{"id":2957,"date":"2020-02-05T18:14:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:17:57","slug":"trump-x-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2957","title":{"rendered":"Trump x 2 = 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

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Andy Cross\/MediaNews Group\/The Denver Post via Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

Proving he is a loathesome creature (nut doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree), a tweet by Donald Trump Jr. about Senator Mitt Romney\u2019s vote to impeach Donald J. Trump Sr. shows junior’s complete lack of ethical or logical constraint.<\/p>\n

Romney had carefully explained his religion-based decision in the Senate. No one can doubt that Romney is a man of faith. But DJTjr. chose instead to substitute his own explanation, that Romney was \u201cbitter\u201d that he would never be president. This is no less than saying a man is a liar about his relationship with God.<\/p>\n

Of course, DJTjr. has no logical basis for believing he knows Sen. Romney\u2019s intentions better than Sen. Romney, except a twisted Trumpian view of the world. But logic has never been a Trump family trait.<\/p>\n

This classic Trump malignancy, like father like son, puts on display a vile moral emptiness that damages not the intended victim but the fabric of our society.<\/p>\n

Of course, Romney did<\/em> lose the election in 2012, but probably by a smaller margin than Trump if he’d<\/em> had to run against Obama. Crowds at inauguration don’t lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

Proving he is a loathesome creature (nut doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree), a tweet by Donald Trump Jr. about Senator Mitt Romney\u2019s vote to impeach Donald J. Trump Sr. shows junior’s complete lack of ethical or logical constraint.<\/p>\n

Romney had carefully explained his religion-based decision in the Senate. No one can doubt that Romney is a man of faith. But DJTjr. chose instead to substitute his own explanation, that Romney was \u201cbitter\u201d that he would never be president. This is no less than saying a man is a liar about his relationship with \u2026 Read more\u2026 → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-LH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}