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spanone

(135,636 posts)
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 09:03 AM Feb 2020

CNN: Trump weaponizes the Presidency after impeachment victory

(CNN)Donald Trump is moving fast in the wake of his impeachment trial to use the government to punish his enemies and pursue his political ends, underlining how his acquittal has helped make him one of history's most powerful modern Presidents.

Trump has meted out retribution to officials who testified against him in the impeachment inquiry, is making a push to defy Congress in funding his border wall and appears to be seeking new ways to hector former Vice President Joe Biden after facing down a mortal threat to his presidency.

He is completing his project of fashioning the office around his own personality. It's unrestrained, unaccountable, often profane, impervious to outside influence and factual constraints of normal governance. The President has established dominance over his party, his Cabinet and his own media complex. He loosened Congress's constraints by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment probe.

The result is that there are very few political constraints on his behavior left.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/donald-trump-presidency-joe-biden-impeachment/index.html
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CNN: Trump weaponizes the Presidency after impeachment victory (Original Post) spanone Feb 2020 OP
This is surprising? DeminPennswoods Feb 2020 #1
There was no Impeachment Victory.... FarPoint Feb 2020 #2
One of the most scary things I have ever read. We are well down the road to a Police State. Botany Feb 2020 #3
Very PatSeg Feb 2020 #8
He is impeached, he is guilty and that will never ever change . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #4
What impeachment victory???? Ferrets are Cool Feb 2020 #5
What impeachment victory malaise Feb 2020 #6
EXACTLY!! NEVER to be changed!! bluestarone Feb 2020 #7
That does bring some satisfaction PatSeg Feb 2020 #9

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
2. There was no Impeachment Victory....
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 09:14 AM
Feb 2020

Trump has been Impeached.....He had a faux Senate Trial...where he was found not guilty....

Botany

(70,291 posts)
3. One of the most scary things I have ever read. We are well down the road to a Police State.
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 09:20 AM
Feb 2020

One of the most scary things I have ever read. We are well down the road to a Police State.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142431046

So Rudy G. is now free to get paid by Russia to bring back Russian propaganda and
feed those lies to Bill Barr and the D.O.J. in order to hurt people who that Trump/Putin
see as enemies. I.O.W. so now that the Republicans in the Senate voted to acquit Trump
the D.O.J. is going to do the exact same things that Trump was impeached for and now
do it in the open.

Jesus this is scary shit.

PatSeg

(46,804 posts)
8. Very
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 12:31 PM
Feb 2020

Straight out of an autocrat's playbook, minus any pretense or subtleties. Everything is so in-your-face, "Now what are you gonna do about?"

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
4. He is impeached, he is guilty and that will never ever change . . .
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 09:26 AM
Feb 2020

He has and will use the presidency to try and destroy his opposition.

No matter who it is. Apparently, VP Biden is still a threat, I'm pretty sure Republicans internal polling showing VP can beat them. That is why he is trying to court the AAs.

But alas, he gave the Medal of Freedom award to a racist in place of a true hero, Tuskegee Airman, Charles McGee, that did not fare well with AAs.

PatSeg

(46,804 posts)
9. That does bring some satisfaction
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 12:33 PM
Feb 2020

but if he destroys our democracy, it won't mean a whole lot. He'll just be like, "So what!" If he has his way, he'll just rewrite history.

Sorry, don't mean to be a downer.

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