The Ultimate Freudian Slip
His Orangeness’ tweet storm this morning:
Look at that second tweet. As Trump rants about “Presidential Harassment”, “Fake News”, “Witch Hunt Hoax”, he also makes a Freudian slip saying, “And now Russia disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.” Trump has just acknowledged that indeed it’s true that Russia assisted him into office. Trump is now in an interesting position…he has denied Russian involvement since it happened, but now he’s saying that it did, but he’s not going to do anything about it. That can only mean that he’s hoping the Russians do it again. I don’t believe that statement quite meets the standard of “protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States”, but that’s just me.
I’m getting close to changing my mind on impeachment of this son of a bitch, but not yet.
retweet that before he deletes it
1Could he ever make a statement about money without inflating the amount? Notice how the amount he claims were spent in the Mueller Investigation keeps expanding?
Shuddup, Donnie.
2Congress should IMPEACH HIM. I hope the state of NY, LOCKS HIM UP.
3We need to keep Trump admitting to high crimes and misdemeanors in reaction to televised hearings documenting his crimes. Once Trump loses in the court of public opinion, he’s doomed. After all, he’s all hat- no cattle. Take away the hat, and all you’ve got left is a dried out orange peel.
4@WA Skeptic – yeah, that amount keeps getting bigger. He shouldn’t expand that number without expanding the number of recovered taxes, fines, etc. that has already been collected from those indicted. This investigation actually made money.
Heard a story about Iran getting into the mess-with-US-elections game now. They have absolutely no reason to love Donnie and the GOP – so who do you think THEY would prefer to win? Now what say you, Repuglicans? Betcha NOW there will become an election threat call.
5Forget the Mueller Report to a degree. It was written from an investigation predicated on the notion that a sitting President should not be indicted. OK. Fine. Note that a high percentage of those around IQ4.5 were indicted, fined, imprisoned, accepted plea deals, have served time or await trial and combinations thereof. The ‘small’ fish were fried, while the ‘big’ fish due to that OLC opinion, Individual1, was left swinging in a net waiting for Congressional action.
Regardless of the Mueller Report, Donnie has publicly committed sufficient crimes to meet the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors. He has openly confessed to many if not all of his crimes. Lawyers across the country are now advising their clients: “don’t talk, and fer gawd’s sake don’t tweet” after the example set by chattering twixting Donnie.
Obstruction of justice, perjury of oath, abuse of authority, bribery, intimidation, misuse of assets, failure to supervise, dereliction of duty, unbecoming conduct, multiple huge violations of the emoluments clause to list a few of the many grounds for impeachment.
All in the open, in plain sight, in our faces crimes demanding 25 the 45 or impeachment.
6Let some Dem candidate say during a campaign event, “China, if you’re listening, the mainstream media would be most appreciative if you could find and publish Trump’s tax returns for the last ten years.” Then we can all sit back and watch the NSGOP, Faux News, and that same mainstream media freak out.
7I am now strongly in favor of acting now on moving impeachment forward. The percent against impeachment of Nixon was low before start, but as investigation findings were made public over the process, percent swung public opinion towards impeachment.
But more importantly, the reason Americans and the world are frustrated with our politicians is that they are not showing principles. The principle of allowing this administration to continue to flaunt criminality is WRONG. Action needs to be taken, visibly, publicly, and with commitment. Voting him out of office is not sufficient–and not making the crimes more vocal during the campaign is not sufficient.
8Fear of failure seems to be the primary reason people are saying not to impeachment. But this fear is misplaced. What we should truly be afraid of is the erosion of the rule of law and degradation of our democratic institutions
We need a public process of discovery and investigation related to corruption and obstruction. The current unfocused investigation is being fought tooth and nail.
Impeachment is how Congress can counter that resistance.
We need a public airing of what this man has done and is doing to pervert our democracy.
We need to walk through our fears of failure and do what’s right for our democracy.
Whether or not the impeachment process ultimately results in his removal is irrelevant.
9BFSMan, I love that!
10I have to wonder why RAT45’s spawn weren’t indicted by Mueller, along with Flynn, Manafort, et al.
11Jr, Eric, Jarvanka have been in on this treasonous scheming since day one, grifting and selling out the US.
Au contraire…impeach, with lots of investigation and exposure of how crooked Trump is, AND how bad the rethugs will look supporting him!
That’s the answer to Pelosi’s timid assertion that Dems might lose the battle. Rethugs might lose Senate races also.
The scales have rebalanced. Do it, Nancy!
12One thing the Golden Gibbon did invent and that is self
13impeachment. Bet he will not take credit for that.