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05-11-2017, 02:33 PM
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See, I find zero humor in what is happening to our country and offerbthis from a new biography of Trump.
"Some Americans are shocked by the Donald Trump they've seen revealed in the sudden firing, for patently disingenuous reasons, of FBI Director James Comey. Those of us who've interviewed Trump — I did, for over eight hours, for a book I wrote — realize that this is exactly, down the last strand of DNA, the man we always knew.
Trump was the boy whose father contributed great sums to his private elementary school and knew that the money meant he could get away with outrageous behavior. We all knew someone like him when we were third or fourth graders. He was aggressive and mean, but he also owned all the great toys that everyone wanted to play with.
The future President's sense of superiority fueled bullying behaviors, and his family's status made those who should have disciplined him reluctant. At the Kew-Forest School in Queens, the teachers complained to his parents, but they didn't act until he was 13, and then sent him to a rich boy's version of reform school — a military academy.
In the aftermath we learn, as administration officials struggle to make sense of things, that the "white hot" President acted impulsively after stewing over the bad press he's been getting around the Russia controversy. He had the power to dismiss Comey and, apparently since the FBI director refused to pledge his loyalty to him, exercised it.
Trump has never been about doing the right thing. He has always been about doing the thing he can get away with. The guiding line has been the law, not morality. He pushed people around when he wanted their real estate because he could, not because he should.
He fired Comey without considering the impact on the country, or America's standing as a democracy.
Following it all by meeting in the Oval Office with Russia's ambassador (an alleged spymaster) and foreign minister was yet the latest demonstration of his sense that he can do anything — shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, he once said — and get away with it.
It's another "screw you" from the guy who has answered every rebuke with a power play and has never placed anyone's interest above his own. Why would he start now?
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/p...icle-1.3156675
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