But this is not, despite all appearances, a sign of dysfunction. This is the way Trump functions. While others will put up an array of solar panels, Trump installs a disarray of wind generation, a tailwind of turbulence that is all he has ever needed to stay one step ahead of the destruction he leaves behind him. See also: everything Trump has ever been involved with.

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Trump also recently sent out another blast from his mighty nostrils when he dictated a misleading statement purportedly from his son Donald Trump Jr., about the young one’s suspicious campaign meeting with a Russian lawyer. In a rather hilarious bit of misplaced concern about the president, one of his advisers said, “This was . . . unnecessary. Now someone can claim he’s the one who attempted to mislead. Somebody can argue the president is saying he doesn’t want you to say the whole truth.” Shocked, shocked we are at this possible interpretation of something Trump has said.

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But in fact it is was necessary for Trump to mislead. It is the very source of energy and momentum of Trump to say erroneous things and move on. It is the very wind at his back.

For his part, Trump Jr. has hired a lawyer who speaks legalese, with English as a second language. As The Post reports, “his attorney, Alan Futerfas, told The Post that he and his client ‘were fully prepared and absolutely prepared to make a fulsome statement.’ ”

A fulsome statement! The American Heritage dictionary defines fulsome as

Excessively flattering or insincerely earnest. See Synonyms at unctuous. Disgusting or offensive: “With the stink of decaying corpses so near her cave … suddenly she felt overpowered by the fulsome reek” (Jean Auel).