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What do Putin, Kim Jong Un, Mohamad bin Salman, and Xi Jinping all have in common? They are all brutal strongmen and dictators who demand respect, obedience, loyalty, and want their followers to willingly believe and do anything they tell them. What else do they have in common? They are all men that Trump admires and looks up to.Â
Trump: â Kim Jong Un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.â Trump later said anyone who doesnât cheer for anything he says is a traitor committing treason.
It doesnât matter to Trump cultists that Trump chooses to side with Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia over America, because all Trump has to do is hold a rally, hug the American flag, while telling the crowd to shout, âU-S-A!â And then all of a sudden, that warm and fuzzy feeling of counterfeit patriotism washes over them.
At a rally held by Steve Bannon this past March, an angry and hostile woman took the mic and said, âNever in my life did I think I would like to see a dictator, but if thereâs gonna be one, I want it to be Trump!â which was met with loud cheers and applause from Bannon and the crowd of cultists. It goes without saying that any American who would cheer for that, doesn't believe in liberty, freedom, or the Constitution. Anyone American that cheers for that clearly supports fascism and dictatorships. Trump's cultists don't want an elected official to govern on behalf of the people, they want an authoritarian dictator who will force on everyone else what he believes, and punish those who donât.
Trump claims to support veterans after they return from service, but in the last two years he slashed funding for military housing assistance programs which help keep veterans off the street and gutted mental illness programs which help those dealing with PTSD and suicidal tendencies.
Trump cultists always brag about their love and support for our troops and veterans, then continue to worship a man who steps on the military every chance he gets. Trump promised he would donate to military charities, then didnât, then lied about it. He attacked John McCain during the campaign for no reason, attacked him throughout his term, and continues to attack McCain after his passing.
When Republican Congressman and war veteran Dan Crenshaw, who lost his eye in combat serving this country, tweeted to Trump, âSeriously stop talking about Senator John McCain,â Trump supporters turned on veteran Crenshaw and harassed, threatened and insulted him on twitter. They defended a known coward and draft dodger, and attacked Crenshaw, a wounded war veteran who served this country honorably. Let that sink in for a moment.
At a rally in August 2016, a war veteran presented his Purple Heart medal to Trump, and he took it and said, âI always wanted one of these, this way is much easier.â Utterly disgusting.
No other politician, Republican or Democrat, would have EVER accepted that from a veteran.
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âYou donât even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. Because if this body [Congress] determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.â
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham Jan 23, 1999
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham, May 3, 2016
âI think heâs a kook, I think heâs crazy. I think heâs unfit for office."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Feb, 2016
"Hereâs what youâre buying: Heâs a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesnât represent my party. He doesnât represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. And you know how you make America great again, by telling Donald Trump to go to he//."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Dec 8, 2015
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If Trump ever sits down for an interview with Mueller, he will surely walk out of that interview in handcuffs, and Trump's lawyers know it.
In 2007, Trump sued reporter Tim O'Brien. In 2009, a judge dismissed Trumpâs case against OâBrien. Trump appealed, but in 2011 that was denied too. Trump accused O'Brien of being reckless and dishonest in a book that raised questions about Trumpâs net worth. The reporterâs attorneys turned the tables and brought Trump in for a deposition. During the deposition on Dec.19 and 20, 2007, Trump was caught lying at least 30 times. The lies Trump told during the deposition were unstrategic â needless, highly specific, and easy to disprove. When he was caught lying, Trump would blame others for the error. or explained that the untrue thing really was true, at least in his mind. Trump's lying deposition is now a part of the public record.
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The dawn of American democracy didnât come in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence. It didnât come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified by the states, or in 1789, when George Washington took office. According to Harry Rubenstein, chair and curator of the Division of Political History at the American History Museum, the symbolic birth of our system of government didnât come until its noble ideals were actually put to the test. On September 19, 215 years ago, Washington published his farewell address, marking one the first peaceful transfers of power in American history and cementing the countryâs status as a stable, democratic state.
