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Misadventures of a minority-elect President 229

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

We begin today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president* with the damage being done to his businesses as his corruption scandals continue tanking his already failing presidency, the many reasons why Trump is going down and will not recover from the endless cesspool of corruption that is his illegitimate presidency, echoing Nixon by abusing the power of his office to take down personal enemies is going to prove disastrous for our dimwitted dip shit, record-setting $178 billion stock buyback boom offers yet more evidence that Trump’s tax reform plan was nothing but a fraudulent scam, how our big Orange turd ball’s ignorant tweets are going to come back and bite him in the ass, using a conspiracy theory of someone spying on his campaign as a distraction won’t bode well for our demented delusionist, our national embarrassment’s lifetime of profound corruption coupled with the fact that his profoundly ignorant ass is in the White House is this country’s biggest scandal and a lot more.

Donald Trump’s Business Empire Is No Longer Growing article from Mother Jones. –
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/donald-trumps-business-empire-is-no-longer-growing/

The damage being done to our impotent imbecile’s businesses is becoming noticeable as his profound corruption continues imploding his already failed presidency.

How Trump Assaults the Very Language of American Democracy with Every Word He Utters article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/how-trump-assaults-very-language-american-democracy-every-word-he-utters

Having an illegitimate, Hitler-aspiring wannabe dictator in the White House who is highly illiterate is sad but extremely entertaining.

Trump’s latest ‘Watergate’ appears to be as misguided as his others article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-latest-watergate-appears-be-misguided-his-others

America’s worst-ever president* is starting to lose what little is left of his demented mind as the pressure from his corruption scandals continue so he’s desperately creating distractions – and failing miserably.

The mind-boggling corruption of Trump Inc. article from The Week. –
http://theweek.com/articles/773708/mindboggling-corruption-trump

America’s most corrupt-ever president* is drowning in his own self-inflicted cesspool of corruption that just keeps growing exponentially:

“Another week in the Donald Trump presidency, another handful of days so stuffed full of sordid and highly complicated stories that even journalists have trouble keeping track of what’s going on.

But the thread tying all the latest news together — from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s sundry exploits, to Trump’s ongoing presidential profiteering, to the Russia investigation — is corruption. The Trump administration will surely go down as one of the most — if not the most — rotten in American history.

Let’s roll this most recent bit of tape. Ronan Farrow, who has become one of the signature investigative reporters of the Trump presidency, revealed at The New Yorker why somebody leaked the notorious financial reports of Michael Cohen showing that he had been given fantastically large sums of money from AT&T, Novartis, and a Russian oligarch-connected LLC. This information came from a “suspicious activity report” (SAR), which is something a bank files with the Treasury Department when they suspect something fishy is going on with a customer.

It turns out the source is a law enforcement official, and he released the SAR after he discovered that two more SARs detailing $3 million of additional similar transactions had somehow vanished from the Treasury Department’s database. The source told Farrow that he feared that someone within Treasury was withholding the documents for political reasons, and thus released the one he had…”

Trump is ‘going down’ – and here are all the reasons why article from The Raw Story. –
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/trump-going-reasons/

Because his entire illegitimate, fake presidency is nothing but felonies, fraud and lies that are profoundly compounded by stupidity and endless corruption.

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

We begin today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president* with his phony trade war and why it will inevitably come back to bite his big orange ignorant ass, the lies just keep coming from America’s most corrupt-ever president* as his multitude of scandals continue sinking his failed presidency, the new adventures of dumb and dumber to defend Trump continue – and will become more entertaining with each passing day, the endless corruption of the Trump cabal, our pussy grabbing president* suddenly believes abstinence is a good thing despite previously bragging about his alleged sexual prowess, many of those that voted for our Lord of the Lies are realizing they made a serious mistake and a lot more.

Trump’s Phony Trade War article from CounterPunch. –
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/03/trumps-phony-trade-war/

As with everything else, our dysfunctional dumb ass doesn’t know what he’s doing in starting a ‘trade war’ and it will end up coming back to bite his ignorant big Orange ass.

It’s been another tough week for Trump and the truth article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/another-tough-week-trump-truth-201516841.html

The more his scandals continue engulfing his failed presidency, the more lies our dimwitted dip shit tells and it has been a really rough week for him.

Crooked Trump? article from The New York Review of books.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/05/24/crooked-trump-legal-swamp/

What to do when handling a president as corrupt as Trump and how the legal battles could play out.

