Aaron Blake warns journalists not to let Trump move the Overton window on them. No, the fact that he managed not to call her a lying slag for a few days is not a shining example of restraint.

CNN ran a pretty amazing heading on Thursday: “Aides quietly stunned by Trump’s respectful handling of Kavanaugh accuser.”

I saw that headline yesterday, and nearly gagged, and did not read the story about Trump’s aides’ quiet amazement that he managed not to wave his dick on camera.

Trump has been “respectful” and shown “restraint” only by his own, very artificially depressed standard. It’s notable that he hasn’t directly attacked Christine Blasey Ford as a liar or completely discounted her account

Somebody somehow got Trump to refrain from flinging his shit at Christine Blasey Ford for the first few days, but of course it couldn’t last. Of course not.

I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018

That’s gorgeous, isn’t it, coming from him? The proud, indeed boastful, grabber of women by the pussy? The guy who has mused aloud about sex with his own daughter? The guy who … Read the rest