Chris Jepson: Let me get this straight

Say what? Do you find it challenging to keep all of Don the Con’s hyperbole and B.S. straight? Little of what Trump says stands up to reason or substantiation. Whether it is his claims regarding his business acumen, taxes, his charitable foundation, his relationship with minority Americans or women, his negotiating skills, much of Donald Trump’s braggadocio appears to be a chimera, a screen masking his profound insecurities and inferiority complex. He has little charm, no grace and few (if any) redeeming qualities. He was type of baby that when the delivering obstetrician first saw him slapped his mother in disgust.

Hillary Clinton skewered Trump in the first presidential debate. She opened him up with knife-like precision and out oozed the banality, utter nonsense and lies we associate with his candidacy. Don the Con says the gloves will come off for the Oct. 9 debate. No more Mister Nice Guy! And what topic is Trump to hone in on? Will it be foreign policy? Eliminating the national debt? The cost of college? Healthcare? America’s deteriorating infrastructure? Voter suppression? What topic so enrages Trump’s addled mind that he announces before the next debate that he’ll be coming after Hillary?

Bill Clinton’s infidelity. That Bill Clinton had sex with a White House intern and that he lied about it. And that Hillary Clinton stuck by him. Not only that but Hillary allegedly had the temerity to question the character of Monica Lewinsky.

It’s common knowledge today that Bill Clinton had numerous liaisons. Some people do that. I do not know one man personally who would not have lied under a similar inquisition. Regarding Ms. Lewinsky’s character (and motives) I pose this one question, “What motivates a woman to retain a semen-stained dress?” Calculating comes to mind.

I readily acknowledge that Bill Clinton’s personal behavior is an unfortunate “stain” on his presidency. But what has any of “that” to do with the challenges confronting America today?

Don the Con says it has a lot to do with issues of trust. Let’s go with that. Trust is the issue. That infidelity and prevarication are at the core of who should be president.

Donald Trump has two highly prominent Republicans beating to death Bill’s fidelity “issues” and Hillary’s unwavering support of her husband. Aside: does anyone not believe that Bill’s behavior was not incredibly hurtful to Hillary, but that they dealt with it and stayed married?

Who are these GOP Snow Whites who are so morally upright that they willingly pass judgment and cast stones at the Clinton’s marriage? Why it’s Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich. Between Trump and the aforementioned Republican hypocrites they have nine, count’um, nine marriages, numerous infidelities, lies, and deceit with children left behind. If you recall, Newt Gingrich – that pillar of righteous morality – went to his wife’s hospital bed to give the little woman the news . . . of their divorce. Why, even during Bill Clinton’s impeachment hearings, the Newtster was in an adulterous affair. Such integrity. Such morality. Such that you cast stones today? Such hypocrisy.

And, of course, Don the Con has three well-documented (two-failed) marriages. Relationships that disintegrated under the weight of deceit, ego and adultery. Yet, Trump has the gall to drag-up, to question Hillary’s marriage?

No one should give two whits what goes on in other people’s marriages. Add profound hypocrisy to the list of Trump’s many shortcomings. Actually Trump and his hypocrisy are quite at home in today’s Republican Party.

Welcome to the Party.