“Donald Trump And The ‘John Miller’ Tape: A Question Of Character”

Caught between Scylla and Charybdis — An Italian fresco dating to roughly 1560 depicts Odysseus’s boat as it passes between the six-headed monster Scylia, on the one side, and, on the other, the whirlpool Charybdis. Scylla has already plucked five of Odysseus’s men from the boat. The expression “between Scylla and Charybdis” is precisely equivalent to the common English saying “between a rock and a hard place.” (Wikimedia Commons public domain)

Or — not to worry! — maybe it’s not really a question of character but merely one of sanity:

Washington Post: “Donald Trump masqueraded as publicist to brag about himself”

Fox News: “Reporter: Trump leaked tape of himself posing as publicist”

The New Yorker: “Donald Trump and the ‘John Miller’ Tape: A Question of Character”

Unspeakably weird.

And this is the man to whom millions of Americans want to entrust the leadership of the United States and the care of our nuclear codes.

And then there’s this:

Wall Street Journal: ” . . . And Donald Trump’s Taxes”

And this, about his apparent willingness to use the government to punish and silence his enemies:

Wall Street Journal: “Donald Trump’s Amazon Adventure”

None of which is even remotely to suggest that the kleptocratic Mrs. Clinton will be any better. She’s just a rather different style of terrible:

Wall Street Journal: “The Clinton Business Model”

We’re sooooo doomed.

“Miller in 2016!” “John Barron will make America great again!”

Is there any chance that Carla Bruni could reenter Mr. Trump’s life and thereby become the only woman to have served as the First Lady of both France and the United States? Wowie zowie! What a presidency Mr. Trump’s will be!

Posted from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina