If you’re Donald Trump, you spend your evenings wandering around in a bathrobe, mumbling the names of your enemies. It’s what you do. And as the sun rises, the fevered imaginings of the night burst out to start another day of delusional rage.
Actually, Blumenthal served six years in the Marines during the Vietnam War, though he was never in combat. Meanwhile, Trump, the “healthiest candidate ever to run for president” was down with a case of bone spurs—one that lasted just long enough to net him a medical deferment, before never bothering him again. But of course, Trump did fight in his own war by having a lot of sex.
"It's Vietnam," added Trump. "It is very dangerous. So I'm very, very careful."
But that’s just the first part of Trump’s morning attack. How did Blumenthal “misrepresent” Gorsuch? He quoted Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court as saying that the Muslim ban is both "demoralizing" and "disheartening." A lie … right? No. The truth.
A member of the Supreme Court nomination team escorting Gorsuch through the get-acquainted meetings also confirmed the remarks to NPR's Tamara Keith.
It's not that Gorsuch was reluctant to share this opinion, or that Blumenthal was the only one to note it.
Trump’s version of reality doesn’t allow for the idea that someone on “his team” might actually disagree with him. About anything.
But even Neil Gorsuch, who started a “Fascism Forever” club because he felt the Jesuit instructors at his exclusive prep school were too liberal, finds Trump’s actions unacceptable.
"He certainly expressed to me that he is disheartened by the demoralizing and abhorrent comments made by President Trump about the judiciary."
But Trump isn’t bothered that his actions are “abhorrent” or that his statements are simply wrong. He’s still focused on making a personal attack against Blumenthal.
By that logic, every interview with Trump should ask him about his fortuitous medical deferment handed out by a doctor famous for writing rich kids get-out-of-Vietnam-free notes. Those interviews might also ask Trump about the lies he told about his draft number. Or the the way his story on the subject has changed over and over.
If Trump is interviewed and someone doesn’t about all the lies he’s told, it’s fake news. That’s not a bad rule at all.
