When it comes to Donald Trump and his coterie of spokespeople and advisers, it sometimes seems as if they’re all living in an alternate universe where everything is beyond recognition or reason.
A perfect example occurred this morning on Fox News, when incoming Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer decided it would be a good idea to lecture civil rights icon John Lewis on the issue of equality. Spicer began by telling the moronic hosts on Fox and Friends that Trump would be meeting with Martin Luther King III:
“To talk about the legacy of Dr. King, ways that we can continue to enfranchise people and advocate for more people to be part of the voting process and further the legacy that Dr. King fought so hard for.”
A good start might be Trump telling the states with restrictive voter ID laws to repeal those barriers to increased voter participation, but Spicer didn’t bother to address that issue. Instead, he decided he would talk about how disappointed he was in John Lewis saying he doesn’t consider Trump to be a legitimate president:
“I think what’s disappointing is someone like John Lewis, who is such an icon of voting rights and civil rights, to make a comment about the legitimacy of an election, something that he’s fought so hard to create the integrity of, to talk about delegitimizing an election.”
So he should just suck it up and not concern himself with the fact that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign to help guarantee victory, Sean? Because that’s what you’re really saying.
And then Spicer issued what sounded like a threat to anyone who might dare criticize Donald Trump or his harebrained policies:
“But make no mistake. If someone is going to attack the president-elect, whether he’s going to attack him or this country or American workers, Donald Trump is leaving a successful business to fight for this country to fight for American workers. And he’s not going to sit back and let people take potshots.”
Is that right, Sean? Then allow me a moment to say that you and your boss–who is clearly an agent of Russia–can go jump in a lake and screw yourselves sideways. How’s that for a potshot? I await your reply.
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