Letter: How low can we — or the president — go?
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 25, 2019. Trump said the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's full report "wouldn't bother me at all" as congressional Democrats demanded that the Justice Department hand it over quickly. Trump's remarks came as Democrats planned to huddle behind closed doors Monday evening to figure out how to move forward with their own investigations on obstruction of justice and Russian collusion.. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
By Ira Rubinfeld | The Public Forum
| March 25, 2019, 11:14 p.m.
No sooner had Attorney General William Barr summarized Robert Mueller’s report as failing to exonerate President Trump on the issue of obstruction of justice than Trump claimed “Total and complete exoneration.”
It’s unfortunate, but not surprising, that his followers believe him when he says “no means yes,” or his other daily distortions of truth and language.
What is even more disheartening to see is how low some people in our country have set the bar for acceptable behavior from our president.
Ira Rubinfeld, Salt Lake City
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