Trump doesn’t care about the midterms? Not so fast
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Presidential lies like “Read my lips, no new taxes” and “I didn’t have sexual intercourse with that woman” are right up there.
The latest statement belongs to President Donald Trump: “I don’t care about the midterms.”
Right.
There’s a mountain of evidence that the president cares deeply about the midterms.
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One of President Donald Trump’s last major statements that he doesn’t care about the midterm elections is questionable at best. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
So why do you claim otherwise?
This was his way of saying he was above petty politics, which seems to be the only kind of politics we have these days.
It wasn’t as bad as “I don’t care about Americans’ financial problems.” But still.
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This was Trump’s way of saying that nothing is more important than preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Despite the two countries exchanging air strikes, Axios reported yesterday that the administration and the Iranians had agreed to a 60-day memorandum that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting the US blockade. Other news sources later confirmed this.
The nuclear issue, which was the main reason for going to war, would be postponed to the future.
The President said he wanted to think for a few days.
President Trump, R-Ky. He worked to remove critics such as representative Thomas Massie. (Getty Images)
As for midterm exams:
Trump has devoted enormous energy to defeating Republicans he sees as disloyal, including Thomas Massie and Bill Cassidy, and can take credit for scandal-plagued Texas Republican Ken Paxton’s elimination of incumbent senator John Cornyn.
Trump is also the driving force behind redistricting battles, which are typically an effort to pick up more GOP seats in the House at the end of each decade.
The president attacked Paxton’s Democratic rival, James Talarico:
“A strong Open Borders advocate, WEAK ON CRIME, believes there are 6 genders, insults Jesus Christ, will never support the Military… a Vegan who doesn’t like meat…” He also compared him to Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed cover boy of Mad magazine.
And you don’t care about midterms?
Talarico, who gained notoriety when CBS refused to air his interview with Stephen Colbert, is not vegan. But he made a rookie mistake by saying he ordered vegan meals for his campaign.
Paxton was impeached (and acquitted), settled federal health care fraud charges, and was accused of adultery by his soon-to-be ex-wife.
But after signing him for free, the media suddenly turned on him for what Talarico called “embarrassing comments.”
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Under questioning from CBS’ Ed O’Keefe, the Democrat was asked to explain past statements such as “God is non-binary.”
Talarico said he was being deliberately provocative, but what he meant was “God cannot be defined by human categories.”
How about saying “There are six biological variations based on chromosomes”?
In each case, Talarico tried to minimize or avoid his controversial comments.
“I certainly have some statements that I regret. There are also statements that I missed the mark. I’ll be the first to admit that. But Ken Paxton is deliberately trimming my embarrassing comments to distract from his career of corruption.”
State Rep. James Talarico, D-Texas, has been the right’s lightning rod of late. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
Trump has made several economic speeches, but many Republicans criticize him for sticking to issues like the White House ballroom and the $1.8 billion fund that will go to Jan. 6 lawbreakers, which he calls primarily unpatriotic.
The latest example: the Justice Department’s investigation of author E. Jean Carroll, who has yet to recover $88 million in sexual assault-related defamation lawsuits.
Many Americans, fed up with both parties, believe that lies are woven into the fabric of politics. And two belated confessions this week support that thesis.
First, Newt Gingrich said it was a “mistake” to accuse Bill Clinton of Monica Lewinsky, and that as speaker he knew this because of negative feedback from his daughters at the time. He still believes the former president committed perjury in the Paula Jones case, but acknowledges that Clinton left office at the height of her popularity.
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Second, after praising her husband’s confusing and incoherent argument against Trump, Jill Biden now tells “CBS Sunday Morning” that this crisis scares her:
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared the hell out of me.”
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Look, Trump said that a president’s party almost always loses seats in its sixth year, and he’s right. The combination of the Iran war and rising prices domestically is clearly not working.
But don’t you care about midterms? Oh, he cares so much.
