Once again, Trump says the corrupt part out loud

Source: Washington Post

Once again, Trump says the corrupt part out loud

Opinion by Greg Sargent
Columnist
7/21/2020, 10:45:09 a.m.

It is a paradox of the Trump era: Precisely because the president often unabashedly displays corrupt or sordid motives in broad daylight — and even on national television — we sometimes fail to give the admissions themselves the attention they deserve.

So it is with Trump’s new vow to send federal law enforcement into numerous cities — against the will of Democratic officials in them — which comes after federal agents already invaded Portland in defiance of the city’s mayor and the governor of Oregon.

In the course of announcing that “more” federal law enforcement will be descending on cities like Chicago, while hailing enforcement efforts to “grab” people in Portland, Trump quickly segued into a claim about the presidential race.

If Joe Biden gets elected, Trump said, “the whole country would go to hell. And we’re not going to let it go to hell.”

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Trump’s deployment of federal law enforcement into Democratic-led cities is every bit as devoted to manufacturing and sustaining a campaign attack on Biden as his manipulation of national security policy in the Ukraine scandal was. The new ad on Biden — approved by Trump himself — says the corrupt part out loud, just as he did in the White House.

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