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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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