Donald Trump has put our country into a constitutional crisis with his actions today.

[kentuck]

He gave his approval to a House Committee to release the Nunez memo that was four pages long, and cherry-picked from over a thousand pages of investigative evidence. They have refused to let the Tweeter Chief's own Justice Dept see the memo? They refused to approve the minority memo to be released at the same time?

He also had the FBI Director and the Acting Atty-General for a visit today. Coincidentally, it is the same day that Deputy FBI Director was asked to leave his office. Call it "fired" or whatever you want...he is gone.

Donald Trump has created this crisis as a way to increase partisan divisions and to create obstacles in front of the Russian investigation. It should be clear to any serious-thinking American that this President is obstructing justice in order to prevent Robert Mueller from doing his job.

If he can get rid of Rosenstein, then he may find a way to control Mueller without firing him, depending on the person that takes Rosenstein's position??

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Yep, and 45 million Americans want the FBI to roll over and they want you and me

and POC and Muslims and Latinos and on and on and gay folks to be gone.

I think problems are gonna escalate fast. But hey, at least we dont have


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anybody who held their nose in 2016 can now kiss my ass

[HipChick]

4. " anybody who held their nose in 2016 can now kiss my ass"

My sentiments exactly...

[malaise]

2. You forgot the other one

The majority of the House and Senate voted for sanctions against Russia and they have been gien a big 'fuck you' from the Con.

Watch the enthusiastic approach to this one from ReTHUGs

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. Trump supporters think Putin is their pal. Sadly, he is not, and we will have to suffer

for their stupidity and childishness

And suffer we will, all of us.

[RKP5637]

3. Trump is guilty as hell! n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. This is proof of that of course, but what do we do when 45 million americans dont care

they hate brown people and gay people, he hates them, problem solved.

[global1]

12. This Is The Thing That Gets Me....

We know that Trump is guilty as hell. Trump also knows he is guilty as hell. He keeps saying he's not - but everyday he confirms that he's guilty because he's acting like and doing what a guilty man would.

Most everybody knows in their heart that Trump is not an honest man and he's a crook.

But everyday Trump gets away with some action or words that puts him farther away from being found guilty. He keeps gaming the system - that we all thought was set up to catch people like him.

He did say he's a winner and we'll be doing so much winning that we will be getting sick of winning.

Well I'm there right now. I'm sick of his winning.

I like to think that 'every dog will have its day'. But everyday - it seems that we are getting further away from Trump having his 'so called day'. And to boot - he is being protected by his Party that continually circle the wagons around him.

I said it the day after the Nov 2016 election - that this country experienced a coup d'etat. I still believe that.

If we don't act soon - we'll be stuck with this guy and his Party and we'll never climb our way back to the democracy we all know and love.

[RKP5637]

13. At this stage, I'm starting to think he's guilty of treason! He relies on the stupidity of many

Americans, as long as that continues, he continues. Yes!!! "... that this country experienced a coup d'etat. I still believe that."

[duforsure]

5. He does that every day.

[dewsgirl]

6. Add to that refusal to implement sanctions and yep this is where we are.

[Hav]

9. Should we even talk about anything else? Am I overreacting?

The reaction here seems quite mild. I see a few threads about this topic with worried posters, other topics seem distractions and appear to be so unimportant by comparison. I actually fear that Trump and the likes of Nunes could get away with it.
As you said, for me this is nearing a crisis as well. Even before his election he relied on destroying the trust in the foundation of the US. Throughout his presidency, that was continued. Today another step was taken and the damage might not be reversible.

[Eyeball_Kid]

17. So... Do you want to talk about a Russian coup?

Do you want to talk about Trumpy being a Russian asset?

[Alpeduez21]

10. Does anyone really believe we're going to have elections this year?

I would be shocked if free and fair open elections happen for the midterms. McConnell and Ryan will support martial law or suspension of habeus corpus. Something dictatorial is coming. What are you prepared to do?

Trump is seeing how far Repukes will let him go. I'm guessing they'll let him go pretty damn far.

[Woodycall]

18. I've been thinking the same thing . n/t

[Pachamama]

11. My bet is that Trump had directed Nunes to write this memo in the first place....

Putin must be very proud of his prodigy's....

[doc03]

14. I keep hearing this phrase Constitutional Crisis kicked around, what does that mean?

As long as Republicans control all three branches there is no Constitution.

[Marie Marie]

19. Agreed - in today's political climate, what does that mean?

As far as I am concerned, we HAVE been in a constitutional climate since he took office. He ignores all standards of protocol, balance of power, emoluments, and the law - and he has been getting away with it. What else has to happen that would wake up the Republicans?

[CanonRay]

15. It was inevitable

from the day he took off

[windwardbmh]

16. And so it it begins

If this is to be our end, then I would have them make such an end, as to be worthy of remembrance!