That’s temporary, you should have read further, to make it stick requires a two-third majority in both houses of congress, which is a higher bar than impeachment.
Sure. It was a generality. But the GOP is fully behind (at least publicly) him now and refuses to act as any sort of check on him, making them complicit.
They may be behind him publicly but I am pretty sure you realize they are not privately and would love it if voters abandoned him enough to permit them to remove him from office. Which is what this letter is all about.
And I don’t believe his supporters would ever abandon him without having the overwhelming majority of those in his own party come out and publicly denounce him like they seem willing to do on background only. Which makes them even more complicit in all of this. They have the power to save their party in the here and now. But if they continue to refuse to act, then there will be long term damage done to the GOP brand that will take some significant time to overcome. But by then will it be too late? Will they end up ceding power to the Democrats for generations as a result?
Well, that is nothing new. There are always competing political interests s and palace intrigue.
The differences here are, this author is acting out of concern for the country not out of political opportunism.
And of course the other difference is other presidents are effective managers and would root out political opponents. They also would t appear to be insane ■■■■■ grabbing ■■■■■■■■ and would thereby make such an op-ed look in-credible.
You realize you are talking about Trump right? If he is not acting like a loon on any given particular day that would be the exception not the norm. Whoever wrote this article apparently knew just how to trigger the Don.
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I was thinking the same way until about three minutes ago, when I realized that the President is probably entirely focused on the rat hunt.
It makes me think that part of the reason for this is to distract the President from darker, even more stupid, impulses.
That couldn’t happen if the name of the accuser were known.
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The current support for Trump is simply because he was elected President. That cannot be overturned because some people may have second thoughts or don’t like his morals. The time to bring this up is when some person with acceptable beliefs and better self control primaries him…if that happens.
And I can easily see some Democrat getting the nomination that would make me vote for Trump again.
I think a President who sees enemies all around him might be even more inclined to give in to his dark, foolish, paranoid impulses.
So the Republican party has no recourse to do anything about the lazy, amoral, lying piece of trash they put in the White House until 2 years from now? Winning an election allows someone to do whatever the hell they please for the length of their term?
No, you all get to own this. Both those who have turned a blind eye and those who have actively excused it.
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Why would a WH mole want to announce his presence, even anonymously? Just to create drama? Why? What could be the point?
It’s probably Kelly. He probably told the adults that he would control the madman as long as he could. Probably told them that he would send a strong signal if it got out of hand.
Yes. Like blowing ragweed pollen into the office of an asthma sufferer. Or angering those in wheelchairs by making restrooms inaccessible. Or strobing a bright light in front of people suseptable to seizures. Or putting peanut dust in the water cooler of offices with people who have nut allergies.
It is a new era in political revenge.
Oh so you are talking about deportation now instead of detention? Sorry, we can’t hand kids over to law breakers who can’t prove they are their children. See Obama handing kids back to human traffickers if you can’t understand why that is.
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Create chaos.
Think…psyops.
Think…Brennan.
We have used the EXACT technique against ISIS leadership.
A president who sees enemies all around him. Let me think who that could be. Oh, yeah. Nixon.
Then how do you suppose they were privy to high level secret Cabinet discussions about possibly invoking the 25th?
Yep. This entire mess is directly on the shoulders of those who voted for Donald Trump.
And now they’ll try to weasel out of responsibility.
The point is Mattis denied everything that was attributed to him in the book. So we don’t “know” if Mattis refused the order or if it was even given.
To alert the public that you guys hired a madman and gave him the nuke codes.
This is all on you guys.
