Trump makes his priorities clear: Republican momentum matters more than mail bombs or massacres

Donald Trump has priorities. Sure, 11 people were murdered because they were Jewish, following hard on the heels of more than a dozen politically motivated mail bombs, but what about Republican election chances?

“Now, we did have two maniacs stop a momentum that was incredible, because for seven days nobody talked about the elections,” Trump said. “It stopped a tremendous momentum.”

Trump then apparently heard himself and imagined, for a brief instant, the headlines, so he backtracked a little:

 “More importantly, we have to take care of our people, and we don’t care about momentum when it comes to a disgrace like just happened to our country. But it did nevertheless stop a certain momentum.”

We don’t care about it, we just … talk about it to an audience of supporters, as if we did care about it. And then we reiterate that it “did nevertheless stop a certain momentum.” Funny how that happens when a Trump supporter targets Trump critics with mail bombs and then Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric merges with the anti-Semitism Trump certainly hasn’t discouraged—you know, the kind that comes from “very fine people”—and is the basis for 11 murders in a house of worship. What an inexplicable shame those minor episodes not only distracted from the elections but perhaps blunted Republican momentum. 

Yet somehow this is a completely predictable response from Trump, just another measure of his narcissistic evil.

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