Trump's repellant inner circle - By MICHAEL GERSON

[kpete]

Consider this list of Trump’s chosen: Former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had a brutal and demeaning style that resulted in a staff revolt, and his manhandling of a female reporter overshadowed the Trump campaign for weeks. Former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was paid lucrative consulting fees by foreign interests, and resigned after reports that Ukraine anti-corruption investigators were scrutinizing millions in alleged payments there.

Longtime adviser Roger Stone is a crackpot conspiracy theorist who asserts that Bill and Hillary Clinton are “plausibly responsible” for the deaths of roughly 40 people and that Hillary Clinton should be “executed for murder.” Confidante Roger Ailes recently stepped down from his job at Fox under a cloud of sexual harassment claims. And Steve Bannon, Trump’s new campaign chief executive, is known for his bullying tactics and for running a website (Breitbart News) that flirts with white nationalism.

There are a few exceptions to this pattern – Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence come to mind – but Trump has hired and elevated some of the very worst people in American politics, known for their cruelty, radicalism, prejudice and corruption.

What does all this say about Trump as a prospective president?

the rest:

http://www.hutchnews.com/opinion/columnists/trump-s-repellant-inner-circle/article_0a6355cb-17bf-5903-8650-b2614ac32ff9.html

[KittyWampus]

1. It's a Rouge's Gallery, for certain.

[madinmaryland]

3. It's a red gallery? I'm thinking that it's more rogue than rouge.

Just kidding!!

[KittyWampus]

5. Thanks for catching that! LOL

[Divine Discontent]

2. What it says is

He's nuckin nuts!


http://cafepress.com/hillaryforamerica2016

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Breitbart News didn't "flirt" with the alt-right. They EMBRACED the alt-right.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Call it what it is: White Supremacy. Calling it "white nationalism" is sugar coating shit. . . nt

[awoke_in_2003]

8. +1. nt

[catbyte]

7. And Don the Con is assuring America that he "will hire only the best people", despite all evidence

to the contrary. His pathetic, incompetent campaign tells me everything I need to know about what a clusterfuck a Trump presidency would be.

[many a good man]

9. Sounds like the cast of a Reality TV Series pilot

Celebrity Loser

[central scrutinizer]

10. His "Doctor" would make a great

Surgeon General

[UTUSN]

11. Objection! Kellyanne Fitzpatrick CONWAY and PENCE aren't better than the rest.

I don't remember the specifics about the then Kellyanne FITZPATRICK, but back in the '90s she and her cohort Barbara OLSON were as scurrilous in their hateful wingnuttiness as Laura INGRAHAM and COULTERgeist are today. Perhaps CONWAY has smoothed out her delivery through the years of practice and application, but it just goes to prove that the vaunted "communicator" RAYGUN was simply the product of a movie training machine.