Asshole GOP wants to gut ethics office.

[Brian37]

Errr... maybe.  His tweets were as follows:


If I'm reading them right, he thinks the Independent Ethics Watchdog is "unfair" but dealing with it should take a backseat to tax reform, healthcare, and other things.

So it's entirely possible that they'll find the time to 'weaken' the IEW once they deal with a few of his pet agenda issues.

I don't disagree.  I simply said that maybe he isn't a complete asshole.  I'm not holding out too much hope.

Yes he is a complete asshole. This was NOT him standing up to the GOP, this was merely "Hey GOP don't tip your hand so quickly, lets fuck them over when they are distracted by me bitching about SNL picking on me"

I am not kidding one bit here. In real life, his dad verbally if not also physically abused him when he failed. That drive to please his dad turned him into a bully. He is not your average sociopath. He is a selfish narcissist and insecure bully.

JFK never ran a campaign like that, Reagan didn't and Bush Sr and Jr didn't nor Romney. Trump IS a despot's political playbook. The GOP won riding his wave. If we are lucky in 4 to 8 years it will only be another Bush bubble. 

We have seen this script of political demagoguery in the past, and it never ends well long term.