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Originally Posted by Pete F.
On Sunday, former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney tried to suggest that Trump had somehow changed, that he was a different person than he was just months ago when he was his loyal yes man.
This is nonsense on stilts. It is also absurd revisionism.
Mulvaney and Toomey both tried to claim on MeetthePress that what Trump did this week was a dramatic change from his behavior for previous five years. Toomey scoffingly says it wasn’t his job to be Trump’s "Twitter editor.” No American should fall for this BS.
Mulvaney also claimed that he was surprised that Trump’s words had consequences. "People took him literally. I never thought I'd see that.” Really?
To his credit, Chris Wallace pressed Mulvaney:
“ You were a top member of the administration when the president defended the white supremacists in Charlottesville. You were a top member of the administration, not the chief of staff, when the Trump administration separated parents coming across the border from their children. Why not resign over those?” Wallace asked.
The answer, of course, is that Mulvaney thought he could ride the whirlwind. Undoubtedly, he liked the access, the power, and he made the same Faustian Bargain as the rest of the GOP.
And he was astonished to find out the price was his soul.
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Wow. That's some deep chit, Pete--Faustian bargain . . . the price of his soul.
And, have'nt been paying much attention to the transformation of Chris Wallace. Last I remember of him is when in the debate he asked Trump if he would disavow white Supremacists. As a real journalist, he would have known that Trump had done so many times already.
And he is saying that Trump defended the white supremacists in Charlottesville? There was no actual statement in that Press briefing in which Trump defended white supremacists. In that very same dialog he specifically said that his very fine people comment did not refer to the Neo-Nazis there. It takes some unnecessary verbal juggling and interpretation to come up with the notion that he defended white supremacists. The swamp is way deeper than I thought. Wallace never did like Trump. But journalistic integrity in television seems to have gone the way of talk radio bias. Except talk radio pundits are honest enough to say they are not journalists--and admit their bias.