She makes me laugh so hard. She’s a kindergarten teacher who makes videos talking to politicians the way she does her kindergartners. pic.twitter.com/INCNXoEEvu
— StaceyC.inKS (@StaceyCKs1) August 14, 2022
Since it's baseball season, I may not be up to speed, but it seems Trump's account of what's going on with federal government documents kept illegally at Mar-a-Lago has progressed from "Returned them all" to "They weren't classified" to "FBI planted classified documents in my beautiful home" to "I declassified them by deciding in my mind that they weren't classified anymore" to "But Hillary/Obama!" Lots of people are pointing out that Tuesday's lies are refuted by the new ones he tells on Wednesday (since, for example, he could not have declassified documents planted by the FBI), and that he can't himself declassify documents, though it hardly matters anyway, as the crimes he could be charged with don't require the documents to be classified. So as usual he's flooding the zone with fecal matter, and friend and foe alike are performing taxonomic labors upon his effluvia. But it seems to me the more pertinent questions are:
Why did you have these documents in your home?
Why didn't you give them back?
What did you plan on doing with them?
It could well be that the darkest suspicions of some of his foes aren't justified. For instance, his motive might just be part of the everlasting vanity project: he wanted to show cool stuff to people he'd like to impress. The theory here would be, basically, that the guy who was president for four years has the sensibility of an adolescent male bragging to peers about having copped a feel in the back row of the theater. The wide-eyed attention of fatuous admirers is the grail. The tik-tok artist above thinks he stalled out long before adolescence. Who knows? I'm not a shrink, but it's obvious he's a mess.
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