So in other words, Trump cheated to win the Presidency. He cheated Hillary Clinton out of being President

[Swede]

His name will go down in history as a cheat.

[Skittles]

1. it's not like we did not already know that

[Unwind Your Mind]

12. We did

It’s always good to remind the general public I think

[calimary]

44. Nothing wrong with a handy reminder.

As reality sinks in, we should gently reinforce it. Don’t dance on anybody’s political grave yet! Be graceful in victory, at least til we’ve locked in the win. And THEN, you can dance in the end zone til the cows come home.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The FBI and Russia helped him cheat too.

[dhol82]

4. I will never forgive James Comey.

Who still won’t accept blame.

[Claustrum]

5. Same here.

His dance around his responsibility of the result in 2016 is appalling to me. I will never forget nor forgive.

[democratsruletheday]

6. amen to that dhol82...

eff comey

[Irish_Dem]

13. He is one slimy character.

And he was not alone, he had other FBI help.

Yes he has no remorse.

[Xipe Totec]

32. The very definition of useful idiot. nt

[calimary]

45. Nor will I. Not EVER!!!

[StevieM]

47. James Comey was more important to the outcome of that election than all other factors combined. (eom)

[returnee]

56. Agreed.

Cowardice and rationalization.

[riversedge]

58. I had been canvassing for Hillary prior to James Camey informing the Repugs that he was

again pushing the Hillary so called email investigation. As I have mentioned before--there was a remarkable questioning and or giving pause to voting to Hillary the next two weeks. I too put a whole lot of blame onto Comey.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. NBC aired the turd for on prime time for years.

Of course, all of ABCNNBCBSFixedNoiseNutworks gave him all the free air time possible.

[lapfog_1]

3. so, in compensation...

I would lover $1Trillion to the US treasury,,, but that won't happen... so I propose that the 3 SCOTUS appointments be undone and now given to Biden.

I understand there is no law or constitutional reason... but it would be fair.

[Irish_Dem]

17. The cost to America is incalculable.

The legal warfare, stolen documents, damage to national security, treason and insurrection,
rigging an election, cheating on taxes, his rapes and assaults, the list goes on and on.

Trump no doubt stole quite a bit of cash while in office. So did his family.

Then there is the damage his cult followers and politicians cause on a daily basis.

$1 trillion is a just a down payment towards Trump's damages.

[TSExile]

21. How much better would the covid response have been...

...and how many less deaths under Hillary??? Not only is he a FELON, RAPIST and THIEF, but he is also a MURDERER.

[Irish_Dem]

22. Yes that should be on the list. All of those deaths due to Trump's indifference.

He has also caused CIA agents and assets to be killed. Soon after he took office, there was a mysterious
uptick in CIA asset deaths and disappearances.

Trump stole so many top secrets, highest level of classified documents.
We have to assume it has all be compromised, which is going to put many lives in danger.
Especially the military and intelligence agencies.

The damage to our national security is incomprehensible and we will never know the full extent of it.

[DemocraticPatriot]

54. It was not covid "indifference"-- It was malevolence! Trump wanted blue city voters TO DIE!

In the early days of the pandemic, Trump saw that the overwhelming numbers of Covid deaths were happening in the blue cities in the blue states, and he deliberately dragged his feet on the covid information and response, because he wanted that trend of blue voter deaths to continue, to improve his chances for re-election!

What he did not figure on, was that the pandemic would eventually spread to red and rural areas where his own voters would begin to die in large numbers as well-- and were influenced to do the wrong things by Trump having downplayed or disparaged mask-wearing and other common-sense precautions-- eventually leading to a larger proportion of his own voters dying, than voters in blue cities...

[Irish_Dem]

55. Yes you are correct. A deliberate plan to let the blue cities die.

Of course yes Trump did not realize his cult followers would be killed too as it spread to the rural areas.

[FuzzyRabbit]

7. Trump not only cheated Clinton out of the presidency.

He cheated us out of Clinton's presidency.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. This needs to be repeated

Over and over.

[walkingman]

9. He absolutely cheated Hilliary out of the Presidency.

Along with FBI director Comey and now the GOP claims the justice system is being weaponized.

These folks are literally nuts and none of their minions even care. They just love their reality TV star.

[TwilightZone]

10. No, it's more than that.

He committed crimes to win the presidency. "Cheat" simply isn't representative enough of what he did.

[Blue Owl]

14. You said it!

[FakeNoose]

15. Agreed - it wasn't penny-ante cheating

... it was more like the "future of all mankind" cheating.

[MerryBlooms]

16. Committed at least 34 felonies to win that election.

[Irish_Dem]

18. These are only the ones we know about.

Certainly there are more.

[MerryBlooms]

19. Exactly! Every day he wakes up, there's a crime committed

[Irish_Dem]

20. Yes he wakes up every day with the intent to break the law in some way.

He gets off on it. He loves getting something over on others, tricking, manipulating, cheating, lying, stealing.
It is fun and gives him pleasure.

He is outraged that others do not appreciate his "brilliance."

[TexasDem69]

23. No because there's zero evidence that these crimes

Changed a single vote. We can celebrate the conviction without speculating about the impact of the crimes. Everyone already knew about the “grab them by the pussy” comment and he still won. These crimes are much less damming in my mind. Think about that—Trump admitted to sexual assault and none of his supporters blinked.

