Trump Disgraces America Every Day

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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) took aim at President Trump on Wednesday, saying the president has "debased" the office with his "bottomless appetite for destruction and degradation."

“Our presidency has been debased by a figure who has a seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division, and only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works"...

“Our Article I branch of government, the Congress (that's me), is utterly supine in the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the White House daily,” Flake continued.

The Republican senator went on to say that the country's strongest enemies could not hurt the U.S. more than "we are hurting ourselves," concluding that "we may have hit bottom."

Flake also criticized Trump for his continuing attacks on the media and what he views to be the president’s willingness to indulge and encourage “our very worst impulses.”

“When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that does not suit him ‘fake news,’ it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press,” Flake said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3...the-presidency

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

Quite so. It's in a hermetically-sealed UV-filtering glass case with an inert helium atmosphere.

You've apparently never seen the copy in the National Archives.

[Chicks]

North Korea threatens to reconsider historic summit with Trump after 'ignorant and stupid political dummy' Mike Pence compared the country to Libya

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nt-stupid.html

The Dotard and the Dummy. Sounds about right!

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Philip Roth E-Mails on Trump

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...mails-on-trump

Last week, Roth was asked, via e-mail, if it has happened here. He responded, “It is easier to comprehend the election of an imaginary President like Charles Lindbergh than an actual President like Donald Trump. Lindbergh, despite his Nazi sympathies and racist proclivities, was a great aviation hero who had displayed tremendous physical courage and aeronautical genius in crossing the Atlantic in 1927. He had character and he had substance and, along with Henry Ford, was, worldwide, the most famous American of his day. Trump is just a con artist. The relevant book about Trump’s American forebear is Herman Melville’s ‘The Confidence-Man,’ the darkly pessimistic, daringly inventive novel—Melville’s last—that could just as well have been called ‘The Art of the Scam.’ ”

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Border Patrol union calls Trump's National Guard deployment 'colossal waste'

Of course it is! Just another example of Donny playing to his base at taxpayer expense.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...018-story.html

A month after President Trump called for sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the head of the national Border Patrol union called the deployment "a colossal waste of resources."

"We have seen no benefit," said Brandon Judd, president of the union that represents 15,000 agents, the National Border Patrol Council.

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Originally Posted by Chicks

Border Patrol union calls Trump's National Guard deployment 'colossal waste'

Of course it is! Just another example of Donny playing to his base at taxpayer expense.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...018-story.html

A month after President Trump called for sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the head of the national Border Patrol union called the deployment "a colossal waste of resources."

"We have seen no benefit," said Brandon Judd, president of the union that represents 15,000 agents, the National Border Patrol Council.

Someone might be along to call me nuts and laugh at me, but..... I have a well informed connection in these matters. Here's how this went down;

Trump initially tried to order the military to send 200,000 troops to the border.....TO SANDBAG....because he's frustrated with the lack of meaningful progress in the wall construction. Contrary to his claims, it is not going well. The military brass told him they didn't have that many troops to give him for that purpose without crippling other commitments.

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President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani reportedly said Sunday that Trump could shoot former FBI director James B. Comey in the Oval Office and still not be indicted for it.

The HuffPost reported that Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, made the assertion on a day when he conducted a series of interviews in which he discussed the expansive powers granted to the president in the Constitution.

“In no case can he be subpoenaed or indicted,” Giuliani said, according to the HuffPost. “I don’t know how you can indict while he’s in office. No matter what it is.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...2b1_story.html

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Originally Posted by finnbow

President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani reportedly said Sunday that Trump could shoot former FBI director James B. Comey in the Oval Office and still not be indicted for it.

The HuffPost reported that Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, made the assertion on a day when he conducted a series of interviews in which he discussed the expansive powers granted to the president in the Constitution.

“In no case can he be subpoenaed or indicted,” Giuliani said, according to the HuffPost. “I don’t know how you can indict while he’s in office. No matter what it is.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...2b1_story.html

I have one word for Mr. Ghouliani and his friends and that's 'guillotine'.

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Regarding Giuliani's alleged comment:

Wonder why he didn't say it during his interviews? Good diversion tactic knowing the left media would jump on it.

Self defense?

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Trump’s Reckoning Arrives

The president’s unpredictability once worked to his advantage—but now, it is producing a mounting list of foreign-policy failures.

https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...rrives/561209/

Thing is, what will the moron do when things really fall apart? Scary. A great read in The Atlantic.

All this is only the beginning. Deficits are rising fast. Military commitments are rising fast. America’s friends are turning their backs fast. (Only 17 percent of South Koreans trust Trump to do the right thing, according to the Pew global surveyin 2017, well before the latest chaos. Obama’s trust rating in South Korea bounced between a low of 75 percent and a high of 88 percent over his presidency.) At a time of relatively low military casualties and strong job growth, the president’s popularity at home roughly matches that of George W. Bush’s during the worst months of the Iraq war, 2005–2006, and Barack Obama’s during the most disappointing months of the weak recovery from the recession of 2009. The president’s options are narrowing even before the midterm elections.

It can only get worse from here for him and—more importantly—for America’s standing in the world under his leadership.