Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Washington Post" channel.

  1. Thanks for reminding me why I will NEVER vote republican. 👍👍 un-be-liev-a-ble.
    11
  2.  Gino Defabio  LMAO!!!🤣🤣 I'm a Marine combat veteran, so you can save the tough keyboard warrior babble. You counterfeit patriots are all the same.🤣
    11
  3. Trump: "I take no responsibility for any of this.. Taking responsibility is not my deal in life. I admit that I take many things, but responsibility isnt one of them."
    11
  4. Americans have learned by now that whenever Trump says something is fake news, that means it's definitely true. Trump: "My word is my con."
    11
  5. In 2015, Western European intelligence agencies began picking up evidence of communications between the Russian government and people in Donald Trump’s orbit. In April 2016, one of the Baltic states shared with then–CIA director John Brennan an audio recording of Russians discussing funneling money to the Trump campaign. In the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, head of the U.K. intelligence agency GCHQ, flew to Washington to brief Brennan on intercepted communications between the Trump campaign and Russia.. The contents of these communications have not been disclosed, but what Brennan learned obviously unsettled him profoundly. In congressional testimony on Russian election interference, Brennan hinted that some Americans might have betrayed their country. “Individuals who go along a treasonous path,” he warned, “do not even realize they’re along that path until it gets to be a bit too late.” In a 2017 interview, he put it more bluntly: “I think Trump is afraid of the president of Russia. The Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult.” In July 2016, a loose-knit community of computer scientists and cybersecurity experts discovered a strange pattern of online traffic between two computer servers. One of those servers belonged to Alfa Bank in Moscow and the other to the Trump Organization. Alfa Bank’s owners had “assumed an unforeseen level of prominence and influence in the economic and political affairs of their nation,” as a federal court once put it. The analysts noted that the traffic between the two servers occurred during office hours in New York and Moscow and spiked in correspondence with major campaign events, suggesting it entailed human communication rather than bots. More suspiciously, after NYT reporter Eric Lichtblau asked Alfa Bank about it but BEFORE he brought it up with the Trump campaign, the server in Trump Tower shut down. The timing strongly implied Alfa Bank was communicating with Trump. Trump knows, that Brennan knows, that he's a compromised Russian asset. One big unanswered question is why were Trump and his people having so many interactions with Russian officials and Russian operatives during the campaign? They were having more interactions with Russians than Americans. On April 18, 2019, a redacted copy of Mueller’s report was released to the public. The Mueller report builds on the U.S. intelligence conclusion that there were two campaigns to elect Trump— one run by Trump and one run by the Russian government. The Mueller report clearly identified connections between the Trump campaign and Russia... A total of 272 contacts between Trump’s team and Russia-linked operatives were identified, including at least 38 meetings. We now know that at least 33 high-ranking campaign officials and Trump advisers had or were at least aware of contacts with Russia-linked operatives during the campaign and transition, including Trump himself, Don Jr, Manafort, Flynn, Jared, Papadopoulos,  Rick Gates, and Roger Stone, just to name a few. But what's worse, is the fact that they all lied about these contacts. None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover them up, every single one of them.. The question every American should be asking is why were there so many contacts(272) between Trump’s people and Russian officials and operatives, and why did Trump and his people lie about those contacts?
    10
  6. Trump and the Republican party should just come out and admit that they want to take away your right to vote. As of now, they can't legally take away your right to vote, but what they are trying to do, is make it so difficult for you to vote, or for your vote to even count, that it will be the equivalent of taking away your right to vote. And it's so obvious. One of the first things Biden and Dems must do, is reverse all of the voter suppression obstacles Republicans put into place, and make voting a national holiday, like it is in other countries.