The Feds Tapped Michael Cohen’s Phone and Intercepted at Least One White House Call article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/feds-tapped-michael-cohens-phone-and-intercepted-least-one-white-house-call

The hits just keep coming for our demented delinquent as there may be more evidence for Mueller to use against him:

“Federal officials have been wiretapping Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen for weeks, according to a new report from NBC News.

Citing two sources, NBC News reports that the wiretap “was in place in the weeks leading up to the raids on Cohen’s offices, hotel room, and home in early April.”

Additionally, NBC News’ sources say that at least one call made between Cohen and the White House was intercepted, although it’s not clear that Cohen spoke directly with President Donald Trump in the intercepted call.

Although investigators have revealed in the past that they have conducted secret searches of Cohen’s email archives, this is the first time that it’s been revealed that officials had been tapping Cohen’s phones as well…”

Wake Up to Trump, Distraction and War with Iran article from Common Dreams. –
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/03/wake-trump-distraction-and-war-iran

Illegally attacking Syria didn’t work so now Trump and his cabal are planning on illegally attacking Iran for Israel.

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president* begin with his repulsive revival of the George W. Bush presidency with his moronic ‘Mission Accomplished’ claim after illegally bombing Syria – and a myriad of other ways, why Comey’s solution to ending Trump’s despotic delusions of grandeur are not the proper solution to that problem, having a moronic media person that spews his lies on Fox faux news working in tandem with out dimwitted dip shit helps explain a lot of things – none of which are good for Trump, a look at the many scandals that could – and should – remove America’s worst-ever president* from office, why impeaching our lackluster lame duck president* and defanging the criminal cohort he calls his vice president* is a good idea and much more.

Trump’s gritty reboot of the Bush presidency article from The Week. –
http://theweek.com/articles/767734/trumps-gritty-reboot-bush-presidency

The many ways Trump has rebooted the George W. Bush – the only other war criminal that he can actually make look good – presidency, from his fraudulent tax scams to ‘mission accomplished,’ among other things

What James Comey Gets Wrong About Donald Trump article from The Nation. –
https://www.thenation.com/article/what-james-comey-gets-wrong-about-donald-trump/

Comey says Trump is morally unfit and the people should vote him out of office, but Congress and the other checks and balances designed to prevent the type of treachery perpetrated by our Hitler-aspiring wannabe dictator are too corrupt to do so.

White House Scrambles To Clean Up New Trump Dumpster Fire Over Direct Talks With North Korea article from PoliticusUSA. –
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/17/white-house-scrambles-after-trump-babbles-about-direct-talks-with-n-korea.html

Once again Trump can’t keep his mouth shut and blurts out something he wasn’t supposed to and the White House is killing itself trying to convince us that he didn’t (see below):

Trump Just Launched Another Illegal Attack Against Syria article from The Nation. –
https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-just-launched-another-illegal-attack-against-syria/

Launching another illegal attack on Syria based on unsubstantiated accusations – which it is turning out are complete lies that are unraveling – and no evidence whatsoever are putting U.S. national-security in grave jeopardy:

“For the second time in just over a year, President Donald J. Trump has launched an illegal and unnecessary airstrike against the government of Syria for a crime it may very well not have committed.

The joint US-French-British strike on three alleged chemical weapons facilities in the vicinity of Damascus and Homs were carried out, according to US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, in order to defend “vital American interests.”

The air strikes, carried out in the absence of congressional authorization or a UN Security Council mandate, come almost a week after a chemical-weapons attack in the city of Douma, which killed 70. Some estimate that up to 500 people—mainly women and children—were hospitalized by the gas attack, which is said to have been carried out by the government of Bashar al-Assad.

To no one’s surprise, Trump’s decision to risk World War III was met with approval by US media and political elites who have been calling for blood ever since the reports of the chemical attack emerged last week…”

Sean Hannity Is Essentially Serving as Trump’s ‘Shadow’ Chief of Staff: Report article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/sean-hannity-essentially-serving-trumps-shadow-chief-staff-report

Having a moronic miscreant that perpetuates fake news on Fox working in tandem with our dimwitted dip shit helps explain a lot of things, none of which are good for Trump.

