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David Leonhardt, a Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion writer, has unleashed a devastating indictment of President Trump in a piece published by the New York Times on Monday, September 23, 2019. In just 40 sentences, with clarity, and simply and to the point, he lays out the case against entrusting Trump with the continued leadership of our country. (But I take issue with the title; it’s really “The United States of America and the American People vs. Trump.”) Some excerpts (you can read the entire editorial here):
“He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
“He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
“He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
“He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
“He hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
“He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
“He genuflects to murderous dictators.
“He has alienated America’s closest allies.
“He lied to the American people about his company’s business dealings in Russia.
“He tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather. …
“He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president’s job. …
“He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
“He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
“He uses a phrase popular with dictators — ‘the enemy of the people’ — to describe journalists.
“He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
“He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign. …
“He has suggested that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
“He has called America a ‘hellhole.’
“He is the president of the United States, and he is a threat to virtually everything that the United States should stand for.”
If you vote for Donald Trump’s reelection, you’re either not paying attention, or something’s wrong with you.
All of which may be true or untrue depending on you opinion. An opinion writer writing is just that an opinion. As horrible as the writer wants to make Trump it still comes down to you cannot win with nobody. I dom’t think the country is as far left as the progressives running think. While Biden might get the nod it remains to be seen if he can really beat Trump, and accusing Trump of things the Obama administration did to protect Joe may well bite him in the ass, and why no calls to impeach the former VP?
Here in Washington state whoever the Democrats run will win the states electoral votes, and it may once again boil down to the economy stupid, and this theatre mere charade. Perhaps it all does not matter all that much.