    10
  7. It's the most juvenile thing ever.
    10
  8. "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”  ―Thomas Jefferson At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787,  Benjamin Franklin was asked as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention,  a lady asked Dr. Franklin: “Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Benjamin Franklin replied:  “A republic....if you can keep it.” Today, Trump and Republicans are telling the American people that we can no longer keep it. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. --Abraham Lincoln Make no mistake, this is far from over. Between, Parnas and Bolton, the truth about Trump's crimes will inevitably be revealed. Every week will bring a new revelation of the criminal activities of this illegitimate president, along with the names of all the Republicans who were complicit in aiding and abetting his criminal activity. Lev Parnas" lawyer sent a letter to Moscow Mitch stating that he is ready to give testimony, as well as provide documents, that will prove that GOP Super PAC America One, Rudy, Pompeo, Rick Perry, Mulvaney, Bill Barr, Nunes, Pence, and Desperate Housewife of Capitol Hill 👉Lindsey Graham, were all part of Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine... Is it any wonder why Republicans were so vehemently against introducing witnesses and evidence into the Senate trial. They were covering up their own crimes. But it will all come to the light eventually. It's only a matter of time. "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." --Winston Churchill "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
    10
  9. The lawyer for Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy said his client is prepared to testify under oath that aides to Devin Nunes, scrapped a trip to Ukraine this year when they realized it would mean notifying Dem Chairman Adam Schiff. Lev Parnas would tell Congress that the purpose of the planned trip was to interview two Ukrainian prosecutors who claim to have evidence that could help Trump’s reelection campaign, said Parnas’ attorney, Joseph Bondy. When Nunes’ staff realized that going to Ukraine themselves would mean alerting Schiff to their treachery, they instead asked Parnas to set up the meetings for them over phone and Skype, which he did, according to Bondy. The Nunes team’s scrapped trip to Ukraine has not been previously reported, nor have the meetings that Bondy said his client arranged in place of the overseas trip. The meetings took place in late March, and Derek Harvey, a senior investigator for Nunes, represented the congressman, according to Bondy.  Parnas says he began working with Harvey after Nunes and his staff traveled to Vienna in late November to meet with another potential source of political dirt on Dems: former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Parnas wanted to testify before the House Intel Committee about the Vienna trip. Since then, Nunes has threatened to sue both CNN and The Daily Beast, which also reported on Parnas’ story. The revelations about the planned trip to Ukraine this spring, suggest that Nunes’ efforts to dig up dirt on Biden and Dems did not end with the Vienna trip. They also implicate Nunes and his staff in the very same events the committee is currently investigating. Specifically, the monthslong effort by Trump, Rudy and others to get Ukrainian officials to help them dig up dirt on Biden, and to validate debunked far-right conspiracies, about Ukraine and the 2016 election. During the public hearings of the impeachment inquiry, Nunes used all of his allotted time to attack Dems, the media, churlish cows,😆 and to repeat the same unfounded claims about Dems and Biden. At no point did Nunes EVER mention that he or his staffers met with the three Ukrainian officials, some of whom were mentioned by name during testimony.
    10
  10. As a vile and malevolent being, Trump is naturally attracted to evil, and evil is naturally attracted to him. Trump and evil are drawn to each other like moths to a flame. Even Trump's own sister, a retired federal judge, and someone who has personally known Trump since the day he was born, said that Trump is a fraud, and a cruel human being. If Trump's own niece and sister won't vote for him, why on earth should anyone else?
