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NYT’s Token ‘Conservative’ Bret Stephens: Trump ‘Mentally Unwell Or Morally Unfit’

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Bret Stephens, Columnist, The New York Times; MSNBC Contributor, and Carol Lee, NBC News National Political Reporter appear on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 17, 2018.
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After admitting the horrific confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh made him rethink Trump’s presidency, the New York Times’ token “conservative” Bret Stephens is now back to the same “Never Trump” antics he displayed throughout the 2016 election.

Speaking with Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Stephens declared that President Donald Trump “is either mentally unwell or morally unfit, maybe both.” The columnist even said in so many words that Trump may be the worst president in history.

“You have behavior that is unprecedented in any kind of presidential history in the United States or, frankly, elsewhere,” Stephens said, according to Mediaite. “So when I hear guys like Erick [Erickson] saying, ‘Wow, you know, at the end of the day, this is a choice,’ you know, I’d actually rather have a candidate, on the Democratic side, who at least doesn’t scare me every single morning.”

Stephens said that Trump scares him “every single morning” as 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidates make some of the most radical proposals in history, from unfettered taxpayer-funded abortions to medicare for all to gun confiscation to rotating conservative justices off the Supreme Court to the hollowing out of religious liberty.

Stephens later directed his ire toward Trump’s defenders, who claim that “you have to separate the signal from the noise” in order to appreciate his tenure.

“The reality of the Trump presidency is the noise is the signal, and it’s dangerous,” said Stephens. “We are blundering our way into a contest with the Chinese that’s not about national security. It’s a contest of face between two leaders who see themselves as, essentially, you know, supreme leaders, and from which neither of them is easily going to back down. We ended up in a war, in World War II, in part because we were trying to impose an economic embargo on Japan. These things have a precedent. And they’re worrisome. We should be worried about China. But trying to wage a trade war with it, with no outcome in sight, is going to have consequences.”

Ironically enough, reports 24 hours later indicated that China’s economy was already suffering the effects of Trump’s trade war and wanted to negotiate a deal. From The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra:

President Donald Trump’s latest trade war escalation against China appears to have had an immediate effect on Asian markets and the Chinese Yuan, sending both tumbling early on Monday morning.

“China’s yuan currency fell to 7.1487 to the dollar, its weakest level since early 2008 at the height of the global financial crisis,” AFP reported. “On equity markets, Hong Kong led losses, slumping more than three percent, with investors also spooked by fresh violent protests in the city that saw police use water cannon for the first time. Shanghai lost 1.3 percent and Tokyo ended the morning more than two percent off.”

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He indicated early on Monday that the communist nation was willing to negotiate with the U.S. to prevent the trade war from escalating.

Reuters reported that “Liu, China’s top trade negotiator, was speaking at a tech conference in Chongqing in southwest China” when he made the remarks.

Bret Stephens going all-in on his “Never Trump” stance on the eve of the 2020 election radically departs from his praise of the president in the fall of 2018 when the Democratic Party unilaterally tried to destroy the life of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with severely flawed allegations of sexual assault from over 35 years ago.

“I’m grateful because he’s a big fat hammer fending off a razor-sharp dagger,” Stephens said of the president.

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