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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeadline on CNN.com - "The guardrails are off the Trump presidency"
You know things are getting bad for tRump when this is the first headline you see when you go to a major corporate news site.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-turkey-kurds-g7-mulvaney/index.html
That apt mission doctrine for a presidency blazing with abuses of power, conflicts of interest and unhinged behavior is the work of White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, whose barn burner of a briefing on a day of political train wrecks, staggering misdirection and reality bending sent a clear message.
Democrats can impeach President Donald Trump, Republicans can bemoan his betrayal of the Kurds and the media can fact-check him till the cows come home -- but nothing is going to restrain or moderate him. In fact, he's becoming ever more incorrigible.
The President's brazen willingness to do exactly what he wants -- key to his appeal to voters angry with the political establishment in 2016 -- shone through a wild few hours that briefly stole the spotlight from the Democratic impeachment inquiry.
Then Mulvaney made an even more unabashed declaration, admitting that Trump did freeze nearly $400 million in aid to coerce Ukraine into investigating his Democratic opponents.
"Get over it. There's going to be political influence in foreign policy," Mulvaney said, coining an instant classic phrase that will help historians understand the story of Trump's presidency. Trump's time in office embodies a defiant repudiation that this presidency should be subject to conventional standards of ethics and accountability.
read the entire piece at: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-turkey-kurds-g7-mulvaney/index.html
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Headline on CNN.com - "The guardrails are off the Trump presidency" (Original Post)
groundloop
Oct 2019
OP
That's the immediate danger - he keeps doubling and tripling down on bad decisions!!!
Dennis Donovan
Oct 2019
#2
GoCubsGo
(32,075 posts)1. Well, there never were any "guardrails."
That being said, yes. It's pretty bad when even the corporate media recognizes it.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)2. That's the immediate danger - he keeps doubling and tripling down on bad decisions!!!
Our Government cannot persist in the state much longer.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. Oh crap . . . .
more melting from the illegitimate SOB in the WH.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)4. K&R