Trump's 'total authority' boast should've enraged Republicans. Instead they shrugged.
Two quotes, a month apart, neatly capture the essence of Donald Trump's presidency:
"No, I don't take responsibility at all." March 13
"When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's got to be. It's total." April 13
There is something quintessentially Trumpian about the claim of total authority and zero responsibility. He alone can save us, he insists, but don't blame him if he doesn't.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1184806?__twitter_impression=true
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)it will be with the support and consent of the GOP, and probably the Roberts Court.
Russian Kompromat files are quite detailed.
Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)brewens
(13,596 posts)I'm in Idaho, right on the border. Now trump claims he has total authority to command governors to start back up. Can you imagine if it was a democrat president ordering Idaho to shut down? There probably would be violence over that.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)Not 'a democrat President'.
Let's not repeat repuke memes here...
brewens
(13,596 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)None whatsoever.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)VERY ironically. He stood up and went apeshit on Trump for this -- and, notably, Trump backed down.
I have a soft spot for libertarian thinking, as a lawyer. And as a recluse who really just wants to be left alone.
Anyway, Sen. Paul stood up to Drumph -- the only Republican to so, excepting Liz Cheney.
So, while I generally disagree with Paul on basically everything, I was pleased to see a brief speck of intellectual consistency.
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/14/rand-paul-leads-republicans-in-rejecting-trumps-claim-that-he-has-total-authority-over-states/