Today's Bad News for Donald Trump
There are a couple of choices but I'm going with how it increasingly looks like Rudy Giuliani is in legal trouble. Yesterday, it seemed like Trump was going to drop Rudy as his lawyer and start claiming he barely knew the guy. Today, he looks like he's decided he's stuck with him.
Today's Outrage by Donald Trump
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi, is being quoted as having told a senior American diplomat, "You have given up on us. You are leaving us to be slaughtered. You are not willing to protect the people, but you do not want another force to come and protect us. You have sold us. This is immoral." And indeed, the slaughter seems to be starting.
Bonus Article About Donald Trump
Here's an odd article by Alexander Hurst which compares ceasing to be a Trump supporter with fleeing from a cult. The author tells us a lot of interesting things about cults and the mentality of those who people them but he doesn't convince me it's that bad with most who voted for Donald and would again. There are those in this country who simply prefer the right-wing agenda and if Trump's the guy who's going to put it in power, fine. That's all they want him for.
If someone else could give them the same "win" without the pathological crap and the shady business history and the pussy-grabbing and insulting Bruce Springsteen, fine. What I think Trump fears most now is that some Republican — maybe Romney — is going to mount a credible campaign to offer the Trump agenda without Trump, and a lot of Trump voters will flee to that person. Once he starts looking like a loser — and he's lost a lot lately and been acting like a panicked loser — he's of no use to them. Cult leaders don't worry like that.