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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump is so obssessed with denying there was collusion, discrediting the FBI and firing Muellar...
that he's left himself completely vulnerable to another glaring impeachable offensedereliction of duty in doing absolutely nothing to protect the country from on-going Russian interference in our upcoming election, despite being repeatedly warned about it happening.
Chris Hayes and his guests, Paul Butler and Jill Wine-Banks, just discussed this.
It's taking time but it's becoming clear that trump is toast.
Protecting the country from enemies foreign and domestic is the number one duty of the president.
enough
(13,262 posts)Never pays attention to all the serious issues that a President needs to attend to. I'm not being snarky. I think this is a dead serious problem for our country with this person in the office.
brush
(53,871 posts)sheshe2
(83,925 posts)Takes time to consume 5 Big Macs, a diet coke and supersized fries.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Luciferous
(6,085 posts)unblock
(52,328 posts)Hes doing it because it benefits him.
He has no concept of right and wrong, theres only what works for him and what doesnt work for him.
Russian hacking our elections works for him, investigations if him and his campaign and his finances and his family and his cronies doesnt work for him.
Cha
(297,692 posts)snip//
"Instead of mobilizing forces to our nations aid, the president, like Benedict Arnold at West Point, has allowed our defenses to crumble."
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We cannot trust the president, not because of what he may or may not have done in secret in the past, but because of what he is clearly doing or, rather, not doing, right now: defending our country against foreign enemies."
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=201803
Mahalo for this, brush
ffr
(22,671 posts)They are unraveling our nation's moral fabric.
Golden Raisin
(4,613 posts)Putin has successfully and brilliantly outflanked and attacked us (not a bullet fired) and won that Cold War. Trump is installed in the White House and producing 24/7 chaos. The U.S. Citizenry is so starkly divided as to be in a non-military Civil War. A complicit and corrupt Republican Congress is in control of passing all laws. Supreme Court is hanging by a thread. Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and all the others are laughing their asses off from that great dacha in the sky.
roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)But you're right. It's hitting the fan as we speak.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)And even if it could be applied to trump, the GOP wouldn't do anything about it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)brush
(53,871 posts)FYI: The president's first duty in his oath of office is to defend the country from enemies foreign and domestic.
He is clearly failing at that as he has not instructed the DOJ and the FBI to take measures to protect the country.
With Muellar's indictments and future indictments and the press' continued coverage on all of the things collapsing around trump and with pressure building, Congress will eventually be forced to move on this, just as what happened during Watergate.
It might have to wait until Nov. when the Dems take over the House (the House, btw, initiates impeachment proceedings), but the die has been cast.
The public's disgust with trump is going stronger every day.
He's going down.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Dereliction of duty is a specific offense under United States Code Title 10, Section 892, Article 92 and applies to all branches of the US military.
There are a lot of crimes he could be charged with but Dereliction of duty ain't one of them. I think they were just being hyperbolic for impact.
brush
(53,871 posts)office, right?
The oath the president takes is very clear as to the president's duty to defend the nation from enemies foreign and domestic.
Commentators on both Hayes' and Lawrence's shows pointed out trump's inaction towards the on-going Russian interference with the upcoming election is a dereliction of duty.
The military code you cite is one thing but the oath the president takes is very clear as to the president's duty to defend the nation from enemies foreign and domestic.
They were not talking about military code they were talking about trump's failure to do this prescribed duty.
Dereliction of duty is not just a military offense.
yankeepants
(1,979 posts)They become military. The ultimate in military.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Birds of a feather flock together.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)Oh, crap. I knew I shouldn't have stayed away from DU for a couple of hours.
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)I know I would hear all my neighbors screaming outside and my phones would be ringing off the hook and my gmail would be filled with alerts to get my signs out, put my shoes on and head downtown for to the rally planned to be ready within hours after an announcement. Here is where you can get the news of such an announcement in the future if it happens. I don't think it will now that the Russian indictment came out last week.
https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/search/
The post says he is "obsessed with firing Mueller".
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)I didn't read the first line carefully enough.
Farmer-Rick
(10,212 posts)But ignoring on going attacks by foreign enemies and failing to enact even the most minor defenses like sanctions that have been made law, well it really does sound like traitorous behavior by Trump.
brush
(53,871 posts)fierywoman
(7,694 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)The United States of America was attacked by Russia (and is being attacked by Russia, and will continue to be attacked by Russia) and The President of the United States response is to say the FBI is wasting too much time investigating it.
Ponder that a minute.