Froma Harrop: Instead of shock, show resolve to throw creeps out
There were actually two shocking things about the Rob Porter story. The obvious one was that President Trump kept as his staff secretary a man known to have physically attacked both ex-wives and a former girlfriend. The other was that Hope Hicks, occupying the high-ranking job of Trump’s communications director, thought it OK to become romantically involved with Porter.
The FBI would not grant Porter a full security clearance. Outside Trump world, that would have disqualified him from having access to sensitive documents reaching the president’s desk. Some argue that Porter’s past left him vulnerable to blackmail. A simpler worry is that a psychologically screwed-up individual was serving as a right hand to a mentally unstable president.
Add in the now-dismissed chief strategist Steve Bannon, accused by one of his three ex-wives of having roughed her up. Add in David Sorensen, who just quit as one of Trump’s speechwriters after his ex-wife said she told the FBI that he had thrown her against a wall and extinguished a cigarette on her hand. You see the pattern — and without getting to Trump’s own ungentlemanly brags about grabbing women’s privates without permission.
So no, it was not shocking to hear Trump defend Porter. “As you probably know, he says he’s innocent,” Trump declared, notwithstanding graphic evidence that he isn’t.
As usual, the Catagory 4 winds of social disorder in Washington will drown out the latest howls of disapproval. That leaves one remedy: to vote Trump’s enablers out of office and eventually the grabber himself.
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