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Post by gregfordyce on Aug 29, 2019 14:18:49 GMT
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Post by karma4u on Sept 5, 2019 20:17:51 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Sept 6, 2019 21:41:40 GMT
'He's losing his s---': Trump's advisers are increasingly worried about his mental state following days of erratic behavior President Donald Trump's aides and confidants are increasingly worried about his mental state after days of erratic behavior and wild outbursts. "No one knows what to expect from him anymore," one former White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations about the president, told Insider. "His mood changes from one minute to the next based on some headline or tweet, and the next thing you know his entire schedule gets tossed out the window because he's losing his s---." Trump has spent the past several days fixated on his false claim that Alabama was going to be hit by Hurricane Dorian. He has also taken time to lob attacks at his perceived enemies, like the actress Debra Messing, former FBI Director James Comey, and the "LameStream media." "He's deteriorating in plain sight," one Republican strategist who is in frequent contact with the White House told Insider on Friday. But one person who was close to Trump's legal team during the Russia investigation told Insider his public statements were "nothing compared to what he's like behind closed doors. He's like a bull seeing red. There's just no getting through to him, and you can kiss your plans for the day goodbye because you're basically stuck looking after a 4-year-old now." news.yahoo.com/hes-losing-trumps-advisers-increasingly-202200411.htmlAny debate he gets in for the election is going to be an epic fail on his part. Whomever he faces just needs to push him. |
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Post by cliffs on Sept 15, 2019 11:40:12 GMT
Sorry about C&P but , well just read this.
In retrospect, what’s most disturbing about “Sharpiegate” isn’t Trump’s clumsy effort to doctor a National Weather Service map or even his brazen move to get the same agency to lie on his behalf.
It’s how utterly petty his motive was. We’ve had presidents trying to cover up a sexual liaison with an intern and a botched burglary, but never have we had one who went to such lengths to cover up an inaccurate weather forecast. Alabama being hit by a hurricane? Friends, this is not rational behavior.
Trump also cancelled a meeting with the Taliban at Camp David. The meeting was to have been secret. It was scheduled for the week of the anniversary of 9/11. He cancelled it by tweet.
Does any of this strike you as even remotely rational?
Before that, Trump cancelled a state visit to Denmark because Denmark wouldn’t sell Greenland to the US. Hello? Greenland wasn’t for sale. The US no longer buys populated countries. The state visit had been planned for months.
He has repeatedly told senior officials to explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes hitting the US. He believes video games cause mass shootings. He thinks climate change is no big deal.
He says trade wars are “good and easy to win”. He insists it’s Chinese rather than US consumers who pay his tariffs. He “orders” American firms to stop doing business in China.
He calls the chairman of the Federal Reserve an “enemy”. He retweets a comedian’s sick suggestion that the Clintons were responsible for the suicide of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
I think we have to face the truth that no one seems to want to admit. This is no longer a case of excessive narcissism or grandiosity. We’re not simply dealing with an unusually large ego.
The president of the United States is seriously, frighteningly, dangerously unstable. And he’s getting worse by the day.
Such a person in the Oval Office can do serious damage.
What to do? We can vote him out of office in 14 months’ time. But he could end the world in seven and a half seconds.
There’s also the question of whether he’ll willingly leave.
No president has ever been sent packing. Nixon resigned because he saw it coming. Trump would sooner start a civil war
With rumors flying that Trump might exchange him for another lapdog, who knows? Maybe Pence will discover some cojones
Can you imagine the lengths he will go to win? Will he get Russia to do more dirty work? Instruct the justice department to arrest his opponent? Issue an executive order banning anyone not born in the US from voting? Start another war?
By the time the courts order him to cease whatever unconstitutional effort he’s making to remain in office, the election may be over. Or he’ll just ignore the courts.
It’s almost too late for an impeachment. Besides, no president has ever been sent packing. Nixon resigned because he saw it coming. Trump would sooner start a civil war.
Also, being unstable is not an impeachable offense.
Two Republicans who have announced primary challenges to him have suggested another possibility: the 25th amendment.
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld recently tweeted that Trump is “a clear and present danger” to the US, with the hashtag “#25thAmendment”. Former Illinois representative Joe Walsh says the amendment should be “looked at”.
Last February, former deputy director and acting director of the FBI Andrew McCabe said officials in the Department of Justice had discussed using the 25th.
Ratified in 1967, it allows the vice-president to become “acting president” when “the vice-president and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or such other body as Congress may by law provide” declare a president incapacitated.
The only attribute Vice-President Mike Pence has displayed so far is sycophancy: most recent illustration, overnighting at Trump’s golf resort in Ireland. But with rumors flying that Trump might exchange him for another lapdog, who knows? Maybe Pence will discover some cojones.
Another problem: the amendment doesn’t define who “principal officers” are and the constitution never mentions the word “cabinet”. If Trump thought a revolt was brewing, he’d fire everyone instantly.
I wouldn’t completely rule out the 25th amendment, but the only thing that’s going to get Pence and a majority of Trump’s lieutenants to pull the plug before Trump pulls it on them may be so horrific that the damage done to America and the world would be way beyond anything we’ve experienced to date.
Which is to say, be careful what you wish for.
Pray that we make it through the next 14 months. Then do everything in your power to remove this man from office.
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Post by paulus on Sept 15, 2019 14:13:27 GMT
Can't disagree with any of it - source cliffs ? |
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Post by cliffs on Sept 15, 2019 15:06:33 GMT
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Post by gregfordyce on Sept 16, 2019 13:32:53 GMT
Excellent points cliffs. Has been my primary fear for awhile now - getting him to leave. Once he's a civilian once more, he will be vulnerable to lawsuits and criminal charges and even prison time again. I can't imagine him ever relinquishing his grip on power voluntarily. He will set it up well in advance that any win by a Dem will be some kind of cheat or conspiracy by the "deep state" and thus invalid. And if it makes it all the way to SCOTUS, we all know who the majority will side with (hint: it won't be the Constitution). I can almost guarantee Trump will win in 2020, but even if he shouldn't, I just don't see him acting gracefully and conceding defeat honorably. The man doesn't have an honorable bone in his body. And I'm sorry, but I also can't picture the Armed Forces or the Secret Service removing him by force either. Too many of our "guardrails" have proven to be completely worthless since Trump took office.
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