The total and complete failure named trump, which rhymes with rump and suggests a dump


In fact, trump was even worse than the shrub bush, and that takes real effort in scumbaggery


It is truly pathetic that so many of his supporters are so limited in intellect.


Trump is the greatest president since Lincoln. He did more America in 4 years than all demos combined since 1828.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-worst-president-history/617730/

The second Senate trial of Donald Trump is over. Trump has been acquitted of betraying his oath and his country. He was guilty of these charges, and so is the Republican Party, despite a handful of exceptions in a 57-43 v**e that allowed Trump to escape conviction and a permanent ban on holding federal office.

The Democratic House managers did a magnificent job, marshaling elegant rhetoric and ironclad logic far beyond what Trump’s obvious guilt required. Their case will stand for years as an example of civic virtue.

Trump’s defense team, composed of a personal injury lawyer and a few other nonentities, was incompetent and whined like Trump himself about “Democrat managers” and “cancel culture.” They managed to make ambulance chasing seem noble by comparison.


And none of it mattered. The outcome was foreordained. On a weekend we once reserved for honoring the births of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, so-called constitutionalists like Sen. Mike Lee of Utah gleefully betrayed everything for which Lincoln lived and for which he was murdered in cold blood. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, barely able to contain his smirking, made the case within minutes of Trump’s acquittal that the former president was probably guilty anyway, but hey, maybe someone else can take him to court — just somewhere other than the Senate.

Bending a knee to the cult of Trump

It is long past time to put aside rationalizations about ideology and party loyalty and tribalism. The v**ers back home in these Republican states and districts might be drunk on the vile moonshine brewed by Fox News, One America News Network and other right-wing outfits, but McConnell and the Republican members of Congress are — with the obvious exception of kooks like Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado or Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — educated men and women who know better. They know exactly what they are doing and why.

The acquittal of Donald Trump proved, with final certainty, that the Republicans are driven only by ambition, comfort and self-interest — and the Constitution be damned.

For all of their complaints about “The Swamp,” these GOP careerists are creatures of Washington. No matter where they were born, they are now the squires of Northern Virginia and Georgetown and they are not going back. For all their populist bravado about how the “elites” h**e the Real Americans, no one is more elitist and h**es Real America — including their own constituents — as much as the Republicans who will do anything rather than risk being sent home to live among them.

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and the House’s dreadful Elise Stefanik, from New York's Adirondacks, did not both go to Harvard just to end up as the mayor of Fayetteville or relegated to a city council in Plattsburgh. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley didn’t make it to Stanford and Yale just to hang out a shingle probating wills and handling divorces in Sedalia.

These opportunists will never do anything that might incur even so much as the remote risk of a primary challenge. They have made it and they are staying where they are. Exile from the District of Columbia is not for them. If bending the knee yet one more time to the cult of Trump keeps them motoring along the Rock Creek Parkway while taking in the vista of the Potomac River, it is a price they will gladly pay. And so will all of us pay, too, as democracy settles into trench warfare between a shrinking but powerful claque of ruthless frauds and the rest of America.

There are a few noble exceptions among the Republicans, but not enough to matter. Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, for one, has said point-blank that he is willing to lose his job if that is the price of telling the t***h, and that if it happens, he will be at peace.

But others, such as Sens. Rand Paul (himself the son of a long-serving congressman) or Ted Cruz — a man known for his legendary and insufferable ambition since college, and who probably ran for class leader in his newborn ward in the hospital — will risk no such sacrifice. They, you see, were bred for better things far from Kentucky and Texas, and if that means allying themselves with the worst and most partisan elements in America rather than with the Constitution, so be it.

Cynical in the face of history

The Republicans have repeatedly betrayed both Lincoln and the Union. The party whose first president died as a martyr at the hands of an i**********nist is now controlled by empty, hollow people who rolled their eyes and lazed their way through the trial of a president who was manifestly guilty of inciting an i**********n.

