Trump can be bad all on his own â The New York Time
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The presidentâs advisers stink. Thatâs not the problem.
By Frank Bruni
Given President Trumpâs habitual insistence that heâs a victim â of partisan prosecutors, incompetent pollsters, the Federal Reserve, Norway â itâs a tribute to him that Republicans are identifying yet another clique of malefactors doing him wrong: Heâs being undermined by his own accomplices. Theyâre doling out âbad advice.â
That was the precise phrase â the exact verdict â rendered by Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma in an interview on CNN about the killing of Alex Pretti and the brutality of ICE agents in Minneapolis. Stitt acknowledged âdeep concerns over federal tactics and accountability.â But he also insisted that the presidentâs priorities regarding immigration and border security were right. Itâs just that Trump was âgetting bad advice right now.â
Other Republicans delivered the same message by focusing intently on the sins of Kristi Noem, the nationâs homeland security secretary, and the callousness of Gregory Bovino, the senior Border Patrol official who egged on the governmentâs masked gunmen â until he was given a timeout last week. They botched the mission. Debased the president.
What a joke. You canât dishonor someone who has no honor to begin with. You canât humiliate someone who so consistently and thoroughly humiliates himself.
But thatâs just the start of the âbad adviceâ bunk.
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