Trump tells soldiers they have to vote for him
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What’s the hyperbole in this statement?
There is none. The CIC of the armed forces telling members of the military who they have to vote for — in ordinary parlance this is called “an order,” and refusing to follow it is insubordination, unless the order is illegal — is the kind of thing that absolutely would have been treated as the biggest scandal in presidential history if Biden or, especially, Obama of the Tan Suit had done it.
By contrast, the amazing thing here is that Jeff Bezos’s WAPO actually made a story of it. The USA TODAY story on the rallyliterally does not even mention this in its three dozen graphs. I can find no trace of any story at all about the illegal campaign rally at either the NYT or CNN.
Trump gets away with this for many reasons, but a big one is that he’s the living embodiment of Murc’s law on fent-laced meth: Nothing he says ever counts because he’s treated as being as morally responsible as a three-year-old.
When this is all over, nobody will believe it happened, especially the people who voted for him.