    10
  11. I think it's crucial that every American is fully aware of the type of pathological liar, malignant narcissist, and sociopath we're dealing with when it comes to Trump.. "Lying is second nature to him. More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true." "Trump’s temperament and his habits have hardened with age." Schwartz said. "He was always cartoonish, but compared with the man for whom I wrote The Art of the Deal 30 years ago, he is significantly angrier today: more reactive, deceitful, distracted, vindictive, impulsive and, above all, self-absorbed Every American ought to be concerned about his character." Schwartz said. --Tony Schwartz, the ghost writer for Trump's book "The Art of the Deal": In 1989, Trump raised $365 million to purchase the Eastern Shuttle, which provided business travelers with quick flights between NY, Boston, and DC. Within 18 months, the airline lost over $125 million. In August 1989, just two months after Trump launched his Trump Shuttle Airline, one of his Boeing 727s made a crash landing at Boston’s Airport. The passenger jet had malfunctioning nose gear that failed to deploy. The nose and underbelly of the plane scraped and dragged along the entire length of the runaway  upon landing with sparks flying. The pilots had to perform an emergency dumping of fuel to avoid a greater catastrophe. It's all on video. One of the passengers on that flight — who recalls sliding out the aircraft and into a pile of foam — was Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican strategist who worked for Jeb Bush and his super PAC to try to defeat Trump. “Afterward,” Murphy said, “all I got was a form letter and a drink coupon.” And when Trump was asked by reporters about the crash landing in Boston, he said, and I quote: “It was the most beautiful landing you’ve ever seen." 😲 This is the type of dangerously irresponsible sociopath America is dealing with.
    10
  12. Why hasn't that illegal Nazi immigrant Gorka been deported yet?
    10
  13. The State Department has stated that it received no information or warnings about an imminent threat to any of it's embassies. Let's be clear, If the State Department is saying that they received no warnings or information about an imminent threat, that means there was definitely no imminent threat at all. And anyone who has ever served overseas at a US Embassy knows this. Because if there was an imminent threat as Trump and his sycophants are claiming, but yet they failed to alert the State Department and our embassies, then that is a serious problem.
    10
  14. If you see a crazy looking guy on TV, with a flamin hot cheeto complexion, who says the coronavirus is just like the flu, and it will magically disappear, DO NOT BELIEVE HIM.
    9
  15. Most Americans agree that Coronavirus-related corporate bailouts need to come with some strings attached. Trump and Steve Mnuchin want to hide the names of the corporations and businesses that will receive billions of dollars from the relief packages 6 months. lawmakers are currently negotiating a $1.8 trillion stimulus package to help boost the economy during the global pandemic. One of the major sticking points of the debate on Capitol Hill: how to administer $500 billion in relief for big business and major corporations. Trump has already stated that he believes that he should be responsible for administering the money. This is the same con-man who ran a fake charity, a fake university, and tried to steal his dying father's entire estate.  It's all but guaranteed that Trump and Jared will try to hoard billions for themselves, their own hotels, resorts, and other properties. The proposal backed by Trump and Senate Republicans would give Steven Mnuchin wide discretion over which companies get money and when. It would also allow Mnuchin to withhold the names of the corporations and businesses receiving the bailout money for 6 months. Dems in Congress are saying, "hold on swamp, NOT SO FAST!!!" Dems want some guardrails around what companies can and cannot do with the money once checks are cut. Otherwise, what’s to stop an airline from using its bailout money to give its CEO a bonus instead of paying its workers? Or to prevent a major hotel chain from laying off workers while engaging in stock buybacks? By and large, American voters agree companies shouldn’t get money without strings attached. And the swamp howled.
    9
  16. This was just Tucker giving a motivational speech to his white supremacist viewership. He wants them to buck-up, and keep hate alive.
