Maggie's anonymouse sez:

more confirmation of the idea that he really dislikes having to deal with this at all:

hmmm, fancy that:

with him, it's all about fudging numbers to fit his alternate reality, basically the accounting tricks he practiced his whole life:

this one is thought provoking because it's actually stressing the wisdom of voting for president according to character and personality over anything else (note The Altantic has dropped paywall for coronavirus related pieces)

The Trump Presidency Is Over It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain.

10:59 AM ET by Peter Wehner Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC

When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations, I would never vote for Donald Trump, even though his administration would align much more with my policy views than a Hillary Clinton presidency would, a lot of my Republican friends were befuddled. How could I not vote for a person who checked far more of my policy boxes than his opponent?

What I explained then, and what I have said many times since, is that Trump is fundamentally unfit—intellectually, morally, temperamentally, and psychologically—for office. For me, that is the paramount consideration in electing a president, in part because at some point it’s reasonable to expect that a president will face an unexpected crisis—and at that point, the president’s judgment and discernment, his character and leadership ability, will really matter.

“Mr. Trump has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them” is how I put it four years ago. “No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness.” I added this:

Mr. Trump’s virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American. [....]