[summer_in_TX]

49. Maybe no one has connected the dots between these crimes and any votes changing.

But remember, Trump got the Wikileaks dump the afternoon the Access Hollywood tape story broke. That smeared the Dems and likely at least softened any women who were offended and decided to vote for Hilary instead and almost certainly caused some to not vote at all. The coup de grace was James Comey's statement

In Texas, early voting was underway and I was a precinct chair. The turnout was very good – until Comey spoke. There was an immediate drop off in turnout for Clinton.

Any doubt that criminal conspiracy was behind the timing of the Wikileaks dump (or which nation colluded with Trump to make it happen)? What about the likelihood that a criminal conspiracy (Giuliani and his former SDNY pals and other allies within the FBI) created the pressure campaign that led Comey to cave and violate protocol to reveal the new investigation?

When multiple causes are behind a phenomena, scientists say it is "over-determined." This is such a case. The dots haven't been connected on all the criminal activity, but now one piece of the conspiracy is on the public record, adjudicated by a jury of Trump's peers.

[jaxexpat]

24. Bingo! We were denied a moment when the goodness of humanity was nigh to dominate.....

and, "shazam", as Gomer would say, the opportunity went away, for a few years or, perhaps, never come again. And here we are on the cusp of greatness again.

[surfered]

25. He cheats at golf.

He cheats at everything, lies about everything, because he has a sociopathic, narcissistic disorder. In plain language, he’s nuts.

[AZ8theist]

29. He sucks at golf, that's why he cheats at it so much.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. And his cheating put 3 reactionary turds on SCOTUS

Who were installed because of the cheat!

[moondust]

27. And then he appointed

THREE judges to the Supreme Court and many others for life. And he pardoned a number of his convicted fellow gangsters.

[Faux pas]

28. He cheated

ALL OF US

[SleeplessinSoCal]

30. We need to give him props for destroying the GOP.

They're willingly going along with his trashing of our judicial system that they once held in high esteem.

Nikki has got to be in a living hell today. She went from saving the Republican party to another self-serving toady virtually overnight.

[markodochartaigh]

43. In 2015 the

Republicans were going to have a brokered convention to choose another candidate, but they realized that Trump was so wildly popular with the 80% of their base who are authoritarians that they could not win without him. So the Republicans put party before country and chose an authoritarian Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy. They knew what they were doing, several very senior Republicans refused to support Trump which is unheard of.
But for a democracy to be functional there must be at least two viable parties committed to democracy. The US has only one now. Unless and until the corporate Republicans come up with a viable party committed to democracy, democracy will be one election away from failure in the US.

[TwilightZone]

50. The death of the GOP has been greatly exaggerated.

They cannot be considered dead when they still have roughly half of Congress, many state legislatures and governorships, and a pretty firm hold on the judiciary, including SCOTUS.

I'll consider them dead when they're no longer a competitive political force.

Besides, Trump isn't the cause. He's a symptom. This is what the party is now, and it's been trending this direction for a couple of decades, well before Trump. He just made the rot more overt.

[calimary]

59. THIS is a VERY worthy post.

Thanks, TwilightZone.

Makes total sense.

It’ll be quite an adventure to watch how things unspool among Republicans through the next days, weeks, and months. We don’t know ANYTHING now, frankly. Seems to me we have to watch and assess over time. Let reality settle in. And THEN watch what they do.

[Taraman]

31. Most of main stream media is calling it the "hush money trial"

and that will probably stick. Minimizes how he cheated to win the presidency.

[dalton99a]

33. Liar, thief, rapist, traitor.

[Martin68]

34. We all knew that all along. Thanks to Comie and the endless "investigation" of Benghazi and "the emails."

Plus Russian interference and Trump's corrupt schemes to hide his criminal activities.

[soldierant]

35. More to the point,

he cheated every American out of having the president for whom the majority actually voted.

[TeamProg]

41. I think that was implied, but care to initiate a class action suit? I'll sign on! nt

[TeamProg]

38. Thank you for reminding us! (Not sarcasm) nt

[Hekate]

39. He had lots of help. But basically he cannot win, ever, unless he cheats & has buckets of help.

[Warpy]

40. Republicans are freaking out because that's been their business as usual

since Nixon lost to Kennedy in 1960. They knew they were owned by the rich and their policies were putrid. They had to cheat.

They're just flipping out because 60 years later, one of them might have to accept some consequences for what they've all done, all the ime, for so long..

[Bozvotros]

42. Exactly. He cheated on his pregnant wife with Karen McDougal....

And then cheated on her with Stormy. He's a swine.

[Jarqui]

46. Something that came out that bothered me - made his crime worse -

was that not only did the National Enquirer catch and kill bad stories about Trump -
they created fictitious stories about his political adversaries during the primary and the general election to smear his adversaries.

It was not just the sex stuff getting buried.

There was a media organization working for his campaign but not being acknowledged in the FEC accounting whose purpose was to publish lies about his adversaries to also deceive the American people.

I do not think the media has rung the bell for that crime enough. You can't just dismiss this as a sex coverup - but sex coverup seems to be the way many Americans understand it. If more Americans understood that smearing part, I doubt as many would be as dismissive of this crime.

[AllaN01Bear]

48. he also lost, again.

[OAITW r.2.0]

51. Good news is....he'll be forever captured on hi-rez audio/video, Think of what future generations will think of this

"pResident"....

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

52. YEP!

Why yes, he did.

[czarjak]

53. Stop rubbing it in.

Still pissed about 2000.

[usedtobedemgurl]

57. He cheated his way into stacking the SC........

And taking away a lot of rights. He cannot be voted in again.