FIRST NEWSPAPER calls for Trump to RESIGN

[leftstreet]

Connecticut Post

Yeah, it's not the NYT, etc but these are the hometown papers people read

Editorial: President Trump needs to step down

By Hearst Connecticut Media Editorial Board Published 12:00 am EDT, Thursday, September 26, 2019

(snip)

The proper next step for the president is clear. He should resign. He has repeatedly proven himself unfit for office and appears to view the presidency as a position meant to benefit himself personally, not as one that must represent the interests of an entire nation.

Because there’s almost no chance he is going to step down, Congress’ work becomes that much more vital.

The truth is that Trump has been breaking laws and norms with impunity from the beginning. For instance, the U.S. Constitution forbids federal officeholders from receiving any gifts or payments from foreign entities, but in the same phone call with the Ukrainian president we see evidence that Trump is in violation. “I stayed at the Trump Tower,” President Volodymyr Zelensky says of his last trip to the U.S. Since Trump never divested himself from his business and continues to profit from it, he’s in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, according to many legal scholars, and it’s just one of countless examples on that score.

Further, the Mueller report into Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election details multiple occasions when the president apparently obstructed justice, and he was saved from criminal indictment only by virtue of the office he currently holds. The president, as is his wont, called the report a total exoneration. It wasn’t.

https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Editorial-President-Trump-needs-to-step-down-14467704.php

[Stuart G]

1. Many more on the way. Just a matter of time..

[NightWatcher]

2. I'm enjoying the shit out of this!

[oregonjen]

3. Wow!

[jrthin]

4. Not holding my breath, but I am waiting for the NYT's to

call for Trump's resignation. After all, they called for Clinton's resignation over a blow job.

[leftstreet]

5. Yeah, not holding mine either

but that would be sweet

[Ilsa]

6. An Orlando Weekly blog has, as well. nt

[leftstreet]

11. !!

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R

[BootinUp]

8. The shit is coming from all directions! Eh Trumpie?

[Lock him up.]

9. OH Yeah!!!!

He not only attempted to discredit the entire IC even to the point of calling them 'spies' on him, even threatening to do them the 'old ways' ... what took them so long? They knew he's actively working for his pal patin-salman and himself to rule the world FFS!!

[joshdawg]

10. Great news!

The only downside of this is that pence will take over the Presidency and his first act as President will be to pardon trump.

[bdamomma]

16. Unless Pence

is involved too. He's in the swamp too.

[mopinko]

12. every one of those papers that called for clinton to step down

had better step the hell up.

[leftstreet]

13. +1

[yuiyoshida]

14. He won't RESIGN... HE KNOWS WHAT will happen if he does..

GO to PRISON... he thinks he can beat the system...But He will chose poorly..and fail!

[joshdawg]

19. You bet! The Southern District of New York

is chomping at the bit to get to him. They have him by the short hairs.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Presidents should be indictable for major felonies

Impeachment is a political act, they say, yet office holders are expected to assume the role of prosecutors. I think that is better left to the legal system, they know the law better, work with it every day, and it would have to go through a grand jury. We're about to see what leaving it to Congress creates - havoc! Indictment in the regular legal system would create a checkpoint on partisan politics in Congress.

I still think Democrats should challenge that legal opinion. It enables monarchy and crooked foreign policy in the present situation, and for those reasons alone it should be an unConstitutional DOJ rule.

[bdamomma]

17. Impeachment

is not a political act that name was given by the Republicans when they wanted to impeached Clinton. Listen to Randi she explains it.


https://randirhodes.com/blog/randi-rhodes-show-9-27-19/

[leftstreet]

18. +1

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Impeachment juries are all high level elected politicians

Try getting a jury like that in a courtroom.

[NewJeffCT]

21. I remember back when they were the Bridgeport Post

but, do Hearst Newspapers (the parent company) in general have any sort of political leaning?

I know most newspapers in CT were bought out in the 1990s and into the 2000s by Republican leaning organizations, but I'm not sure if things have changed over the past 10-15 years.