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babylonsister

(171,082 posts)
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:53 AM Dec 2017

Former ethics director: Trump's tweet on Flynn would have ended past administrations



Former ethics director: Trump's tweet on Flynn would have ended past administrations
By Brandon Carter - 12/02/17 02:25 PM EST


A former government ethics official said Saturday that President Trump’s tweet about the firing of former national security adviser Michael Flynn would have been enough to end past administrations.

“Are you ADMITTING you knew Flynn had lied to to the FBI when you asked Comey to back off Flynn?” Walter Shaub, the former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, tweeted at Trump
.

“Before we slipped into an alternate universe of unabashed corruption, this tweet alone might have ended a Presidential administration," he added.

Shaub was responding to a tweet Trump posted Saturday in which he said he fired Flynn in February because “he lied to the Vice President and the FBI.”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/362942-former-ethics-director-trumps-tweet-on-flynn-may-end-his


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Former ethics director: Trump's tweet on Flynn would have ended past administrations (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 2017 OP
The GOPs are worthless with the majority of the Iliyah Dec 2017 #1
How is Trump more powerful than every other past president? oberliner Dec 2017 #2
He's crazy and Republicans know he'll sign whatever they want him to sign as long as Vinca Dec 2017 #4
Wasn't that true of Reagan and Bush as well? oberliner Dec 2017 #6
I don't think it's to the same degree. Vinca Dec 2017 #13
Protected by his party Fullduplexxx Dec 2017 #5
Weren't former Republican presidents also protected by their party? oberliner Dec 2017 #7
This current incarnation of the Republican Party is unlike its predecessors WinstonSmith4740 Dec 2017 #16
+1 uponit7771 Dec 2017 #11
It isn't him ... Its the GOP Cosmocat Dec 2017 #10
GOP Congress choose not to act... FarPoint Dec 2017 #3
That's the beauty of it - this administration doesn't have an ethics director. flygal Dec 2017 #8
His speech about Mexican immigrants would have ended other candidates dalton99a Dec 2017 #9
but hey, Donald Trump is great for billionaires. BadgerMom Dec 2017 #12
Actually D_Master81 Dec 2017 #15
A period of "unabashed corruption" says it all. BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #14

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. The GOPs are worthless with the majority of the
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:58 AM
Dec 2017

American people. They only work for the rich, and right now the rich wants t-rump still in the WH.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
2. How is Trump more powerful than every other past president?
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:59 AM
Dec 2017

Why don't things that would have ended their administrations have the same impact on his?

What is the explanation for this?

Vinca

(50,303 posts)
4. He's crazy and Republicans know he'll sign whatever they want him to sign as long as
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 09:00 AM
Dec 2017

he gets his signing ceremony. Don isn't in control, Mitch and Paul are.

Vinca

(50,303 posts)
13. I don't think it's to the same degree.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 11:01 AM
Dec 2017

Both St. Ronnie and Dubya had a sliver of governmental experience - for good or bad - and surrounded themselves with people who were more than boot-licking sycophants. The GOP Congress treats Dear Leader as a petulant child to be cajoled and amused for the sole purpose of keeping him under control. They want his signature and nothing more. He wants ceremonies and adoration.

WinstonSmith4740

(3,056 posts)
16. This current incarnation of the Republican Party is unlike its predecessors
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 11:51 AM
Dec 2017

Back in those days, both parties could have diametrically opposed views, and still talk to each other and come up with decent legislation. During Watergate, it was the leading republicans that finally got Nixon to face the reality that they couldn't support him anymore, and impeachment was going to happen. This current crop of "republicans" are sycophants to the false idol of Ayn Rand, who have pledged allegiance not to our Constitution, but to Grover Norquist's vision of shrinking government down to the size where it can be drowned in a bathtub. Trump is simply a signature on the evil they create. They know he'll sign anything that's cruel enough to punish poor people for being poor, because as Rand taught them in "Atlas Shrugged", it's all their own fault.

Cosmocat

(14,572 posts)
10. It isn't him ... Its the GOP
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 10:04 AM
Dec 2017

He is exponentially more horrible than any other POTUS, but in our lifetimes only republicans can be like this.

Nixon was WELL of the rails. The romantic story is that republicans went to him and told him he had to resign, but only after they got behind him to get him reelected and enabled it for half a decade.

Reagen had Iran Contra - his admin faciliated the domestic sale of illegal drugs to fund giving arms to Iran.

IRAN.

But, hey, he was senile and clueless so you just could not hold that against him. At the same time, he was the GREATEST POTUS EVER!

In my 50+ years they ALWAYS engage in fuckwittery, ball about the press and liberals when they get caught, fight like bloody hell to not be held accountable, and this country always, ALWAYS lets them get away with it.

Their bullshit just keeps getting worse and they get held less accountable for it.

Bringing us to ...

45.

FarPoint

(12,436 posts)
3. GOP Congress choose not to act...
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 09:00 AM
Dec 2017

They also are not being confronted to do their job...Media normalized tRump....So...we live a daily hell all the while GOP rapes and pillage our government services and funds.

dalton99a

(81,570 posts)
9. His speech about Mexican immigrants would have ended other candidates
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 10:02 AM
Dec 2017

but hey, Donald Trump is great for ratings

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