2016 Oct 15^th

Trump’s problems are compounding at a splendid rate: Yesterday on Morning Joe Dr. Ben Carson, one of Trump’s most loyal, if often badly confused surrogates, was interviewed about the new accusations of sexual indecencies by his hero, Donald Trump. Dr. Carson is not easily fooled; he has recognized, and publicly stated, that evolution is literally the work of the devil to discredit God. One would think that with a mind like that Carson could immediately spot subterfuge in any comments by Trump’s detractors.

Katty Kay, a BBC reporter, was one of Scarborough’s guests and she asked Carson if he believed the women who had just, in the last few days, accused Trump of groping them. Carson, apparently not given to quick thinking, began a discourse on something else. She interrupted him and asked again, “Do you believe these women? Yes or no please.” Now Carson is becoming very agitated because Scarborough chimes in as well asking for an answer to the same question. Everyone is talking at once but Carson can be heard over the bedlam saying, “Cut off her microphone.” It seems he cannot tolerate a woman pushing him for an answer. Scarborough was pushing him just as hard as Katty Kay but Carson focused his anger on the woman questioner. Carson never answered the question and soon left the program.

Today we have another woman claiming she was groped by Trump…and a previous victim says she is moving out of the country because of fear for her safety. A gun carrying Trump supporter spent eleven hours staring into a Democratic office in Virginia. He claimed his protest was peaceful but then why did he feel the need to display a weapon. Can we say intimidation? Trump now tells us that Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire and New York Times shareholder is a major part of the conspiracy against him. This conspiracy, he tells the faithful, is everywhere. It includes the networks. These are the same networks that broadcast his frequent rallies, who provide reporters to cover those rallies. Now Trump says the reporters are complicit in the conspiracy against him. It has gotten bad enough that the reporters have to have a police escort away from these events to keep from being attacked by Trump’s fans.

Perhaps the answer to Trump’s obvious paranoia is to stop televising his rallies and for news organizations to stop sending their reporters to cover him and provide him with targets for abuse.

Jessica Leeds, now 74, told her story about being groped years ago by Trump to the point where she left her seat and retreated to the back of the plane. Lou Dobbs, who runs a business show for Fox News thought it would be a good idea to publish her email address and her phone number. He thought she had some connection to the Clinton campaign. She didn’t, and then he apologized. That apology made everything this ***** did OK. Where does Fox find these people, or does Fox convert ordinary humans into people like Dobbs.