Exactly! So much of the current problems are caused by a dismaying lack of message discipline and continuity. There is alleged to exist an anti-Trump cabal within the FBI. Yet Comey and McCabe, both alleged members of this cabal, are fired for conduct detrimental to Clinton during the campaign. Those things both can’t be true. There is an unequivocal denial of any Trump campaign contact with the Russian government. Then there is the belated admission of the Trump Tower meeting. There is an unequivocal denial of any knowledge of the Stormy Daniels NDA. Now there was knowledge of the payment but maybe not the reason for it which is totally believable because who doesn’t fire off 6 figures worth of checks in monthly instalments without bothering to ask what the money is for? The pattern is becoming increasingly dismaying; unequivocal denial followed by a slightly more equivocal denial, followed by an admission in the form of “yea, that happened but it wasn’t what it looks like and besides here are my lawyers explaining why this thing we lied about happening for months wasn’t necessarily a crime so why is everyone so upset?” The central defense against the swirling indictments of the Mueller investigations is “this is all a hoax, we did nothing wrong, just trust us.” But if we are being honest with ourselves, what credibility is left? This Stormy Daniels thing is so dismaying because it was so transparent a lie but the President insisted on that lie for months. Making it worse is that there was no reason to lie. We are familiar with our President’s past, we know no one would mistake him for our deacon. But none of that mattered to us, we voted for him anyway. He could have just admitted the obvious when the Daniels thing first came out and we would have shrugged our shoulders and moved along. But he lied and lied and is trying to lie about the lie. Just like with the Trump tower meeting when there first were no meetings with Russia, then this one meeting but it was only about adoption, and then finally the truth. The investigations around the President will fundamentally hinge on the question of credibility and right now who can honestly believe what the President says? We didn’t vote for a politician but it is becoming increasingly clear that we elected one.
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