Donald Trumps spectacular collapse: Full political meltdown, a week before taking office [View all]

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Donald Trump’s spectacular collapse: Full political meltdown, a week before taking office
Trump looks and acts guilty, compares America to Nazi Germany — and clings to Putin's leg like a drowning retriever
Bob Cesca


We haven’t performed a full search of the transcripts, but this week could very well mark the first time that an incoming president has successfully trampled Godwin’s Law. The informal rule, invented by author Mike Godwin, suggests: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches one.” Tweeting once again in the early morning hours, President-elect Donald Trump observed that leaks from the intelligence community, reported by CNN and alleging that Russia has been collecting salacious blackmail material on the incoming chief executive, are reminiscent of the Third Reich.

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?
7:48 AM - 11 Jan 2017

The Nazi tweet, among many others, illustrates an embattled president-elect — a president-elect with historically dismal approval ratings and a president-elect who’s a political novice, bungling and botching his way through what could be the most devastating political-meets-constitutional crisis in modern American history, perhaps fully eclipsing Watergate, Iran-Contra and the Lewinsky affair combined. In this case, Team Trump, possibly acting as a consequence of the aforementioned blackmail material, is vocally flacking for Putin and the Russian intelligence services in opposition to the flawed but patriotic U.S. intelligence community — not to mention the American press.

Trump followed this up with another tweet.

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is "A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE." Very unfair!
7:13 AM - 11 Jan 2017

This response is, naturally, a fantastic way to goad other leakers into dropping further evidence to the contrary. Smart! Additionally, by blurting crap like this, Trump is directly questioning the veracity of the intelligence community tasked with protecting American interests here and abroad. It’s entirely possible that the 35-page document published by BuzzFeed and other outlets, which features all sorts of sloppy allegations about the president-elect’s personal behavior, was deliberately leaked in direct response to Trump’s ongoing social media tirades about the (his quotes) “intelligence” community. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the intelligence community operates knows that its first mandate is to defend the nation, not its president. Therefore, any indictment coming from a high-profile figure like Trump will never be met with complacency.

Grade-school level politics — systems with proven track records of efficacy — dictate that the best response to a scandal of this magnitude is to do the following: 1) Express outrage at the attack on American sovereignty, 2) demand an independent investigation into the charges and 3) vow to punish those responsible. It’s as simple as the rules to Candyland. Do these three things, then move on. Political problems solved. Trump and his people appear totally unaware of the correct reaction, or they’re cognizant yet foolish enough to ignore it.

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