It is blatant hypocrisy on parade, again. Donald Trump’s recent outrageous and dangerous campaign rant about our NATO allies is further evidence — as if we needed any — of his being increasingly unhinged and detached from reality.
His notorious business career is a densely littered field of workers, contractors, investors, and other stakeholders he has not paid for what they have done. Many of his business ventures have declared bankruptcy and left people he owed money holding the bag. And yet, he would encourage his role model, Vladimir Putin, to invade NATO countries that have not fully paid what they owe in support of NATO. That is so far beyond hypocrisy that I don’t know if there is even a word for it. Well, maybe I do: Donald Trump.
I should be shocked by all this, but I’m not. It’s all too familiar. I am deeply angered, however, and terrified of the consequences if he wins a second term. And this is just one of the nightmare scenarios in which the most powerful nation in the world is hijacked again by a malevolent narcissist whose moral compass only points toward whatever strokes his all-consuming ego and benefits him personally the most.
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Letter: Trump not fit for leadership
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