now that Hillary Clinton won't be indicted, she's got a virtual lock on the Democratic presidential nomination. And, as of this moment, Donald Trump is still the Republican presumptive nominee. Our choices, Friends, are pretty dismal.
Hillary has proven herself to be a calculating and cold-blooded liar.
She made this comment a couple of days ago regarding questions about her email server debacle, and I'll quote it directly, "I'll do the best I can to be as forthcoming as possible."
Wow, she finally told the truth. She told us that she'd never tell us the truth.
You are either forthcoming or you're not. There are no degrees of forthcoming.
And true to her word, she was caught in a series of baldfaced lies over 'Servergate'.
Among other things, FBI Director James Comey said yesterday that the evidence showed she knowingly sent marked classified documents over her personal unsecured email server, despite her abject denials.
On the Trump side, it's beyond doubt that he tweeted an Antisemitic graphic on his personal Twitter account, despite trying to explain it away when he got caught with his pants down.
According to the Washington Post, this is one of five white supremacist tweets they've tracked so far emanating from his personal account.
If you haven't seen the graphic yet, click the link in yesterday's post.
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| Do you know what this is? It's a white Star of David on a blue background. The only difference between this star and the one Donald Trump used is that Trump's star was red. |
It's right out of early Third Reich Germany, showing a red six-pointed star over a backdrop of cash and implying that Hillary has been bought by 'big-money Jews'.
Not that the graphic wasn't incendiary enough.
Though the Trump campaign has now admitted, through its surrogates, that the original graphic they took down after two hours was posted by mistake, The Donald refuses to apologize for it.
He's keeping up the narrative that the star image did not harken the stars European Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis. It was "a sheriff's badge or a plain star."
That is 'plain' nonsense.
Donald Trump has said publicly and on camera that he personally oversees his Twitter account, and after around 7 p.m. every night, he "writes all the Tweets himself."
So, regardless of whether he posted the offensive tweet, or as his campaign now claims that it was posted by social media director Dan Scavino, whose wife is Jewish ("so he couldn't be Antisemitic"), Trump is responsible for it.
Trump has told the media he always admits when he's wrong. But like Hillary, he's demonstrated that when his mouth is moving, he's lying.
According to him, he hasn't been wrong yet.
But Trump is dead wrong about the way he's handled the worst of his unforced gaffes, and the world is waiting for a public apology--the one thing that can get him off the hook.
Until that happens, the mess he's made will continue to dog him.
What kind of person can't apologize?
Hopefully, not our president.
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