Anti-Trump Republican strategist Rick Wilson on Tuesday laid down the law on the White House's botched handling of the Rob Porter scandal.
Noting that Porter kept getting more responsibilities during his tenure at the White House -- even as the FBI informed the Trump administration that past abuse allegations leveled against him would prevent him from getting security clearance -- Wilson said that Trump's White House staff seems to believe that it is completely immune from scandal, just as Trump was during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"A normal White House with a real General Counsel and chief of staff would have pulled the trigger on Porter after the FIRST FBI report came back," Wilson writes. "Kelly and the rest of them came to believe that the hermetic shield around Trump covers them. It doesn't. Is this the killer scandal of all time? No. It's just part of the mosaic of chronic deception."
Wilson then said that any honorable person who works for Trump will end up becoming corrupt, simply because such corruption is necessary to maintain employment at the Trump White House.
"The personal and moral corruption of Trump is universal, inevitable, and tragic," he writes. "Everyone around him, no matter where they start, ends reduced, stained, lesser for the experience. Like attracts like and Trump has drawn people to him who are far below par on every front."
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