Originally posted by: cjen
Tom, good question, I don't know why they don't reveal themselves now.
Charles, my bad, I should have put a comma after the word president, and post "it would show" instead of a definitive sounding "it shows". Grammatical error.
I hope we all agree that time will tell, whether anonymous is a partisan hack with an agenda, or that the Trump administration is questioning the competency of the president. If the latter is true, Will the republicans continue to defend the president? What would it take for you personally to change your stance on the president?
What if he IS "a partisan hack with an agenda" (which would certainly be a value judgment)? If his reporting is accurate, what does it matter? If Person A reports a crime committed by Person B, it doesn't matter how Person A feels about Person B--what will be considered is the evidence.
There's already far, far more evidence, and the testimony of dozens of people, that Trump's staff questions his competency and in fact, goes to great lengths to correct his mistakes when they can and keep information from him when showing it to him might have consequences.
Will Republicans continue to defend the President? Yes, up to but not past the point where doing so damages their own personal political interests. So far, they're holding the party line. That can change in a hurry, though, as it did with Nixon. But the Republican Party is much more radical and clings to orthodoxy much more than in 1975.
Our Trumpers would defend Trump even if he sold Alaska back to the Russians and raped an entire Girl Scout troop on the White House lawn. There is literally nothing he could say or do that would break their slavish loyalty. After all, they know (however they may try to deny it) that he's a criminal, a crook, a con man, a serial liar, a traitor, a rapist, and perhaps worst of all---an incompetent idiot. Despite all that, they continue to line up to lick his balls. What else could Trump possibly do that would cross the line for them? There is no such line!