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Trump has fired Vindman, Sondland and Vindmans brother (collateral damage) and will likely oust anyone who testified to in the Congressional Hearings that got him impeached.
He has accused Speaker Pelosi of breaking the law. No doubt, he will seek to open actual investigations on the Speaker, Rep. Schiff and others in the House that brought his Impeachment to reality.
He will pursue Criminal Charges against Bolton because he can and more than anything he wants that book never to see the light of day. No doubt, they will threaten Bolton first, and if he continues to pursue publishing it, I have no doubt he will charge Bolton with a Crime.
He will continue to investigate the Bidens, not because Biden might be the nominee, but because he has to prove that they did something wrong to bring some sort of self-vindication to reality.
And there is no doubt in my mind that Trump will use his power to manufacture a criminal investigation in late September or early October of whoever the Democratic Nominee is. And they will manufacture evidence if they have to to ensure it looks real.
This seems dark. Thats because America is indeed in a very dark place.
Trump will do these things for one very simple reason. Because he can and no one dares to stop him.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)#Fridaynightmassacre
underpants
(182,879 posts)leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)But if Simon and Schuster already has Bolton's manuscript, maybe they will go ahead and release it!
Let's see what Moscow Mitch does after this.
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)Zolorp
(1,115 posts)I had a post hidden for suggesting this.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,789 posts)Truth, Honor, Doing the RIGHT thing, and the RULE OF LAW, are attributes of the Democrats. Stress that.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)There will be no limits to what he will do now, not that there were many before.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)or as someone named it on DU tonight, the Night of the Long Tweets
malaise
(269,157 posts)He is still IMPOTUS
backtoblue
(11,345 posts)When I finally thaw in truth's illumination
Will the darkness recover my soul, or will the light be waiting with her lovely wings?
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)is showing us how mad he is.
He will now attempt to replace all positions with his KKKlan members.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)he wants to replace, he wants to be the only chosen one.
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)sandensea
(21,664 posts)This is why I always enjoy Cheeto's tweets: because every time he does so, he convinces more and more swing voters to swing the hell away from him.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)tavernier
(12,401 posts)He worked too closely with Democrats.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)possession.
For me it's been dark since 2016. Throughout the West, our allies have seen our lights go out.
Criminal investigations will be the new misuse of law, the new neonazi normal.
The banality of evil needs to keep busy. Read anything by Hannah Arendt, and most recently and relevantly, Timothy Snyder's The Road To Unfreedom(2018) which explains not just what Russia and its Putin Group have done to the West, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, but done to their own Russian identity and approaches to Truth to justify all that activity.
dweller
(23,661 posts)he experienced the coup in Greece in 70's and he believes endless investigations will opened on any Democratic challenger, so that even when elected fatnixon will
oppose them taking office while under investigation rendering election null
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ancianita
(36,133 posts)All the more reason to listen to our Eastern European allies, who see human rights being overtaken by hegemonic financiers of power, that see humans as no more than the animals and environments they dominate.
We will see loyalist tools of harassment, from Gym Jordan in the Judiciary Committee to Barr in the DOJ to voter suppressions across the country. Because "free will" and reality are now seen as malleable.