The New York Times reports:
Even by President Trump’s standards, it was a rampage: He attacked a government whistle-blower who was telling Congress that the coronavirus pandemic had been mismanaged. He criticized the governor of Pennsylvania, who has resisted reopening businesses. He railed against former President Barack Obama, linking him to a conspiracy theory and demanding he answer questions before the Senate about the federal investigation of Michael T. Flynn.
And Mr. Trump lashed out at Joseph R. Biden Jr., his Democratic challenger. In an interview with a sympathetic columnist, Mr. Trump smeared him as a doddering candidate who “doesn’t know he’s alive.” The caustic attack coincided with a barrage of digital ads from Mr. Trump’s campaign mocking Mr. Biden for verbal miscues and implying that he is in mental decline.
In many respects Mr. Trump’s approach to the 2020 election looks like a crude approximation of the way he waged the 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton, attacking her personal ethics, often in false or exaggerated terms; taking Mrs. Clinton’s admitted errors and distorting them with the help of online disinformation merchants; and making wild claims about her physical health and mental capacity for the job.
Read the full article.
And that brings us to the latest from Junior.
Lots in our story on all that Trump is hurling at Biden—including a wave of F’book ads painting him as senile—and the president’s son is now suggesting the former VP is a pedophile >>https://t.co/Kv570T5tVo pic.twitter.com/H33RrlOIdV
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) May 16, 2020
It’s like his dad throwing out daily claims of felony and corruption, Don does this stuff so routinely it’s barely noticed.
Whereas if George W Bush in ‘92 or Karenna Gore in ‘00 associated their dads’ opponents w pedophila it would be a week-long story.
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) May 16, 2020
Here’s the @DonaldJTrumpJr response, which echoes his father’s Houdini efforts:
a stab at ‘just joking around about accusing the former vp of pedophila’ followed by recitation of the original charge >https://t.co/OoCH378Gxd
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) May 16, 2020
1. The 3 ? emojis in the caption should indicate to anyone with a scintilla of common sense that I’m joking around.
2. If the media doesn’t want people mocking & making jokes about how creepy Joe is, then maybe he should stop the unwanted touching & keep his hands to himself? https://t.co/Jy98aq6yWD pic.twitter.com/Kcr9jdPSbC
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 16, 2020