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Donald Trump is nothing but "hot air", his public comments/tweets are nothing but smears.
Smear enough Vaseline on a windshield, and the driver of the car can still see out through it, but with no detail. Everything becomes blurry. The big objects out there can be seen, but not the little things, like a kid walking across the street in front of the car.
Running the windshield wipers won't help; they become covered in Vaseline and just move it around. The windshield is still smeared.
The only way to clean it up is to pull off the street, break out a gallon of soapy water and a bunch of glass cleaner, and go to work with a lot of elbow grease and a bunch of rags.
In Trump's world, lots of winos have smeared a little Vaseline on car windshields while they're stopped in traffic. The winos don't have long enough to do a good job of smearing, but they really don't want to, as they want to get paid for cleaning up the mess they made. Before the light changes and the driver moves on.
They'll never get paid if the mess makes the driver pull over, get out of the car, and clean it up. If that happens, the wino had better get the hell out of there before the cops show up.
Trump has the right idea, but as always, he uses the wrong way to get the results. He should have paid more attention to how the winos do it on the streets of New York.
Can you imagine how fired up Trump's base will be in 2020?
This is going to be HUGE, that's why Pelosi is afraid to start the impeachment process.
And Republicans already won Florida Senate and Governorship without Trump even being on the ballot.
Florida is usually an indicator for General Election victory.
And Republicans won almost everywhere Trump held rallies at, so his pulling power is huge and only getting huger.
Can you imagine how fired up Trump's base will be in 2020?
This is going to be HUGE, that's why Pelosi is afraid to start the impeachment process.
And Republicans already won Florida Senate and Governorship without Trump even being on the ballot.
Florida is usually an indicator for General Election victory.
And Republicans won almost everywhere Trump held rallies at, so his pulling power is huge and only getting huger.
I don't think campaign finance violations would make a compelling case for impeachment. If a major crime could be uncovered, particularly if it involved Russia, then sure. As it stands now, it will indeed feel like a political witch hunt to at least half the country. It would seem like a fishing expedition to start with Russian collusion and end with campaign finance violations involving a porn star. It's a letter-of-the-law infraction, at most.
I don't like Trump (love America though), but this is very clear to me. For some reason, the Democrats just don't seem to get it.
I was thinking about the Access Hollywood tape that came out in October 2016 and how that whole scandal wound up not hurting Trump's chances at winning. It was obviously meant to, but I just remember thinking at the time how much I didn't like how much of a political hit it seemed to be. NBC, a company where he was once employed, just so happened to have found B-roll hot mic footage of Trump making a crude comment and it just so happened to have come out two days before the 2nd Presidential debate?
I think that scandal proved something about the American public that I kind of like: we don't like the appearance of dirty tricks even when faced with something offensive. I'm starting to wonder if the Mueller investigation isn't going to backfire the same way that Access Hollywood tape release did.
The longer this investigation goes on and the more pushing of the narrative I think many people have soured on continues, the more endearing it makes Trump seem. Even people who are disgruntled by him not fulfilling his promises are likely to cut him some slack in 2020 if they feel like he's spent almost his entire first term under the cloud of a bogus special counsel investigation.
If Mueller doesn't make a clear case for criminal collusion between Trump and Russia, isn't this entire investigation going to feel like a witch hunt? Like the whole point was to make Trump carry a scandal until Democrats have had the chance to regain some political capital and vet a 2020 Presidential candidate only to then admit there was no crime, only questionable behavior?
Well, to take your comments in reverse order, it seems to me that questionable behavior should be questioned. Do you disagree?
As far as the effect on Trump, I suspect it's stiffened the resolve of his hard-core supporters. Things are not looking too good for his administration at the moment, yet most of them seem unwilling to admit he may be guilty of anything, even poor judgement in selecting the people with whom to surround himself.
I do not think it makes him seem endearing. I think it makes him seem like someone who is used to getting his way, and is discovering, much to his chagrin, that there are some significant differences between owning a company and leading a country. His reaction to this lesson has not been pretty. Then again, I am among those who disliked him before the investigation started, for reasons of policy and personality. That is also unlikely to change.
So...we have his supporters and his critics. That leaves the undecided. There must be at least one or two dozen of them left in the country, and I suppose the answer to your question rests with them.
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