So this is how Donald Trump stops the bleeding. He gets up at 3:00 am to change the media coverage and subsequent political conversation from his pathetic debate performance. Now all the opinion pieces, headlines, and commentariat chatter will yack about the awful thing he did.
And it is disgusting: He gets up in the wee hours to tweet degrading filth about a woman who criticized him and was mentioned by a political adversary in a speech. Yep, that’s pretty bad.
Imagine what President Trump might do. Call NSA and tell them to get this woman on the no-fly-list? Set the FBI on her? Maybe task the CIA to start checking around in her native country.
If that’s what he does to a woman who worked for him in a more or less one-off situation, how might he react to criticism from a political opponent. Does any Republican leader fear that BHO might call in the FBI or some super-secret domestic agency that probably exists somewhere in the executive branch. Do they stay awake at night, worrying about the NSA reporting their calls to the Prez, or having DOJ monitor their activities?
If Donald Trump stays awake to attack a woman speaking of a long-ago incident, what would he do as President? What would he do to the political opposition? Activists? Bloggers? You?
Who could a political opponent be? Democrats for sure. But recent history says Repubs should think about this — DJT never hesitated to blast fellow party members.
Conclusion: We should all be very worried about this man’s propensity to attack, excoriate, and shame people who disagree with him or who tell the truth about his character, temperament, and actions. With the power of the presidency behind him, there is a lot to fear.
His response to a poor performance — it’s way worse than the performance.