Surprise! The White House is not only refusing to apologize for an aide’s crass remark about the gravely ill Sen. John McCain, but is also now turning the tables to make itself appear as the true victim.
Last week, White House press aide Kelly Sadler said that Sen. McCain’s opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel “doesn’t matter” because “he’s dying anyway.” Soon thereafter, political leaders from both sides of the aisle were quick to denounce the remark and called for an instant apology. Additionally, McCain’s daughter, Meghan, said that not only was she waiting for an apology but also news of Sadler’s firing for her deep lack of sensitivity.
Hopefully, Meghan McCain has not been holding her breath. Not only did Donald Trump blatantly refuse to apologize, but he also refused to fire Sadler. Instead, the Deflector-In-Chief declared that the statement was “a joke” and that the media should be focusing on the more serious issue of a “leak” problem inside The White House.
Yes, instead of being polite and apologizing to a family already grieving the imminent death of their patriarch, “The Donald” followed his trusty playbook and deflected by claiming that HE was the victim and not the McCain family.
“Leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!” Trump tweeted on Monday, proving that he remains under the constant delusion that he can do no wrong and that everybody else is the real problem. He is not focused on what was said, but rather that people found out about it.
The issue here is similar to an example of Trump cheating on his wife and her finding out about it. In his mind, the crime is not that he cheated but that someone told his wife. Or, in other words, his morals and standards are all crisscrossed.
“If you’re a public figure and if you’re working in the White House you should expect everything you’re saying in any context to be leaked,” Meghan McCain said. “If someone said something that egregious and intense on this show backstage, I’d expect it to be on The Daily Mail in eight seconds.”
Sadly, that sort of thought process doesn’t compute for Donald Trump. He believes that he and his people should be able to say and do anything they want and that no one should ever dare question it.
Oh, the life of being a King… in his own mind!
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The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2018
{Trump} believes that he and his people should be able to say and do anything they want and that no one should ever dare question it. […] – DJ
Yes indeed. That sums it up in a nutshell.