You Will Anyway: Good lord! They let Junior go on TV

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Good lord! They let Junior go on TV

President Donald Trump's oldest son suggested on Saturday that claims by Democrats of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia are ironic, since such accusations resemble McCarthyism.

"You see the Democratic senators [saying] 'This is McCarthyism.' I’m like what? You have a guy screaming, 'Russia, Russia, Russia' with no evidence," Donald Trump Jr. said during an interview with Fox News Channel's Jesse Watters Saturday night. "All this shade for 18 months, screaming about McCarthyism. I mean the irony is ridiculous at this point."

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"The problem is rather than being reasonable and coming to the table, they forced themselves further, and further and further left," Trump Jr. said during his "Watters' World" interview. "I mean, they are left of commie right now, and that's a real problem for them and I don't think that's where America was [during the 2016 election.]"

ABC

These fools actually think the problem is all a P.R. issue. And as if that is bad enough, they put their dumbest member on TV! Who are their lawyers? You'll want to know so you never hire them.

As for the controversial GOP memo released Friday alleging surveillance at the Department of Justice, Trump Jr. said the memo's release serves as "sweet justice" for his family.

Oh, my. "Totally vindicated."

"There is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and certainly probably the family in a sense that if they wouldn't have done this, this stuff would be going on," he said. "This would be going on at the highest levels of government. They'd be continuing doing it to my father, trying to undermine his actions."

Ding. Dong. Sweetie, this stuff is going on. There's a full-blown investigation. You might want to STFU.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

The only thing he's smart enough to know is that his father will pardon him. It doesn't occur to him that it's not a great badge to wear: "I tried to sell the country and my dad pardoned me." He wants to make up for those years when he hated his father for leaving the family. And he really would like to be as loved as Ivanka. What if his dad doesn't pardon him? Shafted by his own father. Again.

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