Conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan thinks the seemingly endless controversies swirling around Donald Trump are, by comparison, making Hillary Clinton “look normal.”
In her latest op-ed, Noonan said, “Once Hillary Clinton was too corrupt to be elected, had too many negatives, too much bad history from her early days in Arkansas to the Clinton Foundation, Benghazi, the emails. She brought and brings quite a mess. But his mess cancels out her mess.”
Trump found himself in yet another controversy this week after he said in a town hall-style interview that, if abortion were banned, women who get them would have to receive “some form of punishment.”
The campaign backpedaled in a statement shortly after the comments were aired on TV, and asserted that Trump believes a doctor who performs abortions, and not women who receive them, would be subject to punishment.
But it’s the latest in a series of recent awkward moves by Trump, such as when he wouldn’t explicitly disavow the support of white supremacists during an interview or when he shared an unflattering photo of his Republican rival Ted Cruz’s wife on social media.
“It has all added up into a large blob of sheer dumb grossness,” said Noonan. “He is now seriously misjudging the room. The room is still America.”
