Posted on 02/13/2020 8:29:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- In the week since his acquittal on impeachment charges, a fully emboldened President Donald Trump is demonstrating his determination to assert an iron grip on government, pushing his Justice Department to ease up on a longtime friend while using the levers of presidential powers to exact payback on real and perceived foes.
Trump has told confidants in recent days that he felt both vindicated and strengthened by his acquittal in the Senate, believing Republicans have rallied around him in unprecedented fashion while voters were turned off by the political process, according to four White House officials and Republicans close to the West Wing who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.
Since then, Trump and his aides have moved with haste to clear his administration of those he sees as insufficiently loyal, reaching all the way back to the time of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Democrats and outside analysts are raising red flags that Trump is exhibiting a post-impeachment thirst for vengeance that’s gone beyond bending norms and could potentially cause lasting damage to institutions.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, accused Trump of being on a “retribution tour” and suggested that Senate Republicans — with the exception of Utah’s Mitt Romney, who voted with Democrats to convict Trump on the abuse of power count — encouraged the president by turning a blind eye to his conduct.
“It’s pretty clear the president of the United States did learn a lesson: the lesson he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, he can abuse his office, he’ll never ever be held accountable by this Senate,” Brown said. “
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Republicans rallied around Trump in unprecedented fashion. Trump knows voters were turned off by the political process.
Jay Sekulow said it best at the Senate trial: Turning to the House managers, he said: "according to you, everybody here is wrong....except you."
That is how it always takes three or four of these idiots with weird sounding names to write one stinking stupid article?
More BS from the Leftist activist fake news. yawn
Just wait until his reelection. Trump will have more “flexibility”.
Glad someone else has noticed this curious phenomenon too.
I can only imagine how angry this “journalist” would be if Obama had done this. Imagine if he had a health care law that had a goal of redistribution. Or what if he had used the IRS to impede his political rivals from having the same advantages as his? This guy would have been apoplectic if Obama had used the DOJ as a weapon to spy on the rival party and imprison those who didn’t bend to their demands. This guy is like a real investigative journalist!
Democrats and outside analysts are raising red flags that Trump is exhibiting a post-impeachment thirst for vengeance.
You don’t get into the boxing ring to play tag,you jab and they jab back winner takes all.
The leftist cabal calls it “retribution.” I call it “draining the swamp.”
If he doesn’t seek justice for the unbelievable persecution he has endured...we’ll vote for Bernie.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,,,just my little attempt to encourage President Trump to “have at them” THE MOST atrocious group of people in American History.
I CALL IT JUSTICE!
Up yours AP!!
This is a new day...the days of Republican falling all over themselves to do nothing but apologize to outraged Dem/media are over.
My respect and allegiance to Trump is even greater now than it was prior to the Dems under-handed effort to humiliate and tarnish him.
Throughout the whole corrupt affair I’m confident Trump realized the importance of standing proud and giving the middle finger to his tormentors. From the Democrats point of view (role of prosecutors), they had to have hoped – perhaps even expected — the disgrace of impeachment and the permanent historical stain such pronouncement would place on his Presidency, would cause a formerly prideful but now humiliated President Trump to hide his face in shame. However, the fact that Trump did the exact opposite by renting huge arenas in order to stage rallies was a masterpiece of strategy. Not only did it allow an emboldened President Trump the ability to look the Dems/media straight in the eye while giving them the double barreled middle finger, it also gave his long suffering “fans” the same ability to use a national platform to show their contempt for the way their leader had been trashed. Now, the Dems, their media butt boys, and the whole world knows there is simply nothing they can say or do to bring down OUR President. They are powerless even though they may be slow to get the message. Let the stupid fools bring it on.
If there is no retribution, there will be a repeat.
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The stupidity of the Dems is unfathomable. They knew going in that there would be no conviction and removal in the Senate. But somehow it never entered their pointy little heads that our side would be peeved and wanting scalps. Pointy-headed scalps.
Oh well. It must suck-ass to be a liberal.
In an article that bitches about retribution, they cite sources that leak information that they know is illegal. SMH
Yep..
Reminds me of the old joke -
“Doc, it hurts when I do THIS..”
Doctor: “well... STOP doing that..”
They’ll all get what they deserve, hopefully.
“according to four White House officials and Republicans close to the West Wing who spoke on the condition of anonymity”
Someone ping DJT and tell him we got 4 more pink slips he needs to send off!
So, according to the AP, if someone comes at you with a scythe and tries to cut your head off but fails, you’re supposed to just forget about it and make like nothing happened? How stupid does the AP think that every single person out there really is? This says more about their contempt for the public than anything else.
Oh, and WRT to Trump taking disloyal people out of positions of power and influence, and in not helping the Dems who tried (figuratively) to cut his head off, I say that we need MORE of that - MUCH more. Let them learn that their actions have consequences...or the same thing will happen again to him, and to future Presidents. On top of everything else, the principle of “Phuck’em all, they deserve it!” is applicable here.
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