Well, we now know that Trump’s policies and rhetoric are exactly those of the campaign. Indeed, Trump has never suspended his campaign. On the day he was inaugurated, he submitted a letter to the Federal Election Commission notifying it that he met the legal threshold for filing for re-election in 2020. Furthermore, he continues to court and coddle his base, including through his incessant campaign-style rallies, rather than reaching out or even pretending to be the president of all of America.

But the exchange people remember most came with another questioner, Rich Edson of Fox News, who asked:

“Speaking of your predecessor, he made sure to offer essentially no public criticism of you during your time in office. Will you equally withhold public criticism for President Trump, even if he attempts to dismantle much of what you’ve accomplished?”

Obama responded in part:

“As an American citizen who cares deeply about our country, if there are issues that have less to do with the specifics of some legislative proposal or battle, but go to core questions about our values and our ideals, and if I think that it’s necessary or helpful for me to defend those ideals, then I’ll examine it when it comes.”

Well, it appears that that moment has finally come for Obama, though, in all honesty, it came months ago for many of us.

We have been howling into the wind so long that people dubbed our extreme objection to this deeply immoral and unscrupulous man Trump Derangement Syndrome. But, in fact, the new Bob Woodward book and the Op-Ed in this newspaper by an anonymous administration official prove us right. The fact is that most Americans now believe that Trump’s relationship to the Russian hacking and the hush money payments to women who say they had affairs with him are unethical or flat-out illegal.