The GOP defense of Trump is getting more corrupt. Here’s what’s next.

President Trump, who possesses supreme confidence in his mesmerizing charisma and powers of persuasion, is considering a plan to recite the text of his corrupt call with the Ukrainian president on live national television.

“I will read the transcript of the call,” Trump told the Washington Examiner, suggesting he might do this as a “fireside chat.”

Trump did not say whether he will first blot out the corrupt parts with his trusty reality-altering Sharpie, though it’s a measure of our current depths that it’s easy to envision him reading selectively from the call summary and denouncing correctives as “fake news.”

View the complete November 1 commentary by Greg Sargent on The Washington Post website here.