In his normal elegant and scholarly manner, President Donald Trump took to Fact Social to criticize Somalian refugees:
[H]undreds of hundreds of refugees from Somalia are fully taking up the as soon as nice State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets searching for ‘prey’ as our fantastic folks keep locked of their residences and homes hoping towards hope that they are going to be left alone. The significantly retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, both by worry, incompetence, or each.
Trump thus blames a whole bunch of hundreds of refugees for the conduct of some unhealthy apples. That’s flawed!
Mike Bohacek, an Indiana State Senator, was appropriately outraged. He notified the world on Fb of how he would retaliate for Trump’s disgraceful assertion:
A lot of you might have requested my place on redistricting. I’ve been an unapologetic advocate for folks with mental disabilities for the reason that start of my second daughter. These of you that don’t know me or my household won’t know that my daughter has Down Syndrome. This isn’t the primary time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his selections of phrases have penalties. I will probably be voting NO on redistricting; maybe he can use the subsequent 10 months to persuade voters that his insurance policies and conduct deserve a congressional majority.
Let me get this straight.
Almost 10 years in the past, the world discovered that Donald Trump had mentioned: “[W]hen you’re a star, they allow you to do it. You are able to do something. Seize ’em by the pussy. You are able to do something.”
Bohacek, naturally, noticed nothing flawed with this. Trump’s my man!
Trump mentioned, of Mexican immigrants, condemning all of them as a gaggle, “They’re bringing medication. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
Bohacek noticed nothing flawed with this. Trump’s my man!
After the 2017 white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump mentioned that “there have been very fantastic folks on either side.”
Bohacek noticed nothing flawed with this. Trump’s my man!
Trump inspired a mob to assault the Capitol Constructing, thus interfering with the peaceable switch of energy after the 2020 presidential election.
Bohacek noticed nothing flawed with this. Trump’s my man!
A jury discovered Trump accountable for sexual assault.
Bohacek noticed nothing flawed with this. Trump’s my man!
A special jury convicted Trump of 34 felonies.
Bohacek noticed nothing flawed with this. Trump’s my man!
Trump pardoned your entire group of January 6 rioters, together with Enrique Tarrio, who had been convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in jail.
Bohacek noticed nothing flawed with this. Trump’s my man!
Trump imposed, and eliminated, and imposed once more, assorted tariffs, rising prices and crippling the flexibility of American companies to plan for the longer term.
Bohacek noticed nothing flawed with this. Trump’s my man!
Trump mentioned that Tim Walz was retarded.
The very nerve! The outrage! By God, I’ll oppose Trump’s effort to redistrict in Indiana as a result of he’s implicitly insulted my youngster who has Down Syndrome!
Actually? For some inexplicable motive, you would ignore all of Trump’s different offenses, insults, and criminality? However this specific insult — really delicate by comparability — now units you off?
And also you’re going to vote towards redistricting as a result of Trump mentioned one thing implicitly insulting to folks with Down Syndrome?
If I personally have been a legislator eager about redistricting, I’d determine whether or not redistricting was proper or flawed. If redistricting was good for Indiana and the remainder of the nation, then I’d vote for it — whether or not or not the president was a jerk. And if redistricting was partisan hackery that might harm Indiana and the remainder of the nation, then I’d vote towards it — whether or not or not the president was a jerk.
Whether or not the president had implicitly insulted my youngster merely wouldn’t be within the calculus as a result of, as a legislator, I’d be sworn to guard my constituents.
So Bohacek’s Fb put up was a political stunt, maybe meant to attract consideration to the reason for Down Syndrome, or maybe meant to attract consideration to Mike Bohacek personally, or maybe to attain one thing else. However the Fb put up had nothing to do with the propriety of a vote on redistricting.
Remarkably, the media fell for it. The media reported Bohacek’s nonsense as if Trump’s insulting selection of phrases really price him a vote in favor of redistricting in Indiana.
Media: Disgrace on you. This was a publicity stunt, and also you fell for it, giving Bohacek the publicity he craved.
And Bohacek: Disgrace on you. What you wrote on Fb was nonsensical.
In truth, I’d nearly be tempted to say: Mike Bohacek, you’re . . . properly . . . very silly.
Mark Herrmann spent 17 years as a associate at a number one worldwide legislation agency and later oversaw litigation, compliance and employment issues at a big worldwide firm. He’s the writer of The Curmudgeon’s Information to Training Regulation and Drug and System Product Legal responsibility Litigation Technique (affiliate hyperlinks). You possibly can attain him by e-mail at [email protected].
