I’ll Be Your Mirror, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

September 17, 2016 Victor El-Khouri 0 Comments

My late friend, Bob Morales (miss you, sweetie), used to say that you can tell a person’s shameful secrets by the things that person accuses others of doing.  We had a friend who was going through a bad divorce, and his wife accused him of cheating and hiding money.  Bob said this meant our friend’s wife was cheating and hiding money.

I see this in my own behavior all the time.  Very few things annoy me as much as observing someone else doing things I wish I didn’t do.  Is a woman wearing clothes that are too tight and too youthful for her?  I’m irate.  Does someone agree to do something and then doesn’t do it?  An outrage.  Is a person in a restaurant ordering fried things instead of something healthy?  Summon the food police!  People who complain about something but don’t donate the time, money or effort to fix it?  Take them out and flog them.

Only please don’t notice when I do any of those things.

So believe me when I tell you that Donald Trump is just like my friend’s ex-wife — and me — when he accuses Hillary Clinton of being dishonest, of engaging in pay-for-play, of having poor health, and myriad other offenses that he, in fact, commits.  And I’m not the only person who noticed.

Trump says Clinton is a liar, the most dishonest person to ever compete for the White House.  In fact, he is much more of a liar than she is.

He says she is responsible for the deaths in Benghazi, and we can certainly discuss that (I think she could have been more attentive, but it was Congress that cut the funds for embassy security), but he is, by any criteria, much more directly responsible for the death of a worker at one of his construction sites.

He says she used the used her position as Secretary of State to attract donations to the Clinton Foundation, from which she personally profited.  Almost none of that is true, but it is a fact that Donald Trump uses his family foundation for his own personal gain, whether financially, politically or for his tiny, tiny ego.

(By the way, the endowment my father set up gave away a lot more money than the Trump Foundation did last year, and my dad never claimed to be a billionaire.  Also, everything the endowment gave away was money, not over-priced rounds of golf.)

You know how Trump will repeat degrading things about Clinton, saying “people are saying ….” so he doesn’t have to defend what he says as fact (because usually it isn’t).  He and his surrogates do this a lot about the issue of her health.  When someone challenges them, they say she could settle it all by simply releasing her medical records (which she has done).  Meanwhile, Trump hasn’t released anything.

People (at least the ones I read on the internet) are saying that the reason Donald won’t release his medical records is that he has herpes.

I don’t know.  Some people think so.

Martha Thomases, Media Goddess, should probably stop wearing cigarette jeans.