This moment, Rubenstein says, âis crucial for creating the in-and-out system of government that we have. And this is unique. In that time and era, politicians would gain power, or kings would stay in office until theyDie.â At that nascent stage in American history, before precedents such as the two-term limit were even set, many were uncertain about what would happen after a galvanizing figure like Washington resigned office. But at this critical juncture, the leadership of Washington and others proved more than adequate to preserve the democracy. âStepping down is unique,â says Rubenstein. âItâs a powerful statement about Washington and American democracy.â
Saying that what happened at the Capitol on January 6th was legitimate political discourse is like saying the Civil War was just legitimate political discourse.
So according to the RNC, sedition, along withBeating theCrap out of cops, is considered legitimate political discourse. Fascinating.
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Former Republican Rep. Charlie Dent expressed his disgust over rioters who stormed the Capitol, and Trump's rhetoric that sparked the insurrection.
"He's committed a mortal crime against the republic," Dent said. "He should have resigned over this, but he won't, of course."
In an interview, Dent conveyed his anger with a pro-Trump rioter carrying a Confederate flag inside the Capitol building, calling it a "desecration."
"I always proudly took my constituents to a plaque right by the east-front Capitol, right by the front door. It's a plaque dedicated to the honorary first defenders from Allentown, Pennsylvania, in Redding, Pennsylvania ... who went to the Capitol, at the call of Abraham Lincoln, to defend the Capitol during the Civil War. ... The confederates never got there. They were there to protect against the rebellion. And here we are, watching Confederate flags running through the Capitol. To see this desecration to me, it's so upsetting as an American, as a Republican. How could this happen?"
"The voters, the courts, the states â they've all spoken. They've all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever. This election was actually not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000Â and 2004 were all closer."
âIf this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter aDeath spiral. Weâd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would bring a scramble for power at any cost."
--Mitch McConnell, Jan 6.
A Texas man charged in the Capitol insurrection threatened to ki// hisChildren if they told the FBI he had taken part in the riot, according to court documents.
Guy Reffitt, who the FBI says is part of a far-rightExtremist group called "Texas Freedom Force," (hilarious) was arrested and charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and obstruction of justice.
The FBI said in a charging affidavit that Reffitt, a 48-year-old oil worker from Wylie, Texas, first bragged about his trip to Washington, DC, to his family, saying he had filmed the riot on a GoPro-style camera.
Upon learning of the FBI's investigation into the insurrection, Reffitt threatened toShootHisChildren if they turned him in to authorities, the affidavit said.
His wife told the FBI that Reffitt told his son andDaughter: "If you turn me in, you're a traitor and you know what happens to traitors ⌠traitors getShot."
He separately told his daughter he'd "put a bulletThrough her phone if she posted about him on social media, according to the affidavit.
But Reffitt's family did end up speaking to the FBI, the affidavit said, and days later, agents arrived at Reffitt's door with a search warrant.
This guy loves Trump more than his own family.
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Jared Kusher has been given a major role in the federal response to the national health crisis that has taken more than 7 thousand American lives. Many people were shocked and even horrified that Jared, who has absolutely zero medical or health experience, and zero experience in crisis management, would be given such a role on the coronavirus task force. But it turns out that Jared is married to Trump's daughter, and Trump had an uncle who attended MIT, which automatically makes Jared qualified to help lead America through a global pandemic. According to Trump, Jared might actually be over qualified for the job.
