Trump Disgraces America Every Day

[Pio1980]

Grifters gotta grift.
Former White House Ethics Chief Proposes 'Golf On Your Own Damn Dime Act'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/walte...b04e90f1ca69ea

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https://variety.com/2019/legit/news/...ys-1203237674/

Bryan Cranston took a moment to get political during Sunday night’s Tony Awards, blasting the president’s stance on the state of journalism.

“The media is not the enemy of the people. Demagoguery is the enemy of the people,” Cranston said, referencing Donald Trump’s frequent tweets about “fake news” and “corrupt media.”

Cranston, who won a Tony Award for portraying newsman Howard Beale in “Network,” dedicated his trophy to the press.

“I would like to dedicate this to all the real journalists around the world, both in the press and the print media and also broadcast media, who actually are in the line of fire with their pursuit of the truth,” Cranston said in his acceptance speech.

Perfect.

[donquixote99]

Some pretty good observations here. This goes back to USA Today of July 2018, but it's been brought up again on FB by the Robert Reich crew....

What's going on with Donald Trump? Psychologist explains the president’s lies, reversals

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald Trump has reached a groundbreaking deal with the Hawaiian Islands to make them the nation’s fiftieth state, Trump confirmed on Monday.

Calling it “my most incredible deal yet,” Trump said that he had forced Hawaii to bend to his will and “cough up billions” to become a state.

“This is a big win for our country,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Hawaii is going to be a beautiful and amazing state.”

Just minutes after his announcement, however, there was significant pushback from Hawaii, which claimed that it had already reached a deal to become a state in 1959.

That claim swiftly drew the ire of Trump, who denounced Hawaii’s alleged sixty years of statehood as “fake news” and “disgraceful.”

“The Hawaiians better be very, very careful what they say,” Trump warned. “I made them a state and I can take that away.”

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The House begins to tell the story of Trump’s criminality

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ps-criminality

Two law professors, Joyce White Vance and Barbara McQuade, together with former White House counsel and Watergate figure John Dean, did more on Monday afternoon to educate Americans about President Trump’s repeated acts of obstruction of justice than Democrats have done since the Mueller report was released in mid-April.

Dean, appearing elegant and restrained, especially in the face of unhinged Republican committee members ranting (to which he responded with some witty jibes), made the case effectively that Trump’s dangling of pardons in front of aides and former aides, which special counsel Robert S. Mueller III documented, is analogous to President Richard M. Nixon’s conduct. As someone who held former White House counsel Donald McGahn’s job decades earlier, Dean was well situated to appeal to McGahn to testify, and to interpret McGahn’s conduct in a favorable light (e.g., McGahn wouldn’t fire Mueller because it would look like the infamous Saturday Night Massacre).

“In both situations, the White House Counsel was implicated in the coverup activity. While I was an active participant in the coverup for a period of time, there is absolutely no information whatsoever that Trump’s White House counsel, Don McGahn, participated in any illegal or improper activity — to the contrary, there is evidence he prevented several obstruction attempts,” Dean said during his opening remarks, “But there is no question Mr. McGahn was a critical observer of these activities.”

Questioning by Democrats was stronger than usual, in part because they focused on (and read from) episodes in the Mueller report. Republicans blustered and berated Dean but, of course, chose not to focus on the undisputed facts nor on the clear legal principles the witnesses set out. Once more, they showed how unserious and irresponsible they are, devoid of any respect for their oaths of office. Again and again, McQuade and Vance came back to the facts: Trump’s efforts to stop or derail the investigation were tied to contemporaneous reports that he was being investigated for obstruction.

The hearing demonstrated three things. First, Republicans must obscure the report and lie about its contents since it has no real defense to Trump’s conduct. The amount of evidence is extensive. McQuade argued that this was worse than Watergate; Vance reaffirmed that this was not a close call and that there was substantial evidence of criminality.

Second, all witnesses and a number of congressmen made the strong case that McGahn’s testimony is essential. Third, this is the beginning of a process that will, if committee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is successful, include fact witnesses who can bring to life what the panel explained on Monday. Whether it changes public opinion sufficiently to encourage Democrats to move to impeachment is unknown, but if part of the task here is to make an historical record, Democrats have certainly succeeded. And if Trump is paying attention, he’ll want to get a pardon before leaving office; there are about 1,000 prosecutors who’d love to take up the case for which Mueller has documents.

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John Dean @JohnWDean

Would someone get Trump a dog. He needs a friend so he won’t endlessly vent on Twitter. He’s uninterested in government and policy. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t exercise. He has no real friends. A dog might save humankind. Admittedly, it a lot to ask of a dog. But help is needed.

9:29 PM - 8 Jun 2019

[donquixote99]

Trump is himself so lacking in gravitas, but so insulting in myriad ways, that he invites such trolling. But it risks belittling the seriousness of the situation. The nation has been harmed repeatedly, and is in great danger.

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George Will: Trump's 'public and constant' damage to country worse than Nixon's

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/polit...ntv/index.html

No question.

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Donny Warns of Epic Stock Market Crash If He's Not Re-Elected

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...not-re-elected

Uh huh. Sure, Donny. Fact is, the S&P under your fake “leadership” has dramatically underperformed the same period under a real leader, Obama, despite your drastic tax gifts to corporations and the rich. Only idiotic fools like Whell believe your lies, asshole.

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It's Donny's birthday, but it's #JohnMcCainDay on Twitter

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/polit...rnd/index.html

Perfect dis.