04 October 19
FOCUS: Frank Rich | Trump's Wrecking-Ball Impeachment Defense
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "We can safely assume that even Trump's most ardent fans would not put him and 'focused plan' or 'strategy' in the same sentence. His brand is chaos, and his default position is human (or more often inhuman) wrecking ball."
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "We can safely assume that even Trump's most ardent fans would not put him and 'focused plan' or 'strategy' in the same sentence. His brand is chaos, and his default position is human (or more often inhuman) wrecking ball."
EXCERPT:
A third question is his sanity. Even by his standards, yesterday’s #TrumpMeltdown was wild. The nation saw him tossing around a jockstrap insult (aimed at Adam Schiff) in an ornate White House setting as the Finnish president trapped beside him tried, with mixed results, to maintain a poker-faced dignity. We watched Trump in desperation cite abject GOP lapdogs like Lindsey Graham, Rick Scott, and Rob Portman as character witnesses. We watched him lie with his usual heedlessness and velocity, but as often as not his fictions undermined his own craven self-interest: By referring to the White House’s readout of his fateful July 25 call with the Ukrainian president as a “word-for-word, comma-for-comma” transcript, he was attempting to further the cover-up in plain sight. All you need is eyes to see that this document is not labeled a “transcript” and is too brief to be the entirety of what was officially listed as a 30-minute presidential conversation. (Interns in the office of one senator, Angus King of Maine, read the released version aloud and clocked it at roughly ten minutes.) Not to mention that the “comma-for-comma” White House readout contains ellipses — which may yet prove to be tantamount to the notorious 18-and-a-half-minute gap on an incriminating Nixon White House tape.
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