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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 04:55 PM Oct 2018

Is Trump the worst human being in American history...?

...yeah, I know about Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. Their Absolute Evil is (probably!) higher than Trump's. But when you combine his cheap criminality, his not-so-cheap criminality, his high office, and his utter lack of human sympathy...the whole package...who comes close? J Edgar Hoover? Nixon? Benedict Arnold? John C Calhoun? Lee Atwater? These men were angels compared to Trump. I honestly can't think of anyone who matches him.

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Johonny

(20,851 posts)
4. He's still not into Andrew Jackson or some of the southern leaders responsible for the civil war
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 05:02 PM
Oct 2018

levels of crap human, but he has potential...

ProfessorGAC

(65,058 posts)
16. Given The Time and Place Differences. . .
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:38 AM
Oct 2018

. . .i think the buffoon would have been just as bad as Jackson.

Stuart G

(38,428 posts)
7. NO. he is not..Here is a list I posted for another thread.. (I agree totally with post 4)
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 05:10 PM
Oct 2018

Richard Benjamin Speck .... (killed 8 student nurses, July 14, 1966)
H. H. Holmes ............ (killed visitors to 1893 World's Fair)
John Wayne Gacy ...... (killed teenage boys in Chicago 1972-1978)
Jeffery Dahmer ..... (killed teenage 17 teenage boys in Milwaukee, cut them up 1978-1991)
Charles Whitman ..... (shot 16 people from Texas Tower, Aug 1, 1966, same day killed parents)
Charles Manson .......(committed series of 9 murders in 4 locations in 1969)
Ted Bundy ............. (killed numerous young women in the early 70s..30 plus)
John Chivington ........responsible for killing the hundreds of innocent people.perhaps more than all of above put
together. Want to know more?..google "Massacre at Sand Creek"
..........................Chivington was in charge of killing innocent children and woman. read some more..
......................... but it is sickening...you have been warned..

The last might be the worst, (as an individual).. but individuals who started the civil war and committed that are the true murderers. 600,000 died in that war...one in 30 of the total population. Totally horrific beyond belief, and unless people really study that, most do not know about it.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
9. Ivanka Trump pushed him into it...just like she pushed him into
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 05:11 PM
Oct 2018

bombing Syria. God, what else does she do...just a bunch of privileged rich people.

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
10. Dahmer and Bundy only harmed their victims and their families.
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 05:12 PM
Oct 2018

Trump has harmed a whole society! Hopefully not irretrievably.

Rincewind

(1,203 posts)
11. No, he's not
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 02:17 AM
Oct 2018

to be the worst human being in American history, you first have to be human. He's some kind of slime mold.

Stuart G

(38,428 posts)
12. Bush Jr...much, Much worse..please consider this:
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 02:32 AM
Oct 2018

Iraq War deaths and wounded.....

As of June 29, 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,424 total deaths (including both killed in action and non-hostile) and 31,952 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of the Iraq War.

How about this:
In June 2014, IBC tallied nearly 4,100 civilian deaths. Over the course of the year, more than 20,000 people died. It is important to consider that this is 20,000 deaths in a country of about 35 million. In 2014, about 5.8 of every 10,000 Iraqis died as a result of violence...

treestar

(82,383 posts)
13. His disrespect for the Constitution and the rule of law
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:12 AM
Oct 2018

make him the worst human being as far as the history of the American Experiment goes. He tries to get away with anything he can and since the Rs won't impeach him, they are evil too.

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