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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJennifer Rubin eviscerates Il Douche in her column today:
What Trump said in that wacky Reuters interviewWe have gone from hoax and witch hunt to Well, tax fraud, lying to the FBI and campaign violations are penny ante stuff. Thats essentially President Trumps newest line of defense: He and others didnt break the law. But if they did, its no big deal.
Asked in a Reuters interview about his involvement in payments to women before the election, he declared. Number one, it wasnt a campaign contribution. If it were, its only civil, and even if its only civil, there was no violation based on what we did. Okay? Hmm. I wouldnt advise using that argument to a judge or jury. (Ah, remember the good old days when Trump denied knowing anything about the payments?)
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What makes Trumps blithe dismissal of felony crimes doubly horrifying is as chief executive Trump took an oath to execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States not to execute the Office of President of the United States except when it comes to peanut stuff.'
Trumps party is no better. When Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) says he doesnt care if Trump broke the law, its time to question whether he or any other Republican congressional apologists for Trump, who took an oath as well, is fit for office. (This is the same crowd who wants to lock up migrants for the misdemeanor of entering the country illegally. Silly them if only theyd obstructed justice or committed some peanut stuff, theyd be in fine shape.)
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Finally, Trumps declaration that the people would revolt if he were impeached, if not an implicit threat to stage a civil uprising, represents a perfect distillation of his authoritarian outlook. Ultimately, nothing matters in his mind because he controls the streets. If he sounds like thuggish autocrats like Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey or Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, you can understand why he embraces such characters. He is one of them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/12/what-trump-said-that-wacky-reuters-interview/?utm_term=.12124981ab0f
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Jennifer Rubin eviscerates Il Douche in her column today: (Original Post)
catbyte
Dec 2018
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struggle4progress
(118,337 posts)1. "I didn't shoot the sheriff, and I swear it was in self-defense,
but I didn't shoot the deputy, though he had it coming too, by the way, even though it was an accident. Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing"
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)2. Someone needs to do a meme
With lawbreaker shitstain on AF1 (with a list of his crimes) on one side and a picture of that little girl in pink shoes being put in a cage ...
Justice my ass
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)3. If it was a Democrat the republicans would have already impeached.
It's astounding that crime isn't crime anymore with republicans!