Despite being a focus of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Donald Trump Jr. has been a highly sought after midterm campaigner and recipient of his father’s pride, according to a Sunday Washington Post report.
Trump Jr.’s participation in the Trump Tower meeting, while placing him in possible legal jeopardy, makes him a sympathetic figure with ardent Trump fans and has rallied his father to his side.
“Don has received notoriety for a brief meeting, that many politicians would have taken, but most importantly, and to the best of my knowledge, nothing happened after the meeting concluded,” Trump said in a statement to the Post.
In a less polished statement, a source told the Post that recently, as Trump Jr.’s face came onto the screen when Trump was watching Fox News, he said: “Don’s gotten really good. My people love him.”
Trump Jr. seems to be such an effective surrogate because he can comfortably occupy two worlds. An avid outdoorsman, he feels as comfortable with hunters in Montana as he does with real estate moguls in New York. And per the Post, he is free from his father’s burning desire to be accepted into the fold of elites he so often derides.
However, Trump Jr., like his father, has sometimes fanned the flames of controversy, including when he likened immigrants to a bowl of skittles, some of which could be killers.
Nevertheless, Trump Jr. is embarking on an intense midterm campaign schedule this fall as an in-demand stumper and surrogate.
Please. It’s not because he hunts, and it’s not because he’s free of the desire to join the elites FFS. It’s because he’s become a D-lister celebrity in his own right. You trot him out at some event and the yahoos see a face they’ve seen on TV and it’s right there in the front of the same room they’re in themselves! Wow wow wow! Many if not most Americans are Pavlovian about this.
I’d encourage DJTJR to keep it up… The more he campaigns the more times he will put his foot in his mouth. This is definitely a case of the apple not falling far from the tree.
Even more than that; he’s basically the troll’s troll and as such all those closet(?) racists, sexists and assorted White Grievance brigade love him. They’re welcome to him. Then, there’s the added motive that he may not be appearing publicly for much longer…
The thing with the Trumps is that they personify the saying about giving someone enough rope… Blab away Trumps
Slick will be pick of the litter in his future penitentiary digs.
A normal presidents offspring doesn’t conspire with a foreign adversary under the false pretense of adoption laws. Revel in lunatic fringe conspiracy theories and have a Twitter feed that ranges from the Pepe the frog mascot of the Alt right to 9/11 truthers and Neo Nazis.
Throughout recent history most presidents kids have behaved like decent citizens, honored the nations values and even served in the military or peace corp. Don junior doesn’t even measure up to an obstinate presidential pet.