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There is more than enough evidence to charge Trump with criminal negligent homicide of at least 100 thousand Americans.
In proving negligent homicide, the prosecution only needs to establish that the defendants knew the risks associated with their actions.
1. The defendant was aware of the risks associated with the actions that led to the other personâs death. â
2. The defendant acted, or failed to act appropriately in a dangerous situation, and that action or inaction caused the victimâs death. â
3. There is a direct link between the defendantâs conduct and the victimâs death. â
Trump has admitted to downplaying the virus from the very beginning. He has been telling lies to the American since January, and with lethal consequences..
Trump told Woodward he's been minimizing the threat posed by the outbreak.
Trump: "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down," Trump said.
Trump during February 7 phone call with Bob Woodward:
"It goes through air, Bob. That's always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch, you don't have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than your, you know, your even your strenuous flus. This is 5% vs 1%. You know so, this is deadly stuff."
Three weeks after that call, Trump told this lie to the public during a February 26 White House press conference:
Trump: "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
March 19: Trump again talked with Woodward. He acknowledged emerging evidence that a wide age range can be gravely impacted by the coronavirus.
Trump: "Now it's turning out it's not just old people, Bob. Just today and yesterday some startling facts came out. It's not just old -- it's plenty of young people," he said.
Aug. 5:Â Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported over 240,000 documented COVID-19 cases in children at this point, Trump told this lie during an interview:
Trump: "If you look at children, children are almost -- and I would almost say definitely -- but almost immune from this disease." He adds "They don't have a problem. They just don't have a problem."
Trump knew that what he was telling the American was NOT true. And at least 100 thousand American citizens have died because of his lies.
Trumpâs downplaying of the coronavirus pandemic will be remembered as âthe greatest dereliction of dutyâ in presidential history..
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There is more than enough evidence to charge Trump with criminal negligent homicide of at least 100 thousand Americans.
In proving negligent homicide, the prosecution only needs to establish that the defendants knew the risks associated with their actions.
1. The defendant was aware of the risks associated with the actions that led to the other personâs death. â
2. The defendant acted, or failed to act appropriately in a dangerous situation, and that action or inaction caused the victimâs death. â
3. There is a direct link between the defendantâs conduct and the victimâs death. â
Trump has admitted to downplaying the virus from the very beginning. He has been telling lies to the American since January, and with lethal consequences..
Trump told Woodward he's been minimizing the threat posed by the outbreak.
Trump: "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down," Trump said.
Trump during February 7 phone call with Bob Woodward:
"It goes through air, Bob. That's always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch, you don't have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than your, you know, your even your strenuous flus. This is 5% vs 1%. You know so, this is deadly stuff."
Three weeks after that call, Trump told this lie to the public during a February 26 White House press conference:
Trump: "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
March 19: Trump again talked with Woodward. He acknowledged emerging evidence that a wide age range can be gravely impacted by the coronavirus.
Trump: "Now it's turning out it's not just old people, Bob. Just today and yesterday some startling facts came out. It's not just old -- it's plenty of young people," he said.
May 6:Â Following a concerted push to reopen schools beginning in late April, Trump lied again when he suggested that children aren't susceptible to the coronavirus.
Trump: "We realize how strong children are, right? Their immune system is maybe a little bit different. Maybe it's just a little bit stronger, or maybe it's a lot stronger," he said.
Aug. 5:Â Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported over 240,000 documented COVID-19 cases in children at this point, Trump told this lie during an interview:
Trump: "If you look at children, children are almost -- and I would almost say definitely -- but almost immune from this disease." He adds "They don't have a problem. They just don't have a problem."
Trump knew that what he was telling the American people was NOT true. And at least 100 thousand American citizens have died because of his lies.
Trumpâs downplaying of the coronavirus pandemic will be remembered as âthe greatest dereliction of dutyâ in presidential history. We owe it to the more than 200 thousand American souls that are no longer with us, to remove Trump from office.
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COVID-19: "Perhaps I didn't make myself clear the first time, so let me try again. I am an equal opportunity virus. To me, all of your lives are equally worthless. I am immune to Trump's lies and gaslighting. Ignorance and misinformation from Trump and Fox only makes me stronger. I can't be defeated with phony patriotism, guns, flag waving, or denial. I can't be defeated with magic, because I am real, and magic is not. I can only be defeated with science, facts, maturity, unselfishness, and common sense. Medical experts like Dr Fauci make me nervous. I am nothing like the flu, but the flu is a fan of mine, and it wants to be like me when it grows up. Trying to ignore me won't save you. I can't be defeated with thoughts and prayers, so going to places of worship won't save you. You may not be interested in me, but I am obsessed with you. Currently there is no vaccine for me, and that's the problem. Selfish ignorant people like Trump and his cult are the wind beneath my wings, they give me life. I may have lost some strength in other countries, but thanks to Trump, America is making me great again." đȘđ
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The sad reality is that DJT and republicans don't believe in democracy, our Constitution, or your right to vote, and that's why they're terrified of American voters. Your right to vote is the biggest threat to them.
In March, DJT openly admitted that an increase in voting numbers would hurt his party, saying proposed reforms would result in âlevels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it, youâd never have a Republican elected in this country again.â
DJT and the GOP are obssessed with greed and absolute power. And the three biggest threats to them achieving those goals, are the Constitution, the free press, and the American voters. If DJT and the Republican party had their way, there would be no earlier voting or mail-in ballots. There would be only one day to vote, at one location per state, with only a 2 hour window to cast your vote.
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Trump: "I'm not taking responsibility for any of this. People are acting like I'm a REAL president and a real leader. I'm the same guy who betrayed America in front of the entire world in Helsinki. I'm nothing more than a fraud, who with the help of Putin, managed to con my way into the Oval Office. Plus most people 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 were dumb enough to vote for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch. They both know exactly who and what I am, but yet they continue to defend me. For crying out loud, Lindsey Graham even stated on fox, that I was in fact, a Krazy, race-baiting bigot. So you see, I'm the same person that I've always been, an irredeemable con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that."
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When it comes to Trump, I'll take the word of Trump's own sister, who has known him his entire life? She knows him better, and longer, than anyone alive today. And if she wouldn't support him as president, why on earth should anyone else?
In the released audio of Trumpâs sister Maryanne Trump Barry, she describes Trump as being among other things, unprepared, a brat, and cruel.Â
âItâs the phoniness of it all. Itâs the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel,â Barry told her niece.
âAll he wants to do is appeal to his base,â Barry said. âHe has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.âÂ
Trump's sister was aghast at how he operated as president. âHis god-d tweets and lying, oh my God,â she said. âIâm talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy s***. What theyâre doing with kids at the border."
Trump's sister also explained how âShe didnât know of anything Donald had ever accomplished on his own, but noted that âhe has five bankruptciesâ which he achieved all by himself."Â âYou CAN'T trust him,â she added.
