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Sometimes its worth stepping back to look at the full picture.He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
He hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
He genuflects to murderous dictators.
He has alienated Americas closest allies.
He lied to the American people about his companys business dealings in Russia.
He tells new lies virtually every week about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a presidents job.
He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
He has repeatedly denigrated a deceased United States senator who was a war hero.
He insulted a Gold Star family the survivors of American troops killed in action.
He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as nasty.
He described white supremacists as some very fine people.
He told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.
He made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.
He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.
He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as rapists.
He has described women, variously, as a dog, a pig and horseface, as well as bleeding badly from a facelift and having blood coming out of her wherever.
He has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.
He enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.
He waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.
He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
He uses a phrase popular with dictators the enemy of the people to describe journalists.
He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
He has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.
He said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.
He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.
He violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent extramarital affairs.
He made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.
He falsely accused his predecessor of wiretapping him.
He claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.
He has ordered children to be physically separated from their parents.
He has suggested that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putins Russia.
He has called America a hellhole.
He is the president of the United States, and he is a threat to virtually everything that the United States should stand for.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/opinion/trump-ukraine-whistle-blower.html
Adelante
(28,394 posts)uponit7771
(90,336 posts)2naSalit
(86,600 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,439 posts)rainin
(3,011 posts)Bayard
(22,068 posts)Thanks!
PatrickforO
(14,573 posts)It is like a new dawn - the sun looks different. Everything feels different!
Long, slow slog, though.
neohippie
(1,142 posts)Wouldn't Trump's opposition to using foreign spies to collect intelligence against Russia and other hostile nations be a threat to United States National Security.
He's hampering our ability to defend ourselves. He's robbing money from military projects in countries in Europe that depend on us to help them defend themselves against Russian aggression
He's threatened our relationships with NATO allies while getting chummy with our enemiesl
He's constantly weakening the United States position in the world, which is giving more power to Putin and China
Duppers
(28,120 posts)More important than a number of the items in the NYT article.
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dalton99a
(81,485 posts)which grows longer every day
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)Nothing would surprise me. Nothing.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)and the filthy repigs will not say anything. They all should be imprisoned for treason. McConnell is a disgrace and worse.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Oversight? We don't need no stinkin' oversight!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)compehensive list (multiple volumes) of offenses in my signature line.
One that pops up in my head toward criminal negligence...
Trump reversed an Obama regulation that stopped coal companies from dumping sludge into our waters when the sludge was proven to contain known cancer causing materials
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Offenses that appeal to broad swath of public.
jimmil
(629 posts)If the criminal codes were listed beside the text this would be absolutely spectacular! If there is a listing somewhere would someone please post it?
Duppers
(28,120 posts)It extends only to last Oct 31.
Catalog of Trumps Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing (So Far): Atrocities 1-546
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-546
Long but interesting list.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Refusing to disengage from his (failing) business interests, directing foreign interests and even Defense Department personnel to his properties, and spending major tax dollars for his many, frequent golf trips at his resorts. That's got to count for something!
orleans
(34,051 posts)"He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as nasty.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Unbelievable - no wonder the Bush family hates Chump!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,820 posts)Thank you for taking the time and having a good memory to try and list just a partial amount of all the atrocities.....
Looking at these past years has been un-fathomable.........Us who care are all so shell shocked and overwhelmed.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Other than Chump's latest shenanigans vis a vis Ukraine (violating campaign & foreign interference laws), most of this list has been known for some time.
Isn't it funny how the New York Times labels this article as "Opinion" when it's actually a list of verifiable facts?!?