A new book
gives a clarion look at what the faux leaders of the Party of Hate were
really saying about Trump, and his incitements to overturn a free and
fair election:
[...]
But excerpts from the book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” written by New York Times reporters, provide new insights into how close both Republican leaders were to demanding Trump’s resignation and supporting his impeachment.
During a meeting with House GOP leaders, for example, immediately after the Capitol attack, McCarthy said Trump’s actions that day were “atrocious and totally wrong.” He also acknowledged that Trump had “incit[ed] people” to attack the Capitol in order to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election, which President Joe Biden won.
Trump’s remarks before the attack took place were “not right by any shape or any form,”
McCarthy said during the same phone call, questioning how Congress
should respond to what the former president had done. After considering and then dismissing the use of the 25th Amendment, McCarthy told his colleagues, on a separate call on January 10, that he’d personally recommend that Trump resign before his term was set to end.
What’s more, in addition to contemplating a “forced resignation” of the former guy after January 6th — they were also rooting for his Impeachment. In private of course, expecting the Democrats to do the heavy lifting, to rid America of the wantabee Putin — that they themselves had enabled:
[...]
We now have definitive proof of that fact, thanks to a new excerpt published Thursday from the forthcoming book "This Will Not Pass" by New York Times reporters Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin.
"The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us,"
McConnell told two associates just days after the insurrection,
referring to the effort to impeach Trump in the Democratic-led House,
according to the Times' reporters.
And of Trump's guilt,
McConnell was equally clear-eyed: "If this isn't impeachable, I don't
know what is," he said. There was even talk that McConnell himself might
vote to convict Trump in a Senate impeachment trial.
Of course, the GOP moral outrage at the Trump-instigated Overthrow Attempt,
lasted about as long, as the next Trump mean look and veiled threat.
Profiles in courage, McConnell and McCarthy are not. More like Trump
doormats if you look at them now.
What they have done, to continue to empower The Big Liar, is “not right by any shape or any form ...”
The American Voters should have about “had it with these guys ...” who saw first-hand what Trump-olini is capable of — and yet they still continue to support “the guy — their SOB.”
—
The Democrats are going to take care of these son of a bitches these sellouts, as we always must. Especially since the Republicans — who have no platform, who refuse to debate — have morphed into the Party of Authoritarian Thugs.
No questions asked.
The Republican Impeachment votes tell the world with whom they really stand, “atrocious and impeachable” — or not. Even when they know — it is“totally wrong”
People go through TSA screening as they catch
flights at O'Hare International Airport on March 11, 2022, in Chicago,
Illinois. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty)
The judge who issued the ruling was Trump appointee U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle who, by the way, the American Bar Association deemed unqualified for her role due to her lack of experience. This one person made a broad decision on public health and stated in her decision,
“Wearing a mask means nothing.” However, I bet it means something to
the immunocompromised person trying to do everything in their power not
to get sick, or the child who is under five who can’t get vaccinated
yet.
Somewhere along the way, we decided that looking out for
each other was too much of a burden. During the height of the pandemic,
many people took to their balconies and clapped for hospital workers as
they exited their shifts, honoring their courage in the face of a
devastating virus. Now it appears the nation would rather take the
advice of podcast hosts over doctors, all in the name of individualism.
The
message seems to be, “you’re on your own, now.” There will be no
stimulus or hazard pay to insulate those who will feel the brunt of
another wave – primarily people of color who can’t afford to take off
work to get the care they need.
So, we’ll repeat the same
mistakes in the third year of the pandemic – costing us more money and
disabling many more people that didn’t have to be. To move into a world
where COVID can be manageable, we have to acknowledge that we haven’t
done everything to make this one better for everyone – that’s on a
personal and government institution level.
Having to wear a mask
is not a blight on our American rights, but COVID infection could be.
For now, at least, I guess we’ll see each other’s smiling faces packed
tightly on hourlong flights because, what could possibly go wrong?
"Having to wear a mask
is not a blight on our American rights..."
I still encounter people who imagine that social dysfunction is
mainly a problem involving nonwhite residents of big cities. But that
picture is decades out of date. The social problems that have festered
in 21st-century America — notably large numbers of prime-age males not working and widespread “deaths of despair”
from drugs, suicide and alcohol — have if anything fallen most heavily
on rural and small-town whites, especially in parts of the heartland
that have been left behind as a knowledge-centered economy increasingly
favors high-education metropolitan areas.
But look, none of this is a mystery. Republicans are following an old
playbook, one that would have been completely familiar to, say,
czarist-era instigators of pogroms.
