In some ways I pity Don Jr. It seems he sees reality but then has to eradicate his mind and its conclusions to stay in the orbit. Heβs like the subject in the experiment where everyone lied about the length of a line when he (and all) can see its objective length.
To appreciate how obvious it was that President Trump was not meeting this moment, look at the real-time reactions of his own son, Don Jr., to the first tweet.