They knew he was a snake before they let him in
by digby
This is from a National Review article of May 2016:
A friend of Donald Trump’s recently approached him to suggest that he will eventually have to release his tax returns, as every presidential nominee has for decades… “What will you do if the returns come out as part of an October surprise?” Trump was asked. Trump pondered the question and replied, “I’ll say they aren’t mine.”
That stunning answer is the essence of Donald Trump. “It’s exactly what I’d expect him to say,” Fox Business’s Charlie Gasparino, who has known Trump for decades, told me.
At the time National Review was 100% Never Trump. Today, not so much. Rich Lowry is team Trump most of the time.