She also made it clear that she was still upset by how Trump chose to celebrate himself at their fatherâs funeral in 1999.
"During that ceremony, Donald spoke more about his own accomplishments than his fatherâs life," Maryanne said..
âDonald was the only one who didnât speak about Dad,â she said. She told Mary that âI donât want any of my siblings to speak at my funeral. And thatâs all about Donald and what he did at Dadâs funeral. I donât know. It was all about him.â
Only a f00l would ignore what she says about Trump.
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How do you know when America's democracy is under siege? It's when our president believes he is above the law, and brags about falling in love with the most despotic dictator in modern history.
Semper Fi...
June 15 2018
Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018
Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic.. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âThereâs no English equivalent for silovik. It doesnât translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism, followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.âÂ
â Tanya Thompson, Red Russia
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
âThe liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.âÂ
â Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal...
Nixon announced his resignation the next day, effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974.
In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign."
In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt that one way or another his presidency was finished."
This was back when the Republican party still had at least a modicum of dignity, decency, integrity, and a sense of right and wrong. Today, thanks to Trump, Moscow Mitch, Graham,
Nunes, Jordan, Barr, Meadows, and others, the wholesale corruption of the GOP is now complete.
The Republican Party is now led by a kleptocratic crime boss who rules over the most scandal-ridden administration in history. Many of his closest advisers and associates have
either been imprisoned or are facing prison time. Trump himself is trying to cheat in this election in order to stay in office and avoid prosecution. Nixonâs administration may have been riddled with criminalityâbut in 1973, the Republican Party was still a somewhat normal party, that still played by the rules, so Nixon was forced to resign. But not anymore. Those days are long gone.
The corruption we see in the Republican party today can be defined as institutional depravity. It isnât an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isnât about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of powerâpower as an end in itself, justifying almost any means.
Todayâs Republican Party has cornered itself in with a base of ever older, more male, more rural, more radical conservative voters. They could have tried to expand; instead, theyâve hardened and walled themselves off. This is why the Republican Party lies about the risks of voter fraud, so that it can pass laws to suppress voter turnout.
Taking away democratic rightsâextreme gerrymandering; blocking an elected president from nominating a Supreme Court justice; selectively paring voting rolls and polling places; creating spurious anti-fraud commissions; misusing the census to undercount the opposition; calling lame-duck legislative sessions to pass laws against the will of the votersâis the Republican Partyâs main political strategy.
Republicans have chosen suppression and authoritarianism, because unlike the Dems, their party isnât a coalition of interests in search of a majority. The Republican party isn't interested in what the majority of Americans want.
Trump is now the grotesque face of the rot within the party itself, and it reeks of corruption,
paranoia, fascism, wild conspiracy theories, racism and other types of hostility toward entire groups. Trump is no different than his authoritarian counterparts abroad: immoral, demagogic, hostile to institutional checks, demanding and receiving demagogic obedience and protection from the party, and knee-deep in the financial corruption that is integral to the political corruption of authoritarian regimes..
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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,â and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagonâs Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout Dec, Jan, and Feb for the 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. Trump fired Alex Azar shortly there after because he knew too much.
Public-health experts have stated that Trump's early efforts to downplay the threat of the virus robbed the US of valuable time needed to prepare for what is now a pandemic â potentially costing thousands of lives...
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama..
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
Jha criticized Trump for telling Americans that everything was "under control" when it was very clear to anybody paying attention that it was not under control."
"I don't use these words lightly, and it's incredibly painful for me to say it," he said, adding: "The cost of all of this is that tens of thousands of Americans are going to die unnecessarily. It was wholly preventable, and not just preventable in hindsight â it was preventable in foresight. Everybody said this is how it was going to play out if they didn't act."
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 disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, that was created by President Obama, and was 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 has defended his record, arguing, âIâm a "businessperson." I donât like having thousands of people around when you donât need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.â
But experts argue thatâs not how pandemic preparedness works, and that's definitely not how a virus works. âYou build a fire department ahead of time,â Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security stated. âYou donât wait for a fire.â
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
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While the coronavirus highlighted Trumpâs indifference, criminal negligence and incompetence, we may look back at his response to the current protests as the moment when his longtime flirtation with authoritarianism hardened into something more sinister. Thereâs no limit to what Trump will inflict to get reelected. His own sister called him a cruel human being.
He called protesters âter.rorists,â and suggested they should be locked up for at least a decade to silence them, encouraged the use of force against American citizens and the free press, and promised to unleash the military on American citizens. These are the actions of authoritarian regimes in countries the world over.
In many countries around the world, it would be distressing, but not surprising to see the government use the fear of ter.rorism to demonize and encourage the use of force to squash these protest movements. Playing up violent acts committed by a small minority is right out of the authoritarian playbook.
It shifts focus away from Trump's many failures, and assigns blame to a bo.ogeyman. This step alone is critical for Trump. Trump is not to blame for the systemic racism and injustice, but addressing it is the LAST thing he would ever want to do. Why? Well for starters, he himself is a ra.cist.
Trump's actions have already caused immense pain to everyday Americans and the American way of life. They set a dangerous precedent. We are on a perilous path. We are now seeing how Trump and those around him who share is authoritarian impulses respond protests that resulted from genuine grievances. Consider how they will handle the protests that almost certainly will erupt if Trump tries to postpone the election, steal the election, suppress the vote in Democratic areas, or refuses to accept its result if he loses.
In a 2016 replay, Trump recently refused to say whether he would accept the election results if he loses. That was a clear threat, and a warning. Trump has identified his true enemies. and it is America's constitution, and us.
Trump doesn't even need Pence as a running mate. Trump's running mate is tyranny.
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Marine Sgt, Maj. Dan Daly is known for being one of the most decorated service members of all time. He was awarded not one, but TWO medals of honor.
He coined an expression that will forever live on in books, movies, and among troops He almost earned a third for his part in a counter-attack against the enemy in the famous Battle of Belleau Wood. Instead, Daly was given the Distinguished Service Cross and, later, the Navy Cross.
In June 1918 at the battle of Belleau Wood in WW1, the Marines were pinned down under heavy artillery barrage. At one point in the battle, the now 44 year old Daly, led his Marines in a counter-attack against machine gun emplacements with a battle cry that has become Marines lore âCome on, you sons of Bââ, do you want to live forever?!â In the course of that battle he was wounded three times. 1,800 Marines died in the battle of Belleau Wood.
These are the types of Americans that our current sitting president refers to as "losers."
And Putin's asset in the Oval Office STILL hasn't uttered one word about the bounties that Putin has placed on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan.
Since then we learned that a violent collision took place in Syria between US and Russian troops that left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said. Two Russian helicopters flew above the Americans, and one of the aircraft was within about 70 feet the vehicle.
