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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNow begins the crisis stage of the Trump presidency
...We should all be grateful for the speed and apparent rigorous professionalism that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has brought to his investigation of Russias subversive involvement in our election. It will make it a good deal harder and a good deal less credible when Trump turns on him personally, which seems almost inevitable. The charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime business partner Rick Gates have now set in motion the first, if not the final, crisis in Donald Trumps presidency.
The medical meaning of the word crisis is useful here, as an inflection point in a process of a disease. It is the threshold where things turn better, or worse. What it is not is government as usual. The Trump presidency has been an impeachment waiting to happen. Trump knows it, and is ready to start a scorched-earth protection of himself whenever needed. How do we know this? Have you been paying attention to who he is and how he behaves?
The medical meaning of the word crisis is useful here, as an inflection point in a process of a disease. It is the threshold where things turn better, or worse. What it is not is government as usual. The Trump presidency has been an impeachment waiting to happen. Trump knows it, and is ready to start a scorched-earth protection of himself whenever needed. How do we know this? Have you been paying attention to who he is and how he behaves?
...This process will lead either to the orderly removal of Donald Trump from office, or a newly empowered and vengeful Donald Trump.
Neither scenario will be pretty. The second scenario is nothing but terrifying.
Neither scenario will be pretty. The second scenario is nothing but terrifying.
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Now begins the crisis stage of the Trump presidency (Original Post)
mia
Oct 2017
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Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)1. I really hope there is somebody between Trump and the football...
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)2. The cornered rat will go into full slash-and-burn mode
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. That is what terrifies me.
He is not going to go down without taking a whole lot of his "enemies" with him.