6/15/21: Nuts. I totally forgot Donald J. Trump’s birthday. Flag Day. That’s irony, for you.
Happy belated birthday, Loser Don. You’re 75 years old, with the physique of an Idaho potato.
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That
is: break the law and help obstruct justice. As Trump desired. Or resign.
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On this fine June day, you will be perplexed to know that your successor, “Sleepy Joe,” as you like to call him (because every day of the year you love insults) is keeping his approval rate well above fifty percent. This morning his average stands at 52.6%. Can you remember when your approval rate was that high?
It never was, Loser Don.
You never cracked 50% at any time during your impeachment-marred four years at 1600 Pennsylvania.
And on your final day in office you had a 41.1 percent
average approval rate.
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DID YOU ALSO KNOW who is far more popular than you were among the citizens of our major allies?
It’s “Sleepy Joe” again!
According to Pew Research, a sizeable majority in 16 publics surveyed, had confidence in President Biden “to do the right thing in world affairs.”
Looking
at just the twelve nations where people were surveyed in 2020, your last year
in office, and asking people about Mr. Biden, he scored a 75% average. Your last year you scored 17%, because the rest of the
world was wise to your lunacy.
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McGahn finally has a chance to testify before Congress.
MEANWHILE, former White House Chief Counsel Don McGahn finally had a chance to testify before Congress.
You kept him from doing so for three years. And even now your toadies in the U.S. House of Representatives made sure McGahn answered questions only in closed-door session.
You know what McGahn said. He said you did ask him to fire Robert Mueller. Repeatedly.
You said you never.
(Note
to Trump fans: trying to get a special counsel fired in the middle of an
investigation would be the essence of obstruction of justice.)
Asked how he felt about being pressured to do something illegal, McGahn told lawmakers, “After I got off the phone with the president, how did I feel? Oof. Frustrated, perturbed, trapped. Many emotions.” He “felt trapped,” he explained, “because the president had the same conversation with me repeatedly, and I thought I conveyed my views and offered my advice, and we were still having the same conversation.”
McGahn said he refused to call Rod Rosenstein, at the time the acting attorney general, and ask him to fire Mueller. “If the acting attorney general received what he thought was a direction from the counsel to the president to remove a special counsel, he would either have to remove the special counsel or resign.” That is: break the law and help obstruct justice. As Trump desired.
Or resign.
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SPEAKING OF law-breaking, Mr. Trump, it has come to light that while you were in charge the Department of Justice conducted secret investigations, looking for leakers in the Russia investigation – and gobbled up phone and email records and data from various members of the free press – from two top Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee – and at least ten other people with roles in that committee. Also: the records of…Don McGahn!
This sounds so Nixonian, so illegal, right from the top, that as soon as the story broke, your former Attorney General Jeff Sessions began assuring friends that he knew nothing about such investigations.
Mr. Sessions can sniff an attack on the free press. And he does not want the scent on his clothes.
In addition, former Attorney General Bill Barr got on the phone and told Politico, Scout’s honor, he could not recall ever having agreed to such searches, or having talked to Trump about them.
(The New York Times
has three sources that say Barr did know.)
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The Putin Way.
NO ONE who ever listened to Trump whine at press conferences, yelp during rallies, or rant about enemies on Twitter, should be surprised that he targeted members of Congress and the free press who criticized him. It’s not quite Vladimir Putin poisoning critics, but it tends in that direction.
Who did Trump have targeted?
McGahn, as already noted, in part because he wanted to figure out a way to stifle the Russia investigation.
Also:
Rep. Adam Schiff, head of the House Intelligence Committee
Rep.
Eric Swalwell, member of the HIC
CNN
Pentagon reporter, Barbara Starr
Washington Post reporters, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous
New York Times reporters, Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau and Michael S. Schmidt.
Trump was willing to commit obstruction of justice, to warp the Fourth Amendment, which guards against “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and to torch the First Amendment protection of a free press.
Still, we know Rejected-President Trump has one enthusiastic fan. Asked recently about him, Vladimir Putin responded, “Well even now, I believe that former U.S. president Trump is an extraordinary individual, talented individual, otherwise, he would not have become U.S. president.”
When a reporter for NBC asked Putin about the untimely deaths of so many of his critics, and wondered if he was truly a “killer,” the Russian leader laughed and said he wasn’t. In fact, he is.
Even Russian security agents have admitted they managed to spread a highly toxic poison on the seams of Mr. Navalny’s underwear last August. When that assassination attempt failed Navalny was arrested instead. According to the Putin Way, he was dragged into court and placed on trial, convicted as everyone including Navalny knew he would be, and bundled off to a Siberian prison.
POSTSCRIPT: Not only was Trump channeling his fascist instincts while in office. We have new video from the January 6 riot.
As one exceptionally dumb Republican member of Congress described these kinds of folks: Just a bunch of tourists.
Fascist
ones, apparently.
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