The injuries occurred when one of the Russian vehicles deliberately sideswiped an American vehicle in a convoy, causing the crew to suffer "concussion-like injuries." Initial reports indicate as many as four Americans may have been injured.
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
âPresident Theodore Roosevelt
Trump has made it abundantly clear that he believes in nothing, honors nothing, and respects nothing. As a veteran, the oath I took would never allow me to vote for a domestic threat to my country like Trump. Trump has repeatedly betrayed America, it's people, as well as his oath of office. And as a Marine veteran, his betrayals to this country are unforgettable, and unforgivable.
Semper Fi.
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Marine Sgt, Maj. Dan Daly is known for being one of the most decorated service members of all time. He was awarded not one, but TWO medals of honor.
He coined an expression that will forever live on in books, movies, and among troops He almost earned a third for his part in a counter-attack against the enemy in the famous Battle of Belleau Wood. Instead, Daly was given the Distinguished Service Cross and, later, the Navy Cross.
In June 1918 at the battle of Belleau Wood in WW1, the Marines were pinned down under heavy artillery barrage. At one point in the battle, the now 44 year old Daly, led his Marines in a counter-attack against machine gun emplacements with a battle cry that has become Marines lore âCome on, you sons of Bââ, do you want to live forever?!â In the course of that battle he was wounded three times. 1,800 Marines died in the battle of Belleau Wood.
These are the types of Americans that our current sitting president refers to as "losers."
And Putin's asset in the Oval Office STILL hasn't uttered one word about the bounties that Putin has placed on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan.
Since then we learned that a violent collision took place in Syria between US and Russian troops that left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said. Two Russian helicopters flew above the Americans, and one of the aircraft was within about 70 feet the vehicle.
The injuries occurred when one of the Russian vehicles deliberately sideswiped an American vehicle in a convoy, causing the crew to suffer "concussion-like injuries." Initial reports indicate as many as four Americans may have been injured.
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
âPresident Theodore Roosevelt
Trump has made it abundantly clear that he believes in nothing, honors nothing, and respects nothing. As a veteran, the oath I took would never allow me to vote for a domestic threat to my country like Trump. Trump has repeatedly betrayed America, it's people, as well as his oath of office. And as a Marine veteran, his betrayals to this country are unforgettable, and unforgivable.
Semper Fi.
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NEVER FORGET...that it didn't have to be this way.
Trump's presidency has been far worse than the tragedy of 9/11. 200 thousand American lives lost equates to about 66 9/11s.
And the worst part of It all, is that it was preventable, not just in hindsight, but in foresight as well.
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 disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, that was created by President Obama, and was charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
We owe it to the more than 200 thousand American souls that are no longer with us, to remove Trump from office.
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Trump's own sister also explained how she tried to help Trump academically, noting that âhe was a brat,â and that, âI did his homework for himâ and âdrove him around NYC to try to get him into college.â She said she didnât know of anything Donald had ever accomplished on his own, but noted that âhe has five bankruptciesâ which he achieved all by himself."Â âYou CAN'T trust him,â she added.
Trump's failure as a president was inevitable. Trump was never equipped to do his job. He doesn't have the necessary tools or the wherewithal to do his job. Trump is grossly incapacitated intellectually, mentally, emotionally, temperamentally, socially, and psychologically. He couldn't properly do his job as president even if he wanted to. (Which he doesn't)Â
Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone or something. Lying, cheating, and bullying are his only tools for survival. They are the tools of his trade, which is being an agent of chaos, misery, and destruction. It's all he knows. He is a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being. In fact, he is less of a human being, and more of a collection of every human flaw known to mankind, all rolled into one man.
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October 10, 2016 in Wilkes-Barre, PA: "This just came out," Trump said. "WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks."
October 12, 2016 in Ocala, FL: "This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable," Trump said. "It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it."
October 13, 2016 in Cincinnati, OH: "It's been amazing what's coming out on WikiLeaks."
October 31, 2016 in Warren, MI: "Another one came in today," Trump said. "This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove."
November 4, 2016 in Wilmington, OH: "Getting off the plane, they were just announcing new WikiLeaks, and I wanted to stay there, but I didn't want to keep you waiting," said Trump. "Boy, I love reading those WikiLeaks."
Trump today: " No, I don't know anything about Wikileaks, that's not my deal in life."đČ
"I've known Jeff Epstein for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It's even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
-Trump, NY Magazine 2002.
Trump today: "I'm not a fan of Jeff Epstein. No I've never been a fan of his."đČ
Trump a few years from now : " I barely knew Eric and Don Jr. But I can tell you this, I never liked them. You can ask anyone, you can even ask Eric and Don Jr, and they'll tell you, I never liked them." đđ
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In Trumpâs second book, Surviving at the Top (released as Trumpâs empire was crumbling under massive debt in 1990), he described his temperament in ways that wouldnât seem to bode well for America.
âI get bored too easily,â he wrote. âMy attention span is short and probably my least favorite thing to do is to maintain the status quo. Instead of being content when everything is going fine, I start getting impatient and irritable.â
This is Trump openly admitting to being an agent of chaos and destruction. Placing an extreme narcissistic sociopath like Trump into any position of leadership, where his actions will have a direct affect on people's lives, constitutes a criminal act. Nothing good has ever resulted from anything that Trump has ever touched or been involved with. He is void of any and all goodwill or human decency. He is a purely toxic, insidious and malevolent being, who constitutes a malignant affliction on this country.
The economic fate and national security of America should have never been placed in the hands of a mentally impaired, and emotionally unstable demagogue, who will take a wrecking ball to anything, simply because he was bored.
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Marine Sgt, Maj. Dan Daly is known for being one of the most decorated service members of all time. He was awarded not one, but TWO medals of honor.
He coined an expression that will forever live on in books, movies, and among troops He almost earned a third for his part in a counter-attack against the enemy in the famous Battle of Belleau Wood. Instead, Daly was given the Distinguished Service Cross and, later, the Navy Cross.
In June 1918 at the battle of Belleau Wood in WW1, the Marines were pinned down under heavy artillery barrage. At one point in the battle, the now 44 year old Daly, led his Marines in a counter-attack against machine gun emplacements with a battle cry that has become Marines lore âCome on, you sons of Bââ, do you want to live forever?!â In the course of that battle he was wounded three times. 1,800 Marines died in the battle of Belleau Wood.
These are the types of Americans that our current sitting president refers to as "losers."
And Putin's asset in the Oval Office STILL hasn't uttered one word about the bounties that Putin has placed on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan.
Since then we learned that a violent collision took place in Syria between US and Russian troops that left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said. Two Russian helicopters flew above the Americans, and one of the aircraft was within about 70 feet the vehicle.
