Setting the tone for his Presidency, he refused, or was unable, to transcend the willful ugliness of his campaign.
"Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more," Underwood said in a statement.
Is Wills's blindness willful?
Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.
If its reluctance to explicitly acknowledge the premeditated nature of the attack on the Benghazi consulate was intentional and meant to preserve this campaign plank, it amounts to willful dishonesty, a punishable offense for any government official.
This, as any legal scholar will recognize, is the doctrine of willful naïveté, a central element in all of the Roberts Court's campaign-finance rulings.
At times today, the campaigns took on an aura of willful levity, but the goal was utterly serious.
Like the absence of Assad's face in the campaign, there's a disturbing sense of willful amnesia that does not acknowledge the current disastrous climate nor the devastating death toll, displacement, or destruction.
Perhaps, if there was a truth in advertising requirement placed on campaign advertising, this would limit the amount of willful misrepresentation.
The Federal Election Commission, which typically handles smaller campaign finance violations, where the actions aren't willful, with civil penalties that are typically fines, docked the Obama campaign $375,000 for regulatory civil violations.
