Eric Trump has an … interesting definition of courage. Picking up his father’s line of humble-bragging about Donald nobly having refrained from making an irrelevant attack on Hillary Clinton over her husband’s past infidelity out of respect for Chelsea, Qusay Trump continued:
He continued, “I mean, he really took the high ground where he had the opportunity to go very, very low. And I’m proud of him for doing that. I mean, I’m really proud of him for doing that. And I think people recognize that. I mean, there are a lot of people who came up to me, including many in the media, who said listen, he could’ve just crushed her on that last question. And he would’ve probably hurt a family if he did.
“I don’t know, I think that took a lot of courage in so many regards and I think he really answered that well and took the high ground and kept the high road.”
Courage? It takes courage to steer a quarter inch clear of an old-news attack that’s likely to backfire on you? To say nothing of the idea that repeatedly pointing out that you could have said something, while your surrogates lavish you with praise for not quite having said the thing you could have said—you know the one, wink wink nudge nudge—is a high road.
But I think we should take Qusay as an expert on his father and consider that it really did take courage for Donald to refrain from spelling it all the way out. What does that say about him? He’s so weak it actually scares him not to lash out with a low blow? He thinks almost doing the right thing is frightening? If we take this use of the word courage seriously, it’s a disturbing new angle on a psyche that was already disturbing enough.
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