At a recent press conference, a news correspondent asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt who selected Budapest, the home of right-wing leader Viktor Orbán, as the site for a meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Leavitt’s reply was as concise as it was juvenile: “Your mom did.”
The fusion of imperial prerogative with adolescent snark is telling. There was no need to plant stories in the media about Budapest as a desirable site for a summit, or generate some pabulum rendering its status as a right-wing hotbed with a degree of plausible deniability: just “your mom.” No data, no warrants, no evidence, just a schoolyard jape. Yet, the comment contains a world.
Bernie was right.
Hillary was an awful candidate and everyone who nominated her should feel blame for why trump won in 2016.
Sorry, no. 2016 was the Before Times, until the “grab them by the pussy” tape came out and nothing came of it.
That would have been a political career ending coffin nail at any other time. We’ve been in the upside down ever since.
… says anyone not focused on Hillary’s career before the presidency.