Rich Lowry: Trump Should Come Clean

[Machiavelli]

Rich Lowry
Politico
August 22, 2018

The president should confess his affairs, admit he wanted to keep them quiet and apologize to the public for his deception.

If it wasn’t obvious before, it should be now: President Donald Trump is in an impeachment fight.

It hasn’t fully ripened yet. That won’t happen unless Democrats take the House and do so with a healthy margin in the fall. But Michael Cohen’s statement that he committed campaign-finance violations at the behest of Trump makes it that much more likely Democrats will impeach him once they have the power and the votes to do it...

The American public has a nearly boundless ability to forgive. Wayward politicians have fallen back on it throughout our history, whether it was Alexander Hamilton pouring out his guts over his sordid affair with Maria Reynolds, or John F. Kennedy admitting error in the Bay of Pigs, or Bill Clinton (after a season of extravagant and increasingly tinny denials) ’fessing up to his fling with Monica Lewinsky.

It is in this spirit that Donald Trump should confess his affairs with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, admit he wanted to keep them quiet ...

Of course, all of this is fantasy, given Trump’s natural instincts. A pugilist who never admits error, he surely believes that he can bluff and improvise his way out of the mess, and wait to abandon elements of his current version of events until strictly necessary. He thinks, not unreasonably, that he can continue to make his investigators the issue and that so long as he has the vast majority of his party with him he has a brake against a removal vote in the Senate...

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[mountaineer]

Seems to me if a man has an affair with a woman not his wife, the only ones from whom he should seek forgiveness are his wife and God.

The rest of us are free to consider him a man without honor, certainly, but he doesn't owe us an apology.

[DB]

Seems to me if a man has an affair with a woman not his wife, the only ones from whom he should seek forgiveness are his wife and God.

The rest of us are free to consider him a man without honor, certainly, but he doesn't owe us an apology.

He does if he lies to you about it asking for your trust and vote.

[DB]

I've contended all along that the majority of Trump's supporters would have been more enamored with him had just said, "ya, I did that porn star...". He'd be an even bigger hero to them. "He's the man banging porn stars, how cool is that!". He's their champion...

And somehow he deluded himself that lying about it was going to work... All it did was make a bigger fool of him in full public view.

[endicom]

Admitting to what is assumed to be so changes nothing with regards to public perception or the existence of any impeachable offenses.

Therefore...WUT?

[mystery-ak]

Opinion
Trump’s best bet to survive: Come clean about the payoffs

By Rich Lowry

August 23, 2018 | 7:53pm

If it wasn’t obvious before, it should be now: President Trump is in an impeachment fight.

It hasn’t fully ripened yet. That won’t happen unless Democrats take the House and do so with a healthy margin in the fall. But Michael Cohen’s statement that he committed campaign-finance violations at the behest of Trump makes it that much more likely Democrats will impeach him once they have the power and the votes to do it.

This means Trump is in a political fight more than a legal one. His concern shouldn’t be the Southern District of New York — current Justice Department guidance says a sitting president can’t be indicted — but the House Judiciary Committee. His strategy shouldn’t be aimed at convincing prosecutors that he stayed on the right side of the law, but the broader public that he deserves to stay in office.

The most powerful tool that he has in that effort is telling the truth, exactly the approach most uncongenial to him.

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https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/trumps-best-bet-to-survive-come-clean-about-the-payoffs/

[skeeter]

Good ol' soft & squishy Rich Lowry.

[INVAR]

Opinion
Trump’s best bet to survive: Come clean about the payoffs

And who would believe him and why should we??

The man is a notorious congenital liar, just like his Democrat predecessors.

He has already lied about paying off the porn star he banged - so why should we believe anything else he has to say about it? 

or anything for that matter?

[Wingnut]

He does if he lies to you about it asking for your trust and vote.

Throwing a hump or three into a hooker and a stripper and having it public knowledge is an asset.   

[INVAR]

Throwing a hump or three into a hooker and a stripper and having it public knowledge is an asset.

That used to be true of only liberal Democrats.

Now it's a resume enhancer if you run for office in any party apparently.

Which is an indictment of We The People ourselves.

[Absalom]

Good ol' soft & squishy Rich Lowry.

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Indeed.
I knew Bill Buckley who would have kicked this schmuck out the door!