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By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMAY 12, 2017
... at moments of crisis .. Americans get the clearest glimpses of a presidents character, and this week they had the chance to learn a good deal about .. Trump ...
... Trumps actions and the disclosures by those close to him revealed this president to be an insecure, fearful man who cant eat or place a phone call without a backdrop of fawning aides. Rather than cultivate experienced, strong-minded advisers who might challenge his views .. Trump prefers to govern by impulse and edict, demanding absurd pledges of loyalty ..
Americans learned .. Trump gave his bodyguards opinion on the Comey matter as much weight as any advisers ... They saw that he was comfortable humiliating aides by flatly contradicting their accounts of his decision-making.
They saw .. he has a limited understanding of, or respect for, the constitutional responsibilities of public officials. During a .. dinner in the White House, in which .. Trump apparently tried and failed to extract a vow of loyalty from .. Comey, the president gave no sign of grasping the federal statute binding both men: Public service is a public trust, requiring employees to place loyalty to the Constitution, the laws and ethical principles above private gain. To .. Trump, loyalty meant abandoning an investigation into foreign interference in the last election ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/opinion/president-trump-craves-loyalty-but-offers-none.html
sheshe2
(83,833 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He has no honor.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,188 posts)...even though Spicer's very first act was to repeat verbatim Trump's bullshit about crowd size tells you all you need to know.
Goodheart
(5,334 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I dont want loyalty. I want loyalty! I want him to kiss my ass in Macys window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2010/05/quote-lyndon-baines-johnson.html