Scions and Scoundrels
The latest shoe to drop is that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort (campaign chairman at the time) met last summer in Trump Tower with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer because, according to emails released by Trump Jr., he was told
that he would receive dirt on Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support” for his father.
But as Bernie Sanders was fond of saying during the campaign, “On her worst day, Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate
and president than the Republican candidate on his best day.”
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But that is Trump’s tactic: Don’t shade the truth with a little lie; destroy the truth with an enormous lie.
Donald Trump is president because a multiethnic, forward-thinking coalition twice elected a black man president
and in so doing sent pulsing waves of fear down the spine of the traditional power structure in America.
And yet, he won the nomination, and that man — the worst of the worst — beat a woman who had more qualifications
on the first page of her résumé than he could ever have achieved in his whole pathetic life.
After Trump Jr. hid the meeting with the Russian lawyer, then acknowledged it, then had a rolling list of lies about the purpose of it, then was forced to release emails about the meeting
that proved not only him but the entire Trump camp to be liars, he gave an interview to the Trumps’ favorite state propaganda machine, Fox News.