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president* begin with our pussy grabbing predator’s guide to sexual assault awareness month, a look at the damage being done to this country by our Hitler-aspiring wannabe dictator as Democracy spirals downward towards despotism, our Twitter tyrant’s latest distractions aren’t working, stupid is going to hurt as our dimwitted dip shit keeps taking advice from his Ministry of Propaganda, the number of crimes committed by our numb nutted nimrod since taking office continue climbing, Holocaust survivor compares Trump to Nazi Germany, Trump’s fraudulent tax reform will implode the U.S. economy, America’s most corrupt-ever president* explodes after his lawyer is busted – for obvious reasons and a lot more.

Donald Trump’s Guide To Sexual Assault Awareness Month. article from Extra Newsfeed. –
https://extranewsfeed.com/donald-trumps-guide-to-sexual-assault-awareness-month-45100556896f

The never-ending irony of our pussy grabbing president’s proclamation of sexual assault awareness month.

Dissatisfied with Americans’ attitudes, Trump picks his own approval rating article from Rachel Maddown on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/dissatisfied-americans-attitudes-trump-picks-his-own-approval-rating

Our fake president* was so tired of being the least popular leader in U.S. history that he decided to create his own delusional approval rating.

America’s Descent Into Despotism article from CounterPunch. –
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/06/americas-descent-into-despotism/

On the damage being done to this country by our Hitler-aspiring wannabe dictator and the moronic minority of minions that support his profoundly corrupt and ignorant ass.

Exposing Trump’s Border Lies: A Checklist article from The Daily Beast. –
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposing-trumps-border-lies-a-checklist

The delusions behind all of Trump’s Border Wall fantasies are endless, and his claims about why he wants to build it and send the military there are all lies:

“CALI, Colombia—President Donald Trump issued a flurry of bewildering statements over the last week concerning immigration and an alleged “point of crisis” along the U.S. border with Mexico. The upshot of all this is that POTUS wants soldiers to defend the southern frontier, at least until his ever-loving wall—which he also claimed is under construction—can be completed.

“We’re going to be doing things militarily,” Trump said on Tuesday. “Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.”

Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of troops to the border, which is already heavily patrolled by state and Federal agents, drew a swift rebuke from the Mexican senate. In a unanimous vote, lawmakers urged an end to all bilateral security cooperation. There hasn’t been a cooperation breakdown like that between the U.S. and Mexico since the days of Pancho Villa, and such a move would be an unprecedented disaster for anti-cartel and drug interdiction efforts.

But what of the reasons cited for this mass mobilization across four southwestern states? Given the costs to taxpayers, the danger of angering one of our most important trading and security partners, and the sacrifices that will have to be made by both the troops and their families, one would expect a sitting U.S. president might only move to militarize our border due to some “clear and present danger” that required it…”

Over one year into his presidency Trump blames Obama for latest Syria gas attack in Twitter blitz article from The Raw Story. –
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/one-year-presidency-trump-blames-obama-latest-syria-gas-attack-twitter-blitz/

Our Twitter tyrant is busily distracting from his endless cesspools of corruption with his delusional Twitter rants – which, contrary to his ignorant beliefs, don’t work.

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Trump like a diaper from Interest

We begin today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president* with his delusional definition of winning compared to that of most of the country that still can’t stand him, Trump’s Russia and corruption scandal investigations are going to prove extremely entertaining before the 2018 midterm’s and there will be hell to pay, how a flawed nondisclosure agreement coupled with hush money could be the end of our pussy grabbing president*, instead of impeaching our demented delusionist, Congress and the public should focus on indicting him for his high crimes and misdemeanors, more of the lies about Trump’s fraudulent tax reform scam are making themselves known, when you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance you baffle them with your bullshit, bully people, make false accusations, lie continuously and hope your idiotic supporters don’t know any better, our Hitler-aspiring wannabe dictator show his true Sociopathic colors and a lot more.

Tired of winning yet? You’re not alone. article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tired-winning-yet-youre-not-alone-090032927.html

Our national embarrassment’s definition of winning is extremely different than that of most people who still can’t stand him.

Former WH lawyer: ‘people are starting to realize this administration has been corrupt from day one’ article from The Daily Kos. –
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/3/1754088/-Former-WH-lawyer-people-are-starting-to-realize-this-administration-has-been-corrupt-from-day-one

Anyone familiar with our dimwitted dip shit’s past business dealings and crimes has been well aware that his illegitimate presidency has been corrupt from day one.

