If you work for Trump, quit now - By Ruth Marcus

[DonViejo]

By Ruth Marcus
Deputy editorial page editor, columnist
July 16 at 2:46 PM

Everyone who works for President Trump: Quit now. Save your souls. Save your honor, such as it is. Save your reputation, such as it remains. Russia attacked our democracy. Trump has demonstrated repeatedly, and did so again with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, that he doesn’t care and won’t defend his country.

If you work for this man and you call yourself a patriot, it is time for you to go.

This may sound excessive, even irresponsible. Indeed, for months I have agonized over the question of public service in the age of Trump.

Of course, as a general matter, it is better to have more grown-ups around Trump, mitigating his worst impulses, providing wisdom born of experience to counter his ignorance and petulance. But that assessment assumes facts not in evidence: that Trump is educable or containable. Actually, it contravenes the available evidence. There is none that Trump has done anything but what Trump wants to do. Monday’s news conference made that clear.

Extreme times call for extreme measures, and these are the extreme-est of times.

A foreign adversary — not a competitor, as Trump would have it, an adversary — mounted a sustained and multifront assault on the presidential election, specifically to help elect Trump. We knew this before Friday’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers for hacking into Democratic computers and emails to help secure Trump’s election.

So I would ask those who continue to serve Trump: What is the impact and message of your continued presence? Are you mitigating Trump’s excesses or enabling them?

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1. Now

Now

There is nothing else to do, resign and make a public statement