22 June 2018
It was another banner day for the Trump-haters who read the
Spectator’s editorial pages.
First up was a piece by Diana Cucuz, Ph.D., who complained about Trump’s habit of ripping up self-serving letters from the likes of
Senator Chuck Schumer. Some poor schmuck is forced to tape these
documents back together again to comply with the Presidential Records
Act. Cucuz says Trump’s ripping up documents is illegal. I guess
the only recourse is impeachment.
Next up is “The weakness of cruelty” by Karen Tumulty, of the Washington Post .
Isn’t that clever, associating Trump with weakness? Anyhow, the picture
associated with the article was taken while Obama was president and the Obama
administration was treating illegals the same way as Trump, and for the same
reason. You can tell this picture was taken of Obama’s treatment because
the kids are wrapped in aluminum foil. Tumulty and the rest don’t care
that America is a nation of laws and that the executive is charged with seeing
that the laws be faithfully executed. Don’t like the operation of the
law? Then require congress to change it, but blaming Trump is too tempting for consistency or principles to stop. Trump is not a
legislator, and the likes of Tumulty don’t want him to be. Obama did the
same thing, but that’s okay.
Finally there is an opinion piece under the guise of a news
article from AP, headlined “Supporters of Trump steadfast despite immigration
uproar.” In the body of the piece AP reports, “when [Trump and DHS
Secretary Nielson] falsely claimed that they had no choice but to
enforce an existing law.” Falsely? If you hold that Trump can
decide to violate his constitutional oath that the laws be faithfully
executed, then you can say he had a choice about enforcing the laws. If
you think Trump should be a legislator as well as an executive, then you can
say he has a choice. In other words, you can use the word false if you
think the US constitution should be violated by the president.
The mendacity continues, for the same story says that
Obama’s policy did not require separation of families. That’s true –
because Obama had the kids locked up with the parents. It was a court
that decided that the kids could only be detained with their parents for twenty
days, and then had to be released. Hence, the separation of parents from
children, and this is the current mess that Trump has to manage without
congress’s help.
Today it was discovered that the crying child on the cover
of Time magazine was in fact never separated from his parents. But with
Photoshop, that little detail can be fixed.
One reason why Trump supporters are so steadfast is that
they are sick of the mendacity offered by the left (and right) as reasons
to hate him. The habit of mendacity has created “fake news”
and destroyed the credibility of the mainstream media.
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