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Dulcinea

(6,671 posts)
Fri May 19, 2017, 12:50 PM May 2017

Trump is Being Taken Apart, Step By Step

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Maybe James Comey shares little more in common with Hoover than former job titles, but he might be able to take down a president while he’s still living, and in broad daylight. For a lot of people, this is an example of a Deep State or an incompetent Establishment carrying out a coup that overrules the verdict the people made at the ballot box. And, it’s true, our clandestine services have been known to orchestrate coups and meddle in elections in other countries. The presumption in these cases is that this meddling is unjustified or even immoral, but I don’t know that people would have felt much differently about Watergate if they knew someone at the top of the FBI was leaking to Woodward and Bernstein. Nixon really had committed crimes and he really was committing more as he tried to cover his tracks. The way to make sure he was removed from office wasn’t to prosecute him. It was to make sure the people knew what he had done.

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/05/17/trump-is-being-taken-apart-step-by-step/

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Trump is Being Taken Apart, Step By Step (Original Post) Dulcinea May 2017 OP
And, this is not really overruling the choice people made at the ballot box. LisaM May 2017 #1
At this point gibraltar72 May 2017 #2
There really is something great to be said about career civil servants. GitRDun May 2017 #3
Knowing his mentality I do not see him going down step by step easily. BigmanPigman May 2017 #4
Thank God for the Fourth Estate. SunSeeker May 2017 #5

LisaM

(27,843 posts)
1. And, this is not really overruling the choice people made at the ballot box.
Fri May 19, 2017, 01:05 PM
May 2017

Trump not only lost the popular vote by a fair margin, some of his razor-thin wins came in states where there had been huge efforts at voter suppression, or where there were real issues at the actual polling sites (Wisconsin and, in Michigan, Detroit, for example). He's not really the choice of the people. Yet, rather than admitting this and at least trying to attempt to govern on behalf of all Americans (if such a person as he can even "govern" in the sense that Americans deserve and as is written in the Constitution), he's chosen to pursue a scorched earth policy that seems designed to harm the most number of Americans possible, all the while gloating over a non-existent landslide win.

It defies analysis, in my opinion. Obviously he's a narcissistic con man, but most con men, at some level, make people believe in their cons. I don't see him even trying to make people believe him.

This is an interesting article, and I had never heard before that Mark Felt had been passed up for promotion. Interesting.

gibraltar72

(7,513 posts)
2. At this point
Fri May 19, 2017, 01:54 PM
May 2017

Comey is exercising death by a thousand cuts. I love it he is one smart man and it seems his observations have been widely circulated to be displayed every few days.

GitRDun

(1,846 posts)
3. There really is something great to be said about career civil servants.
Fri May 19, 2017, 02:18 PM
May 2017

I thought the best visual was when they described how different it would have been if President Obama accidentally gave the Russians the top secret info...... no one would have known about it.

Great read!

BigmanPigman

(51,642 posts)
4. Knowing his mentality I do not see him going down step by step easily.
Fri May 19, 2017, 10:03 PM
May 2017

He will be kicking, screaming, and dragging anyone and everyone down with him, including our country and true patriots. He will probably sue and fire everyone in his path and he will do it with a big smile on his face. And even if he is found guilty he'll have the luck of dying prematurely and will not have to suffer a fair punishment (like Roger Ailes).

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