RUTHFULLY YOURS

Several in the media have speculated that Trump is somehow connected to Clinton in his decision to campaign as a Republican.

Now WaPo confirms it:

Former president Bill Clinton had a private telephone conversation in late spring with Donald Trump at the same time that the billionaire investor and reality-television star was nearing a decision to run for the White House, according to associates of both men.

Four Trump allies and one Clinton associate familiar with the exchange said that Clinton encouraged Trump’s efforts to play a larger role in the Republican Party and offered his own views of the political landscape.

It all makes sense. Only recently did he self-identify as a Democrat and donate a lot of money to them and contribute around a $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Imagine if Jeb had done that! So why does Trump get away with it? Maybe because he “tells it like it is!” (whatever the two “its” mean), and he’s “refreshing.”

Further, he went up to Wisconsin and criticized Scott Walker (a “disaster!”), using the Left’s talking points, railing against a man who heroically won three elections against the virulent Left in four years. Walker curtailed the government unions’ power and restored the state budget, but that’s a bad thing, for liberal-masquerading-as-conservative Trump.

Many Republicans are fearful that Trump is hurting their brand. It may satisfy some conservatives to hurt this party, but as

Jonah Goldberg points out that conservatives are always RINOs. We’re conservatives first, but we use the GOP as a vehicle to approximate implementing conservative policies — though, I add, gradually and over time. No party is perfect.

Trump, on the other hand, is far from perfect. His journey shows him to be a rootless, opportunistic, wandering political soul.

He might be destined to run as a spoiler and give the White House to the Democrat. Billionaires with huge egos don’t go away quietly. Just think of Ross Perot, who, many believe, cost George H. W. Bush the election, according to a state-by-state analysis.

AT readers must be careful they don’t fall for him.