The injuries occurred when one of the Russian vehicles deliberately sideswiped an American vehicle in a convoy, causing the crew to suffer "concussion-like injuries." Initial reports indicate as many as four Americans may have been injured.
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
âPresident Theodore Roosevelt
Trump has made it abundantly clear that he believes in nothing, honors nothing, and respects nothing. As a veteran, the oath I took would never allow me to vote for a domestic threat to my country like Trump. Trump has repeatedly betrayed America, it's people, as well as his oath of office. And as a Marine veteran, his betrayals to this country are unforgettable, and unforgivable.
Semper Fi.
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"This isnât incoherent. It reflects a clear principle: Only Trump and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest of us are entitled only to cruelty, by their whim. This is how the powerful have ever kept the powerless divided and in their place, and enriched themselves in the process."
"It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump."
"The president and his advisers have sought to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense; they have attempted to corrupt federal law-enforcement agencies to protect themselves and their cohorts, and they have exploited the nationâs darkest impulses in the pursuit of profit. But their ability to get away with this fraud is tied to cruelty."
"Trumpâs only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, blackVoters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. The presidentâs ability to execute that cruelty through word and deed makes them euphoric. It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy, it makes them feel united. And as long as he makes them feel that way, they will let him get away with anything, no matter what it costs them."
--Adam Serwer, The Atlantic December 2019
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
--Seneca
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Foreign influence was never supposed to be part of Americaâs electoral equation. What is a democracy if not rule by a countryâs own citizens?
Sitting in offices in St. Petersburg, Russia, employees of the Internet Research Agency (IRA) had plenty of ideas this year about how to waltz past American legal and political safeguards to sow discord and try to manipulate the U.S. election outcome this fall.
Internal messages by the groupâs officers to its staff advised that LGBT groups and âtheir liberal alliesâ were active online late into the night and responded well to manipulative infographics and colorful pictures, unlike their conservative counterparts.John McCain â a critic of Russia and an advocate for higher military spending â was to be branded âan old geezerâ in on-line messaging. Paul Ryan â who notably said last July that âRussia is not our allyâ â was to be branded in social media as a âtwo-faced loudmouth.â
These were just a few of efforts by the Russian organizationâs online army of trolls to promote divisive messages on hot political topics ranging from sanctuary cities to illegal voting to whether athletes stood or knelt during the national anthem at NFL games.
The result was to taint democratic discourse in the United States in an effort to influence voting, an outcome made possible by the shortcomings of the U.S. laws and rules that are supposed to ensure fair election outcomes.
The snarky guidance provided to the Russian trolls, according to a detailed U.S. federal court filing last week, was part of Operation Lakhta, which itself was just one aspect of Russiaâs attack on American democracy.
It was laid bare when prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia revealed on Oct. 19 they had taken the Washington mantra âfollow the moneyâ to heart in tracking the activities of Russian citizen Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, chief accountant of Operation Lakhta.
According to the filing, she âmanaged the financing of substantially all aspects of the Project [Lakhta] operationsâ and â luckily for prosecutors but perhaps unluckily for Russia â Khusyaynova kept âmeticulousâ records, covering her payments for rent, travel, furniture, and even garbage disposal. Itâs unclear how the emails arrived in Washington, but creative Western hacking seems a distinct possibility.
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Trump quote from 2004, a response to a Larry King Live caller asking how he handles stress. Trump: âI try and tell myself it doesnât matter. Nothing matters. If you tell yourself it doesnât matter, like you do shows, you do this, you do that and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly, it doesnât matter."
Spoken like the true sociopath that he is.
There will be no guilt, no apologies, no shame, and no sense of remorse coming from a narcissistic sociopath like Trump.
Trump pretty much checks every box for the diagnostic criterion of a narcissistic sociopath.
~Manipulative and Conning:
They never recognize the rights of others, and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They seek out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired.
~Shallow Emotions:
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion, it is more feigned than experienced, and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would usually upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises..
~Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt:
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, he has victims, and accomplices, who will also end up as victims. ( Cohen, Manafort, Bannon, Stone, Flynn) The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way...
~Callousness/Lack of Empathy:
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.Â
~Pathological Lying:
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities..
~Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature:
Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.Â
~Irresponsibility/Unreliability:
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
Some of the problems a sociopathic narcissist like Trump will face include: Trouble handling criticism, easily becoming impatient or angry if they don't think they are being treated correctly. They feel easily slighted. They try to belittle others or react with rage to make themselves seem superior. They have trouble adapting to change and dealing with stress. They secretly feel insecure, vulnerable, and humiliated, and have a very fragile self-esteem.
We owe it to the more than 200 thousand American souls that are no longer with us, to remove Trump from office.
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Almost every president has occasionally engaged in hyperbole, lying, corner-cutting, or press-bashing, though none have done so daily, if not hourly. One lie does not undermine democracy, but 30,000+ lies can. One governmental reversal in court is not tyranny, but scores of such defeats reveal an administration at odds with the constitutional injunction to âfaithfully execute the laws.â
If we added up the anti-democracy maneuvers of the prior 10 presidents over the past 60 years, they wouldnât equal Trump alone in under four yearsâindeed, if you compare the eight close associates of Trump convicted or indicted in his almost-one term of office, that would again exceed those of all presidents combined (excepting Watergate felons) from Kennedy to Obama..
âą Replacing the rule of law with the law of ruleâcourtesy of Bill Barrâas accused allies receive pardons and praise while enemies are threatened with arbitrary prosecution.
âą Engaging in multiple obstructions of justice, such as firing FBI director James Comey and urging White House counsel Don McGahn to lie to Mueller.
âą Basing an entire convention on himselfâno platform, Trumps proliferating like Borgiasâand on the daily violation of the anti-monarchical Hatch Act because âno one cares,â according to his apologist Mark Meadows.
âą Worsening economic inequality by shifting trillions through tax breaks to âAmerican Oligarchs,â in Andrea Bernsteinâs useful phrase, who then gratefully support his assaults on environmental and consumer laws to make even more money.
âą Inciting violence by hyperbolic attacks on opponents, embracing neo-nazi5 while ignoring warnings from the FBI about the number-one domestic threat, right-wing violence.
âą Enthusiastically embracing many of the worldâs leading dictatorsâPutin, Xi, Bolsonaro, Kim Jung Un, Sisi, Duterte, Erdogan.
âą Repeating Covid-19 falsehoods in order to pressure Republican governors to prematurely reopen the economy and schools, causing the avoidable deaths of over 100,000 Americans so far.
⹠Attempting to stymie postal delivery to, in effect, steal millions of mail-in ballots⊠and the election.
âą Erupting with a lava of liesânow up to an average of 22 a day, to bury rivals and reality (Goebbels in 1941 said, âThere are so many lies that truth and swindle can scarcely be distinguished."
