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When the July 24 congressional testimony of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III deflated the impeachment hopes of Democrats, President Trump crowed no collusion and claimed vindication from accusations that he had conspired with Russia in the 2016 election.
Then, the very next day, Trump allegedly sought to collude with another foreign country in the coming election pressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up what he believed would be damaging information about one of his leading Democratic challengers, former vice president Joe Biden, according to people familiar with the conversation.
The push by Trump and his personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to influence the newly elected Ukrainian leader reveals a president convinced of his own invincibility apparently willing and even eager to wield the vast powers of the United States to taint a political foe and confident that no one could hold him back.
We havent seen anything like this in my lifetime, said William A. Galston, a senior fellow in governance at the Brookings Institution who graduated from college just before Watergate. He appears to be daring the rest of the political system to stop him and if it doesnt, hell go further.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-ukraine-call-reveals-a-president-convinced-of-his-own-invincibility/2019/09/21/1a56466c-dc6a-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
Narcissists tend to have an overwhelming sense of self importance.
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)Totally True.....Narcissists tend to have an overwhelming sense of self importance.
And I like this one too....... "The push by Trump and his personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to influence the newly elected Ukrainian leader reveals a president convinced of his own invincibility."
These are great sentences...and describes Trump exactly!!! K and R. Wonderful post...
.......Thank You for posting this..............................................
tblue37
(65,328 posts)shockey80
(4,379 posts)Trumps arrogance may have finally caught up with him. Trump is very good at protecting himself, he has had at least 50 years of practice. However , no one like Trump is perfect or invincible. In the end they make a mistake they cannot fix.
shraby
(21,946 posts)I read it and I didn't see anything in there like that.