So Trump is going through with his threat to hold the Republican Convention at the White House. And it appears that the Republican party is all in and it’s going to be treated as perfectly normal by the press. They will be making partisan pitch after partisan pitch, asking for money, extolling the Republican party, basically turning the people’s house into even more of a Republican whorehouse than it already is.
You cannot make this stuff up, you really can’t.
I’m so old I remember when Republicans had full-blown hissy fits when Bill Clinton invited big money supporters to sleep over in the White House. They demanded an independent prosecutor, saying “Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes.”
The venerable New York Times said at the time:
“Using the White House and Camp David for sleepovers has tarred the presidency and cheapened institutions that should be above political advantage.”
Of course, George W. Bush did the same thing, but nobody said anything because … terrorism, I guess. Now we have Trump literally holding his political convention at the White House. And there’s no doubt the taxpayers will be picking up some of the tab. How could we not? It’s his house and we just pay for it.