Elaine2025 wrote:
Baz, let me take these one at a time. So, what do you think?
1. We would all agree that some statements could be more accurate but many are guilty of this.
2. Where is the assault on the judiciary. When obummer replaced 600 or more judges, did you call that an assault? Presidents appoint judges. Period.
3. Give an example of Trump's assault on the free press. Pointing out that the press is fake news is not an assault, it is the truth. Removing Acosta was warranted.
4. Filling the swamp instead of draining it? Give examples. Sounds to me like any republican he appointed would be considered part of the swam to you?
5. I have to give you this one.
6. This one really makes no sense and is strictly what you think.
7. Again your opinion, but It was APPROVED legally.
8. Touting his accomplishments. That is not a bad thing, the media sure won't report it.
9. There is no mysterious relationship with russia. Trump has tougher sanctions on Russia than ANY previous President.
10. The great wall con? Wait and see what happens is my opinion. Maybe they will start charging a fee on all money sent back to Mexico? Who knows, but it isn't over.
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1. Other presidents behaviors do not justify Trump's behaviors. Trump is President now. Also, no President has lied so prodigiously as Trump (and this includes Nixon).
2. When Trump was being sued over his Trump U scam, he attacked he presiding judge for being a Mexican (fun fact: the judge was born in Indiana). When a ruling does not go his way he attacks the judge, as recently as this week when the Chief Justice had to admonish him for this behavior.
3. Trump has called the press the enemy of the people. He has called them out by name at his rallies and incited his followers to behavior that has made them fearful for their safety. This is what latin American tin horn dictators do. He only does this to the press that does not fawn over him, Hannity style.
4. Tom Price, Scott Pruitt, to name just two. There are many more examples. His cabinet could pass for a Goldman Sachs alumni picnic.
5. N/A
6. of course its what I think, I wrote it. David Duke has explicitly endorsed Trump and and the ambivalence is obvious: It should not be that hard to denounce explicitly Nazis and the Klan.
7. I am not questioning the legality of the tax bill. But it is cynical: The middle class benefits are temporary but the upper class benefits are permanent. It does not pay for itself (these Republican schemes never do), as promised and is exploding our deficits. The deficits leave the government no fiscal tools to combat the next downturn in the business cycle, And that downturn will come.
8. I have already offered examples. Being thankful for himself or bragging about his election victory in front of the CIA Wall of Honor or the Boy Scout Jamboree is hardly a personal accomplishment.
9. The sanctions imposed on Russia was the work of Congress, over Trump's objections. The sanctions were passed by a veto-proof majority. And just today, according to Cohen's testimony in open court, Trump was actively pursuing a real estate project in Moscow while he was claiming he had nothing to do with Russia during the campaign. It looks like Trump himself signed the letter of intent the very day of one of the Republican debates. I imagine the House intelligence committee is going to have a field day with this next year.
10. Trump promised over and over again that Mexico was going to pay for the wall. In fact, it was one of his favorite campaign chants. The idea that Mexico would pay for the wall with fees or what not is just spin to cover the fact that Mexico was never going to pay for the wall. In fact, if these alternate-reality funding schemes had any merit, why have they not been implemented?