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CNN Chronicling Trump's 10 most egregious abuses of power Analysis
CNN ^ | 1/24/2021 | Marshall Cohen

Posted on 01/24/2021 8:39:26 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter

Former President Donald Trump flouted the limits of presidential power unlike any of his recent predecessors, leaving behind a legacy of unmatched abuses that range from violations of longstanding norms to potentially criminal behavior.

Donald Trump wearing a hat© Provided by CNN It was hard to keep track amid the daily deluge of controversial tweets and distractions that were a hallmark of the Trump presidency. And some of the most egregious abuses of power weren't clear at the time but came into focus after exhaustive investigations.

To chronicle Trump's most consequential abuses of power, CNN spoke with a politically diverse group of constitutional scholars, presidential historians and experts on democratic institutions.

While these 16 experts did not agree on everything, there was consensus that Trump's pattern of abusing his powers for personal or political gain reached an alarming level that hasn't been seen in modern history, and will have long-lasting consequences for the future of American democracy.

Here is a breakdown of Trump's 10 most significant abuses of power.

#1: Subverting the 2020 election

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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The top ten are: #1: Subverting the 2020 election #2: Inciting an insurrection #3: Abusing the bully pulpit #4: Politicizing the Justice Department #5: Obstructing the Mueller investigation #6: Abusing the pardon power #7: The Ukraine affair and cover-up #8: Loyalty oaths and personalizing government #9: Firing whistleblowers and truth-tellers #10: Profiting off the presidency

By the way CNN wrote 3,690 words to describe their hatred of Donald J Trump.

1 posted on 01/24/2021 8:39:26 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

What a steaming pile of crap.


2 posted on 01/24/2021 8:47:29 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

In other words, they just don’t like him.


3 posted on 01/24/2021 8:47:57 AM PST by Timmy
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Was CNN making a list of what Trump did wrong or what Obama did wrong and what Biden is in the process of doing wrong?


4 posted on 01/24/2021 8:48:21 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

CNN did the very same thing with Hussein, no?


5 posted on 01/24/2021 8:48:46 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

ok, I’ll be the first...
1: The 2020 election had several illegal actions of fraud committed that are provable in an honest forum.
2: Read.The.Speech.
3: One man against the either Social/Media Onslaught? Really?
4: How so? So the LIE that because my political opponent committed felonies, espionage or treason, if I go after them it’s AUTOMATICALLY ‘politicizing the Justice Department’??? What kind of idiotic logic is that?
5: Did no such thing. In fact, offered FULL access to ALL of West Wing, lawyers, etc. They’re mad that $40MM/500S/etc produced Zilch.
6: Other than Jimmeh, DJT had LEAST abuse of Pardon power
7: READ.THE.TRANSCRIPT. 100% Legit
8: Again. Look at the proof - when 95% of those put in around him have back-stabbed, how else would a sane, normal person react? “Give me someone I can trust”
9: Name ONE who told the truth.
10: Name ONE instance.


6 posted on 01/24/2021 8:49:36 AM PST by time4good
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So when does Trump Derangement Syndrome end? A sick adolescent getting back at his parents but still just as screwed up at age fifty-five? Or sixty-five?

When do Dems stop having their Trump version of “Dick Nixon to kick around any more” and “move on” as they told us to do about Bill Clinton’s crimes?


7 posted on 01/24/2021 8:49:37 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Boy is this wishful thinking! They should do Obama’s and start with the IRS scandal, Daca, DOJ giving fine monies to “liberal” orgs, Russia Collusion, HRC being cleared of Bengazi and EMail investigations, Fast and Furious gun running etc. a never ending list that grows month to month!


8 posted on 01/24/2021 8:50:14 AM PST by DCmarcher-976453
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To: time4good

*3: either=*entire


9 posted on 01/24/2021 8:50:22 AM PST by time4good
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

CNN sucks and I don’t care to know what they think.


10 posted on 01/24/2021 8:53:07 AM PST by cp124 (They can live in there own fake reality and I will live in my reality.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

So incredibly unaware, or intentional projection on most of those.


11 posted on 01/24/2021 8:53:51 AM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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Let’s make our list of CNN,NYT,WaPo and other leftist media outlets’ biased reports against Trump and the conservatives.
Media Res. Center has been keeping track of some. Maybe 25,000 threads here.

Better alert someone about our hogging of bandwidth if we start such a compilation.


12 posted on 01/24/2021 8:54:03 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

This reads like some Soviet political manifesto against an overthrown political enemy.

Everything they list can in fact be taken as the exact opposite.


13 posted on 01/24/2021 8:54:58 AM PST by PGR88
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LOL...in TYPICAL leftist manner, CNN is PROJECTING.....meaning....they're accusing their 'target' of exactly what THEY are doing/have done.

They've all obviously read Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"


14 posted on 01/24/2021 8:56:51 AM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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“...came into focus after exhaustive investigations...”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CNN and “exhaustive investigations” have no reason to be in the same story, much less the same paragraph....


15 posted on 01/24/2021 8:56:54 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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BARF ALERT.

Give me a break! Honestly, what did Trump do that was so different from their beloved Uhbama and Klintoon?

Anyway, I’m shocked at #10 wasn’t “stole the 2016 election”, which would be a perfect counterpoint to #1.


16 posted on 01/24/2021 8:57:05 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

It seems they needed up as a big nothing doesn’t it?


17 posted on 01/24/2021 8:58:12 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: PGR88

Well, you’re absolutely correct.

See my post #14

(Btw....Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals was a knock off title taken from Communist Rules for Revolution.)


18 posted on 01/24/2021 8:58:49 AM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: time4good

Exactly. Great breakdown of the BS. I’m not reading that junk but thankful for those of you who did suffer through it.


19 posted on 01/24/2021 8:59:19 AM PST by jetvol1
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

CNN just trying to take the attention off of China Joe and his recent EO debacles.


20 posted on 01/24/2021 9:00:23 AM PST by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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