Donald J. Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, tried — in some sort of fashion — to defend his former boss’s conduct regarding women.
Perhaps you’ve heard. The Washington Post published a story in which Republican presidential nominee Trump was caught on a “hot mic” saying some ghastly things about women.
Lewandowski said: “I’ve never heard anything like this out of him and so let me say, we are appointing a leader, we are electing a leader to the free world, we’re not electing a Sunday school teacher.”
Sure thing, Corey. I get that.
But don’t we have the right to expect the “leader of the free world” to behave like a mature adult?
The so-called “locker room talk,” which is how Trump has described it, did not occur when Trump was a kid. It happened 11 years ago. Trump was just shy of turning 60. He was newly married to Melania, his third wife.
This is how a future major-party presidential nominee should talk?
This is not a “boys will be boys” moment.
We did elect one Sunday School teacher, and I maintain it really wasn’t the worst thing we ever did.