Bob Inglis is the only Republican I would trust

Robert D. Inglis Sr. is the former Congressman from S. Carolina. I listened to an interview he gave to CNN's Erin Burnett on Jun 9, 2017 about Trump and the Republican Party. He is the first and only Republican I have heard who looks with reality at the Trump debacle and the way the Republican party is enabling him.

What caught my attention was the comment Paul Ryan made about the Trump firing of Comey, and the way that Inglis described Ryan's comment. Ryan excused Trump's firing of Comey, as well as all the events that Comey described in his testimony of June 8 before the Senate Intelligence Committee, by saying this:

"The president’s new at this. He’s new to government," Ryan said. "So he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI and White House. He’s just new to this."

Inglis called Ryan on his pass for Trump, saying that Trump is now President and is expected to act Presidential. Inglis pointed out that any person who shows up for a job is expected to do the job and perform to the expectations for the position.

Inglis further pointed out that had Hillary Clinton been elected President, and Comey had reopened his investigation of her email server, and had Clinton then fired Comey for investigating her, that Ryan (and the rest of the Republicans in Congress) would be calling for her impeachment.

Perhaps it is simply the relief I feel in hearing that there is one Republican in the US that sees this issue the same way I do. Perhaps there is a shred of hope for the Republican side. My lack of admiration for Paul Ryan continues to slide into the depths of the ocean. Ryan has been prostituting himself for Trump since before the Republican convention, when he lost his contempt for Trump and decided to support him come hell or high water.

Another item that Inglis covered was the "hope" issue: Trump told Comey that he "hoped" Comey could let the Flynn matter go. The gyrations Republicans are going through trying to explain that Trump was not threatening Comey with his job over dropping the Flynn investigation was starting to look like a rerun of Bill CLinton's "that depends on what "what" means, this time over the definition of "hope". Inglis flat out calls it what it was: Trump threatening Comey with being fired if Comey didn't drop the investigation. When the President of the US tells you he "hopes" you do something, that is an order to do it, and Inglis was correct in stating that the Republicans are enabling the bad behavior of Trump.

I think, though, one of the saddest things I have to point out is that Inglis was defeated in the Republican primary in South Carolina by Trey Gowdy. Perhaps it was the fact that Inglis had stated that we should go with science on client change. Inglis was done in by the Tea Party types that are sitting in Congress now facilitating Trump's bad behavior. I guess I have to take back what little relief I feel, because the one Republican I heard speak reality is not a sitting Republican.