This vile, vicious president

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October 03, 2018

This vile, vicious president

Last week he said Dr. Christine Blasey was "a very credible witness" and "a very fine woman"; her testimony was "very compelling." Yesterday:

"Thirty-six years ago this happened. I had one beer, right? I had one beer. How did you get home? I don’t remember. How’d you get there? I don’t remember. Where is the place? I don’t remember. How many years ago was it? I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. What neighborhood was it in? I don’t know. Where’s the house? I don’t know. Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know. But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember."

The Times notes that these words were "met with cheers and laughter by the crowd of several thousand supporters at the Landers Center." Added the tax cheat and government defrauder and despicable little horror of a manchild president at his Mississippi campaign rally:

"And a man’s life is in tatters. A man’s life is shattered. His wife is shattered. They destroy people. They want to destroy people. These are really evil people."

Michael Bromwich, a lawyer for Dr. Blasey, tweeted that Trump's offensive was "A vicious, vile and soulless attack on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Is it any wonder that she was terrified to come forward, and that other sexual assault survivors are as well? She is a remarkable profile in courage. He is a profile in cowardice."

After two years it remains almost inconceivable that this vile, vicious, ignorant misogynist could be president of the United States. And downright shocking is that one-third of the American public is still not troubled by his position.

We have run out of words, used up all the hostile adjectives, to describe this thug. So what next? Once I was opposed to a Democratic House majority impeaching him. Now I'm not so sure. As a singular act of governmental rectitude, in these corrupt Trumpian times, impeachment may be ethically inescapable — even if politically harmful.

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Comments

But this isn't just about him. He was playing to his rabid audience of drooling fanboys. They are just as vile and vicious and clueless about other people as he is. He has just enough talent to know how to play to their ugliest impulses to make the sale which makes it easier for him to scam them. The problem is that those of us who weren't fooled by him for a second are getting scammed as well. Dr. Ford said that what she remembers most about the attack is the way the attackers were laughing at her expense. Nothing like having the PTSD forced on you by President Pussygrabber and thousands of strangers. They should all be put on an ice floe and sent adrift.

Posted by: Anne J | October 03, 2018 at 10:14 AM