    9
  17. Trump loves showing off his courage and  bravery by attacking dead American war veterans like McCain and Dingell.  Someone give that man a medal. At a rally in August 2016, a war veteran presented his Purple Heart medal to Trump. Trump accepted the medal and said, “I always wanted one of these, this way is much easier.”  Veterans for impeachment!!! Semper Fi
    9
  18. Trump is the most prolific pathological liar in American history. A pathological liar like Trump, is someone who lies compulsively. While there appears to be many possible causes for pathological lying, it’s not yet entirely understood why someone would lie this way. Some lies seem to be told in order to make the pathological liar appear the hero, or to gain acceptance or sympathy, while there’s seemingly nothing to be gained from other lies. Trump does this constantly at his rallies. He tries to play the victim and the hero at the same time. Pathological liars are great storytellers. Their lies tend to be very detailed and colorful. Even though obviously over-the-top, the pathological liar may be very convincing. Along with being made the hero or victim in their stories, pathological liars tend to tell lies that seem to be geared at gaining admiration, sympathy, or acceptance by others. During a July ceremony in the Rose Garden to formally sign a bill that will extend the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund through 2092, Trump told a group of more than 60 first responders an outrageous lie when he said "Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers, and other first responders. I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there—I spent a lot of time down there with you.” There is no evidence that Trump participated in recovery efforts, there’s also no evidence he spent any time near ground zero in the week following the attack. Trump also claimed that he lost 100 friends on 9/11. To this day, he has not been able to name one friend that he lost on 9/11. A pathological liar tells lies and stories that fall somewhere between conscious lying and delusion. They sometimes believe their own lies. It’s difficult to know how to deal with a pathological liar who may not always be conscious of their lying. Some do it so often that experts believe they may not know the difference between fact and fiction after some time. Like when Trump said that his father was born in Germany.😂 Everyone knows that his father was born in NY. When asked questions, they may speak a lot without ever being specific or answering the question. Most people lie at one time or another. Previous research has suggested that we tell an average of 1.65 lies every day. Most of these lies are what are considered “white lies.” Pathological lies, on the other hand, are told consistently and habitually. They tend to appear pointless and often continuous. It's been reported that Trump tells at least 12 lies per day.😲 Identifying a pathological liar isn’t always easy, unless his name is DonaldTrump. The following are some signs to help identify a pathological liar: They often talk about experiences and accomplishments in which they appear heroic, they're also the victim in many of their stories, often looking for sympathy, their stories tend to be elaborate and very detailed, they respond elaborately and quickly to questions, but the responses are usually vague and don’t provide an answer to the question, they may have different versions of the same story, which stems from forgetting previous details, or previous lies..
    9
  19. Well done Adam Schiff. The American people owe you and your colleagues a debt of gratitude for standing up for the truth, the Constitution, the American people, our democracy, and last but not least, for standing up to a wannabe dictator. Because someone has to.
    9
  20. jorgensenmj She spent most of her time lying and making excuses for her mentally unstable boss, just like everyone in his administration.
    9
  21. In May of 2018, when Xi Jinping, leader of the COMMUNIST PARTY of China, changed the country’s constitution to allow him to stay in power indefinitely. Trump, who admires dictators, and has ambitions of being a dictator himself, said it was a good idea, and dreams of doing the same thing. During remarks at Mar-a-Lago, delivered inside the ballroom during a lunch and fundraiser, Trump praised the Chinese president’s power grab, and said he wouldn’t mind trying it himself. Trump: “He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.” NEVER FORGET.....
    9
  22. Removing Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch from the Senate is not about punishment. Removing them from the Senate is about cleansing the Senate. Removing Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch is about restoring honor and integrity to the Senate.
    9
  23. Answer: YES WE CAN!!! At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked a question as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin: “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Benjamin Franklin replied: “A republic....if you can keep it.” Trump is now telling us that we can no longer keep it. This election will determine whether or not we keep our 244 year old democratic republic. America is in a fight for it's very survival, and Trump has made it abundantly clear that America isn't big enough for him and our democratic republic, so therefore one of them MUST GO... On Nov 3rd, make a decision. Who's side are you on? Biden/Harris 2020💙
    9
  24. " Patently frivolous and devoid of merit" they say. Hmmmm, isn't that the same thing fox said about the lawsuits against Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes?
