When Richard Nixon said, "I am not a crook," what did most people think? That he was a crook, of course. Any time a politician says, "I am not X," it automatically causes many people to think he is in fact X.  After all, if a politician feels the need to talk about it, maybe there's some truth to it. Fast-forward some 45 years later.  Donald Trump, when asked about wife-abusing former aide Rob Porter, said, "I'm totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind." The problem is that no one had even asked Trump whether he was for or against domestic violence.  No one had even accused him of being in favor of domestic violence.  It is true that the media have done a steady drip of stories about Rob Porter in a continuing effort to make Trump appear insensitive to women, but no one had even inferred that Donald Trump likes to beat up women. Trump, coming out to deny a charge that hasn't...(Read Full Post)