05 February 2020

"I didn't do anything wrong"

In 1796, outgoing President of the United States of America George Washington said this:
"Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest."
On the 4th of February 2020, The Washington Post published an article entitled "The 75 times Trump insisted he’d done ‘nothing wrong’ in his interactions with Ukraine". 
Twelve of these occasions were after he was impeached. My personal favourite has got to be:
“These facts establish what we knew from the very beginning: President Donald Trump did nothing wrong."
The comparison is astounding. 

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