    9
  25. My favorite part of the report so far is Traitor Trump's reaction when he found out about the creation of Mueller's Special Counsel investigation. On May 17, 2017 then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Trump about the special counsel investigation. “When Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, ‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I am f-----d’” according to the report, which based its retelling of this conversation on notes taken by Jody Hunt, Sessions’ chief of staff at the time. Trump then became angry, according to the report, and “lambasted” Sessions for his decision to recuse himself from the investigation. “How could you let this happen Jeff?” the president said, according to the report. Trump told Sessions that the Attorney General was his “most important appointment” and said Sessions had let him down. Sessions told investigators Trump told him “you were supposed to protect me.” 😂😂 Does that sound like an innocent man to anyone? I would have paid good money to have been in that room to see the look on Trump's face when Sessions broke that news to him.😲😲
    9
  26. Since day one, Trump has been moving the goal posts on the pandemic, and on Sunday, "stable genius" said that keeping the U.S. death toll between 100,000 and 200,000 would be “a very good job.” “We can hold that down, as we’re saying, to 100,000, that’s a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000 — so we have between 100- and 200,000 — we all, together, have done a very good job,” Trump said during a task force press briefing. Feb. 26: “So we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.” — Trump White House briefing. Feb. 26: “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” — Trump press conference. Feb. 27: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” — Trump at a White House meeting. Trump is clearly mentally impaired, and his psychosis infects everything and everyone around him. He has turned his white house into an asylum for the criminally insane, and criminally incompetent. Trump's White House is a vortex of lies, pandemonium, betrayal, treason, thievery, nepotism, upheaval, moral turpitude, skulduggery, and sanctioned lawlessness. There's enough chaos going on in Trump's white house, than even Nurse Ratched herself would be reduced to tears and a complete nervous breakdown.
    9
  27. Back in 1984, Trump had started laundering money for the Russian mafia. In ‘92, the Russian mafia had people like Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, who was one of the key figures under the mob boss Mogilevich. The FBI was looking all over for him, and then they discovered that he was actually living in Trump Tower. A lot of the Russian mobsters were going to Trump Tower to launder money as well. Trump was completely overextended in Atlantic City. He ended up $4 billion in debt. He had no future at all until the Russians came to his aid... It’s well known that Trump likes doing business with gangsters, in part because they pay top dollar and loan money when American banks stopped loaning Trump money. It was a win-win for both sides. The Russian mafia is totally different than the American mafia. In Russia, the mafia is essentially a state actor. In an interviewed, Gen. Oleg Kalugin, who is a former head of counterintelligence in the KGB and had been Putin’s boss at one point, was asked about the Russain mafia. He said, “Oh, it’s part of the KGB. It’s part of the Russian government.” In 2005, Manafort started working for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Manafort, a had hired himself out to a variety of global villains, promised he would “influence politics, business dealings, and news coverage inside the US, Europe, and former Soviet Republics to benefit Putin’s government.. Russia’s oligarchs put their wealth and power at Putin’s disposal, or they don’t remain oligarchs for long. This requirement is not lost on Deripaska. “I don’t separate myself from the state,” Deripaska told the Financial Times in 2007. “I have no other interests.” A 2006 U.S. diplomatic cable described him as “among the 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis.” Working for Deripaska, meant Manafort was working for Putin. Deripaska hired Manafort for $10 million a year, and Manafort worked to advance Russian interests in Ukraine, Georgia, and Montenegro. Trump was working with the Russian mafia for more than 30 years. He was profiting from them. They rescued him. They bailed him out. They took him from being $4 billion in debt to becoming a multibillionaire again, and they fueled his political ambitions, starting more than 30 years ago. This means Trump was in bed with the Kremlin as well, whether he knew it or not... On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Trump was elected president, a man named Vyacheslav Nikonov approached a microphone in the Russian State Duma (their equivalent of the US House of Representatives) and made a very unusual statement. “Dear friends, respected colleagues!” Nikonov said. “Three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections, and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America, and I congratulate you on this.” Nikonov is a leader in the pro-Putin United Russia Party and, incidentally, the grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov — after whom the “Molotov cocktail” was named. His announcement that day was a clear signal that Trump’s victory was, in fact, a victory for Putin’s Russia..
    9
  28. The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholder’s abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trump’s conduct—it practically defines it. The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart. Article II, Section 4, says the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. “You don’t 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.” -- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham Jan 23, 1999 “I think he’s a kook, I think he’s crazy. I think he’s unfit for office." --Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham on Trump,  Feb, 2016 "Here’s what you’re buying: He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t 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 “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”  ― Abraham Lincoln
    9
  29. Trump: " In 2 weeks, I will be coming out with a tremendous new healthcare plan. And the best part about my plan, is that Mexico is going to pay for it."
