Trump burns the Trump Presidency to the ground

[The_adorable_slut]

Most Americans Back Trump’s Impeachment — Including Millions Who Voted for Him


More than 185 Trump loyalists have been charged with federal crimes regarding the Capitol breach. In dozens of court documents for some of their pending trials, a clear pattern is evident: These individuals specifically cited Trump’s words for the reason why they descended upon Washington, D.C., in the first place.

The documents also show loyalists were further motivated by Trump’s months-long tirades erroneously claiming that the election had been stolen from him. Some even cited his comments — wrongly asserting that former Vice President Mike Pence had the power to stop the Electoral College certification — as the reason why they might have wanted to attack the Capitol.


Trump, who has called his words on that day “totally appropriate,” did indeed tell his supporters on January 6 to go to the Capitol, adding that they would “never take back our country with weakness.”

Trump’s defense team plans to employ a two-pronged approach to arguing against his indictment, suggesting that the proceedings themselves are unconstitutional since he’s no longer a sitting president, and that his First Amendment speech rights afford him protection from bearing any responsibility for what happened.

Legal experts have denounced both ideas. In an open letter from 150 legal scholars with differing political points of view, constitutional scholars and legal experts said that, “despite our differences, our carefully considered views of the law lead all of us to agree that the Constitution permits the impeachment, conviction, and disqualification of former officers, including presidents.”

Trump’s “free speech” argument has similarly been dissected and found to be problematic. NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, speaking during a segment on the station last week regarding the issue, noted that “there is nothing in the Constitution that says you can’t hold public officials accountable for incendiary or inciting speech.”

https://truthout.org/articles/most-...achment-including-millions-who-voted-for-him/

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

Donald Trump is shrinking before our eyes.

The coronavirus is quite likely to be the Trump presidency’s inflection point, when everything changed, when the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of America’s 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or a mathematical equation.

It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/

Joseph Biden has a job approval rating of 61%.

Donald Trump NEVER got approval numbers that high! Trump's approval ratings hovered around 36% to 40% during the 4 years he was in office! And then right before he left, they dropped down to 29%!

Trump had four years to make something of himself and failed! Biden has been in office for less than a month, and he's already accomplished far more than Trump and gained the Trump and respect of the American People!

 

[spankednaked]

During Trump and Republicans’ months-long, and at times deadly, blitz to nullify President Joe Biden’s decisive victory in the 2020 election, the 45th U.S. president and his allies consumed and regurgitated a lot of garbage information and unhinged conspiracy theories from “the internet.” And one of the websites Trump was specifically citing was the ultra-right-wing and habitually wrong Gateway Pundit; the president was known to sometimes brandish printed pages of the website around the West Wing after the 2020 election.

The Gateway Pundit’s small role in Trump’s endeavor to weaponize the DOJ against the American electoral process underscores just how easily a discredited far-right media site established a pipeline to the decision-making of the then most powerful person on Earth. It also shows how this one website—founded by a guy repeatedly dubbed the “dumbest man on the internet”—managed to play a part in fueling the efforts that brought the country to the brink of democratic rupture.

According to a former senior Trump White House official and another person with direct knowledge of the matter, during the final weeks of his presidency, administration officials saw Trump on multiple occasions holding printed-out pages of Gateway Pundit articles in the White House, sometimes in the Oval Office. The former senior official recalled one instance when Trump handed them a page printed from the website, which nonsensically alleged massive pro-Biden fraud, and told the official to find out more and to do something about it.

“I didn’t really do anything about it,” the ex-official told The Daily Beast. “I think I threw it out. Maybe I recycled it.”

In those closing months of the Trump administration, high-ranking officials were used to receiving dubious materials, sometimes ones personally briefed to Trump himself, that they then often discarded or ignored entirely. In January, for instance, Trump’s friend and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell met with the outgoing president in the Oval Office to show him six pages of baseless conspiracy theories about China and other foreign governments rigging the election for Biden.

At the time, Lindell told The Daily Beast that he also attempted to share the documents with other senior White House staff, who quickly dismissed the theories and barred him from seeing Trump again that day. But during his brief meeting with Trump in the Oval, Lindell said he told the then-president that these documents were “all over the internet.”

But other members of Trump’s inner circle were more obliging about leveraging the machinery of government to pursue bizarre, internet-driven conspiracy theories that had drifted into Trump’s field of view. In one notorious incident, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows asked the Justice Department to follow up on “Italygate,” a sci-fi conspiracy theory ginned up by Trump supporters that posited Italian military satellites had been used to somehow switch votes on American voting machines.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...el-democracy/ar-AAMV7oj?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham didn't see anything wrong with then-President Donald Trump's infamous July 2019 call with Ukraine's president in part because Trump often "said insane things to foreign leaders."

Great. That's just great.

The man who was in charge of America's foreign policy often said insane things to foreign leaders.

Yeah, that's real comforting.