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In 2016, Donald Trump promised to "only hire the best people." By 2018, he was openly trashing most of them. What Trump demands is absolute personal loyalty. Not to the office, not to the country, but to him.
When Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds endorsed fellow governor Ron DeSantis, Trump issued a statement that said, "Two extremely disloyal people getting together is, however, a very beautiful thing to watch." Kneel before Zod, peasants.
In the past two weeks, three high-profile individuals associated with the Trump campaign have engaged in various levels of bad behavior that has been met with absolute silence.
First, Laura Loomer, the self-styled "investigative journalist" whom Don Jr. has been promoting as his father's next press secretary, doxxed Riley Gaines for endorsing DeSantis. Gaines appeared at a DeSantis event and was compensated for her travel and expenses and that was reported to the FEC. Loomer, who sticks her head up Trump's rear for free, tried to paint this as a scandal and published Gaines' home address on X (formerly Twitter), exposing her to Antifa and the rest of the transgender crazies.
Then last week, convicted felon and still Trump advisor, Roger Stone called Casey DeSantis the "C" word. Not illegal, of course, but crude and an indication of the contempt Trump & Co. have for women. That she is a loyal wife, a mother of young children, and a cancer survivor is just icing on that crap cake.
Last night, it was reported that Ryan Fournier, a co-founder of Students for Trump, was arrested for pistol-whipping his girlfriend. I guess we should be grateful that he didn't use the business end of that gun on her.
We could hope that the other co-founder of Students for Trump will take up the slack. Oh, wait. That guy was John Lambert, and back in 2021, he was sentenced to 13 months in prison for fraud, pretending to be a New York City attorney and bilking people out of thousands of dollars. He's still working out his supervised release and may not be available.
Only the best people. And as long as you bend the knee you're A-Okay.
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Lotta guilt-by-association there.
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And how hard would it be to disassociate?
That's the whole point, Drew. There is nothing too disgusting for Trump and Trumpland that it cannot be excused or ignored provided the perp shows the proper level of fealty.
"You must denounce!" is a demand that leftists always make, built on the foundation of "guilt by association."
I mean, if you want to go there, sure. Don't be surprised when people decline to play this game.
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When you make it a point to repeatedly assert that you only surround yourself with the best people, you invite both guilt and praise based on those associations.
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That’s become the whole basis for our decent into nastiness. We must not be decent human beings because decency is weakness. Assault with a deadly weapon? Do you love Trump? Then it’s all good!
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