“I supported Trump with full awareness that he would frequently embarrass himself, and, by extension, me”
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Evan Barker, who over the years has raised $50 million for Democratic politicians, published an article in the Free Press last year, in which she described why she had voted for Donald Trump. Predictably, old friends cut her off, her two-year-old was blackballed by a nursery school of her choice, and ultimately her family left San Francisco for a small town in Northern California. She describes the experience in a forthcoming book: Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative.
But she makes clear, “I didn’t vote for Trump anticipating that I would agree with everything he does.”
Speaking for myself, I would add, “I supported Trump with full awareness that he would frequently embarrass himself, and, by extension, me.” One such moment took place this week when the president pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, who had served only two years of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking.
That pardon created an air of complete incoherence around American policy. At the very moment when the president has basically declared war on Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro for running drugs into the country, and has claimed the right to blast speedboats allegedly carrying those drugs out of the water, he pardons another Latin American leader-cum-drug lord.
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