Posted on 06/09/2023 7:15:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Donald Trump “understood that he got power when he was elected, but didn’t understand that he had obligations,” presidential historian Timothy Naftali said Friday of Trump’s indictment for mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House.
“We live in a Constitutional democracy. Everybody, including the president, is bound by the Constitution and there are limits to their power,” Naftali, the former director of the Richard Nixon presidential library, told “CNN This Morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...
The comment is total nonsense this whole thing with the documents doesn’t involve any abuse of power or anything trump did wrong it’s completely made up and no one would ever bothered to prosecute a former president over his own presidential records. It’s preposterous.
“Worse than Watergate!”
Laughable. Our nation is corrupted by Democrats, that’s what this boils down to.
That’s why I didn’t have to read past this first line:
Donald Trump “understood that he got power when he was elected, but didn’t understand that he had obligations,”
Saved me a lot of time..
:)
Yep, one standards for the insiders and one for the rest of us - it’s one of the classic ways of spotting a totalitarian hellhole and the goons and thugs running it.
huffpost— ignore
We used to live in a representative republic. What it is now is anyone’s guess...
I guess a. Nation of apathetic cowards
Indeed quick look over there a bird in a tree.....
Huffington Post...total swill.
“Everybody, including the president, is bound by the Constitution”
Horseshiite
The Commie/Dem/Fascists don’t care about your Constitution.
The Aggressor sets the rules.
Without peaceful National Divorce, War is coming.
Act accordingly
“We live inba constitutional democracy”.
No, we live in a constitutional republic. If a so- called historian gets the basics wrong, then he isn’t worth listening to.
CC
BTTT
What was he forced to resign over again?
Oh, that's right, covering up for a third rate burglary of the opposition's prostitution for delegate racket..
Much worse, then say, a sitting president plotting with the DOJ, the FBI, NSA, and the FISA court to actually spy on a candidate, and later, falsify documents and use the same agencies to attempt a coup of the sitting president?
Oh yeah, I welcome the comparisons here, for all to see.
Half the population was not born last time around, and need to be informed of what is, and was.
First sentence absolute nonsense. Don’t have to read any more.
But he is an historian, so it came down from on high.
How stupid can this guy be? No, we live in a Constitutional Republic. There is big difference.
How stupid can this guy be? No, we live in a Constitutional Republic. There is big difference.
+1
Guy is an idiot
If only Trump had tried to be the slightest bit less orange and thus lessbad, things could have turned out different
I’m here late. I saw that too. No reason to read further.
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