No, he wasn’t talking about the insurrection
Trump called up a golf reporter yesterday to chew the fat about the sport and other things. Some excerpts.
And then came the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. To say they impacted the professional golf schedule is beyond trite — but they did. Trump said he heard about the PGA’s decision from his son Eric, who runs the golf business of the Trump Organization. “My son, who’s a great guy, called,” Trump said. “My son said, ‘Dad, they’re canceling the PGA Championship [at Trump Bedminster]. I said, ‘That’s terrible. Really? Are you serious?’ He said, ‘Yeah, they’re canceling it. Can you believe it?’ I said, ‘Not really. Let me think about that. That’s something.’
“And then I had to get back to work and China and all this stuff, Russia, the country. But it’s a hell of a thing when you hear that.
Right. He was working on China and Russia after January 6th. He hadn’t been working on anything but trying to overturn the election since election day.
And, by the way, he wasn’t supposed to be doing anything with his business while he was in the White House. Of course, we already know that wasn’t true. He tried to book the G8 into his Doral golf resort!
“I’ll tell you this,” Trump said. “If you took a poll inside the PGA, the 28,000 members of the PGA of America, I’d be 97 percent, I believe. I’d be way up there. And people are really angry at what the PGA did to me by taking that tournament away. And I had nothing to do with January 6th. They’d be very angry at what they did.
“I — meaning my people — told Nancy Pelosi on January 3rd that I think there’s a big crowd coming. I think you should have 10,000 soldiers wrapped around the Capitol or in the Capitol. And she said, ‘No, it won’t be a good look.’
“And that was up to her because she’s in charge of the security. So if you had had a thousand soldiers, Michael, you wouldn’t have had January 6th. And she’s the one that turned it down because she’s in charge of security. I had nothing to do with January 6th, but [the PGA of America] used that.”
This is going to be the defense. And the Trump’s minions in the House have already said they plan to do a January 6th Committee of their own to “investigate” Pelosi’s failure to secure the Capitol to prevent Trump’s supporters from trying to kill his Vice President. They don’t have have to even try to make sense anymore.
And you have to love this one:
Some of Trump’s comments have been lightly edited for clarity. “Clean it up a little bit because sometimes when I’m discussing things with a reporter, I speak differently than if I’m making a speech. Then I speak perfectly,” Trump said
I wonder how many reporters he asks that of? How many agree?
And I will never get over the incessant dishonest bragging. It still makes me feel crazy that half the country thinks this guy is a great leader.