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A Cancer on the Presidency (WashPost)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-cancer-on-the-presidency/2018/08/23/e0b7fad4-a710-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html?utm_term=.8d84d897eb1f<snip>
This is different from our daily dose of the president’s outrageous tweets and attacks. It is an inflection point in the Trump presidency. He has been credibly accused, not of violating civic norms, but of personal involvement in criminal law-breaking. If Trump were not the president, he might well be indicted, convicted and face jail time.
His violation of civic norms, by the way, is not a minor matter. The payment to Stormy Daniels was made 12 days before the election. This timing indicates not the prevention of personal mortification, but an attempt to deny voters relevant information. As a result, the 2016 presidential election will always have an asterisk — “outcome may have been influenced by Russian hacking and campaign fraud.”
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Every time we gain a peek into the inner workings of Trump world, we see a leader with the ethics of an Atlantic City casino owner who surrounds himself with people chosen for their willingness to lie and cheat at his bidding. A world in which Paul Manafort is “a very good person.” A world in which payoffs and election tampering are all in a day’s work.
Left to his investigation, Mueller will expose this world to the light. And the choice for Congress is likely to be clear: Impeach, or tolerate massive corruption.
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I was agreeing with you.
... before I've had my first cup of covfefe. 
Who lost to a little old Lady he tried to remove.
I mean, the republicans pick a five-time draft-dodging casino hustler with a track record of lying and cheating, and super stanky connections to the russian mob, and they put him in charge. There's your stinking republican family values in action right there - basically PISSING all over honesty, integrity, decency, fairness, and loyalty to the USA.
