The Silence Around Character: A Leadership Question

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It’s always telling what gets defended and what gets ignored.

On this forum, Trump’s legal troubles are met with a full-throated defense—every indictment, every verdict, every investigation is branded a political witch hunt. Biased judges, rogue DAs, Democrat plots. That part of the script is always ready.

But on matters of character, the silence is deafening.

Where are the defenders when it comes to Trump calling fallen soldiers “suckers and losers”?

What about dodging the draft with phantom bone spurs?

Or mocking POWs, assaulting women, cheating on multiple wives, praising dictators, and inciting a mob to overturn an election he lost?

No one seems eager to touch that.

And now, with the Epstein files in the news again—something that rightly angers many Americans—we get Trump’s strange public statement: “I never had the privilege of going to the island.”

“Privilege”?

That’s not how most people describe avoiding a site infamous for underage exploitation. But when you live a life of unchecked entitlement, maybe the lens is different. Still, it raises a real question: What kind of man talks like that about Epstein’s island—and expects to be trusted with the moral weight of the presidency?

Here’s the deeper issue: if your defense of Trump only activates when he’s charged in court, but shuts down when his character is questioned, what does that say about the line you’re willing to overlook?

You can debate politics all day. But character isn’t partisan. And leadership without integrity—without honor—isn’t leadership at all.

So I ask honestly: Is this the kind of man you truly want representing you?
 
It’s always telling what gets defended and what gets ignored.

On this forum, Trump’s legal troubles are met with a full-throated defense—every indictment, every verdict, every investigation is branded a political witch hunt. Biased judges, rogue DAs, Democrat plots. That part of the script is always ready.

But on matters of character, the silence is deafening.

Where are the defenders when it comes to Trump calling fallen soldiers “suckers and losers”?

What about dodging the draft with phantom bone spurs?

Or mocking POWs, assaulting women, cheating on multiple wives, praising dictators, and inciting a mob to overturn an election he lost?

No one seems eager to touch that.

And now, with the Epstein files in the news again—something that rightly angers many Americans—we get Trump’s strange public statement: “I never had the privilege of going to the island.”

“Privilege”?

That’s not how most people describe avoiding a site infamous for underage exploitation. But when you live a life of unchecked entitlement, maybe the lens is different. Still, it raises a real question: What kind of man talks like that about Epstein’s island—and expects to be trusted with the moral weight of the presidency?

Here’s the deeper issue: if your defense of Trump only activates when he’s charged in court, but shuts down when his character is questioned, what does that say about the line you’re willing to overlook?

You can debate politics all day. But character isn’t partisan. And leadership without integrity—without honor—isn’t leadership at all.

So I ask honestly: Is this the kind of man you truly want representing you?
If recent events haven't been enough to convince you, they are all horrible people. :)
 
It’s always telling what gets defended and what gets ignored.

On this forum, Trump’s legal troubles are met with a full-throated defense—every indictment, every verdict, every investigation is branded a political witch hunt. Biased judges, rogue DAs, Democrat plots. That part of the script is always ready.

But on matters of character, the silence is deafening.

Where are the defenders when it comes to Trump calling fallen soldiers “suckers and losers”?

What about dodging the draft with phantom bone spurs?

Or mocking POWs, assaulting women, cheating on multiple wives, praising dictators, and inciting a mob to overturn an election he lost?

No one seems eager to touch that.

And now, with the Epstein files in the news again—something that rightly angers many Americans—we get Trump’s strange public statement: “I never had the privilege of going to the island.”

“Privilege”?

That’s not how most people describe avoiding a site infamous for underage exploitation. But when you live a life of unchecked entitlement, maybe the lens is different. Still, it raises a real question: What kind of man talks like that about Epstein’s island—and expects to be trusted with the moral weight of the presidency?

Here’s the deeper issue: if your defense of Trump only activates when he’s charged in court, but shuts down when his character is questioned, what does that say about the line you’re willing to overlook?

You can debate politics all day. But character isn’t partisan. And leadership without integrity—without honor—isn’t leadership at all.

So I ask honestly: Is this the kind of man you truly want representing you?
We're in the Era of the Republican version of Cancel Culture (see PBS getting dismantled).
 
Most presidents are scumbags. Trump is uncommonly open and honest about his scumbaggery, which may be below average. Still, he could have done much better than Stormy Daniels. He overpaid by a galactic amount, which gives me a little pause for someone making financial decisions for the nation.
 
I think anyone who came of age in the '90s is incapable of being surprised by what you're getting at here. I mean, for nearly every day of the Clinton administration we had right-wingers screaming at the top of their lungs about how "character does matter"...and then they fell head over heels in love with George W.M.D. Bush, who was guilty of nearly everything they ever threw at Clinton, up to and including his wife being responsible for the death of an innocent friend. Ever since then, everyone knows they don't really care about character, they just know a good wedge issue when they see it.
 
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