    9
  30. Trump said he didn't recall taking his oath of office.
    9
  31. Why on earth would a gown man want to belong to a group called the "proud boys?" And exactly what are they so proud of? They should probably change their name to the "Proud Prepubescent Boys." These "Proud Prepubescent Boys" are the definition of counterfeit patriotism. What's  so funny is that these are the very same people that Trump calls disgusting, so he's glad he doesn't have to shake their hands during the pandemic. 😄
    8
  32. Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter. --Nick Cohen Truer words were never spoken. Rudy's associate, Lev Parnas should have really listened to Michael Cohen's warning about getting close to Trump. Just imagine that you're a loyal MAGA hat wearing Trump cultist like Parnas. And for more than a year, you worked for Trump by partnering with Rudy to help carry out Trump's bribery scheme in Ukraine. You even put yourself in legal jeopardy for Trump by illegally funneling tons of Russian money into his super-PAC, and republican campaigns. Parnas received a $1 million from Russia and tried to hide it from investigators, prosecutors have now stated.  Parnas, who was charged with illegally funneling foreign cash to Republican politicians, including a pro-Trump super PAC, received $1 million from a mysterious account in Russia in September, which he conveniently forgot to disclose to the government. So then you get caught, arrested, and indicted. Then you turn on the TV one day, to see your cult leader, the man you loved and admired, the man that you risked everything for, announce to the world, that he's never met you, and has no idea who you are. 😲   How would you feel right now if you were Lev Parnas? 😂
    8
  33. And across the nation, r@cists wept.😭 😂
    8
  34. Trump has repeatedly lied when he claims that nobody could have predicted something like the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But as usual, Trump's lies are basic, and easily debunked. Government records shows that repeated warnings were issued to the White House and went unheeded. U.S. intelligence officials with the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a report in late November warning that a virus was taking root in China. Analysts concluded it could be a "cataclysmic event,” and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout December for policymakers, National Security Council, and the White House. On Dec. 31, China publicly confirmed that dozens of people in Wuhan were being treated for pneumonia-like symptoms. Three days later, on Jan. 3, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he first learned of the spread of the virus in China at a White House briefing attended by CDC and Prevention director Robert Redfield. Days after the Jan. 3 briefing in the White House, U.S. intelligence warnings about the threat posed by the virus began appearing in Trump's daily brief. Whether Trump read those is anyone's guess. Either way, his indifference and inaction constitutes a criminal dereliction of duty, and a violation of his oath, to protect and defend this country. Amercan lives have been needlessly lost as a direct consequence of his moral ineptitude and sociopathic behavior, and for that, he must be held accountable. Meanwhile, Trump's is continuing his mission of gaslighting to oblivion, the feeble and atrophied minds of his cultists, with lies about how great of a job he's doing. While in the real world, America now has more than 400k confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections,  and more than 15k deaths. Because of Trump, America has the absolute WORST failed national response to the coronavirus in the world. I sh¡t thee nay.
    8
  35. ALL LIES!!!!
    8
  36. Trump told a plethora of lies during his speech, which isn't unusual at all for the well renowned pathological liar that he is.  Trump's contempt for the Constitution and American people allows him to lie to the public without any remorse or shame. Being a sociopath probably helps too.
    8
  37. Trump: "I do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully desecrate the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, pervert, offend, and violate the Constitution of the United States. So help me Putin...OR Jyna....if you're listening."
    8
  38. Trump really thinks he's a dictator. He actually believes his executive order is above the Supreme Court. He's an utterly absurd human being, standing there flanked by two equally absurd bookends.
    8
  39. What took so long? This is the same clown that blocked rush hour DC traffic because he wanted to ride a horse into work for his 1st day on the job. That should have been everyone's first sign that this guy was #1, an A-hole, and 2nd, he was going to be a serious problem.
