Reexamining Ourselves

DONALD TRUMP TRIED to get the FBI to stop investigating him, to stop the investigation into Russian cooperation with the Trump campaign. To the FBI Director Trump said: "I hope you can see your way clear to drop this investigation". That's petty obvious. Pretty straight forward, pretty clear cut. The president trying to interfere with justice, as Director Comey, who was shocked and horrified, saw it. Whenever one person says to another "I hope you can see your way clear", about anything, person number one is definitely trying to get person number two to do something. This is not a mere expression of hope, as one clever republican tried to claim. It is, in fact, an attempt to influence another person's behavior, in all cases. In this case, its obstruction of justice by the president of the United States, and very possibly, its betraying the United States to a foreign power which is also a traditional enemy of the U.S.. Very serious stuff, as Trump himself might tweet. Very very serious. Huge. Impeachable. Indictable. Imprisonable. Speaker of the House Ryan forgives Trump because Trump didn't know any better. Great excuse. Imagine, if you can, Hillary Clinton as President. Hold your nose if you have to. Whatever works. Imagine her telling the FBI Director: "I hope you can see your way clear to stop investigating me". If you're a conservative republican, how would you react? What would Speaker Ryan do? What would you do? What you would do is obvious; you'd pitch a fit. You'd have a cow. You'd raise holy hell. You'd put on your bright red "make America great again" ball cap, gather together with other Trumper-Tea party types, and chant "lock her up!", until you were hoarse and the cows came home. Hell, you'd do that if Hillary Clinton ever got a damned parking ticket, which she hasn't. That's exactly what you would do, and you know it. So, um...where are you now? Conveniently ignoring or lamely justifying the criminal behavior of the criminal you voted for? The same way you sanctimonious evangelical conservative types ignored or dismissed Trump's proclamation of sexual molestation as "locker room talk"? What would you have done if Obama or Bill Clinton had bragged on tape about getting away with serial sexual molestation? You'd pitch a tizzy. Maybe its never occurred to you right wingers, and maybe it should, that you Trump voters need to reexamine your character, moral values, and moral consistency just a wee bit.