âą Attempting to delegitimize the Fourth Estate as âenemies of the people,â using Stalinâs odious phrase.
âą Bullying neutral sources of informationâthe CDC, DNI, FDA, regulatory agenciesâto bend their expected integrity to his political needs.
âą Milking public office for private gain by treating âhisâ federal government like he treated the Trump Organization.
âą Attempting to criminally extort the president of Ukraine in order to smear Joe Biden.
âą Fiiring career professionals and âindependentâ inspectors general for doing their job, increasingly having a government of cronies, cranks, multimillionaires, relatives, and unconfirmable third-raters.
âą Ignoring all congressional subpoenas (when Nixon ignored eight of them, it became the third article in his impeachment, âContempt of Congressâ).
âą Saying things such as âI alone can fix itâ and âwith Article II, I can do whatever I want,â as well as praising Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist party, when it changed the countryâs constitution, making Xi Jinping ruler for life.
If you add it all up, What do you see? It all has one purpose,â said Sally Yates, former acting attorney general, âto remove any check on his abuse of power.â It is deviant despotism.
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In 2015, McConnell made the best case for getting rid of the filibuster.
Mitch McConnell made history in January 2015 when he filibustered his own bill on the Senate floor.
Mitch filibustered his own proposal, which he had introduced only hours earlier. The bill was a measure proposed by the White House, based on a "last-choice," one-off fix McConnell himself came up with in the 2011 debt-ceiling standoff, to take America's borrowing limit out of Congress' hands â the president could raise the debt ceiling, and Congress could override him only with a veto-proof majority.
McConnell introduced the bill to show that President Obama doesn't have the votes for such a measure even in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Well on that day, Majority Leader Harry Reid called his bluff.
McConnell demanded an up or down vote on a measure that would allow the president to have more authority in raising the debt ceiling.
McConnell was betting that some Democrats would vote against the move, which would have allowed McConnell to portray President Barack Obama's desire for such authority as something even Democrats opposed. He also hoped it would show disunity among Democrats.
At first Dems opposed an up or down vote on McConnell's proposal, but after discussing it over, they decided to call McConnell's bluff, and agreed to his proposal for an up or down vote.
McConnell was immediately forced to turn around and say "I OBJECT!!!!," filibustering his own suggestion. đ
"I don't know how the Republicans can say they're not abusing the filibuster after what we saw on the floor today," Sen. Durbin said at the time.
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A survivor of the Florida high school shooting says she has ânever been so unimpressed by a person in my lifeâ than when Trump called her in the hospital.
Samantha Fuentes, an 18-year-old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was hospitalised after a shooter opened fire on the school, k//ling 17 students and staff members. Ms Fuentes was shot in both legs and hit in the face with shrapnel. She was recovering at a local hospital when Trump called to offer his "condolences."
He said he heard that I was a big fan of his, (she wasn't) and then he said, âIâm a big fan of yours tooâ," Fuentes told the New York Times of the conversation. "Iâm pretty sure he made that up,â
Trump, Fuentes said, called the shooter a âsick puppyâ and said ââoh boy, oh boy, oh boy,â like, seven times.â
She added: âTalking to the president, Iâve never been so unimpressed by a person in my life. He didnât make me feel better in the slightest.â
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DT sat in the White House, and watched the vio.lence that unfolded on our nation's Capitol for at least two whole hours, without doing anything, and without saying a word, other than to blast his own Vice President, who eventually had to flee for his life.
The truth of the matter is, if he had not filled his followers heads with lies for months, and if he had not held that rally, where he instructed his followers to march to the Capitol and fight like he// in order to "stop the steal" the insurrection never would have happened. Because without the use of vio.lence, how else were they going to stop the so called steal?
The election was over. The only thing that remained was for Pence to count and certify the electoral votes. So the only thing they could've been fighting for, was to bring a stop to the counting of the electoral votes, which would officially certify Biden as the next democratically elected president.
And vio.lence was the only option they had left. DT had already exhausted every other legal and illegal option. So on January 6th, the violence card was the only card he had left, and he played it.
The insurrection was Trump's revenge against our democracy and our Constitution.
It was his way of getting back at everyone who didn't vote for him, and those who refused to violate our Constitution on his behalf. Watching his followers storm the Capitol while wearing his hat and waving flags emblazoned with his name, was the greatest day of his presidency. He had never felt more like the dictator he's always wanted to be than he did on that day. And he reveled in it.
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For the last four years, DJT has engaged in an unprecedented level of shameless and flagrant corruption and lawlessness never seen before. Like when he proclaimed, that Article II of the Constitution gives him âthe right to do whatever I want as president.â
Trump has undermined the constitutional order to a degree unprecedented in modern U.S. history. He has subverted the rule of law by politicizing the DoJ and interfering in its investigations. Trump has also fired inspectors general across the government, whose only job is to uncover wrongdoing. Trump has repeatedly attacked the press, declaring them to be the âenemy of the people.â
He has also disparaged the courage and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform; his eagerness to use troops domestically prompted military leaders to issue an unprecedented reminder that our men and women in uniform owe their ultimate allegiance to the Constitution and not the president.
Trump has made a mockery of constitutional norms, like the requirement of Senate confirmation for his cabinet members and other executive officials, by granting power to âactingâ department heads, saying it gives him âgreater flexibility.â Without any evidence, Trump has also consistently cast doubt on the integrity of the electoral process itself and has declined to state that he will abide by the judgment of the electorate. At the same time, in spite of the overwhelming evidence, Trump has downplayed the reality of foreign powers interfering in our elections.
"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
"We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
-- Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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"This isnât incoherent. It reflects a clear principle: Only Trump and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest of us are entitled only to cruelty, by their whim. This is how the powerful have ever kept the powerless divided and in their place, and enriched themselves in the process."
"It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump."
"The president and his advisers have sought to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense; they have attempted to corrupt federal law-enforcement agencies to protect themselves and their cohorts, and they have exploited the nationâs darkest impulses in the pursuit of profit. But their ability to get away with this fraud is tied to cruelty."
"Trumpâs only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, blackVoters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. The presidentâs ability to execute that cruelty through word and deed makes them euphoric. It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy, it makes them feel united. And as long as he makes them feel that way, they will let him get away with anything, no matter what it costs them."
--Adam Serwer, The Atlantic December 2019
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
--Seneca
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So after Republicans broke their own rules and went back on their word about picking a Supreme Court Justice during an election year, when millions of Americans have already voted, Dems have every right to pack the court, and Republicans have absolutely no room to talk. Republicans made a promise to the American people, and they broke that promise without even blinking an eye or giving it a 2nd thought. So If Dems decide to pack the court, republicans have no one to blame but themselves. Because it didn't have to be this way. All republicans had to do, was honor the promise they made.Â
Because let's face it, if the situation were reversed, and Dems broke their promise, and went back on their word, what would republicans do? We all know the answer to that question.
