![]() According to the eye-popping new book “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump,” by Rick Reilly, Trump kicks his ball so often from the rough to the fairway that caddies have nicknamed him Pele, after the legendary Brazilian footballer.Īnd now we can say that Trump won at the ballot box with the wrong kind of help. He’s been caught cheating on his wives, ritually humiliating his first wife, Ivana, his third wife, Melania, and the two women’s children - Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric and Barron.Īnd, though the president denies it, it appears he cheats at golf. He’s a rich man who pays no taxes (“that makes me smart,” he says). We’ve heard about his life of deceit and absence of honor from his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Trump seems to have internalized the first rule of teen video gamers: “ Cheating is gameplay.” Most people outgrow this adolescent logic, or get flunked out of geometry class for it. You’ve proved you’re so incompetent that you can’t succeed without tilting the board.īut the cheater in the Oval Office seems to be wired for shamelessness. If you make out with your husband’s brother, consult crib notes during a math test, shortchange your employees and pad your expenses, there may be no record book to correct, but, in a working social system, you’re shamed as faithless and suspect. Cheating falls into the you-know-it-when-you-see-it family of misdeeds, a set of dishonest strategies used to gain unfair advantage in endeavors that are bound by rules, customs, principles and mores. So while Congress equivocates about the Mueller report and its implications for impeachment, voters ought to recognize a more homespun truth that it doesn’t take a degree in con law to understand. Elizabeth Warren, in her run for the Democratic nomination for president, put it best: “If he were any other person in the United States, based on what’s documented in that report, he would be carried off in handcuffs.”īut because our norms appear to be inadequate to the current catastrophe in the White House, Trump is not yet in handcuffs. Like an iron skillet to the head, the extent of Trump’s corruption seems to have stupefied voters, legal scholars and, of course, Congress, all of whom are currently at a loss for a remedy. The Mueller report amply chronicles President Trump’s staggering, decades-long crime spree.
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