If nothing else, perhaps this d********g dishonoring of the memory of our 16th president should persuade the rest of us to bring back the actual Feb. 12 and Feb. 22 birthdays of Presidents Lincoln and Washington as national holidays, so that we do not confuse their heroism and nobility with the cult of personality practiced by modern Republicans.

Of course there are many causes that spark the fires raging across the western states and we really can't track them down to one cause. But there's more to starting a fire than a spark. You need three things... heat (such as a spark) oxygen and fuel.

It's the fuel that makes these fires so much worse now than they used to be. There's more of it. Why? because of increased drought conditions... the lack of rain k**ls the vegetation and dries the biomass into fuel for fire. Of course droughts have always been a problem in the western states and so have fires, but for some reason the current drought which started in 2012, has been more severe and prolonged than any previous drought on record and with it comes a series of record-breaking fires with every year getting worse.

Scientists at NOAA are saying this drought would have been bad anyway but not nearly as bad as it is due to... yup, I'm going to say it... G****l W*****g.

I can remember reading the studies as far back as 1978 that predicted these conditions... if we don't curb our emissions, because of the greenhouse effect. Then I watched that concern turn into a political battle with Democrats asking for the concern to be addressed and Republicans downplaying the studies and denying the science upon which they were based. Obviously, the Republicans were protecting the oil business which didn't want to sacrifice any part of their profit for a cleaner environment.

The Republican people v**ed big oil tycoons to the White House and sent their loved ones to fight wars to advance oil profits. Republicans have always been on the side of burning f****l f**ls without any concern for the consequences.

42 years after I first read about g****l w*****g and it's potential outcomes, I am witnessing exactly what they predicted. We did NOT curb our emissions. The Republicans got in the way. Everytime we tried, the Republicans would reverse our efforts. I watched it happen... for 40 years!

So when I see those fires raging, blotting out the sky, destroying forests and structures, k*****g people and animals alike, I blame the Republicans. I don't accept ignorance on this one. There is no lack of information on this. After 40 years, if people STILL don't get it, it's because they choose not to. Therefore the lives lost in the fires was by choice. The choice made by Republicans... e******n after e******n.

And that goes for ALL people who have v**ed Republican over the last 40 years. Even those of you reading this. Yes, I am telling these Republicans with the utmost clarity... YOU are to blame for the fires and all the lives these fires will claim. 100%!

After all, what could be more important than his ree******n...

https://www.l***qnation.com/2020/03/trump-tells-pastors-forget-c****av***s-pray-re-e******n-instead/?fbclid=IwAR058i3HHRcJrCpU-YX-6Gtw-5uzN1E7HDQ6cpmohrN7sdWTSkbfQ3DfKgg#.Xr43SJdcMNt.facebook

President Donald Trump spoke on a phone call with evangelical leaders hosted by an anti-L***Q h**e group and thanked them for their political support. But instead of focusing on calming their flocks during a global p******c, the president urged them to focus on his re-e******n.

“It’s a big date, November 3,” Trump said. “That’s going to be one of the biggest dates in the history of religion, as far as I’m concerned. So, I want you to be, we have to keep aware of that, ‘cause as we fight this, people are forgetting about anything else. You turn on the news, and all you see is the c****av***s or wh**ever.”

“You turn on the news, and all you see is the c****av***s or wh**ever — some people call it the Chinese v***s, they call it a lot of different things — but the v***s, that’s all you see. You don’t see anything else,” Trump added.

“So people are forgetting we have the most important e******n that we’ve had, and I guess when I say the 2016 e******n, perhaps that’ll always be very special for all of us, but without this one, without a victory here, so much of that can disappear.”

Trump touched briefly on the v***s and the work the ministers were doing to combat it or comfort victims’ families. But he quickly steered his impromptu remarks to what he had done politically on behalf of the religious right.

