Remember the famous Hillary Clinton line about Trump’s
supporters being “deplorable people” and the backlash it created among his
supporters? President Trump’s backtracking of his statements made
at Helsinki with Putin may have even surpassed Clinton’s. After President
Trump realized that throwing the entire U.S. under the bus for President Putin
was imbecilic, he attempted to still justify this faux pas by tweeting
Wednesday morning, "So many people at the higher ends of intelligence
loved my press conference performance in Helsinki.”
So is Trump saying, if you thought he really screwed up by
denying every U.S. Intelligence Agencies’ findings that the Russians hacked
into our electoral cyberspace, you are somewhat lacking in intelligence? Even
Fox News was critical of Trump’s condescending and erratic performance echoing
the other Trump-labeled “fake news” outlets.
I always thought standing up for your country was a sign of
patriotism; guess I am just being dumb according to our Commander in Chief.
Trump’s opinion of just how dumb I really am is further
reinforced by his attempted backtracking of his aberrant Helsinki behavior,
namely that he misspoke. He claimed he misspoke by using the word
“would” for “wouldn’t” in his statement regarding Russian cyber hacking.
In front of the entire world President Trump stated
regarding a question about the reports of Russian cyber hacking, “My people
came to me… they said they think it’s Russia. I have President
Putin. He just said it’s not Russia. I will say
this. I don’t see any reason why it would be
Russia.” A day later in a tweet, which was not on display
throughout the entire world, he said he meant to say “wouldn’t be
Russia.”
If you believe any of this, I am embarrassed for you.
Luckily President Trump doesn’t lead combat missions
abroad. I have this picture in my mind that our troops are approaching a
village inhabited by peaceful villagers and Trump says, “If you see anyone in
your view, do fire.” After all the peaceful villagers are killed
and his superiors ask why his platoon killed all the villagers, Trump replies,
“I meant to say don’t fire. Granted this is an absurd example, but
cited to make my point.
At the Helsinki Summit I truly
believe President Trump, at the time, said exactly what he meant to say because
I can’t recall any such misspoken admissions by Trump regarding any of the
other often bizarre things he has previously espoused.
For the moment President Trump is seen as Putin’s puppet
worldwide and, thanks to our President, one of the world’s most devious
and ruthless dictators has come off as someone U.S. citizens should trust over
our country’s own intelligence agencies.
However, as Trump boldly stated during one of his campaign
speeches in Iowa, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and
shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” To all President Trump’s
loyal supporters, President Trump doesn’t misspeak.
