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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo wonder he attacked those four women.
Not only are they women of color, they are clearly smarter than him. He's outclassed, and he knows it.
Very impressive words from all of them.
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malaise
(267,824 posts)DownriverDem
(6,206 posts)Think about it. Whenever something is going to hit, trump does or says something to deflect from it. Think Jeffry Epstein matter. trump does it all the time.
True Dough
(17,096 posts)To his credit (I rarely type that), I don't think he's launched any attacks on the 3rd graders who are not quite up to his speed.
madamesilverspurs
(15,784 posts)33taw
(2,420 posts)handmade34
(22,755 posts)klook
(12,134 posts)I love her passion and integrity.
This is like watching the Home Run Derby at the baseball All-Star Game. One towering drive after another from each of these women.
And the short-fingered vulgarian currently occupying the White House will continue to hit weak grounders that his base thinks are tape-measure homers.
Beringia
(4,314 posts)FM123
(10,050 posts)What Rep Ayanna Pressley called him was perfect. Not president trump, but Occupant Trump.
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)and stop fighting each other.
I don't expect total lockstep unity within the party but we need to watch each other's backs. Hopefully All the Dems will rally together to call out and keep on Trump's actual racism and not get caught up on policy fights and the desire for perfection.
AOC, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressely are good young congress people with I hope, bright futures. Nancy Pelosi has been fighting the good fight for decades. I hope that they can work together against the real enemy of the people, Trump.
We are not only fighting the idiot though. We are fighting to have a reckoning with America's past, and unfortunately present. We have a sizable segment of the population that either supports Trump's bigotry, or who want to believe it doesn't exist and hide their head in the sand. They get more upset at being presented with clear indications of racism than the actual racism. That is a tough situation to contend with for people who want to change the paradigm. We need to be very united if we want to fight against it.
pazzyanne
(6,519 posts)I agree with everything you just said.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Congresswoman Ohmar,Lawyer,community organizer and Leader.
Donald Trump,fifteenth rate Reality TV Star and Narcissistic Psychopath,as well as accused Rapist.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Donald Trump didnt love his country enough to go to Vietnam when it expected him to. Instead he lied about having bone spurs and claimed that he did his patriotic duty by fucking every woman he could.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)a thumb drive to the Russian PM right in his Oval Office.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)one of our Minny friends mentioned she was going to attend Mitchell. Sorry,assumed it happened. Knew she did the Ploy Sci thing.
PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)That press conference was OUTSTANDING. These women are going to go right back in Trump's face and they were real strong here.
OldManTarHeel
(435 posts)My Lord, they were well spoken and on point . . !
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Trump boasts that hes like, really smart and a very stable genius amid questions over his mental fitness
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/01/06/trump-boasts-that-hes-like-really-smart-and-a-very-stable-genius-amid-questions-over-his-mental-fitness/?utm_term=.4e4a71f0c8c3
The very same Trump who says the Continental Army captured the airports during the Revolutionary War.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)His ego won't permit it. This malignant narcissist really does think he knows more than the generals and everyone else because to think otherwise would be to admit a personal shortcoming.
Trump responds to criticism with ad hominem attacks. The recent tweets were a product of that and the overt racism integral to his anti-immigrant demagoguery.
calimary
(80,700 posts)Very impressive presentation from four well-informed, credible, committed, and eloquent women. Makes ya proud!
NNadir
(33,368 posts)It's working.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I will be very proud, again, when we elect them to the office of President Of The United States.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)He's up to his ass in the Epstein scandal. He hopes that by throwing out a bunch of outlandish shit, he can keep people from noticing until the Epstein case blows over.
efhmc
(14,709 posts)Try as he might.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)...is to keep people from knowing Trump bought sex from Epstein, which he probably did.
efhmc
(14,709 posts)There are lots of grownup women yet to be heard from.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)His modeling agency recruited teens from Europe, then entrapped them into servile labor and sex trafficking by threatening them with deportation. It's in court filings and witness statements. Trumpy also engaged in raping minors with Epstein. That will come out in subsequent testimony. But for his noncritical fanbase, none of it will matter. If Trumpy says it isn't true, then that's the final word. All he has to do is lie, and he's got a permanent following.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)The GOP spent YEARS trying to set up an impeachment case for Bill Clinton based on things he did when he was governor of Arkansas.
Sauce for the goose. If they can try to impeach a president over a land deal gone bad, we can lay out the case for impeaching one based on being a sex trafficker. And if we can come up with that case, we can turn it into a "it's either you or him" scenario - the first "are your daughters safe with Mitch McConnell in the Senate?" ad that hits the airwaves, they will get rid of the bastard one way or the other.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)the "Squad" shows fearlessness. This likely irks Trumpy more than anything. Now that he's shown his disrespect and white supremacy, he's locked himself into a no-win position with them. But that won't stop him from digging.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I think he attacked them because he thinks theyre weak!
Can you imagine? Those are the ones he thinks weak! Those weaklings gonna rain hell down on the President of the United States!
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Is testifying in court asking them not to let Epstein out to molest more girls
Nevermypresident
(781 posts)They give me that same feeling that Obama did. Of course, none of them are always right, might make missteps, etc., like ALL politicians. They are not putting politics before our country and it's Constitution.
It's a breath of fresh air as opposed to our current leadership, TBH.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)The salad I had for lunch is smarter than he is.
Peaceful Protester
(280 posts)True to character, Trump continues to stoke political divisions as he knows it is his best chance of re-election.
He also knows he will have to fight for approximately 1-2% of the voting population that can still be swayed.
Trump is always in campaign mode ready to throw red meat to his base especially during a bad news cycle:
Under Trump's policies and watch, more than half a dozen children have died in US custody at the border
Rep. Jerry Nadler, (D-NY) called for the leaders of border security agencies to face charges for child abuse
Protesters were able to draw attention to conditions and treatment of immigrants at border detainment centers
Jeffrey Epstein was finally arrested and charged with sex trafficking triggering calls for Alex Acosta to resign
Trump's ties to Epstein were scrutinized while quotes and photos of the two men together appeared in the news
Trump's Labor Sec. Alex Acosta finally resigned amid the uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse scandal
The latest news cycle was very bad for Trump, and his strategy was obviously intended to distract with red meat.
In true Trump fashion, he tweets these women are communists, socialists, America hating, and they should leave.
Let's hold Trump accountable!