When the people are suffering, you don’t try to solve their problems;
instead, you distract them by giving them someone to hate.
And history tells us that this tactic often works.
What I do know is that the G.O.P. as a whole has turned to
hate-based politics. And if you aren’t afraid, you aren’t paying
attention.
That’s what their leaders are doing.
The fear that they seem to have is “that Democratic Party Social
Policies” will benefit people of colour more than themselves. So, the
inverse, I’ll hurt, but you will hurt more, seems to be the order of the
day.
That sort of twisted logic does not come naturally, it takes decades of programming.
I might have been an expat for 25 years, but what the Republicans
have been selling has not changed, just that it has reached disgusting
new lows. When you have nothing to offer, propagate fear and loathing.
The Republican mantra seems to be:
Anyone that tries to help you is taking your freedom away.
Freedom to suffer miserably [that is the first paragraph I copied].
How similar to Nazi Germany can you get?
Oh I know, throw in a bunch of conspiracies.
Some still say how could the Germans have fallen for this, hundreds
of millions are still falling for this spiel, re Putin’s Russia, France,
America, UK etc etc etc.
Democracy will/could fall in a flood of lies and corruption.
Merrick Garland must do it now, before it's too late
On Friday, Trump endorsed J.D. Vance in the Ohio
Senate Republican primary. This follows his endorsement of Mehmet Oz in
Pennsylvania’s Senate Republican primary and Herschel Walker in the
Georgia Senate race. The press has framed
these endorsements as long-shot bets that “could put [Trump’s] desired
image as a kingmaker at risk.” But this misses the point. What’s really
at stake for Trump is the selling of Trump and his big lie that the 2020
election was stolen from him.
To be endorsed by Trump, candidates apparently must fulfill three
prerequisites: 1) They have to be running in swing states whose
primaries and general elections will attract lots of media attention. 2)
They must be totally committed to Trump and his big lie. And 3) they
must have shown themselves capable of promoting Trump and his lie with
the kind of celebrity pizzaz that sells well on television.
Vance — celebrity author of “Hillbilly Elegy” — was originally
appalled by Trump and his lie, and said so. But now that he’s running
for the Senate, Vance has become one of the most forceful promoters of
Trump and articulate peddlers of his big lie. As Trump noted about Vance, “he gets it now.”
Oz is a celebrity television doctor who has over the years come under fire for bogus on-air medical advice,
which makes him perfect for promoting Trump and his big lie, too. Trump
admires Oz’s television bona fides: “They liked him for a long time,”
Trump said of Oz at a rally in Pennsylvania last week. “That’s like a poll. You know, when you’re in television for 18 years, that’s like a poll. That means people like you.”
Walker fits the criteria, as well. He was both a college and NFL star.
Trump couldn’t care less whether he’s viewed as a “kingmaker” by the
press and politicians inside the Beltway. He cares only about his
narcissistic need to delegitimize the outcome of the 2020 presidential
election. And he has a knack for recognizing ambitious, unprincipled,
television-savvy hucksters who will help him.
Let me pause here to emphasize two things that are too easily forgotten. First, no one to this day has produced even a shred of evidence that fraud affected the results of the 2020 election.
Sixty federal judges, along with Trump’s own departments of justice and
homeland security, have concluded that Biden won fair and square.
Second, the lynchpin of democracy is the peaceful transition of power from those who lose elections to those who win them.
Yet it’s been over a year and half since Trump has refused to concede —
continuously spreading his big lie that the election was stolen,
pushing public officials at all levels of government to overturn the
election, and instigating an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on the day
Congress was to certify the election results. As Federal District Court
Judge David Carter stated
in a recent opinion, “[T]he Court finds it more likely than not that
President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of
Congress on January 6, 2021.”
Trump is already well on the way to rebuilding the Republican Party
around his big lie. He is purging the GOP of his critics and installing
loyalists in key state positions. And he is inspiring GOP-state
legislatures to enact election sabotage laws that will give Trump and
his supporters opportunities to rig congressional election results. The
upcoming 2022 congressional elections will serve as proving grounds for
his attempt to steal the 2024 presidential election.
Trump is a growing menace to our system of self-government. The
longer he goes without being held accountable for what he has done, the
more danger he poses.
The critical question, then, is whether Attorney General Merrick
Garland will bring criminal charges against him — and when. The window
of opportunity is closing fast. The House Select Committee on January 6
will be holding public hearings in a few weeks and report its findings
thereafter. (The committee has already collected nearly 10,000 documents
and conducted more than 860 depositions and interviews, including with
Trump family members and his close associates.) If Republicans take over
the House in the midterm elections, they are sure to close down the
inquiry.
