How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image (Simpson, Clinton)
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I haven't read the book yet, but I found this review very interesting. It's certainly right that Trump has been warping the office to suit himself. Benjamin Wittes is a Republican who is now suggesting that Republicans vote Democrat the the next election.
How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image
By Jennifer Szalai
“Unmaking the Presidency,” by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes, isn’t just another compendium of insider gossip and bumbling treachery. The authors offer something more sobering, more analytical and, at this point, more revealing...
Hennessey and Wittes, who edit the blog Lawfare, argue that Trump is pursuing a “vision of the presidency” that’s all his own. Not that this “vision” requires much expenditure of effort on the president’s part; Trump, just by being Trump, “elevates the expressive and personal dimensions of the office.” This is the authors’ careful way of saying what they eventually conclude: that Trump wants the executive to look more like an absolutist monarchy, with all of the glory and unfettered power that entails... But traditional credibility doesn’t matter to him. The authors say that the president is in it for the grand gesture and the cruel optics...
I haven't read the book yet, but I found this review very interesting. It's certainly right that Trump has been warping the office to suit himself. Benjamin Wittes is a Republican who is now suggesting that Republicans vote Democrat the the next election.
How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image
By Jennifer Szalai
“Unmaking the Presidency,” by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes, isn’t just another compendium of insider gossip and bumbling treachery. The authors offer something more sobering, more analytical and, at this point, more revealing...
Hennessey and Wittes, who edit the blog Lawfare, argue that Trump is pursuing a “vision of the presidency” that’s all his own. Not that this “vision” requires much expenditure of effort on the president’s part; Trump, just by being Trump, “elevates the expressive and personal dimensions of the office.” This is the authors’ careful way of saying what they eventually conclude: that Trump wants the executive to look more like an absolutist monarchy, with all of the glory and unfettered power that entails... But traditional credibility doesn’t matter to him. The authors say that the president is in it for the grand gesture and the cruel optics...
Deranged/dishonest Leftists. Trump is the BY FAR the most hands-off President in our lifetimes. Wittes and Hennessey are simply Leftists presenting a completely fake view of the world in furtherance of an evil political agenda.
Trump has lowered the bar for the conduct of future presidents. They will be able to get away with nearly anything just like him.
Sorry, that's a load of rubbish. Trump didn't cheat on his wife in the oval office. That was a democrat president that stained our nation's presidency, and a couple dresses.
Sorry, that's a load of rubbish. Trump didn't cheat on his wife in the oval office. That was a democrat president that stained our nation's presidency, and a couple dresses.
I admire that you can verify with factual certainty that this current POTUS is not cheating. All a rational person can say is it's an unknown. He may or may not be cheating.
As the article opinion is subjected to criticism, it's also open to consideration that it may well ring of truth.
I hear some bells ringing.
I admire that you can verify with factual certainty that this current POTUS is not cheating. All a rational person can say is it's an unknown. He may or may not be cheating.
As the article opinion is subjected to criticism, it's also open to consideration that it may well ring of truth.
I hear some bells ringing.
This is America. Innocent until proven guilty. So let's see some proof, otherwise you are full of crap and have nothing. And Clinton, a democrat, was proven to be a pig of a man, a liar, and guilty of staining our nation's highest office. Not Trump. And that is an undeniable fact.
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This is America. Innocent until proven guilty. So let's see some proof, otherwise you are full of crap and have nothing. And Clinton was proven to be a pig of a man, a liar, and guilty of staining our nation's highest office. Not Trump.
Is OJ Simpson innocent? Is Casey Anthony innocent?
I haven't read the book yet, but I found this review very interesting. It's certainly right that Trump has been warping the office to suit himself. Benjamin Wittes is a Republican who is now suggesting that Republicans vote Democrat the the next election.
Well - he had the "experts" in there... most of them either leaked classified info, tried to impeach him, or conspired against him. He is supposed to continue down this road?
He finally gave up trying to work with them. About time.
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