Oh, that Donald Trump! Sometimes he says such awful things! Just awful! So awful, in fact, that poor Charles W. Cooke, online editor for the National Review, can’t bring himself to say what the awful Mr. Trump actually said. In a post titled “Trump v. Trump” (rather than, perhaps, “Donald Trump is an utterly disgusting human being”), Mr. Cooke offers the following comment (full text):
Another theory for why Joe Biden stops working at 9:30 a.m. and spends much of his time in his house is that his opponent, President Trump, spends much of his time saying ridiculous and execrable things such as this.
The “such as this” link takes you to a BBC piece titled “US election: Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power”, in which the president, when asked if he would “consent” to a peaceful transfer of power after the November election, replied “"Well, we'll have to see what happens. You know that." The article also quoted Trump as saying “I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster,” later adding “Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very - you'll have a very peaceful - there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation.”
Pretty ridiculous and execrable, right? “Funny” that poor Mr. Cooke “finds himself” in bed with such slavering Trump fans as Victor Davis Hanson and Conrad Black. When you lie down with dogs, Mr. Cooke. When you lie down with dogs.