Moreover, immediately after the midterm elections, America will be in
the gravitational pull of the 2024 presidential primaries — in which
Trump will almost certainly play a leading role, unless he is indicted
and convicted. He has already amassed a campaign chest of more than $120
million, more than double that of the Republican National Committee.
During the last six months of 2021, his PAC raised more money online
than the GOP every day but two. And once he is a declared candidate, it
will be impossible for Twitter, Facebook, and other social media
platforms to stop him from engulfing them with his lies.
Some say Garland should not bring criminal charges against Trump
because criminal charges have never before been brought against a former
president. This is a specious argument because no former president has
ever before attempted to overthrow a duly elected President — the first
attempted coup in the 233-year history of the United States government.
Others worry that criminal charges against Trump — along with a trial
and possible imprisonment — would only deepen the fierce partisan
divide that’s already drained trust out of much of American democracy.
This is a legitimate concern. But failure to hold Trump accountable for
what he has done would pose a far greater risk for American democracy —
permanently entrenching distrust in our election system and legitimizing
future battles over every contest, possibly provoking repeated rounds
of violence.
Trump’s indictment and conviction must occur as quickly as possible.
The upcoming midterm elections won’t simply be a battle between
Republicans and Democrats. They will be a battle between Trump acolytes
and fair election supporters over protecting the integrity of our
elections and our democracy. The sooner Trump is held accountable for
his criminality, the safer American democracy will be.
Mismatched
uniforms and gear, some wearing sneakers, but 100% matching in spirit,
these territorial defense troops are protecting their homes in Kharkiv,
Ukraine.
Back on February 18, a week before Russia’s unjustified invasion of
Ukraine, I spent some time sifting through Russian media accounts and concluded:
To hear the Russian media, President Vladimir Putin’s saber-rattling
against Ukraine has been a huge success. After decades of being shunted
aside as an irrelevant corrupt backwater, the world has to pay attention
again. Just like North Korea’s missile tests, Russia’s self-worth is
apparently measured by how much everyone else pays attention to them.
Like a toddler. (A toddler with weapons and nuclear missiles.) [...]
This is about wounded pride. And wounded pride cannot be
negotiated away without complete acquiescence to Russia’s ridiculous
demands. And if Russia actually wants to do something about it, it is in
a race against time.
Diplomacy never stood a chance, because this was never a war about
substantive issues. No one could ever find a diplomatic solution
to Russia’s “humiliation” that wasn’t “give back the Warsaw Pact
countries to Russia.” It was literally what Russia was demanding, as ludicrous as it still seems. And they were serious.
Russia’s sense of grievance is shocking for a major colonial power that has mostly been on the subjugating
side of the sword. It feels humiliated at having lost the Cold War and
its empire, humiliated at the United States brushing aside Russia to
look eastward to China, humiliated that NATO set up shop on its borders,
and humiliated that those nation’s invited NATO in. And the
ultimate humiliation was watching Ukraine—their Slavic children!—make
kissy-face with the European Union and the West, rather than bend the
knee to Russia.
Thus Vladimir Putin, seething with those grievances and more, looked
at the state of Ukraine’s armed forces and became concerned. Turkish TB2
Bayraktar drones were streaming in the country. The United States,
Canada, and other NATO nations were training and modernizing Ukraine’s
armed forces. Ukraine’s experience as an arms manufacturer for the
Soviet Union was yielding some quality home-grown weapons systems, like
Neptune anti-ship missiles and precision-guided artillery munitions.
Every year that Russia waited, Ukraine would be that much harder to
defeat. Russia spectacularly lost the flagship of its Black Sea Fleet,
the Moskva. Imagine if Ukraine had another year to stockpile
dozens or hundreds more Neptunes. Putin must be kicking himself for not
invading during the Trump administration!
Having finally decided to invade, Putin made his second major delay error.
Mud saved Russia twice, against Napoleon and the Nazis. Its existence
and relevance to military movement wasn’t lost on Russian planners.
There is even a Russian word, rasputitsa, for the periods in
both spring and fall when rain and melting snow makes travel on unpaved
roads difficult. They knew they had to launch Putin’s “special military
operation” before April rains arrived, the very rains that haven’t just
fixed the battlefield in place this week, but also masked the successful
attack on the Moskva. However, this year there was one thing that slowed Russia down even before the mud arrived; the Olympics.