Jared suffers from what's called Dunning-Kruger effect, a psychological phenomenon that leads incompetent people to overestimate their ability, because they are totally oblivious to just how ignorant and incompetent they truly are. Even though Jared has less than zero experience in dealing with foreign affairs, the Middle-East conflict, crisis management, infectious diseases, or the medical field, he automatically believes he knows everything there is to know about all of them. NOW HOW SCARY IS THAT?!?!đ˛
Would you be okay with Trump picking Jared to perform major surgery on you, even though he's not a surgeon, and he has no medical background? Because I promise you, Jared would not hesitate for one secomd to perform that surgical procedure on you if given the greenlight by his father-in-law. The fact that he has no idea what he's doing wouldn't even cross his mind. NOW HOW SCARY IS THAT?!?!đ˛
This is the type of unbridled buffoonery we've all come to expect from Trump and his backwards and reckless administration. He appoints the most unprincipled and least qualified people, to the most crucial and vital positions. So now, in an hour of existential death and horror for the country, when more than 7 thousand Americans have already died, Jared will be making life-or-death decisions for all Americans. Let that horror sink in for a moment.
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The true character of a person will always be revealed when they are faced with a crisis or adversity. And the eternal question will always be, when it truly mattered, did they do the right thing? So far, Trump has failed. And Trump has never failed to fail, because failing has always been the easiest thing for him to do.
When this is finally over, there will be an independent commission tasked with investigating and producing a full and complete accounting of the nationâs preparedness and response to the coronavirus. Donald "I believe in magic not science" Trump, will be held accountable for his indifference, criminal ineptitude, and his failure as president to properly protect and defend this country from a pandemic that has already cost more than 8 thousand American lives. And many of these Americans did not have to die.
When Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014, President Obama recognized that responding to the outbreak overseas, while also protecting Americans at home, involved multiple U.S. government departments and agencies, none of which were speaking to one another.
So to bring order and harmony to the chaos, he create a coherent multiagency response overseas and on the homefront. Building on the Ebola experience, President Obama set up a permanent epidemic monitoring and command group inside the White House National Security Council, and another in the Department of Homeland Securityâboth of which followed the scientific and public health leads of the National Institutes of Health, and the CDC, and the diplomatic advice of the State Department.
But thatâs all gone now. In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSCâs entire global health security unit shut down. This was the directorate charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics. Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of shock. Because experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
In the spring of 2018, Trump pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the governmentâs $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated..
America would never survive another four years of Trump, and his criminally incompetent administration. Unfortunately, many Americans did not, and will not survive the first 3 years of his administration. May they rest in peace.
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Trump: "For the record, I was never a big fan of testing, because I like the numbers where they are right now. So when the number of infection cases goes up because of more testing, don't blame me. And I take no responsibility for any of this, and the reason why is because everyone knew I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House. So again, don't blame me, blame the people who voted for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham who continues to defend me. I'm the same person that I've always been, an unethical con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that."
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The Founders understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
The Ukraine scandal began in the spring of 2019, with a series of contacts between Trumpâs personal lawyer, Rudy, and Ukrainian officials. In mid-July, Trump decided to withhold nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine that had already been appropriated by Congress. The White House offered no explanation, except to blame âinteragency delay.â A week later, Trump spoke by phone to the recently elected Ukrainian president, Zelensky. The memorandum released by the White House describing that callâwhich is consistent with the accounts of the whistleblower complaint that first brought this scandal to lightâreads like a classic shakedown.
According to the memo, after exchanges of flattery, Trump states that âwe do a lot for Ukraineâ and that âwe spend a lot of effort and a lot of time,â before he complains that the relationship is not always âreciprocal.â Zelensky then raises the question of military aid to Ukraine, to which Trump immediately responds, âI would like you to do us a favor though,â and proceeds to ask Zelensky to investigate two unfounded conspiracy theories: one involving the server containing emails stolen from the DNC during the 2016 election, and the other involving the thoroughly debunked claim about then-VP Biden, his potential reelection opponent.
Trump asks Zelensky to work with Giuliani and AG Barr to investigate his potential opponent and so aid his own reelection campaign. There can be no misunderstanding that Traitor Trump was abusing his official power in the conduct of foreign policy to get a foreign government to investigate his political rival.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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