If Donald Trump is a bad man, it is not for Michael Sean Winters or you or I to make that judgement.  It is a personal matter between Mr. Trump and his maker, or between Mr. Trump and his conscience.

Is Donald Trump a person who does bad things?  Of course he is -- so is Hillary Clinton, Cardinal Dolan, and every last one of us.  We are all sinners.

Trump, like Clinton herself and every other politician who has appeared at the Al Smith dinner, made jokes at the expense of his political opponent.    Some of Trump's jokes were very harsh and crossed a line from gentle mockery over into crude insult, and made people feel pretty uncomfortable.  Trump's jokes got many more boos than Clinton's, whose jokes did get a few.

But if Trump truly believed he had a duty to go there, so to speak, then it's not so much a question of sinfulness or lack of control, but rather a question of Trump seeing things from a different point of view.   Questionable judgement, perhaps, but not bad morality.