So much of the energy spent reacting to this administration isn’t on deep examinations of important policy issues, but on trying to make sense of President Trump’s bizarre behavior. In contrast, how many of them can say they’ve truly had a Nixonian “I am not a crook” moment? We got that this week with the assurance, “I don’t do cover-ups,” an utterance destined to compete with “covfefe” in defining Trump’s presidency. “I don’t do cover-ups.” Good, that’s settled. “I’ve said from the beginning, right from the beginning, that you probably can’t go down two tracks,” Trump said, according to a White House transcript.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 25, 2019 11:03 UTC