Behind the scenes, President Trump is fuming over the Senate impeachment trial that he boasts about looking forward to.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1268137
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1268137
Graham told the Times that in a Wednesday night phone call he warned Trump against seeking payback after the impeachment process ends.
yea sure dump will take his advise on that:rofl:
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āI just told him we know how impeachment ends, then after that your fateās in your own hands,ā Graham said. āGet back to being President and have a good story to tell.ā
Isnāt this some enabling of the mentally challenged? Graham is actively out their advising the President to go to his safe space=Lala land.
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personal humiliation
One more time it is all about him.
What about how humiliated we ALL are that Fat Donny is the so called āLeader of the Free Worldā?
Why do you think even Boris was laughing at you at NATO?
He may survive the Senate, but I just wish Trump had the capacity to realize how fucked up he is and what is doing to US.
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Advisers told the Times that deep down inside Trump does not wish to be impeached because he sees it as a personal humiliation.
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People who are this mentally illā¦ah screw it. Heās got enablers, hanger-ons, and coattails grabbers, and they all need Trump to be their useful idiot.
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No shit
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Donāt forget, heās also Putinās useful idiot.
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In other words, Trump threatened to order the military to raid the Hill and arrest the Democrats who had dared to defy him.
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Of course he should be fuming. He has completely fucked up his reputation and when it comes to Presidents that reputation will impact his ābrandā for generations. In addition to being personally clueless (he is a profound narcissist after all) he has been poorly served by a variety of advisers who have convinced him that he is above the law, being president is sort of like being king and he doesnāt need to reach out to or work with Democrats at any reasonable level. The utter tribalism of our politics has been particularly difficult for him to deal with. Mostly he has been compromised by the Russians and they have had their way with him. Because he is a creature of the media and has never run a serious organization before (the Trump Organization is really a small family enterprise) he doesnāt know how play nice with equals or lead a large group. Because he is a real asshole, nobody has ever taken him under their wing to show him how.
The humiliation of impeachment is to be expectd.
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advisers told the Times that deep down inside Trump does not wish to be impeached because he sees it as a personal humiliation.
To see something as a āpersonal humiliation,ā heād need at least a rudimentary sense of shame.
Perhaps these āadvisersā know him better than I do ā but I doubt it.
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Good!
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We do not know what the major players on our side know or will get access to.
Trump is in serious trouble.
Our institutions have to approach the removal of Trump slowly, methodically and legallyā¦which drags out the process. Because most of Trumpās legal battles have been long, drawn-out affairs with a muddled ending, he is actually in a better mood than he should be.
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His feelings are hurt because he is being impeached. This is the same guy who -just yesterday-had the time to cyber bully a 16 yr. old girl. What a fragile snowflake he is.
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Just another humiliation in a lifetime of humiliations that have led to this pathetic excuse for a human being impeached.
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Donald J. Trump: The child at every baptism, the bride at every wedding, the President at every impeachment, the corpse at every funeral.
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His capacity being humiliated time and time again is vast. And he goes right back at it and sets himself up again. Something about never learning from your mistakesā¦
Let it burn over and over again.
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Weāve got on the one hand, McConnell claiming his impeachment strategy and Trumpās are identical, and on the other, Trump wanting a spectacle and McConnell wanting to make it to disappear a.s.a.p.
Iām not holding out much hope for conviction in the Senate, but hereās hoping the conflicting self-interest blows up in both their faces and the entire GOP emerges looking like incompetent, corrupt buffooons.
[EDIT: not that they donāt already look like corrupt incompetent buffoons. Hoping for even more so.]
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Watching the House Judiciary markup session, it was clear that the Republican stance was to consistently repeat that there were no impeachable acts committed by Trump. This odd approach flies in the face of strong legal consensus, so you have to ask what is going on. I think it shows a coordinated strategy between the House Republicans and Mitch McConnell, who will go for dismissal of the charges. There will be no trial and it will all be over in a matter of minutes. Big picture, the GOP is still jonesing for implementation of the Unitary Executive theory. Like in Russia, there will be one major party in lock-step with the president. An American version of the United Russia party.
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