Seems that every day Trump sets a new low in behavior. A couple of days ago he fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe 24 hours before his retirement, stripping him of his earned full pension. Just a disgusting cruelty. Decency demands allowing the man his pension before firing him. Decency? Trump? Two words that cannot fit side by side.
I understand that Trump wants to discredit the Mueller investigation by discrediting one of the investigators and witnesses, Mr. McCabe. But this is just sadistic. I suppose his fans see Mr Trump as being Strong by being cruel. But I think he is just showing his weakness and sickness by being cruel.
We have many examples of Trump's cruelty. His endless humiliation and demeaning of almost all of his staff and cabinet, trying to drive them out rather than manning up and talking to them directly or firing them face to face. He shows himself to be cowardly and very unmanly in my opinion.
The first time I was shocked by Trump's astonishingly personal cruelty was when The Daily Beast published an article reporting that his first wife had claimed he had raped her in a fury when he blamed her for a bad result on a hair transplant surgery. His attack dog lawyer, Michael Cohen sent this unbelievable threat to the reporter:
“I
will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the
courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have.
And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you
possibly know,” Cohen said. “So I’m warning you, tread very fucking
lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking
disgusting. You understand me?”
“You write a story
that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to
mess your life up… for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet…
you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never
know how to get out from underneath it,” he added."
To add some credibility to this threat of personal destruction he also said:
"Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen bragged to the Daily Beast about the time he “destroy[ed]”
Monnin’s life. Attempting to intimidate a Beast reporter, Cohen said:
“Do you want to destroy your life? It’s going to be my privilege to
serve it to you on a silver platter like I did that idiot from
Pennsylvania in Miss USA.”
Cohen was referring to a $5 million lawsuit against a beauty contestant that complained that the contest was rigged - an amount a normal person like her, Sheena Monnin, had no chance of paying in her lifetime.
This guy thinks he is in a Godfather movie - The Godfather Goes to Washington.
Someday Republican lawmakers are going to have enough of this and throw him out - but they will first have to know that he is hurting them personally. It can't come soon enough.
