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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue May 16, 2017, 02:35 PM May 2017

Robinson: Trump has worn out reset button; this is who he is

The appalling truth about the Trump administration can be found in something the late Maya Angelou once said to Oprah Winfrey: “My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them? Why must you be shown 29 times before you can see who they really are?”

The chaos and dysfunction we have seen since Jan. 20 constitute, I fear, the new normal. Anyone holding out hope for some magical transition from lunacy into sanity will surely be disappointed. President Trump has shown the nation who he is.

There are leading Republicans, people whose integrity I respect, who have been telling me since the inauguration that the administration is on the cusp of settling down and that Trump is starting to appreciate the solemnity of his new role. One such person who is in regular contact with the president told me the administration had “finally hit the reset button” — just days before Trump rashly fired FBI Director James Comey in an act compared to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.” Trump’s honorable well-wishers are in denial.

Other supporters, including most Republican members of Congress, are being dangerously cynical. With majorities in both chambers, they hope to use Trump to enact a far-right agenda of huge tax cuts for the wealthy, massive reductions in government aid for the poor and across-the-board deregulation. To get what they want, they are willing to pretend the emperor is wearing clothes.

http://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/robinson-trump-has-worn-out-reset-button-this-is-who-he-is/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=7d9d9737cb-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-7d9d9737cb-228635337

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