Trumps night of intense gaslighting
By Stephen Stromberg at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/01/31/trumps-night-of-intense-gaslighting/?utm_term=.22adf4ae5a11
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“We have sought to restore the bonds of trust between our citizens and their government,” President Trump said Tuesday night in his first State of the Union address. Was this sarcasm?
This is the president who has fueled a hysterical smear campaign against the FBI for personal gain. He wants to and may soon release a memo with cherry-picked information alleging misconduct in the Justice Department in order to discredit a federal investigation into his associates. He singles out individual FBI officials for accusation and abuse on Twitter. He on a practically daily basis insists that the Russia investigation is based on a hoax, despite the intelligence community’s unanimous conclusion that Russia attempted to sway the 2016 election. He insists he respects the professionals in the law enforcement and intelligence communities, until their professionalism clashes with his wishes.
This is the president who alleged, without evidence, that he really won the popular vote because millions of illegal immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton in California. He empaneled a commission designed to find “evidence” of widespread voter fraud — which only benefits Democrats, of course. To the chagrin of state officials across the country, the message was that Americans cannot trust their voting system.
This is the president who insisted that the “Court System” is “broken and unfair” because he disagreed with a ruling and that he would consider breaking up the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
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