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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (21325)	6/10/2017 11:45:30 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357176

“He’s just new to this,” Ryan told reporters, explaining that Trump “wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols” between the Department of Justice and the White House. The real problem isn’t that Trump is a Washington naïf, though he is. It’s that he brought his own distorted reality and warped values with him. He has yet to express a scintilla of real concern that the Russians tried to hurt our democracy and alter the will of American voters. At the press conference Friday, he reiterated his ridiculous contention that the Russia scandal is a red herring, even now that everyone agrees that it is real. “That was an excuse by the Democrats who lost an election that some people think they shouldn’t have lost, because it’s almost impossible for the Democrats to lose the Electoral College, as you know,” Trump said. “You have to run up the whole East Coast and you have to win everything as a Republican, and that’s just what we did.” Trump is so self-regarding that he can only process the Russia hack as an insult to him. If the Russians helped him beat Hillary, then he gets less credit. And with Comey & Co., Trump is so eager for the credit that he would rather bring himself down than allow someone else the honor. I invite you to follow me on Twitter ( @MaureenDowd)