“60Minutes & third place anchor, @NorahODonnell, are doing everything in their power to demean our Country, much to the benefit of the Radical Left Democrats. Tonight they put on yet another Fake “Whistleblower”, a disgruntled employee who supports Dems, fabricates stories, &…spews lies. @60Minutes report was incorrect, which they couldn’t care less about. Fake News! I don’t know this guy, never met him, but don’t like what I see. How can a creep like this show up to work tomorrow & report to @SecAzar, his boss, after trashing him on T.V.?….This whole Whistleblower racket needs to be looked at very closely, it is causing great injustice & harm. I hope you are listening @SenSusanCollins I also hope that Shari Redstone will take a look at her poorly performing gang. She knows how to make things right!”
—Donald Trump tweet following the 60Minutes interview of whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright [Yet another person Trump says he “doesn’t know.”]
“It says nothing about defunding the police.”
—Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, to Donald Trump when Trump lied and said Joe Biden wants to defund the police in a 100-page charter that Biden signed with Bernie Sanders. [Finally! A member of the media calling out Trump—and a Fox News anchor at that! Trump never read 100 pages of anything in his life but nevertheless ordered his staff to fetch the charter so he could prove it to Wallace. They did and he couldn’t—because it’s not in there.]
Mr. President, You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
A timeless quote that never becomes obsolete.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Have_you_no_sense_of_decency.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch
It is a true shame our whole country cannot have a moment like this one that destroyed McCarthy. However, Trump has already done much worse than what McCarthy did here and his supporters continue to applaud him. Unbelievable…no, true.
An answer he would never give: “No. What is decency, anyhow?”
My favorite passage in one of my very favorite films (Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990) answers this question:
JUSTICE LEONARD WHITE: Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law, and the law is man’s feeble attempt to set down the principles of decency. Decency! And decency is not a deal. It isn’t an angle, or a contract, or a hustle! Decency…decency is what your grandmother taught you. It’s in your bones!”
One person in whose bones decency does not exist: Donald John Trump, POTUS
P. S. This is a great film and is as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. The book is also great, but, like Catch 22, very different in tone from the film.
Trump had no decency with which to begin. Therefore, it’s impossible for him to have any left.
Maybe Chris takes after his father a bit after all.