Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Here are highlights from Stage 13 of the Tour of Spain.

Free-market capitalists trading their integrity for a bowl of economic porridge; hypocritical evangelists trading their integrity for an anti-abortion judge; anti-environmentalists trading their integrity for a bucket of coal; spineless Republican lawmakers trading their integrity for a cozy seat in Congress; die-hard know-nothings like the David Duke crowd, who have no integrity to trade:

These all share space in the crowded basket of deplorables that represent the Trump cult—fake patriots who fail to realize that the presidency is pre-eminently a place of moral decency.

“It’s not what Trump says,” they shout, “but what he does.” But Mr. Trump tweets! That’s largely what Mr. Trump does. And his voluminous tweets continually reveal his innermost thoughts, beliefs and judgments.

Mr. Trump, unwittingly, has become an artist painting an unflattering self-portrait of a childish narcissist, petulant name-caller and oftentimes complete fraud. That’s what he is—that’s his essence,

“Agere sequitur esse” (action follows being)—the age-old metaphysical axiom that means that a creature acts according to its nature. Thus it is with Donald Trump. One is quick to agree with Jonathan Chait, an American commentator, who recently wrote: “Trump repels virtue and is a magnet for sleaze . . . [he] has built an entire career knee-deep in ethical filth.” Strong words, but who can deny their truth?

ROBERT JEDRZEJEWSKI

Tarentum

The Woodward book is a scam. I don’t talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These quotes were made up. The author uses every trick in the book to demean and belittle. I wish the people could see the real facts – and our country is doing GREAT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2018

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Here are highlights from Stage 12 of the Tour of Spain.

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

This morning, at a Shell station in Arlington, Texas, I paid $2.799 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. With my Kroger card, it came to $2.699. What're y'all payin' in your neck o' the woods?

A senior White House official who wrote an anonymous op-ed piece in The New York Times says we should not worry, because “Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.”

This official dismisses impeachment and removal from office, because “no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis.” The “adults in the room” are willing to allow a man dangerously unfit to be president to continue to have his finger on the nuclear button, with the power to single-handedly destroy all of civilization. A man whose “impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions” should be allowed to continue his presidency because he did, after all, give huge tax breaks to the rich and to corporations, and he has deregulated everything he could?

Truly spectacular partisanship allows this senior White House official to risk life on our planet in order to enable the hard-core ideologues of the Republican Party to continue their quest to destroy democracy in America.

— Tom DeCoursey, Oak Park

The Deep State and the Left, and their vehicle, the Fake News Media, are going Crazy – & they don’t know what to do. The Economy is booming like never before, Jobs are at Historic Highs, soon TWO Supreme Court Justices & maybe Declassification to find Additional Corruption. Wow!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 6, 2018

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