Tuesday, November 19, 2019

QOTD: America's "Anti-President"


Harvard University professor of constitutional law Laurence Tribe has a devastating article in Newsweek, in which he demolishes pro-Russian, corrupt demagogue Donald "Impeachable Me" Trump. An excerpt:
"After just one week of public impeachment hearings, Donald Trump has unmistakably emerged as America's anti-president, the very model of the charlatan George Washington warned might be overtaken by 'the insidious wiles of foreign influence.'

We have learned that Trump is so obsessed with the legitimacy of his 2016 election—and so terrified of becoming a private citizen (subject to indictment and imprisonment) after the 2020 election—that he embraces a conspiratorial myth of Ukrainian responsibility for Russian lawlessness hatched by an oligarch in Vladimir Putin's orbit. We have heard an official's first-hand account of a president so beholden to Putin that he blithely dismisses Russia's aggression as not 'big stuff' compared with a public announcement by Ukraine's new president to the effect that, contrary to fact, its government is investigating (nonexistent) corruption by Trump's political rival."  (our emphasis)
Read the whole article by Professor Tribe. It's a masterful, detailed explanation of Trump's corrupt motives and his compromised position.