So, by breaking their own rules and going back on their word, Republicans are giving Dems a green light to pack the Supreme Court. I love it!!!!đ đđđ
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So after Republicans broke their own rules and went back on their word about picking a Supreme Court Justice during an election year, when millions of Americans have already voted, Dems have every right to pack the court. Republicans have absolutely no room to talk. Republicans made a promise to the American people, and they broke that promise without even blinking an eye or giving it a 2nd thought. So If Dems decide to pack the court, republicans have no one to blame but themselves. Because it didn't have to be this way. All republicans had to do, was honor the promise they made. Because let's face it, if the situation was reversed, and Dems broke their promise, and went back on their word, what would republicans do?
So, by breaking their own rules and going back on their word, Republicans are giving Dems a green light to pack the Supreme Court. I love it!!!!đ đđđ
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DJT is currently going through the the 5 stages of grief and loss.
1. Denial:
Avoidance, confusion, shock, and fear.
2. Anger:
Frustration, irritation, anxiety. Currently DJT is stuck between this stage and stage 1 of grief.
3. Bargaining:
Struggling to find meaning, reaching out to others. Itâs not uncommon to look for ways to regain control, or to feel like you can affect the outcome of an event.
4. Depression:
Feeling overwhelmed, helplessness, hostility, flight.
5. Acceptance:
Moving on...
This is the stage that a malignant narcissist like DJT will never reach, because he will NEVER allow himself to truly admit that he lost the election. In fact, DJT may spend the rest of his life waking up every morning at stage 1, and slowly working his way down to stage 4 by the end of the day, and starting the process over again the next morning. đ
DJT reminds me of Gollum when he lost his precious. Poor Gollum never made it to stage 5 of acceptance either. đ
"He stole it from us!!!! Trixie Bidenses!!!!!"đđ
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Trump: "When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child. When I became a full grown baby, I spoke like a man-baby, I thought like a man-baby, I reasoned like a man-baby."
Republicans like Joni Ernst and Susan Collins are trying to convince us that by some miracle, Trump has finally seen the light, and that he has now learned his lesson. Really?!?!
Republicans are treating Trump the exact same way that his parents treated him as a child, by rewarding him for his bad behavior. They have basically told Trump that there will be no consequences for anything that he does, and not only will they not punish him, they will protect him from being punished by anyone else. This is how Trump's parents created a monster without boundaries. A sociopath who is oblivious and indifferent to the chaos and devastation he causes to everything and eberyone around him. A sociopath who will never accept blame himself, but instead blames others, even for acts he obviously committed.Â
"Trumpâs 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":
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"This isnât incoherent. It reflects a clear principle: Only Trump and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest of us are entitled only to cruelty, by their whim. This is how the powerful have ever kept the powerless divided and in their place, and enriched themselves in the process."
"It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump."
"The president and his advisers have sought to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense; they have attempted to corrupt federal law-enforcement agencies to protect themselves and their cohorts, and they have exploited the nationâs darkest impulses in the pursuit of profit. But their ability to get away with this fraud is tied to cruelty."
"Trumpâs only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, blackVoters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. The presidentâs ability to execute that cruelty through word and deed makes them euphoric. It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy, it makes them feel united. And as long as he makes them feel that way, they will let him get away with anything, no matter what it costs them."
--Adam Serwer, The Atlantic December 2019
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
--Seneca
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NEVER FORGET...that it didn't have to be this way.
Trump's presidency has been far worse than the tragedy of 9/11. 200 thousand American lives lost equates to about 66 9/11s.
And the worst part of It all, is that it was preventable, not just in hindsight, but in foresight as well.
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 disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, that was created by President Obama, and was charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
We owe it to the more than 200 thousand American souls that are no longer with us, to remove Trump from office.
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In her new book, Trump's niece Mary describes Donald as a âtoxicâ bully who practices âcheating as a way of life,â and someone who values money above anything.
In the forward to his new book entitled âDisloyal, A Memoir,â Michael Cohen writes: âTrump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything â and I mean anything â to âwinâ has always been his business model and way of life,â he added.Â
Trump will definitely try to cheat in order to win reelection. Trump is a natural born loser, therefore he has to cheat. He's never achieved anything in his life without lying and cheating.
Trump failure as a president was inevitable. Trump was never equipped to do his job. He doesn't have the necessary tools or the wherewithal to do his job. Trump is grossly incapacitated intellectually, mentally, emotionally, temperamentally, socially, and psychologically. He couldn't properly do his job as president even if he wanted to. (Which he doesn't)Â Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone or something. Cheating and lying are his only tools for survival. It's all he knows. He is a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being. In fact, he is less of a human being, and more of a collection of every human flaw known to mankind, all rolled into one man..
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In her new book, Trump's niece says Trump was scarred by his father and developed habits of lying and self-deception that shadowed him into the White House.
"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism," Mary Trump writes in her book. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be," she writes.
"In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero â being good â is impossible for him," she writes in the book.
Mary Trump, a 55-year-old psychologist, blames Trump's father for giving Donald his bad habits. Fred Trump Sr was a cold and forbidding patriarch who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps â demanding Trump to follow less-than-scrupulous real estate practices and eventually propping him up if his own initiatives failed.
"When things turned south in the late 1980s, Fred could no longer separate himself from his son's brutal ineptitude; the father had no choice but to stay invested," Mary Trump writes. "His monster had been set free."
"The people with access to him are weaker than Donald is, more craven, but just as desperate. Their futures are directly dependent on his success and favor," she said. "Although more powerful people put Donald into the institutions that have shielded him since the very beginning, it's people weaker than he is who are keeping him there."
Putin, Kim Jong Un and Mitch McConnell, "all whom bear more than a passing psychological resemblance to Fred," recognized after the election that Donald Trump's personal history and personality flaws made him vulnerable to manipulation, Mary Trump writes.
"His pathologies have rendered him so simple-minded that it takes nothing more than repeating to him the things he says to and about himself dozens of times a day â he's the smartest, the greatest, the best â to get him to do whatever they want, whether it's imprisoning children in concentration camps, betraying allies, implementing economy-crushing tax cuts, or degrading every institution that's contributed to the United States' rise and the flourishing of liberal democracy."
Trump's initial response to the coronavirus "underscores his need to minimize negativity at all costs," Mary Trump writes.
"Fear â the equivalent of weakness in our family â is as unacceptable to him now as it was when he was three years old," she said.
She points to Gov. Cuomo's response to his state's outbreak of COVID-19 cases as an example of "real leadership," further revealing the president as a "petty, pathetic little man â ignorant, incapable, out of his depth, and lost to his own delusional spin."
