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struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 10:29 PM Jun 2017

When a Presidency Loses Its Legitimacy

DAVID FRUM 2:21 PM ET

Day by day, revelation after revelation, the legitimacy of the .. presidency is seeping away. The question .. is .. ever more urgent and frightening.

The .. cloud .. over the .. presidency thickened deeper Friday ... The Washington Post reported that the CIA told .. Obama last year that .. Putin had .. specifically instructed his intelligence agencies to intervene in the .. presidential election to hurt .. Clinton and help .. Trump ...

Trump .. denounces the whole thing as .. a “made-up story.” He has not yet lost all .. true believers. But those believers do not include .. many .. leading Republicans in Congress. Senate Majority Leader .. McConnell agrees it happened. So does House Speaker .. Ryan. The House number two, Kevin McCarthy, has even joked that Russia pays Trump.

It’s not seriously disputed by anyone in a position of authority in the U.S. government—apart from the president himself—that Donald Trump holds his high office in considerable part because a foreign spy agency helped place him there. So now what? ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/what-happens-when-a-presidency-loses-its-legitimacy/531447/

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When a Presidency Loses Its Legitimacy (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2017 OP
Trump .. denounces the whole thing as .. a made-up story. Botany Jun 2017 #1
Republicans are complicit enablers SHRED Jun 2017 #2
that fascist orange bastard never HAD any legitimacy to lose Skittles Jun 2017 #3
this particular presidency has never had a microsecond of legitimacy NRaleighLiberal Jun 2017 #4
Did trump ever have any legitimacy? Gothmog Jun 2017 #5
Until the Media calls this sucker out Wellstone ruled Jun 2017 #6

Botany

(70,290 posts)
1. Trump .. denounces the whole thing as .. a made-up story.
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 10:33 PM
Jun 2017

For such a "fake news" story they sure have gone and hired real lawyers

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Until the Media calls this sucker out
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:44 PM
Jun 2017

for his lies on air all the time,nothing changes. It still all about the ratings and bottom line and the quarterly dividend.

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