General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA warning regarding Trump, from Lawrence Tribe
YEP.
Trump may have fabricated a faux nuclear standoff with North Korea to distract attention from what Mueller is finding out about his crimes.
Link to tweet
As people catch onto Trump's No. Korea ploy, he's making up the prospect of military intervention in Venezuela! @POTUS is truly desperate.
Link to tweet
kairos12
(12,869 posts)party pal."
bellmartin
(218 posts)kairos12
(12,869 posts)One can only imagine what is going on in that fevered little walnut.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)And diversions he wants, but the focus will always come back to Mueller's Investigation.
procon
(15,805 posts)break the real story any day now.
cheyanne
(733 posts)When there is opposition at home, create crises to unite the populace against the "enemies" that he has provoked.
The next step is to use "war powers" to silence opposition, then comes stopping the investigations, inciting violence that allows him to arrest protesters.
Congress is the only bulwark we have against loss of civil liberties.
Our conversation is how can we depose Trump. Congress is supine in the face of someone who has completely broken their power to do anything.
The judiciary will not act quickly enough to stop him.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...is DESPERATELY trying to find his Reichstag fire!
#notmypresident
PEACE!
ecstatic
(32,727 posts)he's willing to go to distract. He's willing to insult and throw any group under the bus. And he's willing to kill millions or put millions in harms way. That's disturbing as hell. Congress really needs to act NOW.
RiverStone
(7,228 posts)Millions and millions in harms way...and a crazy manbaby with a finger on the nuclear is NOT enough to force Congress to act???
WTF will it take?!
oasis
(49,400 posts)spanone
(135,859 posts)Chemisse
(30,816 posts)There are real consequences to these games he plays.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Who stripped Barbara Lee's bill to remove the AUMF from the President.
So, no. We are hosed from all directions and it really is hard to find anyone who is aware or gives a shit.
Apathy killed America!
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)Lee worked 16 years on that bill too! I hope Ryan fries as well as Mitchell and Pence (keep it in the family).
This family is like the Donald Corleone's Sicilian family in many respects.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)scare could be a set-up. The intel of the improvements in nuclear ICBM, etc, story has only come from one agency, DIA, and has not been confirmed by any other agency. And DIA has been wrong before.
If DT can't get mileage out of a DPRK scare, then it won't surprise me that he would try to take on Venezuela for a "win."
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)War on Cuba in 3, 2, 1 .... days. Anyone taking odds?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He will do anything to take the attention away from the investigation into his crimes. He is a sick man.
Cadfael
(1,299 posts)Our country is in the paws of that increasingly desperate cornered rat......
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I would think with someone so stupid it shouldn't be that hard to trap him. With an ego like his, the bait is easy.
bora13
(860 posts)according to Maher tonight the trump coup was an invasion of govt and minds
by sado-masochists.
It all clicked when I heard him say that.
The same people I know around here that support him, mainly the men
have been that way for years now. It's not good news because they like to
make people suffer.
Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,693 posts)but mostly in Civil Court, usually over lawsuits where he cheated somebody.
Mueller ain't accepting no "settlements." He's looking for crimes. And you know what they say, right?
"Behind every great fortune is a great crime."
RussBLib
(9,031 posts)I guess we have to hope the generals do the right thing.
BainsBane
(53,053 posts)Every last person on the planet.
BainsBane
(53,053 posts)Trump has chosen to make it worse, and it may be for the reason Tribe suggested.
WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)with NK for some time. Sounds quite right. I'm comforted to know that Mueller hasn't announced his August vacation and the wheels of justice grind on.