To Democrats, it isn’t how you play but whether you win or lose

To Democrats, it isn’t how you play but whether you win or lose: During the 2012 presidential campaign, Democrat Sen. Harry Reid accused GOP nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney of not having paid taxes for ten years.

Reid conceded he had no proof, but spread the deceitful smear anyway. Though both Politifact and Washington Post “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler rightly decried Reid’s lie, much of the fake news media of the day amplified it. And Democrat Barack Hussein Obama won the election.

Years later, erstwhile office-holder Reid was unrepentant about his tactical perfidy. In a 2015 interview with admiring CNN personality Dana Bash, he asserted: “I don’t regret that at all.” He asked rhetorically about Romney: “He didn’t win, did he?”

Every intelligent observer understood Trump’s New York trial was a Potemkin one, and all honest commenters will say as much. I just did.