The Olympic Truce requires ceasefires starting one week before the
games begin, and ending after the closing of the Paralympic games. The
truce has been violated three times, all three by Russia: In 2008,
during the Russian invasion of Georgia, in 2014, during the Russian
annexation of Crimea, and of course this year.
Here is Kyiv’s historical daytime temperatures:
You’ve seen Ukraine’s flat, wide open spaces. With frozen ground,
tanks would have have all the freedom to maneuver as needed.
Historically, January and February were ideal, before warmer weather in
March began thawing Ukrainian fields. However, this year’s Olympic truce
began January 30, and while Russia maybe cared about host nation and ally China’s feelings, it really wasn’t about to give up its own pursuit of Olympic gold. No reason to waste all that cheating.
Russia didn’t bother observing the full truce period—they’re too
barbaric to care about the Paralympic games—but they did wait for the
main games to end on February 20. Starting the operations this late in
the calendar, Russia needed a quick victory to avoid disaster. It also
needed global climate change to not exist.
Russia started this war February 24. On February 20, the high in Kyiv
was a balmy 46 degrees. On February 22, it was a ludicrous 50 degrees. In fact, in all of February the daily highs were below freezing only a single day.
Ukraine never got its historical hard-freeze. But what could Russia do?
Wait until summer, when the forests around Kyiv would be lush, giving
defenders fantastic defensive cover. Wait until fall, and we’re talking
mud again. Wait until winter 2023, and Ukraine has that many more
Neptunes, Stingers, TB2 drones, NLAWS and Javelins, and who knows, maybe
Ukraine might’ve convinced Israel to allow it to purchase and deploy
the Iron Dome air defense system, or at least American Patriots.
Somehow, Russia managed to invade too late, in 2022, and too late, in
late February. With the litany of Russian failures—to win quickly, to
capture Kyiv, to achieve air superiority, to keep its navy on top of
water, to keep its own cities safe—Russian media is sounding a wee bit
different.
Gone is the triumphalist, imperialistic, smug hubris. Now it’s just
anger and fury as they realize that this supposed backwater province of
Russia isn’t just refusing to surrender, it’s actually—gasp!—winning! So
they blame NATO and the United States. “It’s easily called WWIII,” says
the host of the show. “We’re fighting against NATO infrastructure!”
They can’t fathom being in a fight for their lives against just Ukraine.
It is Russia’s shitty army losing to Ukraine’s spirited, fierce and
not-shitty-at-all defenders.
So is Russia going to mobilize? For unfathomable reasons, Vladimir
Putin has refused to tread there. He’s supposedly at 80% approval
ratings, yet he refuses to ask his nation to sacrifice for his “special
military operation.”
So once again, he’s late. Too late in 2022, too late in late
February, and too late in reinforcing the outmatched and outclassed
troops dying in Ukraine.
The
Republican National Committee has been in Trump's pocket after every
act of corruption, even backing him after he attempted to overthrow U.S.
democracy rather than accept an election shellacking.
As previously signaled,
the Republican National Committee is now vowing it won't be letting its
candidates participate in the presidential debates traditionally
organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates. This was announced
in a suitably blustery tweet by sedition supporter Ronna McDaniel, a
tweet in which McDaniel says the party will "find newer, better debate
platforms" so that their candidates will not have their fee-fees hurt by
the "biased" commission:
HA HA HA HA—sorry, sorry. Ahem.
Well, we can take "newer, better debate platforms" to mean they're
going to find the griftiest grift out there, demanding that all the
candidates "debate" on Trump's rickety new "social network," or from
within a fort made entirely of MyPillows, or on whatever "platform"
happens to be most favored by white supremacist groups when debate
season next rolls around.
Mostly, however, this is a telegraphed move meant to protect Donald
Trump, because four years of Trumpian purges have turned the Republican
National Committee into a group that protects the interests of Donald
Trump and only Donald Trump, and Donald Trump has no intention
of debating anyone. The RNC has been telegraphing such a move for a
long, long time, and they've done so while parroting Trump's own paranoia-laced language about the debate commission being "biased" and "unfair" to him.
He didn't like the questions he was asked the last time around, he
didn't like moderators challenging him, and he got into a particular
spat when he showed up with a likely active case of COVID-19 for a
debate with Joe Biden and refused to be tested. Trump was hospitalized
shortly afterward with a raging COVID case, but pulled through, going on
to kill hundreds of thousands more Americans before eventually ending
his term with an attempted coup. There, you're caught up.
