South Bend, Indiana’s 37-year-old Mayor Pete Buttigieg has become the new media darling, slamming Trump for everything but the kitchen sink. Openly gay, Buttigieg speaks his mind with abandon, not afraid to attack everything Trump, something the liberal press puts him front-and-center. “It’s a continuing horror show right now in Washington,” Buttiegieg told ABC News “This Week” with Marth Radditz. Speaking in platitudes, Buttigieg accused Trump of failing to make the decisions necessary to help ordinary Americans, especially racial, ethnic and gender minorities, like Buttigieg who, like the media, sees Trump as everything wrong with today’s society. Buttigieg blasted Trump for walking out of an infrastructure meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accusing Trump of a ‘cover up.”
Butigieg goes right along with everything anti-Trump, largely because Trump doesn’t champion the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, Queer [LBGTQ] agenda, something embraced by Buttigieg and the mainstream press. “To watch what happened in the White House would make your jaw drop,” Schumer said after the president walked out after Pelosi accused him of a “cover up.” Buttigieg can’t be objective when it comes to Trump because he sees the president as the epitome of everything homophobic in the Republican Party. Showing his extreme anti-Trump bias, Buttigieg defended Pelosi’s recent accusations of Trump’s “cover up.” “She obviously demonstrates a pretty strong master of the ways of Washington and succeeded many times in out maneuvering the president,” Buttigieg said. Buttigieg likes to hide behind Pelosi’s attacks, looking at her as Democrat Party mother figure.
Hiding behind Pelosi, Buttigieg shows he has no independent thinking on Trump or the current White House policies. Blaming Trump for “the nicknames, the tweets [and] insults,” Mayor Pete doesn’t admit that he’s equally guilty, like Pelosi, of the same level of insults against Trump. “The more we’re talking about him [Trump], the less we’re talking about voters,” Pete said, realizing that he’s spending too much time hating on Trump to Radditz. “The only way the Republican Party can retain power in the White House is if the conversation is about something completely different, like the shenanigans of the current president,” Buttigieg said. Buttigieg, like Pelosi, gets mileage out of ripping Trump, insisting he’s committed impeachable offenses. Mueller’s final report meant nothing to Mayor Pete, insisting that the president committed impeachable offenses, offering zero evidence.
Democrats and the media like Buttigieg precisely because he’s openly gay, thinking it would damage Trump to saying anything about the 37-year-old South Bend mayor. “What’s interesting is the case for impeachment is being made most emphatically by the president himself because it seems like every day or two, there is another affront to the rule of law,” Buttigieg said. Referring to Trump’s refusal to honor Congressional subpoenas, Buttigieg doesn’t consider the other side of the coin that Congress has weaponized committees against Trump. Buttiegieg likes to play up his Navy Reserved service in Afghanistan, insisting it’s time to get out. “We need to leave. And the reality is were are leaving . . .” said Buttigieg, not giving Trump any credit for no escalation the U.S. fight in Afghanistan or any other Mideast country. Former President Barack Obama spent seven years backing the Saudi proxy war in Syria.
Buttigieg’s the perfect candidate to attack Trump because the president dare not tread on a gay serviceman. “Well, many years ago would been the time to make on the idea of leaving [Afghanistan],” Buttigieg told Raddatz. Buttigieg had no comment on Obama’s decision in 2011 to leave Iraq, leaving the power vacuum that led to the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS]. Leaving Afghanistan without dealing with the Taliban would imperil the Abdullah Abdullah’s Kabul government. Washington Post liked Buttigieg accusing Trump of faking a medical excuse to evade Vietnam service. “I think to any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving,” Buttigieg told Raddatz, giving her all the red meat. Buttiegieg can get away with his attacks because of his protected status.
Buttigieg offers the Democrat Party the perfect attack dog in a field of 24 presidential candidates. Least likely to endure Trump’s rath, Buttiegieg can get away with things other candidates can only dream of. Buttigieg has nothing but disdain for Trump’s May 8, 2018 decision to pull the U.S. out of Obama’s Iranian Nuke Deal, believing it gave Iran too much cash to stoke terrorism in the Middle East. “We didn’t do the Iranian deal for them [Iran.]. It wasn’t a favor. It was something that we did in order to make America safer, and withdrawing from it has made American not only less safe but also less credible the next time we go into a deal,” Buttigieg said. Whatever Trump’s done, including normalizing relations with North Korea, Buttigieg criticizes the president. Buttigieg knows that his time in the limelight won’t last long, before he becomes a forgotten footnote in 2019.
