Why Trump gets away with everything

[Demovictory9]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-trump-gets-away-with-everything/2019/09/22/3b883b6a-dbe3-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html

When Republicans held Congress during President Barack Obama’s administration, it seemed that a missing box of staples might have been enough to launch 100 subpoenas and months of hearings. Now, the GOP is going along with a president whose lawyers — in a court filing trying to block the Manhattan district attorney from getting Trump’s tax returns — are asserting that “a sitting President of the United States is not ‘subject to the criminal process’ while he is in office.” It is a sweeping and astonishing assertion that a president is above the law as long as he sits in the White House, no matter which level of government might be investigating him.

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We have become so accustomed to what is blandly called “political polarization” that we don’t think there is any mystery about why the Republicans rally around Trump no matter what he does or what dangers our republic might face. It’s just what they do now.

And so far, this extreme partisanship has worked for Trump and his party. Attorney General William P. Barr’s false account of what special counsel Robert S. Mueller III concluded in his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election poisoned the public debate because it sat there for weeks before the report itself was released.

The lie that Mueller had cleared Trump took hold just enough that it turned the discussion of “partisanship” on its head. If Democrats pursued impeachment, the Trumpists argued, they would be the partisans. Fear that this ploy would work has made Democrats in swing districts wary of impeachment.

Thus did Trump pick up an additional benefit from Barr’s initial falsehood, backed up by his own party: While Democrats are united in condemning Trump’s behavior, they have been divided on the impeachment question. A split opposition is exactly what Trump wants and needs — although there were signs Sunday that the latest story may be the last straw for many of the more cautious Democrats. Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that while he had been “very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment,” the latest allegations could make it “the only remedy that is coequal to the evil” involved.

Still, the lesson to Trump so far: If lying and stonewalling work, and your own party is too afraid to challenge you, stick with the program.

You might think that Republicans who have made national security their calling card since the Reagan era might finally hit the limits of their cravenness in the face of a whistleblower’s bravery. But the party, our politics and our media system are too broken for the old norms to apply.

Even Republican politicians who know how dangerous this situation is thus prefer to stay in their bunkers and hope to survive. The GOP’s electorate is dominated by Trump’s supporters. Staying mum provides protection from opponents inside their own party — and from their own voters. And if they broke ranks, Trump’s media allies would attack them viciously.

By playing for time, these taciturn Republicans will be able to tell us once Trump is gone how they knew all along just how bad he was.

[Prosper]

1. There are a lot of phenomenon that exist. Talent

is one and another is charisma. True clinical charisma is an unexplainable compelling attraction that people have for an individual. Trump has the same type of charisma that Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin et al had. To the people effected by that charisma there is no change regardless of what the charismatic person does. Good current examples are FL and TX.

[extvbroadcaster]

2. Correct!

Yes, Trump is an awful person. How does he do it? Well, charisma is part of it. Another part is our social system that instantly gives credibility and deference to people of wealth. Trump is wearing a suit, jumping out of a limo, everybody is kissing his ass - well, to the guy sweeping the street he looks successful and important. This is a powerful tool that Trump exploits. Even look at the "Apprentice" and how these people bow and kiss his ring. Of course, in reality Trump is an incompetent asshole that was born to money along with daddy's connections. Crazy shit, but there are people that will follow Trump off a cliff. Let's hope at least some of his supporters are having second thoughts.

[Prosper]

5. Add the Jumbo Jet with TRUMP painted

on the side. His total disassociated attitude to accusations lends credibility to him. Supporters see that as he can’t be bothered with the BS.

Nothing but bad news every day for Trump. Hopefully it reaches a point that jars his supporters.

[duforsure]

3. Because of the compromised GOP

And the media continuing to promote trumps talking points against others. The media now need to bring up his kids corruption, personal emails with government issues, and how trump did this same this with payoffs to his girlfriends to influence the last election. Now he's using his position and our government to influence the next election,, with the help of other countries from threats, and our money. He shows intent to break the law, and with lies and a cover up, and why he sent Guilliani to come out and admit it , then him, all the same pattern he's used before to do this without consequences. Barr's also part of their conspiring to obstruct , and prevent justice from being carried out, and he will end up in prison for all he's done. He did the same thing to Comey, and then went after all in the FBI who were Rusian corruption experts that could expose him and putin. trump's a criminal, and should be behind bars.

[CousinIT]

4. As long as he protects white & wealthy, male heterosexual privilege, they don't care...

...what he does or says (his cult).

As for the Dems in Congress, he pretty well knows they can't do much and if they can, it's going to take a while and he can make it take longer by forcing them to drag it all through the courts.

He's gaming them, totally protected by his own white & wealthy male heterosexual privilege.

Add to all the the utterly blatant BIAS with which GOP criminal behavior is treated not only by his cult but by the media and well...all that is why.

Of course it helps that he's a well-trained (by his Daddy) mobster and CONman. It's his family business.