Article from the New York Times by Elizabeth Williamson.
WASHINGTON — When he ran against Donald J. Trump in 2016 for the Republican presidential nomination, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky quipped that “a speck of dirt would make a better president” than the bombastic businessman from New York.
Then came President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, his government’s interference in a White House campaign in which Mr. Paul barely made a ripple and last week’s presidential summit meeting in Helsinki, Finland, which pretty much everyone but Mr. Paul deemed a diplomatic disaster.
Suddenly, in the mind of the junior senator from Kentucky, Mr. Trump has soared from lower than that speck of dirt to high enough for Mount Rushmore.
“The hatred for the president is so intense that partisans would rather risk war than give diplomacy a chance,” Mr. Paul fumed on the Senate floor last week in a long defense of Mr. Trump’s Helsinki meeting. “This is crazy.”
Read the entire article at the New York Times.
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it’s called a professional politician, They say anything they think you want to hear, ,,,,You can’t trust a word they say.
God bless the NY Business man. We need more people like him that say it like it is.
MAGA President Trump!
Best thing happening in AMERICA is a President Donald Trump!!!!!!!!
the best president of U.S. is President Donald Trump!!!!! God bless PDT and American people!!!!
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