A bombshell New York Times "fake" news op-ed from the ultra right, blasting President Trump, showed up in my online news feed this morning:
Joe Walsh: Trump Needs a Primary Challenge
The case for a contender from the right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/joe-walsh-trump-primary.html?fbclid=IwAR00PF7KHxKWMJ11tYgIlygH3cv2SP7dPvfUDH2PDfpGAkHtTn1JLziAbZcIn his repentance, nationally-syndicated conservative talk show host Tea Party member and former U.S. Congressman Joe Walsh rips President Trump to shreds.
Excerpts:
There’s a strong case for President Trump to face a Republican
primary challenger. I know a thing or two about insurgencies. I entered
Congress in 2011 as an insurgent Tea Party Republican. My goals were
conservative and clear: restrain executive power and reduce the debt. Barack
Obama was president then, and it was easy for us to rail against runaway
spending and executive overreach.
Eight years later, Mr. Trump has increased
the deficit more than $100 billion year over year — it’s now nearing $1
trillion — and we hear not a word of protest from my former Republican
colleagues. He abuses the Constitution for his narcissistic trade war. In
private, most congressional Republicans oppose the trade war, but they don’t
say anything publicly. But think about this: Mr. Trump’s tariffs are a tax
increase on middle-class Americans and are devastating to our farmers. That’s
not a smart electoral strategy.
Fiscal matters are only part of it. At the
most basic level, Mr. Trump is unfit for office. His lies are so numerous —
from his absurd claim that tariffs are “paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us,” to
his prevarication about his crowd sizes, he can’t be trusted.
In Mr. Trump, I see the worst and ugliest
iteration of views I expressed for the better part of a decade. To be sure,
I’ve had my share of controversy. On more than one occasion, I questioned Mr.
Obama’s truthfulness about his religion. At times, I expressed hate for my
political opponents. We now see where this can lead. There’s no place in our
politics for personal attacks like that, and I regret making them.
I didn’t vote for Mr. Trump in 2016 because
I liked him. I voted for him because he wasn’t Hillary Clinton. Once he was
elected, I gave him a fair hearing, and tried to give him the benefit of the
doubt. But I soon realized that I couldn’t support him because of the danger he
poses to the country, especially the division he sows at every chance,
culminating a few weeks ago in his ugly, racist attack on four minority
congresswomen.
The fact is, Mr. Trump is a racial arsonist
who encourages bigotry and xenophobia to rouse his base and advance his
electoral prospects. In this, he inspires imitators.
Republicans should view Mr. Trump as the
liability that he is: No matter his flag-hugging,
or his military parades, he’s no patriot. In front of the world, he sides with
Vladimir Putin over our own intelligence community. That’s dangerous. He
encouraged Russian interference in the 2016 election, and he refuses to take
foreign threats seriously as we enter the 2020 election. That’s reckless. For
three years, he has been at war with our federal law enforcement and
intelligence agencies, as he embraces tyrants abroad and embarrasses our
allies. That’s un-American.
And despite what his enablers claim, Mr.
Trump isn’t a conservative. He’s reckless on fiscal issues; he’s incompetent on
the border; he’s clueless on trade; he misunderstands executive power; and he
subverts the rule of law. It’s his poor record that makes him most worthy of a
primary challenge.
Mr. Trump has taken the legitimate
differences that Americans have on policy and turned them into personal
division. He’s caused me to change my tone and to reflect upon where I went
over the line and to focus on policy differences moving forward.
We now have a president who retweets
conspiracy theories implicating his political opponents in Jeffrey Epstein’s
death. We now have a president who does his level best to avoid condemning
white supremacy and white nationalism.
Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman, is a nationally
syndicated conservative talk radio host.
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Just my own ignorant delusional personal opinion ...
Thank you, Mr. Walsh, for taking your own personal inventory, as well as President Trump's. I wonder, though, if you are an excellent example of what happens when you are so opposed to something (Hillary Clinton) that you cannot see the massive armada of red flags waving over, around, beneath, before and behind the candidate you vote for instead?
By the way, given how much President Trump detests the New York Times, and given how far right politically you are, Mr. Walsh, I can only imagine you presented your op-ed to the Times, or God somehow managed to get it to the Times, to make a point.
By the way, given how much President Trump detests the New York Times, and given how far right politically you are, Mr. Walsh, I can only imagine you presented your op-ed to the Times, or God somehow managed to get it to the Times, to make a point.
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