At the end, Mary Trump writes "Donald isn't really the problem after all" â it is his enablers, from his father to the celebrity media to the congressional Republicans who acquitted him of impeachment.
"This is the end result of Donald's having continually been given a pass and rewarded not just for his failures but for his transgressions â against tradition, against decency, against the law, and against fellow human beings," she writes.
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Michael Flynn has been widely condemned after calling for the establishment of âone religionâ in the US.
Religious freedom is enshrined in the first amendment to the US constitution, which says âCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereofâ.
At a rally in San Antonio on Saturday by the Christian ânonprofit news media networkâ American Faith, Flynn said: âIf we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God.â YIKES!!Â
Mark Hertling, a retired general and media commentator, called Flynn âan embarrassment to the US armyâ.
âHis words are disgusting,â Hertling said.
On Sunday, the veteran reporter Carl Bernstein told CNN that Flynn, as one of the âknaves and fools and dangerous authoritarian figuresâ with whom Trump surrounded himself in and out of office, was âsaying out loud things that have never been said by an aide or close associates to the president of the United Statesâ.
Sounds like Flynn ripped a page straight from the Taliban playbook.
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COVID-19: "Trump's response to me has been a series of dreadful calamities. First he tried gaslighting me by accusing me of being nothing more than a hoax, and when that didn't work, he tried to threaten me with magic, of all things, and when magic didn't work, he resorted to calling me names like "Kung Flu." So when name calling didn't work, he decided he would just ignore me, like he does with his debts, and maybe I would just go away. So now that I have proven to be immune and impervious to Trump's lies, gaslighting, and magic spells, he has decided to create a distraction by unleashing his Gestapo on peaceful protesting American citizens, which I find highly offensive, because if anyone is going to harm the American people, it's going to be ME." đđȘ
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"I have a chapter in the book on malignant narcissism as a characteristic of destructive cult leaders. These are people who have a deep need for grandiosity, to be the center of attention, who need to control others, and who lack empathy and lie without hesitation. These are psychological traits perfectly attuned to manipulation and projection.
But the malignant part is about sociopathic tendencies. Almost every cult leader thinks heâs above the law, which is why heâs allowed to persecute and harass or harm anyone he wants. When someone really believes this, they can rationalize all kinds of destructive behavior.
I began this book with the assumption that Trump is a malignant narcissist. Actually, watching him and listening to him reminded me of Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the cult I joined in college, in that both have a kind of God complex where theyâre the only one with the answers, the only one who can fix things. Moon was going to create a theocracy and Trump was going to âdrain the swamp.â But the way they carry themselves is similar.
But what really made me think of Trump as a cult was the way the groups who supported him were behaving, especially religious groups who believed that God had chosen Trump or was using Trump. There are actual pro-Trump religious groups, like the New Apostolic Reformation, whose leaders were saying, âWeâre of God. The rest of the world is of Satan, and we need to follow our chosen leaders who are connected to God.â
There was this blind-faith aspect to the whole thing and an unwillingness to look at any inconvenient facts. Thatâs all very cult-like.
The bottom line is that I see very sophisticated mind-control techniques being used through the media, through religious broadcasters and radio talk-show hosts. Itâs a black-and-white, all-or-nothing, good-versus-evil, authoritarian view of reality that is mostly fear-based. And thereâs a deliberate focus on denying facts in order to protect the image of the leader."
--Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump
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Trump: "I'm not taking responsibility for any of this. People are acting like I'm a REAL president and a real leader. I'm the same guy who betrayed America in front of the entire world in Helsinki. I'm nothing more than a fraud, who with the help of Putin, managed to con my way into the Oval Office. Plus most people 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 were dumb enough to vote for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch. They both know exactly who and what I am, but yet they continue to defend me. For crying out loud, Lindsey Graham even stated on fox, that I was in fact, a Krazy, race-baiting bigot. So you see, I'm the same person that I've always been, an irredeemable con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that."
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Republican campaign finance reports, which are, available to the public, show connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. Bottom line, our campaign finance laws are now a threat to our country...
Len Blavatnik, is a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnik's family emigrated to the U.S. in the late '70s from the the Soviet Union and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late '80s.
In 2015-16, Blavatnik's political contributions soared as he pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders including Moscow Mitch, Rubio and Lindsey "Two-faced" Graham.
Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Putin's favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia's Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the world. Blavatnik holds a stake in Rusal with a business partner.
Nearly 4% of Deripaska's stake in Rusal is owned by Putin's state-controlled bank, VTB, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. VTB was exposed in the Panama Papers in 2016 for facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to offshore companies linked to Putin.
We already know that Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, began collecting $10 million a year in 2006 from Deripaska to advance Putin's interests with Western governments. Deripaska's name turned up again in an email handed over to Mueller's team by Manafort's attorneys. In the email dated July 7, 2016, just two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican nomination, Manafort asked an overseas intermediary to pass a message on to Deripaska: "If he Deripaska needs private briefings, tell him we can accommodate."
Viktor Vekselberg is one of the 10 richest men in Russia. He and long-time business partner Blavatnik hold a 20.5 percent stake in Rusal. Vekselberg has connections to at least two Americans who made significant GOP campaign contributions during the last cycle.Â
Andrew Intrater, is Vekselberg's cousin. He is also chief executive of Columbus Nova, Renova's U.S. investment arm located in NY. in January 2017 he contributed $250,000 to Trump's Inaugural Committee. His six-figure gift bought him special access to a dinner billed as "an intimate policy discussion with select cabinet appointees,"Â
Simon Kukes is an oil magnate who has something in common with Intrater. From 1998 to 2003, he worked for Vekselberg and Blavatnik as chief executive of TNK. In 2016, Kukes contributed a total of $283,000, much of it to the Trump Victory Fund.Â
In total, Blavatnik, Intrater, and Kukes made $10.4 million in political contributions from the start of the 2015-16 election cycle through September 2017, and 99 percent of their contributions went to Republicans. The common denominator that connects the men is their association with Vekselberg.
Moscow Mitch knew from receiving intelligence briefings in 2016 that our electoral process was under attack by the Russians. Two weeks after the Dept of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement in October 2016 that the Russian government had directed the effort to interfere in our electoral process, Moscow Mitch's PAC accepted a $1 million donation from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings. The PAC took another $1 million from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings on March 30, 2017, just 10 days after Comey publicly testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Russia's interference in the election.
It's safe to say that Trump and the GOP have been bought and paid for with Russian money.
It's why repubicans are fighting so hard to defend him instead of the Constitution. It's also why Republicans have been repeating the exact same lies and propaganda of the Russian government and Russian security services like the GRU.
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When it comes to Trump, I'll take the word of Trump's own sister, who has known him his entire life? She knows him better, and longer, than anyone alive today. And if she wouldn't support him as president, why on earth should anyone else?
