The most recent installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American reports on four news items that demand attention. Richardson credits this one to Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo:
At a press conference in the Netherlands last Wednesday, Trump said he had given Iran permission to bomb a U.S. air base in Qatar in retaliation for the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons program sites. “They said, ‘We’re going to shoot them. Is one o’clock OK?’ I said it’s fine,” Trump said. “And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn’t get hurt, except for the gunners.”You can watch a clip from the press conference here, at the 6:37 mark.
Marshall expressed astonishment that this admission has attracted very little attention. He suggested that, if it is true, it represents “the most shocking dereliction of duty one could imagine for the commander-in-chief,” and he wondered how Republicans would have reacted if a Democratic president had said he had let “a foreign adversary fire on an American military installation.”
I haven’t seen “I said it’s fine” reported anywhere. How about you?
[A correction: Sarah Posner, not Josh Marshall, wrote the article at TPM.]
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I don't know why society has a double standard for Trump, but I do know that in "management 101" the boss does not make excuses or pschyoanalyse or anything else. The boss simply expects right actions.
I suspect society would smarten up if even one, just one, upright person spoke up as if Trump was just as accountable as the rest of us are. Are there no stern grandmothers amongst the leaders in society?
Too bad such a person couldn't be a democrat, because of course they don't have a spine. The republicans on the Jan 6 committee had more backbone than a democrat. I don't get it.
I see any number of people in office speaking up, but I think that a real change in the shape of things is going to have to come about from the actions of everyday people, not from elected officials.
I'm glad to read that you know of people speaking up. I'm off in Canada, so my news is filtered by distance... I can remember in the 1980's when a former writer for an underground newspaper said, "Even a bigot hates a liar." Maybe that wasn't true, even then.
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