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If you listen close, you can already hear the gears turning in the heads of Donald Trump’s self-appointed excuse-makers. Their torment was exaggerated this week while the many checks that Donald Trump wrote during the campaign came due.Among the revelations they apparently feel duty-bound to justify is the unsurprising discovery that the president’s long-time gastroenterologist, Dr. Harold Bornstein, allegedly allowed Trump to dictate an infamous 2016 letter praising the president’s health . . .. . . Separately, according to Donald Trump’s new legal advisor, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the president and his allies have been lying for months about the nature of his financial relationship with the adult film star Stormy Daniels. On Wednesday night, Giuliani revealed that Trump reimbursed his attorney, Michael Cohen, for a six-figure payoff to Daniels just11 days before the 2016 election–a payoff designed to keep her from talking about their alleged affair. He also indicated that Trump was fully aware of that transaction . . . . . . When it comes to the idea that deliberate efforts to deceive the voting public don’t matter, the burden of proof is on Donald Trump’s defenders. As for the idea that the public doesn’t seem to care, though, that’s hard to argue against. But just because the president’s personal foibles are baked into the cake, that doesn’t mean that they sit well with the public or that voters will not register their dissatisfaction with this supposedly new normal at the polls . . . . . . Trump’s movement is a reflection of Trump and “humble†is not in his vocabulary. It is, however, an American virtue, and you can be sure that it will make a comeback at some point. What form that comeback will take, though, is a mystery. And when it arrives, it will come with baggage all its own.
