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Mon Sep 23, 2019, 08:45 PM Sep 2019

Only Democrats Can Stop the Complete Corruption of the Oval Office. Clock's Ticking. [View all]

By Charles P. Pierce
Four takeaways from a day on which Donald Trump, President of the United States, copped to it all with respect to Ukraine.


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There are four things that should be apparent to everyone.

First, the president* and his administration* are willing to run their bluffs and spread their bluster until he brings the temple down on his own head. They are not going to cooperate. They are not going to provide documents. They are not going to respond to subpoenas.

Second, the Republicans in Congress are completely with the program and utterly hopeless as possible allies, and the Republicans in the administration* are a hapless chorus of cowards.

Third, the Department of Justice is utterly corrupt and utterly in the bag for a renegade presidency*.

Fourth, any action against this president* is going to have to come from the Democrats, and it's going to have to be fierce and unilateral. They are going to have to stop caring about "dividing the country." They are going to have to stop caring whether or not Max Rose gets reelected in 2020. They are going to have to come out, fiercely and unilaterally, against international bribery and extortion from the Oval Office as legitimate strategies in domestic political campaigns. What might happen is no longer relevant. The crisis is what is happening, right now, in plain view. - Esquire


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But congressional democrats can only do so much, WE HAVE TO HAVE THEIR BACKS. Voters need to, have to get involved, pressure the republicans that their necks are on the line for their implicitness with this lawless White House mob. When congressional republicans budge, then you'll see this house of cards crumble.
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