So this move is being made exclusively because Donald Trump again
intends to run for the presidency. Donald Trump has already signaled
that he won't be debating this time around, so the RNC needs to invent
some justification for why he'll be doing so that's a bit more creative
than "because he's a tremendous damn coward." That doesn't solve the other
problem, however, which is making sure none of the other presidential
contenders upstage Donald by attending debates themselves.
So the RNC is taking care of that one, too. Also as previously
expected, the RNC has also voted to require Republican presidential
candidates to sign a pledge to only appear at party-approved debates.
Those who break their vow by debating in a non-approved venue will be
sanctioned by being removed from any future party-sanctioned debates,
presuming the party ever bothers to sanction any.
To translate, the Republican National Committee, which has been
purged of anyone who does not hew mercilessly to Donald Trump's personal
whims and announced fantasies, is saying that they will be boycotting
the traditional presidential debates and that all the
non-Donald Trump candidates are hereby barred from debating each other
in any venue that Trump's party allies haven't personally given their
permission for.
Wow, that sounds like a rather amazing boon for ... Donald Trump. And
it effectively gives Trump veto power over every debate format and
venue, because anything he personally refuses to participate in will be
marked down as "unapproved" by RNC heads so as to protect him from
looking bad. Or, at least, to protect him from looking even worse.
All of that said, this announcement isn't worth much. It can be
undone at the drop of a hat, and if something happens that prevents
Treasonboy from seeking office again, the new rules will become whatever
the new frontrunner wants them to be. For the moment, however, this is a
big, big thumb on the scales for Trump and against Mike Pence (who will
never, ever be the party nominee no matter how much he imagines it) and
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (who has been quickly morphing into Donald
Trump by copying both his gestures and his paranoias, and would likely
become the frontrunner if Donald Trump fell down a Florida sinkhole
while golfing and couldn't be fished out.)
This is what you get with a cult of personality: a party with no
platform, no ideology other than whatever Dear Leader last tweeted, and
new rules adjusted however they need to be in order to make Dear Leader a
slightly less embarrassing figure when possible. Donald can't stand
confrontation and especially doesn't want anyone talking about the long,
long list of things he screwed up or corrupted during his first term,
so the party is going to make everybody else sign a pledge promising
they'll only attend "debates" with moderators hand-picked to ensure
those things don't come up.
He didn't like the questions he was asked the last time around, he
didn't like moderators challenging him, and he got into a particular
spat when he showed up with a likely active case of COVID-19 for a
debate with Joe Biden and refused to be tested.
How is it possible that Donald Trump has harshly criticized everyone from Twilight actress Kristen Stewart to a Gold Star mother, but he still hasn’t—as far as anyone can determine—even mildly rebuked murderous despot Vladimir Putin?
Fox News host Sean Hannity is such a shameless sycophant he has
to check into a Motel 6 whenever Trump gets a colonoscopy, but even he
couldn’t get the big ocher disgrace to trash Russia’s bumbling Hitler.
Instead, as you’d fully expect from someone who adores authoritarians
and despises democracy, Trump reserved all his criticism for NATO. And
it’s not like Hannity didn’t give him an opening. This wasn’t even a
slow-pitch softball—they were playing T-ball, and Hannity was basically
swinging the bat for him.
The Trump-Putin axis
is real, folks, and if Trump tries to run for president again, we need
to brand Putin as his running mate. That’s if Trump doesn’t pick him on
his own, of course.
I honestly wouldn’t put it past him at this point.
You can listen to the rant in the second tweet below. Please
note that, stunningly, Trump’s rambling phone audio is
initially accompanied by graphic imagery of dead Ukranians—ostensibly in
misplaced anticipation that Trump would speak to Hannity’s “evil”
prompt, rather than … do what he did instead.
Transcript!
HANNITY: “I asked you the
last time you were on whether you think this is evil in our time. Do you
think this is evil in our time?”
TRUMP: “I think in 100 years people are going to
look back and they’re going to say, ‘How did we stand back and NATO
stand back?’ which in many ways I’ve called a paper tiger. Don’t forget,
I rebuilt NATO because when I became president, the first thing I
noticed when I went there to the first meeting was that most of the
countries were not paying or were paying far less than they were
supposed to.
“There were only eight out of 28 countries that were paid in full.
