Posted on 09/21/2019 8:57:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When the July 24 congressional testimony of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III deflated the impeachment hopes of Democrats, President Trump crowed “no collusion” and claimed vindication from accusations that he had conspired with Russia in the 2016 election.
Then, the very next day, Trump allegedly sought to collude with another foreign country in the coming election — pressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up what he believed would be damaging information about one of his leading Democratic challengers, former vice president Joe Biden, according to people familiar with the conversation.
The push by Trump and his personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to influence the newly elected Ukrainian leader reveals a president convinced of his own invincibility — apparently willing and even eager to wield the vast powers of the United States to taint a political foe and confident that no one could hold him back.
“We haven’t seen anything like this in my lifetime,” said William A. Galston, a senior fellow in governance at the Brookings Institution who graduated from college just before Watergate. “He appears to be daring the rest of the political system to stop him — and if it doesn’t, he’ll go further.”
The effort — which came as the Trump administration was withholding financial and military support from Ukraine to help the small democracy protect itself against Russian aggression — illustrates Trump’s expansive view of executive power and what appears to be a cavalier attitude about legal limits on his conduct.
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Here’s what I think:
These “reporters” are too stupid to realize that THEY, THE MEDIA, THE PRESS ARE THE ONES WHO DO NOT REALIZE THAT THEY MAKE OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP APPEAR INVINCIBLE.
EVERYTHING THEY THROW AT HIM MAKES HIM STRONGER AND MORE POPULAR AND MORE LIKABLE, AND THEY LOOK LIKE THE SYMBOL OF THE PARTY THAT ADORES THEM.
There was a "Report Abuse" button right there when you went to post your whiny little rant.
You could use that.
Or you could just stomp your feet and hold your breath like a precious snowflake because somebody was allowed to do something that "offended" you.
The censorship Nazis don't let you post your opinion on the site where the article was published.
It gets posted here so people can use their first amendment rights to express their opinions about it.
Sorry if that offends your personal Nazi censorship impulses.
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What tortured writing from the Washington Pos
An entire story based on no facts.
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