Trump's
pitiful arrogance now on full display
(But, he
is worried sick, bet on it)
Introduction:
As we all know by now, if you believe the exact opposite of what Trump says,
then you’ll be on target every time. Case in point, this story headlines
(Yahoo news).
Trump
declares himself unimpeachable, based on
“Perhaps
the greatest economy” ever
Ergo: The
truth is that Trump is worried sick about being impeached – that would
literally destroy him, whether removed or not, since he brags about “never
losing, or always being on top, etc.”
The shame of impeachment would send him
into utter madness and total rage. Of course,
he has to say what the story says, absolutely stunning as it is even extraordinary
but routine for Trump. He always fluffs himself and be damned with everything or
anyone around him anywhere in the country – it’s always “me, me, me, and oh
yeah, did I say me?
This story:
Trump capped
another extraordinary — and yet, by now, routine — week as president by
ridiculing the idea that a chief executive with his epic record of achievement
could be removed from office.
Trump’s
ellipses led on to a familiar litany of self-praise that included his two
Supreme Court picks and the specious claim that he has “done more than any
President in first 2 1/2 years,” before concluding with an oddly punctuated
fragment — “WIN on Mueller Report, Mueller Testimony & James Comey.” — Whose
meaning is clearly best understood by those in red MAGA hats.
Trump’s
tweet was in response to a vote Thursday in the House Judiciary Committee to
establish rules for eventual hearings that could, in theory, lead to the
president’s possible impeachment and ultimately his potential removal from
office. This is, clearly a hypothetical scenario.
But while
Democrats remain divided on whether to pursue impeachment ahead of the 2020
election, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) summed up the committee
majority’s view that the ground rules resolution as: “The necessary next step in our investigation of corruption, obstruction
and abuse of power.”
Nadler
didn’t mention the “greatest economy”
or the low unemployment figures for “Blacks,
Hispanics, Asians & Women,” words that Trump uses to persuade Nadler and
his base that those are all that matter.
Nadler’s
view would seem to be supported by the Constitution, which specifies
impeachment for “high crimes and
misdemeanors,” without an exception based on employment data or the stock
market averages.
One person
who disagrees with Trump’s formulation is Gregory Cheadle, who was singled out
by Trump at a campaign rally in Redding, CA on June 3, 2016, as “My African-American.”
His “My African-American” comment
seen on YouTube below:
Now, Cheadle
made headlines by announcing he was leaving the Republican Party, in part
because he has come to conclude that the president is a white supremacist,
saying to NPR: “When you look at his appointments for the bench: white, white,
white, white, white, white, white. That to me is really damning to everybody
else because no one else gets a chance because he’s thinking that the whites
are superior, period.”
Asked about
Cheadle’s defection as he departed for a speech in Baltimore — the city he
described during his feud with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) as “a disgusting rat and rodent-infested mess”
— Trump said he had no recollection of the man.
He went on
to boast about how much black people like him, saying again in true Trump BS
fashion: “I have tremendous
African-American support.”
Note –
FYI: said Trump, who
received just 8 percent of the African-American vote in 2016. A CNN poll
released this week showed him with an approval rating among black women of 3
percent.
In Trump’s
world, the boundary between truth and falsehood is often blurred. Trump also lashed
out at an ABC News/Washington Post poll showing his approval rating falling 6
points in two months to just 38 percent. He explained it away by alleging some
conspiracy.
Trump’s
tweet was in response to a House Judiciary Committee vote to establish rules
for eventual hearings that could, in theory, lead to the president’s possible
impeachment and ultimately his potential removal from office.
Also in on
the conspiracy, it seems, were Gallup and CNN, both of which conducted separate
polls showing Trump’s approval rating to be at 39 percent. In August, a Fox
News poll put the president’s approval at 43 percent.
Additionally,
the House Committee on Oversight and Reform is looking into other potential
conspiracies, including the possibility that Trump is profiting from his
presidency.
In a June 21
letter, Chairman Cummings wrote to acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan
requesting further information on military bookings at Trump’s Turnberry golf
resort in Scotland — a property, Cummings noted, that “has lost millions of dollars every year since its purchase.”
While Trump
has scoffed at claims that he may be in violation of the Constitution’s
emoluments clause, he got more bad news when the Second Circuit Court of
Appeals reinstated one of many emoluments-related lawsuits filed against him.
All that despite
a campaign pledge by Trump to divest himself of his business interests after
assuming office and subsequent assurances that becoming commander in chief has
cost him “$3 to $5 billion.”
However, his
2018 financial disclosure form showed he made at least $434 million in gross
income last year.
From big
issues to seemingly small ones, Democrats have no trouble coming up with
reasons to call for the president’s impeachment. Take the latest turns in “Sharpie-gate.”
Both the New
York Times and the Washington Post, citing anonymous White House sources,
reported that Trump himself told his staff to get NOAA officials to retract a
statement that corrected his assertion that Alabama was threatened by Hurricane
Dorian.
Chief scientist at NOAA, Craig
McLean, told his colleagues in an email, re: NOAA’s coerced correction that: “My
understanding is that this intervention to contradict the forecaster was not
based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance,
or simply put, political. That compromises the ability of NOAA to convey
life-saving information necessary to avoid substantial and specific danger to
public health and safety.”
When asked who had
altered an outdated NOAA map showing Dorian’s path, Trump responded: “I
don’t know.”
The Washington Post later reported, based on anonymous
sources, that Trump was the artist in question.
Trump in the
same week, fired John Bolton over various disagreements — including
Bolton’s opposition to the president’s secret invitation to Taliban negotiators
at Camp David.
Trump has repeated a widely disputed
assertion about his own involvement with the effort to find survivors after the
9/11 attacks in New York City saying again: “I went down to
Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we
could,” (Trump said at 9/11 commemoration at the Pentagon).
Maybe
Democrats will ultimately decide that impeachment hearings aren’t worth the
risk of alienating voters and squandering their chances to retake the White
House and Senate in 2020.
Maybe all of
this news from the past week is nothing more than further evidence of the vast
media/Democratic conspiracy that Trump and his diehard supporters see aligned
before them. After all, African-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
My 2 cents: I will simply let this story stand on the
details noted above.
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