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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT powerful Op Ed "Republicans Sink Further Into Trump's Cesspool"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/opinion/cohen-trump-loyalty.htmlWhat they left out of their questioning of Michael Cohen says more about the degradation of my former party than anything they said.
Peter Wehner
By Peter Wehner
Contributing Opinion Writer
Michael Cohens testimony before Congress on Wednesday revealed as much about the Republican Party as it did about President Trump and his former lawyer. In the aftermath of Mr. Cohens damning testimony, several things stand out.
The first is that unlike John Dean, the former White House counsel who delivered searing testimony against President Richard Nixon in 1973, Mr. Cohen produced documents of Mr. Trumps ethical and criminal wrongdoing. (Mr. Dean had to wait for the Watergate tapes to prove that what he was saying was true.)
Mr. Cohens most explosive evidence included a copy of a check Mr. Trump wrote from his personal bank account, while he was president, to reimburse Mr. Cohen for hush money payments. The purpose of that hush money, of course, was to cover up Mr. Trumps affair with a pornographic film star in order to prevent damage to his campaign.
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By now Republicans must know, deep in their hearts, that Mr. Cohens portrayal of Mr. Trump as a racist, a con man and a cheat is spot on. So it is the truth they fear, and it is the truth the fundamental reality of the world as it actually is that they feel compelled to destroy. This is the central organizing principle of the Republican Party now. More than tax cuts. More than trade wars. More even than building a wall on our southern border. Republicans are dedicated to annihilating truth in order to defend Mr. Trump and they will go after anyone, from Mr. Cohen to Robert Mueller, who is a threat to him.
He is their emperor, and they are his political Praetorian Guard.
Hekate
(91,039 posts)Tighter and tighter. The photos from Hanoi show a very unhappy Orange Dotard.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Can they at last refer to Trump as a conman, racist, and cheat, now that they have confirmation from Michael Cohen? They've been awfully forgiving of Trump, continuing to accept his nutty pronouncements and tweets as if they could be true, even when the Times knows he's lying his pasty white ass off.
C Moon
(12,226 posts)a viable candidate.
Now look what happened?
oasis
(49,490 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,563 posts)Republicans have been depending on denying truth and facts since at least Rotten Ronnie, and perhaps since Nixon. In order to get funding, they've denied damage by, and the need for regulations on, fossil fuel industries. In order to get votes, they've denied the chamleon nature of their fiscal policies -- deficits run wild under Republicans, while the same are national, existential threats under Democrats. In order to get votes, they've denied the racism they feed in every campaign. They deny their fascism even while corruptly coupling government and industry to secure their power.
Reality for Republicans is whatever is expedient for maintaining power and feeding greed.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Blue Owl
(50,588 posts)n/t
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)And there was not much integrity left to squander.