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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe list continues to grow on Trump
It's a nice list, and would have destroyed any other elected official in our country at any other time in our nation's history. Today? Meh. 40% of the electorate would die for the man, and the major political party that backs him just shrugs their collective shoulders.
I pity the day in the future where a president looks at this list, and says "hold my beer". That will be the ultimate Trump legacy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/opinion/trump-ukraine-whistle-blower.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage&te=1&nl=david-leonhardt&emc=edit_ty_20190923?campaign_id=39&instance_id=12580&segment_id=17255&user_id=980dd4f1cd1cbe4ff0e89e287394f24d®i_id=62389442
Sometimes its worth stepping back to look at the full picture.
He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
He hired a national security adviser whom he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
He genuflects to murderous dictators.
He has alienated Americas closest allies.
He lied to the American people about his companys business dealings in Russia.
He tells new lies virtually every week about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a presidents job.
He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
He has repeatedly denigrated a deceased United States senator who was a war hero.
He insulted a Gold Star family the survivors of American troops killed in action.
He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as nasty.
He described white supremacists as some very fine people.
He told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.
He made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.
He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.
He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as rapists.
He has described women, variously, as a dog, a pig and horseface, as well as bleeding badly from a facelift and having blood coming out of her wherever.
He has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.
He enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.
He waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.
He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
He uses a phrase popular with dictators the enemy of the people to describe journalists.
He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
He has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.
He said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.
He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.
He violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent extramarital affairs.
He made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.
He has refused to release his tax returns.
He falsely accused his predecessor of wiretapping him.
He claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.
He has ordered children to be physically separated from their parents.
He has suggested that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putins Russia.
He has called America a hellhole.
He is the president of the United States, and he is a threat to virtually everything that the United States should stand for
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)When? Soon.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,790 posts)25% of 329M is 82M
40% pf 329M is 131M
Either of these numbers should scare the shit out of the U.S. voter to the roots of their bones........
Moostache
(9,895 posts)If the population is 329M, and only 60% of them vote, then that means roughly 210M votes in a given presidential election...
If there are 40% Trump-humpers overall, and they ALL vote...THAT is enough to win the White House again 131M votes will take the election...even if it IS only 25%...that 82M is the 40% of the electorate that we all hear about constantly.
Bottom line is this, Trump-humpers are MOTIVATED by hate, and orgasmic at seeing him create suffering in others...they literally get off on it, so much so that I imagine many of them have simply stopped having sex or masturbating entirely since January of 2017, hell probably earlier than that.
If people are not awakened from their slumber by that list of deeds Trump has been guilty of committing, then we may as well dissolve the union and let states negotiate new borders and division of the military assets from the former United States. I call 'dibs' on the Mississippi river, the ports of Galveston, Miami and New Orleans (along with the obvious LA and NYC).
DENVERPOPS
(8,790 posts)Previous to Trump they were all probably a bunch of Jack Offs..........
CanonRay
(14,084 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And bookmarked for future reference.
djacq
(1,633 posts)Time for a primary;
[link:https://sfist.com/2019/08/16/nancy-pelosis-three-primary-challngers-will-debate-saturday-night/|
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Year after year.
Because she's very very good at leading the House, and getting things done - in a way that sometimes people don't understand, but she's not someone who lets men finding her "unlikeable" get in her way of defending the constitution.
That's why the GOP hates her so much. Do you hear them banging the drum against impeachment?
Why do you think that is?
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)He never had any intention of showing his financials.
What is the lie count up to now?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,103 posts)in his golf cart while playing pResident.