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Will Donald Trump Destroy the Presidency? He disdains the rule of law. He’s trampling norms of presidential behavior. And he’s bringing vital institutions down with him.
The Atlantic
By Jack Goldsmith
Donald Trump is a norm-busting president without parallel in American history. He has told scores of easily disprovable public lies; he has shifted back and forth and back again on his policies, often contradicting Cabinet officials along the way; he has attacked the courts, the press, his predecessor, his former electoral opponent, members of his party, the intelligence community, and even his own attorney general; he has failed to release his tax returns or to fill senior political positions in many agencies; he has shown indifference to ethics concerns; he has regularly interjected a self-regarding political element into apolitical events; he has monetized the presidency by linking it to his personal business interests; and he has engaged in cruel public behavior. The list goes on and on.
One indictment so far in the Uranium One investigation. FBI informant probably won't testify for several more weeks in the Uranium One scandal. Hillary, Comey, Mueller and Rosenstein better get their attorneys lined up.
Rod Rosenstein begged Paul Ryan not to release docs showing the corruption and collusion of the FBI. DoJ has also released docs. Email server, unlawful use of FISA warrants to spy on opposition party. I can't keep track of everything but big news coming out next week I think. Watch Fox News if you haven't heard of all the investigations going on. The Hill has been covering a lot of this but propaganda media has censored it.
Will Donald Trump Destroy the Presidency? He disdains the rule of law. He’s trampling norms of presidential behavior. And he’s bringing vital institutions down with him.
The Atlantic
By Jack Goldsmith
Donald Trump is a norm-busting president without parallel in American history. He has told scores of easily disprovable public lies; he has shifted back and forth and back again on his policies, often contradicting Cabinet officials along the way; he has attacked the courts, the press, his predecessor, his former electoral opponent, members of his party, the intelligence community, and even his own attorney general; he has failed to release his tax returns or to fill senior political positions in many agencies; he has shown indifference to ethics concerns; he has regularly interjected a self-regarding political element into apolitical events; he has monetized the presidency by linking it to his personal business interests; and he has engaged in cruel public behavior. The list goes on and on.
These are rantings of an obvious bitter loser who tries in vain to justify his descision to vote for the loser Hillary.
The time for niceties has ended. This is the 21st century. We can no longer afford to kiss everyone's azzes. And yes, Obama is to blame for Trump. If he didn't monumentally screw things up so badly over the last 8 years, we would not need Trump to put on the big boy pants and fix it. We NEED new direction and new policies.
I think he has damaged the prestige of our nation and threatened the integrity of our constitutional separation of powers. I think he betrayed our sovereignty to a foreign power and brought his criminality and corrupt practices into the white house, but he will not destroy the presidency.
I think that we will survive this short term atrocity, and once he has left office and possibly even before he has answered to his maker for his many sins we will have protections in place to hopefully make sure this does not happen again, just as we had new ethics rules after Nixon.
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