In the released audio of Trumpâs sister Maryanne Trump Barry, she describes Trump as being among other things, unprepared, a brat, and cruel.Â
âItâs the phoniness of it all. Itâs the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel,â Barry told her niece.
âAll he wants to do is appeal to his base,â Barry said. âHe has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.âÂ
Trump's sister was aghast at how he operated as president. âHis god-d tweets and lying, oh my God,â she said. âIâm talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy s***. What theyâre doing with kids at the border."
Trump's sister also explained how âShe didnât know of anything Donald had ever accomplished on his own, but noted that âhe has five bankruptciesâ which he achieved all by himself."Â âYou CAN'T trust him,â she added.
She also made it clear that she was still upset by how Trump chose to celebrate himself at their fatherâs funeral in 1999.
"During that ceremony, Donald spoke more about his own accomplishments than his fatherâs life," Maryanne said..
âDonald was the only one who didnât speak about Dad,â she said. She told Mary that âI donât want any of my siblings to speak at my funeral. And thatâs all about Donald and what he did at Dadâs funeral. I donât know. It was all about him.â
Only a fââl would ignore what Trump's own sister says about him.
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Senior Legislative Counsel Paul Gordon, contrasted the patriotism of congressional Republicans during Watergate with the betrayal of democracy by todayâs Republicans:.
âCongressional Democrats and Republicans alike recognized that Nixonâs misdeeds to get himself re-elected threatened the Constitution that they all took an oath to protect. When his fellow Republicans made clear that they would put our democracy first, Nixon knew he would be impeached, and he resigned in disgrace âŠ
âThe senators who vote to acquit Trump will be voting to eliminate the most important component of checks and balances against dictatorial executive power ⊠And then, they will have to go back home and look their constituentsâand their constituentsâ childrenâin the eye and tell them why they cast this vote."
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 Marylandâs delegates to the Convention,  a lady asked Dr. Franklin: âWell Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin replied:Â âA republic....if you can keep it.â
Trump and Republicans are now telling us that we can no longer keep it. They are basically giving the Constitution, and the American people, the middle finger. It is my sincere hope, that we the Amercan, return that middle finger to them on election day 2020. đ
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People who believe that the aristocracy RIGHTFULLY dominates society, because of its intrinsic SUPERIORITY, are conservatives; democrats, by contrast, believe that they are of equal social worth. Conservatism is the antithesis of democracy. This has been true for thousands of years.
Conservatism in every place and time is founded on deception. The deceptions of conservatism today are especially sophisticated, simply because culture today is sufficiently democratic.
Conservatism continually twists the language of conscience into its opposite. It has no choice: conservatism is unjust, and cannot survive except by pretending to be the opposite of what it is.
The opposite of conservatism is democracy, and contempt for democracy is a constant thread in the history of conservative argument. Instead, conservatism has argued that society ought to be organized in a hierarchy of orders and classes and controlled by its uppermost hierarchical stratum, the aristocracy.
The truth is, the Right doesnât expect a majority of Americans to support their policies, nor do they particularly care.
Yet for all their wealth and power, the Rightâs ideas are only growing more unpopular with time. When progressive policies appear on the ballot in a direct referendum, conservatives lose, time and again, be it right-to-work laws, minimum wage hikes, or Medicaid expansion, even in Republican strongholds.
To start with, conservatism constantly shifts in its degree of authoritarianism. Conservatives have no difficulty claiming to be the party of freedom in one breath, and attacking civil liberties in the next.
To impose its order on society, conservatism must destroy civilization. In particular, conservatism must destroy conscience, democracy, reason, and language.
What is wrong with conservatism?
Answer: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructiveSystem of inequalityandPrejudice, that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world.
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Trump is giving a middle finger to the American people, and to our democratic republic..
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 Marylandâs delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin: âWell Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin replied:Â âA republic....if you can keep it.â
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, or see it replaced with a deranged tyrant, hellbent on destroying America.
âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
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Trump: "I am the chaos and disorder president. I am the purveyor of fear & loathing, of pandemics & death. I am the provocateur of mayhem & upheaval. I am a merchant of lies & deception. And I am creating an America in my own image: vile, dark, hopeless, bleak, backwards, grotesque, selfish, indecent, malevolent, debased, indifferent, inept, sociopathic, and malicious.
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Daniel fmatosrivera
It's a close as it gets to stolen Valor. He said he was right there helping 1st responders.
During a 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 that the legislation âprovides pensions for those who are suffering from cancer and other illnesses stemming from the toxic debris they were exposed. Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers, and other first responders. âHe then told an outrageous lie when he said, âI was down there also, but Iâm not considering myself a first responder. But I was down thereâI spent a lot of time down there with you.â
It sounds like Trump wants to claim victim status too. He can't stand to see anyone other than himself being viewed as a victim. He probably wants to receive money form the 9/11 compensation fund by claiming he was there with the 1st responders, which he clearly wasn't.
Trump has told similar egregious lies about his whereabouts on 9/11 in the past. On the campaign trail on April 18, 2016, in Buffalo NY, he said: " Everyone who helped clear the rubble - and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit."đđČđ
There is no evidence that Trump participated in recovery efforts, thereâs also no evidence he spent time near ground zero in the week following the attack.
During a 2015 rally, Trump claimed he watched the 9/11 attacks from a window in Trump Tower.
âMany people jumped and I witnessed it, I watched that,â he said.
Thereâs just one problem â Trump Tower is more than four miles away from ground zero.đ
If Trump will lie about being at ground zero with 1st responders, it means he will lie about any and everything, and he does.
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 @allisonharper1819Â
Trumpâs history of creepy comments about the looks of his daughter Ivanka are well known. But his younger daughter, Tiffany, has largely stayed out of the spotlightâmuch like her fatherâs equally creepy comments about her anatomy..
In September 1994, a little less than a year after Tiffany was born to Trump and his second wife, Marla, the couple appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. âDonald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marlaâs?â asked host Robin Leach.
âSheâs a very beautiful baby,â Trump replied. âSheâs got Marlaâs legs. We donât know whether or notââhe put his hands to his chest to indicate her bra sizeââsheâs got this part yet, but time will tell.â
While Trump was on The View in March 2006, he was asked what he would do if Ivanka was on the cover of P-boy magazine, Trump said it depended on what was inside the magazine and added, âAlthough she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said that if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.â
In a February 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, during a question and answer game, Williams asked Trump and Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka answered, "Either real estate or golf" while Trump added, "Well, I was going to say 5ex."
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Trump's is a curse on this nation. His presidency has resulted in only chaos, destruction and death..
As a 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?
They say that "the fish rots from the head" and this is true, and so does a nation. And the insidious rot that has gripped this nation, can be traced directly to the occupant in the Oval Office.?
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