John Dean: Frightened Trump Is In Over His head.
'When Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, he made the worst mistake of his young presidency, because the ham-fisted manner in which he handled it resulted in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosensteinwho is filling in for the recused Attorney Generalhaving no choice but to select a special counsel to continue the Justice Departments investigation into the hacking of the 2016 presidential election by the Russians.
Rosenstein, of course, selected an unusually well-qualified investigator/prosecutor, Robert Mueller, the former head of the FBI and former U.S. Attorney for San Francisco. This, in turn, has annoyed Trump to no end. He clearly feels the pressure of being under investigation by someone with both the resources and skills to uncover any wrongdoing by him or his family. Trumps reaction suggests Mueller may find that the president is not an honest businessman, even if he does not find direct collusion by Trump himself with the Russians.
Much of Donald Trumps life has involved being in fightswith wives, business partners, vendors, tenants, the news media, and countless others. Trump the politician expanded his fights to include political opponents, and now as president, he is in a fight with the federal intelligence community, the Washington press corps, the deep state (otherwise known as career government bureaucrats) and Democrats, along with a few Republicans and even some of his staff.
But what is shaping up as the biggest fight of his life, because it could end his presidency and send his family to jail (if he is unable to pardon them), is the investigation (and potential prosecutions emanating from it) being undertaken by Special Counsel Mueller.'>>>
https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-dean-frightened-trump-over-155437473.html
patricia92243
(12,603 posts)will do nothing and that will be the end of it.
orangecrush
(19,624 posts)patricia92243
(12,603 posts)buffoon is kicked out.
orangecrush
(19,624 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)Your dead end pessimism is not held up by the facts and is self-defeating.
The collapse of the Republican Senate TurtleTrumpCare bill shows that they don't fear him and he doesn't have much power over them.
The Republican Senators have told tRump that they want Mike Pence to handle White House negotiation with their caucus, NOT tRump. The "artful deal-maker" and superhuman closer is being exposed as the fraud he is. David Frum has tweeted "Donald Trumps core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims."
When frauds are exposed they have no friends.
Day by day the tRump brand is becoming toxic for the toxic Republican brand. Soon you will see open push-back, then open revolt, and then there will be talk not only of impeachment but of conviction by two thirds of the Senate, which necessarily includes Republicans.
Democrats need to HASTEN the process and leave a lasting effect for 2018 and 2020 by never leaving an opportunity to weld the Republican brand to the Trump brand. I try as much as possible to call him "Republican Trump".
I think a nation-wide poster campaign would be effective (among several moves that must be begun but the idea came to me now) with a very simple slogan, something like "Obey Your Republican Leader" with a stylized but immediately recognizable graphic of Trump, perhaps in an Il Duce (Mussolini) pose. The key is to emphasize the Republican endorsement of toxic tRump. He is the pinnacle of 40 years of Republican striving, the gold standard of the Republican Party who beat out 16 of their finest leaders for the nomination.
The key is that ACCEPTING "will do nothing and that will be the end of it" is ignoring the power of the people and the power of Democrats, who after all won the Popular Vote in 2016. Accepting it is dead-end wrong.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Courage and justice are both virtues. It takes courage to persevere to right the wrong of the Republican Trump presidency. It takes courage to persevere to right 50 years of Republican corruption and greed. The one sure way to lose is to quit. Now is not the time to be a quitter. Now is the time to strengthen our resolve to defeat the traitors in our midst.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)Resist, Persist, Triumph.
patricia92243
(12,603 posts)patricia92243
(12,603 posts)Trump health plan. I hope and pray the other "facts" that you quote are as accurate.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029262211
Report: Senate Republicans Fed Up With Trumps Impulsive Behavior
http://www.thedailybeast.com/report-senate-republicans-fed-up-with-trumps-impulsive-behavior
7 hours ago
Report: Senate Republicans Fed Up With Trumps Impulsive Behavior
Kevin Lamarque
Senior Republicans are increasingly fed up with White House moves they describe as impulsive and harmful to the partys future, Politico reported Tuesday. Citing nearly two dozen top Republicans, the report said many say they believe President Trumps administration is sabotaging GOP efforts to expand the Republican Senate majority in 2018, hindering lawmakers chances at re-election and jeopardizing the partys plans. Several senators have reportedly complained to Trump over what they view as the latest miscalculation by his administration: attack ads launched by a pro-Trump group against a GOP lawmaker who opposed the Senates health-care bill. The campaign by America First Policies, a group staffed by several of Trumps top campaign aides, was pulled amid a mounting backlash, and the health-care repeal vote was delayed. Some lawmakers are reportedly also growing frustrated with Trumps personal vendettas against those who criticize him, a habit they say might cause disunity in next years Senate elections.
patricia92243
(12,603 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated" -- Thomas Paine
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Hekate
(90,829 posts)I'm hoping like anything the collective Intelligence Community is holding back crucial info -- such as the nuke codes.
avebury
(10,952 posts)go after 45 and his family. If found guilty in a state court I don't think that Trump could pardon himself and his family. I may be wrong but I would hope that the state courts could out wit 45.