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Trump Wonders Why Bob Woodward Didn’t Do More to Save Lives in Ridiculous Twitter Rant

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In one of the most perverse twists of logic, Trump spent his morning today trying to demonstrate that he answered Woodward’s questions perfectly (or at least normally) by saying that if his answers were so terrible, Woodward would have come out with them months ago.

There is little doubt that Woodward should have come out with at least some of the information months ago. However, we should acknowledge that Woodward likely had a contract with his publisher than none of the stories would be released prior to the week before publication – when books always go through a publicity phase. Woodward did have an opportunity to break the contract and possibly spare the country a lot of misery, but that’s not something Trump would ever have done. Hearing Trump say “but he would have” is completely bizarre.

We realize it’s very subtle (not!) but see if you can pick up a flaw in the logic here:

First of all, Woodward may have had a moral obligation to come forward but he was certainly no more obligated to come forward than Trump – who is in office – and the failure to come forward doesn’t make anything about Trump’s plan “good and proper.” Trump seems to think that the disaster here is how Trump “answered” some questions. No, the disaster is that the answers themselves give away his attitude and approach. He is willing to lie to the American people in order to calm the markets and economy. When it comes to black people, he very much wants white suburban America to panic.

Americans saw right through this:

And lest anyone be under the impression that any of this could have any impact on the true MAGA heads, well, one couldn’t be more wrong. It is good, however, to know that nothing will chip away at the true cult, only around the outer edges.

He is on tape saying it is very serious, and that he wants to downplay it. The MAGAs “fact-check” it and it’s “wrong.” Nothing can penetrate their bubble.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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