The United States was not only one of them, we were making up the
deficits to protect Europe. We were paying possibly 80% of NATO to
protect them, and then they take advantage of us yet on trade. Because
on trade, they’re every bit as bad as China. They treated us very badly
on trade. We changed a lot of that around but they were very tough on
trade. I asked Angela Merkel, ‘How many Chevrolets are you selling this
month in Munich or Berlin?’ and she looked at me, ‘Well, probably
none.’ I said, ‘You’re exactly right, none.’ And yet we had the Mercedes
Benz, and the Volkswagens, and all of them. We had all of the German
companies. And the same thing with farmers, our farmers sell virtually
nothing to Europe, you take a look at what we sell and yet we take their
product. They treated us very badly on trade, and we defended them, and
we really, if you look at the real numbers, I bet it’s close to 80% and
I said, ‘You have to pay. And if you don’t pay, we’re not going to
defend you.’”
Hmm, how about answering the question, Skippy? FFS, every time Trump opens his mouth, you get a rapid-fire series of $100,000 Pyramid clues for “Things a Russian Agent Would Say.”
Of course, Trump’s blather about “rebuilding” NATO is pretty
rich considering he undermined it at every possible opportunity. Trying
to hector other countries into spending more of their GDP on their
militaries (and contrary to what Trump seems to think, NATO countries
have no actual dues) didn’t “save” a 73-year-old alliance that was already ramping up defense expenditures before Trump ever took office.
Oh, and not for nothing, Trump planned to withdraw the U.S. from NATO
had he won reelection—which, to be perfectly clear, he didn’t. If Trump
had succeeded in vaporizing NATO, it would have been the biggest gift
Putin ever received, and it would have come from the same guy who is now
mysteriously mute when it comes to the Russian tyrant’s war crimes.
Now, if you’re wondering why all this seems familiar, it’s because Hannity tried to get Trump to condemn Putin a month ago—and Trump refused then, too.
"I think I know you a little bit better than most people in the
media," said Hannity. "And I think you also recognize [Putin is] evil,
do you not?"
Trump did not respond directly to the question as to whether or not
Putin is evil and launched into a rambling defense of his
administration.
"Well, I was referring to the fact that he said this is an
independent nation, talking about Ukraine, and I said that this was
before there was any attack," Trump said, referring to Putin's
recognition of breakaway regions of Ukraine that have declared
independence.
The only conclusion a reasonable person can draw from these two interviews is that Trump doesn’t
think Putin is evil. So if you’d like the stout, brave, righteously
defiant Ukraine to be turned overnight into a kleptocratic Chuck E.
Cheese, by all means vote for The Former Guy in 2024.
In Wednesday’s interview, Trump also boasted to Hannity about how
well he knew Putin, even as the network showed even more shocking images
of Putin’s war crimes.
“I knew Putin very well. Almost as well as I know you, Sean,” Trump told his close confidante,Fox NewshostSean Hannity, as the network aired graphic images of dead bodies and the damage left by Russian troops in Ukraine.
“I will tell you, we talked about it, we talked about it a lot, he
did want Ukraine, but I said, ‘You’re not going into Ukraine,’” Trump
continued. “He would never, ever have gone into Ukraine.”
He wouldn’t have gone into Ukraine under Trump, even though he badly wanted to take it? Then why did Putin move heaven and Earth to get Trump reelected—four years after famously fucking with our election in order to install this buffoon in the first place?
But Trump wasn’t done. In Wednesday’s Hannity interview, Trump also revealed that he’d asked former Attorney General Bill Barr to stick his neck waaaay out in order to buttress Trump’s horrifying campaign to end American democracy.
Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News
host Sean Hannity that Barr did not want to investigate his baseless
voter fraud claims because he was worried about being impeached even
though Barr has repeatedly said the Justice Department did not pursue
the claims because there wasno evidence of any widespread fraudthat could have affected the election outcome.
"Look, we also had a chance, but Bill Barr,
the attorney general, didn't want to be impeached," Trump said. "How do
you not get impeached? You sit back and relax and wait out for your term
to end. That's what he did. And it was a sad thing and a sad day for
our country."
Trump also lashed out at Barr for writing what he called a "crummy book" that was "so false." Barr in hisbookrejected
Trump's debunked fraud claims and blamed him for the deadly Jan. 6
Capitol riot, arguing that Trump was not fit for office.
So there you are. In summation, Donald Trump ♥s
Vladimir Putin, he claims he saved NATO even though he openly planned to
destroy it, and he wanted his own attorney general to ruin his career
over a barmy lie.
So just another typical day in the fever swamps of our worst president’s moldering brain.
Sheesh, why wouldn’t Americans want him back in the White House?
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