    8
  40. Laurence Porter Indeed. We Americans owe the UK and her hometown a debt of gratitude.
    8
  41. Cruz, Graham, and Moscow Mitch have proven that the word of a Republican, is worth about as much as a diploma from Trump University. You can't do anything with either one.
    8
  42. 40goingwest Nope. Trump's cultists are the only ones you see wearing the same silly red hat. They are the only people you see declaring that their leader is the "Chosen One" and that he was sent from God.
    8
  43. I don't see what the problem is. If you don't believe in abortions, then don't have one. Now how hard is that? This isn't even an issue of who's right or wrong, this is about whether or not you believe that your neighbor or the government, should have the right to be involved in your personal and private life, and make decisions for you in your personal and private life.
    8
  44. Trump says that Cohen isn't a smart person. Yet he made Cohen his personal lawyer for years. Who's the dummy now?😂😂 Trump is such a terrible liar. You'd think he would be good at it by now. A letter of intent forwarded by Russian-born businessman Felix Sater to the Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, outlines the terms of a licensing agreement to purchase property to build a "Trump World Tower Moscow."  Sater sent the letter of intent - dated October 13, 2015, and signed by a Russian investor named Andrey Rozov - to Cohen for then-candidate Donald Trump's signature.  Emails exchanged between Cohen and Sater - who have known each other since they were teenagers - weeks later indicated that they were preparing to celebrate not only Trump's election victory, but also the potential Russia deal.  Sater boasted of his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emails, which were obtained by The New York Times, telling Cohen that he would "get all of Putins team to buy in" on the Moscow deal.  Slater email to Cohen: "Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it," Sater wrote, . "I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected."  Two months later, Cohen emailed Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, asking for his "assistance" in pushing the deal through, according to emails submitted to congressional investigators
    8
  45. The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholder’s abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trump’s conduct—it practically defines it. Article II, Section 4, says the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy and our liberties from would-be tyrants. The Founders must have been clairvoyant, because they clearly envisioned  someone like Trump in America's future. Someone who has no respect for democracy or America's Constitution, and who is clearly trying to tear them both apart.
    8
  46. The Republican party isn't interested in governing, they want to rule. They want to dictate. They believe they have the right to dictate to you on how you can vote. Imagine that.
    7
  47. The articles of impeachment against Traitor Trump.. ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER Using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 United States Presidential election. He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 United States Presidential election to his advantage. President Trump also sought to pressure the Government of Ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official United States Government acts of significant value to Ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. President Trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. In so doing, President Trump used the powers of the Presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the United States and undermined the integrity of the United States democratic process. He thus ignored and injured the interests of the Nation. ARTICLE II: OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed—Donald J. Trump has directed the unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives pursuant to its "sole Power of Impeachment". President Trump has abused the powers of the Presidency in a manner offensive to, and subversive of, the Constitution. In the history of the Republic, no President has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the House of Representatives to investigate "high Crimes and Misdemeanors". This abuse of office served to cover up the President's own repeated misconduct and to seize and control the power of impeachment—and thus to nullify a vital constitutional safeguard vested solely in the House of Representatives. In all of this, President Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States. Article II, Section 4, says the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." So shall it be written, so shall it be done..
    7
  48. Trump: "I'm not a big fan of testing, because I like the numbers where they are right now. The less people we test, the lower the number of infection cases we'll have. Problem solved."
    7
  49. The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholder’s abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trump’s conduct—it practically defines it. Trump took 400 million in taxpayer dollars, which had been appropriated by Congress, and used it to bribe a foreign country into taking specific actions that would only benefit him personally. The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart. Article II, Section 4, says the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
    7
  50. "I pledge allegiance, to Lord King Donald Trump, of the Dystopian States of America, and to the monarchy for which he stands, one ruler, the chosen God, with oppression and subjugation for all." --- The GOP
    7