Eric Trump steps in it
One by one, Donald Trump’s surrogates keep stepping to the plate this week with an impossible task: sell the public on the idea that Trump cares deeply about violence against women and that the victims should be believed, even as Trump himself loudly proclaims that the men being accused should be believed instead. It’s been going so poorly for Trump that this time he had to send his son Eric to handle the task, and let’s just say it didn’t go well.
Eric Trump appeared on WABC Radio, and said the following: “There is nothing worse in the world than domestic abuse. I mean it’s truly the lowest of the low and you have to take it very seriously.” (link). We agree with every word of that, and we think it’s great that Eric feels that way too. But then he stepped in it by taking things too far.
Eric said this of his father: “He does take it very seriously.” Uh, nope. Just the other day, Donald Trump spent a long stretch of a press conference spelling out how bad he feels for accused wife beater Rob Porter, who lost his White House job over the scandal. Trump is clearly on Porter’s side here. It’s beyond the pale that Trump’s son is trying to claim otherwise. Yet here we are, and Eric isn’t the only one trying these antics.
Just yesterday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried a similar approach. She insisting during the press briefing that Donald Trump takes domestic abuse seriously. But no one is buying this. In addition to being a dishonest approach, it’s only making the scandal even bigger for Trump. He can’t let this go, because he’s been widely accused of assaulting women himself, so he and his surrogates are continuing to dig an even deeper hole for themselves.