Trump Is Sweating Bullets As Mueller Probes Russians Funneling Money To His Campaign article from PoliticusUSA. –
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/04/trump-is-sweating-bullets-as-mueller-probes-russians-funneling-money-to-his-campaign.html

Follow the money in our fraudulent Orange con man’s businesses and presidential campaign and you’ll see a lot of interesting things…

Why Mueller’s Move on Trump Is the Beginning of the Endgame article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/muellers-move-trump-beginning-endgame

Trump’s Russia scandal is going to play a big role in the 2018 midterms as more revelations of his profound corruption come to light:

“With the Washington Post’s revelation that President Trump is not the “subject” of criminal investigation, special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s strategy for completing his probe is coming into view.

Mueller has pinned down Trump with two grand juries, issuing a wide net of indictments on diverse charges that have kept the president off-balance. The sentencing of Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer working for indicted Trump aide Rick Gates, underscored a message for the president: those who lie to investigators face swift consequences.

What has seemed like an interminable inquiry now looks like it will terminate in a one-two punch: an interview with Trump followed by a report on the question of obstruction of justice.

All of this may well happen before the 2018 midterm elections…”

Trump claims his favorite conspiracy theory is ‘not a conspiracy theory’ article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-claims-millions-and-millions-of-people-vote-illegally-california-632b6c4e2c12/

Actually it is a conspiracy theory… it’s just that Trump can’t handle the fact the he is indeed an illegitimate president* who lost the popular vote bigly…

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Pondering whether or not his voters and supporters even care that he’s a criminal begins today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president*, our national embarrassment’s despotic delusions of grandeur in demanding loyalty to himself above everything else is dangerous and will cost him dearly, lying outright about his border wall that he can’t seem to find funds for, Sinclair Broadcasting reveals itself as another arm of Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda to deceive the public about his profoundly corrupt incompetence – which is his greatest political liability, Trump’s tariff war is beginning to show signs of backfiring spectacularly, our Liar-in-Chief’s plot to privatize the VA is becoming blatantly obvious and much more.

Do Trump’s voters Even Care If the President Is a Criminal? article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/do-trumps-voters-even-care-if-president-criminal

Examining the psychology of the minority that are still faithful to the criminal they voted for and support regardless of facts and the truth.

Rachel Maddow Just Sent Waves Of Terror Through The White House On Russia article from PoliticusUSA. –
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/29/rachel-maddow-just-sent-waves-of-terror-through-the-white-house-on-russia.html

Our national embarrassment is going to be freaking out as his Russia scandal continues taking his failed presidency down the drain.

King Donald rewards loyal courtiers – and other are beheaded by tweet article from Salon. –
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/30/king-donald-rewards-loyal-courtiers-the-others-are-beheaded-by-tweet/

How Trump’s despotic delusions of grandeur are dangerous to this country since he demands loyalty to himself above everything else.

TRUMP’S LAST LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST MUELLER IS AN OBSCURE MEDIEVAL HISTORIAN article from Vanity Fair. –
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/andrew-ekonomou-donald-trump-legal-team

If this is an example of hiring only the best with his delusional little genius brain, Trump has some serious problems:

“Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case,” Donald Trump bragged on Twitter over the weekend. “Don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on.” Yet as with the vast majority of presidential tweets, this one coincided with a news cycle demonstrating just the opposite: hours later, the White House announced that attorneys Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing would no longer be joining the president’s legal defense. Trump has struggled to fill his rapidly shrinking bench since the departure of his lead personal attorney, John Dowd, last week—at least two lawyers, Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb, have turned down the job—necessitating the sudden promotion of a character as eccentric as he seems unqualified: former prosecutor and medieval historian Andrew Ekonomou.

Left running what has largely become a one-man show, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow announced this week that Ekonomou, who has worked on the Trump-Russia probe since June, will take on a more prominent role. Like much of the rest of the president’s legal team, however, Ekonomou lacks any experience relevant to the case. According to Reuters, he works under contract as an assistant district attorney in Brunswick, Georgia. He entered Trumpworld through his relationship with Sekulow, whom he worked with through Sekulow’s role as general counsel for conservative nonprofit the American Center for Law and Justice. (Sekulow has characterized Ekonomou as a “brilliant strategist.”) In his role, Ekonomou was apparently tasked with, among other things, dispatching a vaguely menacing letter to the son of a widow who became upset when Sekulow addressed an aggressive fund-raising request to her dead husband. (At the time, Sekulow said he was sorry and that the incident had been a “misunderstanding.”)

