https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/a-trans...

Yikes.

You have to give him credit. He did show up. He did answer questions. Perhaps not the question that was asked, but he did answer. Unlike most of the GOP candidates who attended one of their political training sessions on how not to answer tough questions, Teh Don simply plows through them while always returning to his self-promoting self. In a key interview. With the top WaPo political editors and writers. On the record. (Insert image of my slow shaking of head here)

Here is my take from the 3/21 in person interview. Donald Trump is a sleazy, egotistical, narsiscist who thinks every minute offers him a chance to sell himself and to swindle his target.

His list of foreign advisors would make Dick Cheney salivate. These are not merely neoConMen, this reptilian collection of hideous ideas will promote wars started by us, for our profit. Well, not yours and mine, but a select few in the MIC.

His wishes for changing libel laws would have been laughable (any HS student writing an answer like that in his history or sociology class would have earned a failing grade, much less a college grad or law student), but for the fact that he will wrestle that change for his benefit.

At one point, he even denied that protestors were being beaten. He repeatedly claimed the protestors were the ones inflicting violence. When pressed on his alleged (?) offer to pay legal fees, he claimed no memory of the event. Therefore it did not happen? Luckily, they changed the subject.

Overall, one cannot help but be struck how shallow, how insubstantial his answers were, even when it was clear that he spent significant time on the subject.

If you were to sketch out his basic programming in a diagram, his responses would always follow this approach.

A. I am great and will get things done

B. "X" is horrible and I will deal better with them and change things.

C. "Y" is great and they have/are/will work with me well.

D. I am great and will get thinks done

E. Because.

It is worth your time to read the entire interview. The idea that he may be one election from the presidency will keep you up at nights.

Any way, this is how he finished.

Rubio said, ‘Donald Trump has small hands and therefore he has small something else.’ I didn’t say that. And all I did is when he failed, when he was failing, when he was, when Christie made him look bad, I gave him the – a little recap and I said, and I said, and I had this big strong powerful hand ready to grab him, because I thought he was going to faint. And everybody took it fine. Whether it was presidential or not I can't tell you.