He made sure to point out that his administration “knocked out the Johnson Amendment.” The tax code provision prevented not-for-profit organizations like churches and charities from endorsing or opposing political candidates.

The conference call was organized by the Family Research Council. The organization has been recognized as an anti-L***Q h**e group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that tracks h**e groups in America.

But even Tony Perkins, the group’s leader, couldn’t steer Trump back to the actual topic of the c****av***s. When he asked Trump how he would like for the assembled pastors to pray for him, the president didn’t fail to promote himself.

“Well, I think the health of our country, the strength of our country. We were doing something amazing and then one day, it just ended,” he said. “So that would be it, and the fact that we make the right choice on November 3 is very important. Tony, you understand that better than most.”

Perkins is a former Republican Louisiana politician with deep ties to w***e s*********ts. He is also one of Trump’s biggest evangelical supporters.

Perkins had previously downplayed alarm over the v***s as “irrational,” arguing that it was being used as a political weapon against the president. Within two weeks, as with many right-wing pundits and television news personalities, he had changed his tune to urge followers to be, to follow proper precautions… and to work to prevent the economy from tanking.

“Follow the guidelines, do the social distancing if you have a stay-at-home order in place in your state and you’re not a part of an essential frontline, workers, you know, try to stay home, work from home, try to be productive — please be productive,” he said. “Our economy needs it.”

Vice President Mike Pence, a fervent supporter of the religious right, was also on the call. He was originally supposed to be the main speaker until Trump crashed the phone call.

https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-guilty-felony-if-he-wasnt-president-according-450-federal-prosecutors-2790238

So what!!!


If he weren’t a sitting president, Donald Trump will have been found guilty of obstruction of justice based on evidence laid out in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, said a bipartisan letter signed by more than 450 former federal prosecutors and posted online Monday.
"Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice," said the lawyers in their letter posted on Medium.
The letter was signed by officials from various backgrounds, and included former lawyers and other top officials from the Democratic and Republican parties. Signatories to the letter included officials whose government service included every administration since President Dwight Eisenhower.


The redacted Mueller report released by the Department of Justice (DoJ) two weeks ago showed Mueller investigating if Trump committed obstruction. It laid out specific and unsuccessful attempts by Trump to obstruct Mueller himself. Despite the evidence he laid out, Mueller concluded he couldn’t affirm "no criminal conduct occurred.”


Attorney general William Barr said after the conclusion of Mueller's investigation that both he and former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein determined Mueller's evidence was "not sufficient" to support prosecuting Trump for obstruction.
In the letter, former federal prosecutors said the Mueller report "describes multiple efforts by the president to curtail the scope of the Special Counsel’s investigation." They pointed to when Trump pressured then-attorney general Jeff Sessions to reverse his decision to recuse himself from overseeing Mueller's investigation.

The letter also pointed out Trump directed his former chief of staff Reince Priebus to fire Sessions, which Priebus refused.
"In our system, every accused person is presumed innocent and it is always the government’s burden to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt," wrote the former prosecutors. "But, to look at these facts and say that a prosecutor could not probably sustain a conviction for obstruction of justice -- the standard set out in Principles of Federal Prosecution -- runs counter to logic and our experience."
"We believe strongly that, but for the OLC (Office of Legal Counsel) memo, the overwhelming weight of professional judgment would come down in favor of prosecution for the conduct outlined in the Mueller Report," concludes the letter.
In his report, Mueller revealed 10 situations in which he investigated Trump's actions and motivations. These included the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and Trump's pressure on then-White House counsel Don McGahn to remove Mueller from his job.

Mueller found Trump had taken obstructive acts that could have hurt ongoing investigations. He also found Trump intended to disrupt the investigators at times because of his own personal motivations, like silencing questions about his 2016 p**********l e******n victory.
Instead of deciding whether to prosecute Trump, Mueller said he wouldn’t exonerate Trump and pointed to the DoJ guidance a President can’t be indicted while in office as a reason for not reaching a conclusion.