The President today tweeted that Pete Rose should be in the HOF despite betting on his own team, just in case you’re wondering if he really learned his lesson about breaking the rules.
Not from the old web site, from 10 days ago on this here thread:
Trump pimping Pete Rose is so on brand, two absolute scumbags.
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Still looking for facts in your posts in this thread.
Reports now that Sens Collins, McSally, Tillis and others tried desperately to stop Trump from recalling Sondland. They know they own everything Trump does from now on, and I hope none of them get a good night’s sleep until he’s gone.
The best analogy I can come up with is that they are Carter Burke, and their experiment in turning a monster into a weapon isn’t going so well…
I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage…
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It is notable that that some Senate Republicans went to bat for Sondland, but none of them went to bat for Lt. Col. Vindman.
Or his brother.
I can’t begin to understand these people: It’s immoral to fire a powerful rich man, but hunky dory to bully those who can’t fight back. What I thought was the traditional American ethos has been turned upside down.
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That’s long been the American mythos but rarely the American ethos.
Reports now that Vindman (Alexander) and Sondland were both planning their exits from the administration. Trump was told this and advised just to let them go to avoid the blowback, and then fired them anyway.
If you needed any more proof as to the revenge motivation here - if the firing of Vindman’s brother wasn’t proof enough - here ya go. He wanted to do this and he wanted to be seen doing it.
It’s illegal, by the way. Even in “right to work” states like Texas, you can fire people at will but you can’t fire people for taking part int an investigation of you as an employer.
That’s what I thought. It’s classic retaliation, which is against the law. Much like the many threats to reveal the identity of the whistle-blower.
Reporting now says that Yvgeny Vindman still has “no explanation whatsoever” for his firing last week.
Holy crap! In true Saturday Night Massacre fashion, at least two - and maybe three - federal prosecutors working on the Roger Stone case have resigned…TODAY!
This, after Trump blasted his own DOJ for its sentencing recommendation (while saying Hilary should be locked up…seriously), and the DOJ dutifully responded by announcing it is reviewing the recommendation.
This is 4-alarm fire stuff, folks. We are now seeing - in real time - the shift fully into autocracy; where not just Trump, but anyone he chooses, is above the law.
If anyone thinks the November elections aren’t going to be a giant catastrofuck of bare-faced cheating and rigging, this might help disavow you of that. This is why the Senate had to remove Trump, because he is now long past no return on corruption and criminality, and his entire existence now hinges on re-election.
Trump is unbound, and there is nothing…NO THING…he won’t do to hold on to the White House. I mean, what happens when he has Bill Barr throw the Democratic nominee in jail for the last few weeks of the campaign and then cancels the election?
He can’t do that? Who says? The Senate, that keeps its current lineup? The DOJ? SCOTUS? WHO?
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ALL FOUR prosecutors on the Stone case have withdrawn from the case.
But only one quit DOJ altogether!
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Barr is now personally in charge of all Trump-related prosecutions, including that of Stone.
If you don’t believe news reports as such, Trump tweeted a congratulatory message to Barr for doing so.
This is all batshit insane corruption, but I did get a gallows humor chuckle at one commentator noting something along the lines that this is the darkest day for our democracy and the rule of law… since last week.
It should be astonishing that immediately after being let off the hook for a corrupt abuse of office that undermined national security SEVEN DAYS AGO, Trump has:
- Fired/reassigned the impeachment witnesses who did nothing but tell the truth
- Fired/reassigned one of the witnesses brother, just to retaliate against his family
- Attacked a federal judge presiding over one of his cronies who was convicted for lying on his behalf
- Undercut the prosecutors to intercede on behalf of his crony
- Suggested that the military should investigate one of the impeachment witnesses for testifying
It should be astonishing. But it’s all too fucking predictable.
I’m waiting for next January for Congress to remove term limits on the President. I’m not kidding either I fully expect those corrupt men to do that. I’m disgusted in so many Americans.
Congress cannot do that. Presidential term limits are specifically expressed in the Constitution. Not that Trump doesn’t ignore the parts he doesn’t like, and not that Congress is interested in fulfilling their duties within. But it’s not a legislative issue. It would take a military coup. Which he is fully capable of wrangling.
But things can change, after all there weren’t term limits in there originally…