Et Tu? Even Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board Scolding Trump For ‘False’ Stormy Daniels Claims
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board issued a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump on Friday, taking him to task conflicting stories regarding the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
The White House has taken heavy fire since Rudy Giuliani declared that Trump reimbursed his lawyer Michael Cohen for his payment to the porn star to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump — despite both the White House and the president previously having denied he knew about the payment.
And the Journal’s editorial board, recently known for its defenses of Trump and crusade against the Mueller investigation, joined in on scorning of the president in its latest piece, the print edition of which is headlined “Does Trump want Americans to believe him in a genuine crisis?”
“Most storms pass eventually,” the editorial starts. “This week Donald Trump tried to ensure that Stormy Daniels doesn’t rain down permanent distraction on his Presidency, though at the cost of further damage to his credibility.”
The board compared Trump’s denials he knew about the Stormy payment to Bill Clinton’s infamous “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” lie, pointing out his supporters are unlikely to care about his past indiscretions.
“But Mr. Trump’s public deceptions are surely relevant to his job as President, and the attempted cover-up has done greater harm than any affair would have,” the board continued. “Mr. Trump asked Americans, not least his supporters, to believe his claims about the payments. They were false and conveniently so in putting the onus on Mr. Cohen. Now, as more of the story has emerged, he wants everyone to believe a new story that he could have told the first time.”
The board concludes:
Mr. Trump is compiling a record that increases the likelihood that few will believe him during a genuine crisis—say, a dispute over speaking with special counsel Robert Mueller or a nuclear showdown with Kim Jong Un. Mr. Trump should worry that Americans will stop believing anything he says.
Read the full editorial here.
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