Trump Is "A Threat to Constitutional Democracy."

 

11/15/18: The president is losing his nerve. He appears to realize something terrible is coming. 

Does he know, perhaps because Acting Hack Matt Whitaker, now in charge at the Department of Justice, has been fully briefed on the Russia inquiry, that a new batch of indictments is impending? 

Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi, a fringe player, have said they expect to be served with court papers. 

Recently, Trump and his lawyers spent three days trying to formulate written answers to questions posed by Special Counsel Mueller. Experts wonder if Twitter Thumbs might now understand how hard it’s going to be to craft a story that keeps him out of trouble without pitching him headlong into the realm of perjury and obstruction of justice.

Miriam Adelson awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - for donating to the GOP.

 

When Trump is in a foul mood, we know what’s coming. A Twitter typhoon blows in at 7:14 a.m. 

Once again, in the name of brevity, we’ll just hit the highlights. Investigators, Trump shrieks, “have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation.” Mueller and his team are “Angry People.” Obama is to blame. The Russia probe is “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!” Mueller leads a “gang of Democratic thugs.” 

What could be eating the president? Is it that Democrats have gained a total of 35 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and may end up gaining 40? Does he realize that starting in January, they’re going to subpoena the sh*t out of his family and members of his corrupt and grossly incompetent regime? 

 

A window on the id of Trump. 

Trump’s Twitter feed, quips pundit Eugene Robinson, is, “A window on the id” of this president. 

A quick refresher may be in order. As the website Simply Psychiatry reminds us, the human psyche has three parts: 

…the id is the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories, the super-ego operates as a moral conscience, and the ego is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.

 

Trump seems wracked by fear and anger. He feels cornered and he’s lashing out. His super ego has always been stunted. 

His id is in total command. 

Politico reports: 

Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. insist they aren’t worried about special counsel Robert Mueller.

 

But half a dozen people in contact with the White House and other Trump officials say a deep anxiety has started to set in that Mueller is about to pounce after his self-imposed quiet period [in weeks leading up to the midterms], and that any number of Trump’s allies and family members may soon be staring down the barrel of an indictment.

 

And if you don’t think we might be facing a constitutional crisis in weeks ahead, you need to pay closer attention.

 

Even members of the Federalist Society, which helped Trump stack the federal bench with a fresh crop of conservative jurists, are restless. A dozen members have formed a group called “Checks and Balances.” They believe Trump is undermining the rule of law. The group includes George T. Conway III, husband of White House aide and fulltime Trump apologist Kellyanne Conway, and John B. Bellinger III, former White House lawyer under George W. Bush. 

“Conservative lawyers are not doing enough to protect constitutional principles that are being undermined by the statements and actions of this president,” Bellinger explains. 

Peter D. Keisler, former Acting Attorney General adds this: 

It’s important that people from across the political spectrum speak out about the country’s commitment to the rule of law and the core values underlying it—that the criminal justice system should be nonpartisan and independent, that a free press and public criticism should be encouraged and not attacked. These are values that might once have been thought so basic and universally accepted that they didn’t need defending [emphasis added] but that’s no longer clearly the case. 

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“A threat to constitutional democracy.” 

Marisa Maleck, member of the Federalist Society

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A similar article in the Washington Post adds fair warning: 

Having three functioning branches of government is the healthiest way for a democracy to work, said Marisa Maleck, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas [and member of the Federalist Society]. Since Trump took office, he has repeatedly attempted to consolidate the power of those branches himself, she said.

 

“The worst part about it is that he normalizes it. Most people don’t realize what he’s doing poses a threat to a constitutional democracy,” she said.

 

“We believe in the rule of law, the power of truth, the independence of the criminal justice system, the imperative of individual rights and the necessity of civil discourse,” the group says in a statement. “We believe these principles apply regardless of the party or persons in power.”

 

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THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES shows a total lack of class (again), awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson. 

Miriam is the wife of Sheldon Adelson. Miriam and Sheldon are GOP mega-donors, and in MAGA land money is the one true measure of value. In the same way that Trump is a “great” patriot, despite no one in his direct family line ever having served in the U.S. military (or in his grandfather’s case, the German military, either), Miriam fought hard for freedom by donating big chunks of cash to the Donald J. Trump Scuzz Bag Aides’ Defense Fund. 

In the last three months of 2018, with guys like Roger Stone and Paul Manafort and George Nader racking up felonies, and needing expensive legal help to stay out of jail (just because they met with Russians during the 2016 campaign), Miriam and Sheldon each ponied up $250,000. 

The Adelsons also gave $30 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign; and just to be safe, gave another $5 million to his inaugural committee. 

So, forget heroes who bled for this country: John McCain, Robert Mueller, and Alexander Vindman, and warned that this president was no patriot but an active menace to democracy. Big checks matter more than blood, sweat or tears.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE (4/24/21): Vindman was added to the sentence above after he testified before Congress about Trump’s phone call to the President of Ukraine. For telling the truth, as he saw it, under oath, his promotion to full colonel in the U.S. Army – which his superiors said he had earned – was blocked.