“Our nation’s institutions have been shaken. Our alliances have been strained. Our credibility has been damaged. And our nation’s values have been cast aside,” Hertling said. He suggested the U.S. should look to the reconstruction of Germany after the defeat of Nazism if it hoped to to restore the damage caused by Trump and his allies.
He called Trump a lunatic unfit for office (I forget his actual words) while he was running his presidential campaign, then gave his full-throated endorsement with a smile once he dropped out, hoping to get a good position in the Trump 2016 administration. He got a bullshit job “handling” the opiate crisis.