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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Apr 15, 2018, 09:33 AM Apr 2018

Trump Is Drowning In Scandal

April 15, 2018 at 8:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Max Boot: “It is hard to imagine how Trump can do his job — for example, approving military strikes on Syria — while drowning in this rising tide of scandal. There is an old tradition, more honored in theory than fact, that issues of national security are kept separate from domestic politics, but Trump is utterly incapable of making any such distinction. For him, everything is political — and all politics is personal.”

“It’s hard to imagine that Trump, who in the best of times has the attention span of a hyperactive 8-year-old, can focus on strategy for Syria amid the far more pressing threats that he faces from an ever-expanding criminal investigation. If the United States had a parliamentary government, Congress could pass a motion of ‘no confidence,’ thus allowing Trump to devote 100?percent of his attention to fighting the multiplying charges against him without the distractions of running the government. Instead, we must hope that the institutions of the U.S. government are strong enough to function more or less on autopilot while Trump is consumed by the wages of his own sins.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/04/15/trump-is-drowning-in-scandal/

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Trump Is Drowning In Scandal (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
Good article. Thanks. Demsrule86 Apr 2018 #1
It's time to hand him an anvil. n/t manor321 Apr 2018 #2
Beat me to it! Fritz Walter Apr 2018 #8
He doesn't work anyway.... paleotn Apr 2018 #3
"The executive branch has been on autopilot since Obama left." -- fierywoman Apr 2018 #9
IOW DemoTex Apr 2018 #4
He is not doing shit. IluvPitties Apr 2018 #5
"Trump is consumed by the wages of his own sins. SunSeeker Apr 2018 #6
Trump is not running the government any more. Nitram Apr 2018 #7
Yet his bloated corpse still walks the earth lame54 Apr 2018 #10

paleotn

(17,946 posts)
3. He doesn't work anyway....
Sun Apr 15, 2018, 12:06 PM
Apr 2018

so I doubt the scandals are putting much of a crimp on his time. Since inauguration, his schedule is peppered with time slots called "executive time"..ie. goof off time, flog the log time, whatever you want to call it. His weekends are wall to wall goof off time. The executive branch has been on autopilot since Obama left.

Nitram

(22,861 posts)
7. Trump is not running the government any more.
Sun Apr 15, 2018, 12:23 PM
Apr 2018

He is taking advice from people like Bolton. What could go wrong?

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