It’s door number one

This rant by Jake Tapper over the weekend was excellent:

.@jaketapper: As GOP officials "deal with these horrors of a president whose hideous lies are putting their election hopes in Georgia at risk, and more importantly… even putting lives at risk, it has to be asked: Did you not know who this man was when you took him in?" #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/pNoRvqIZM7

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) December 6, 2020

To be perfectly candid, one of the great challenges in covering the Trump era has been listening to public figures telling start lies. And trying to discern whether the individual is cynically, purposefully misrepresenting the truth, is misinformed and possibly incapable of understanding the facts involved, or possibly suffering from some sort of psychological issue.

In other words, are they dishonest, stupid or crazy? In Trump’s case it’s all three. But when it comes to Republican officials, it’s definitely the first. He calls it coddling and enabling and it certainly is that. But it’s more than that. They are collaborators.

The whole monologue was good ending with the clip of Trump reciting “The Snake”