Chris Stewart’s defense of his leader Donald Trump: “I think kind of the premise of the question — from CNN’s Jake Tapper — once again was, ‘Well, we know he’s a Russian stooge and we know they’re secretly collaborating against America.’ … I just frankly think that’s silliness. I don’t think that’s true at all.”
This latest in the Trump fiasco — 18 months or so with Stewart’s defense: "Trump is no stooge of Putin” — is now blatantly false. As a fellow traveler of Trump, Stewart is very much a “stooge.”
As George Will stated of Trump in The Salt Lake Tribune the same day, “Mueller might [find] the still-hidden sources of the behavior of this sad, embarrassing wreck of a man.”
Stewart isn’t in the same category as “this embarrassing wreck of a man”; he’s just naive and “silly," if not stupid.
For me, Trump is a proto-traitor.
Richard H. Keller, Salt Lake City