Donald J. Trump keeps tossing accusations against the wall.
Some of them stick in the minds of those who’ve been supporting his Republican presidential campaign.
This one, though, belongs in the trash bin.
In his effort to smear Democratic Party frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton, Trump has thrown out the name of one Vincent Foster, a close friend of Hillary and Bill Clinton who in 1993 went to a park in Washington, D.C., and killed himself.
So, what did Trump do? He called Foster’s death “fishy.” He’s now resurrecting a long-debunked notion that the Clintons had somehow been parties to their dear friend’s death. Right-wing hatemongers dredged up conspiracy theories throughout most of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
CNN commentator Jake Tapper took note of Trump’s latest smear.
Tapper said: “The notion that this was a murder is a fiction born of delusion and untethered to reality and contradicted by evidence reviewed in at least six investigations, one of them by Ken Starr, hardly a Bill Clinton defender.”
Trump, though, has thrown out this ridiculous notion.
I am reminded of the scolding that Joseph Welch, special counsel to the Army, during those infamous Senate hearings in the 1950s when Sen. Joseph McCarthy was looking for communists operating within the federal government.
Welch asked McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency?”
Donald Trump long ago sunk to those depths. His latest outrageous accusation is despicable in the extreme.