After studying law, Ekonomou suffered what he characterized as a “mid-life crisis” and returned to school to earn his doctorate in medieval history, with a minor in “Church History from Late Antiquity through the High Middle Ages”; he has since authored a book on Byzantine Rome and the Greek popes. Per Talking Points Memo, his law firm, Ekonomou Atkinson & Lambros, specializes in “bringing civil and criminal forfeiture proceedings against convenience store owners accused of running video poker machines.” Ekonomou and one of his partners ended up getting so rich off this line of work that they drew the attention of state authorities, who found they were working on contingency, earning a percentage of the assets from each store they busted. (Georgia passed a law in 2012 preventing such arrangements.)

Arguably little in Trump’s legal team’s background prepares it for the task ahead—a fact that Bob Bauer, who served as White House counsel under Barack Obama, told me should be deeply concerning to the president. “You wouldn’t go to an ear and nose and throat specialist to perform heart surgery,” he said. “It is an odd notion that you just reach out and recruit lawyers that you are personally comfortable with . . . rather than select the people that have the experience and the training to address the very specific problem that you face.” Ekonomou told Reuters that he “prosecutes a lot of murders for the D.A.” and “That’s basically it. Nothing earthshaking.” But when pressed, he dismissed the idea that he is out of his depth. “I’ve been tested plenty of times,” he said. “Just because you’re not a Beltway lawyer doesn’t mean you don’t know what you’re doing.”…”

Roseanne tweets ‘NAZI SALUTE’ to Parkland survivor, gets a call from a ratings-obsessed Trump article from The Daily Kos. –
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/03/29/1752972/-Roseanne-steps-in-a-conspiracy-about-a-Parkland-survivor-and-gets-a-call-from-a-ratings-obsessed-fan

ABC may have made a yuge mistake by putting a moronic Trump supporter back in prime time…

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Today’s misadventures of our minority-elect president begin with an overwhelming majority blasting his tardy, irresponsible response to Puerto Rico’s hurricane crisis – despite his self-absorbed lies that he and his administration get an A+ over how they handled it, Trump’s Russia scandal is growing more interesting with each passing day, insight into the multiple deferments used by Trump to avoid having to serve and his cowardice of bullying those that do, a look at the incredible corruption of an illegitimate, minority-elect president and the deviants that work for him, how our fake president’s war on fake news is actually a war on reality – which is starkly different from his delusional version of reality in his alternate universe, once again our impotent idiot tries to turn a crisis into being all about him, Trump is a textbook racist, the moron in the White House can’t handle the fact that one of his own actually called him a moron, it could take years to undo the damage done to this country by our popular vote losing psychopath in the White House and much more.

AP-NORC Poll: Low marks for Trump’s Puerto Rico response article from The AP on Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-norc-poll-few-approve-trumps-puerto-rico-100129728–politics.html

Despite our national embarrassment’s egregious claims that his administration handled the Puerto Rico disaster splendidly, the truth about his racist, disastrous response reveals that the delusions in his alternate reality are beyond belief…

With No Muslims to Blame, Trump the Twitter Troll Has Gone Eerily Silent About the Las Vegas Murderer article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trolls-silent-las-vegas-massacre

Our Twitter tyrants unusual sympathies and ‘warm condolences’ contradict our racist popular vote losing pig’s usual bluster – had it not been a white man who killed all those people in Vegas he would have been singing a much different tune.

Trump On Pins and Needles As More Bad Russia News Is Coming article from PoliticusUSA. –
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/03/trump-pins-needles-bad-russia-news-coming.html

Our lackluster lame duck president’s Russia scandal – primarily over the ample evidence of obstruction of Justice coupled with all the lies he told about not doing business with Russia – is about to ensure Trump’s compete implosion.

Nixon Lawyer: Donald Trump Abused Pardon Power When He Freed Joe Arpaio article from Time on Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nixon-lawyer-donald-trump-abused-151511604.html

Our gift that keeps on giving has no regard for Law or seperation of powers and will eventually dig himself a hole he won’t be able to climb out of:

“During the last two days of his embattled presidency, Richard Nixon made a rare principled decision. With the Watergate special prosecutor and congressional impeachment proceedings closing in, he rejected last-minute requests for pardons from his two former top aides, the men who could most damagingly testify against him. Unfortunately, while dust is settling on Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, its message suggests a much cruder view of the pardon power, and sets a dangerous precedent for the months to come.

Most pardons attract little attention. Over the course of a presidency, typical presidents, with the advice of the Department of Justice, pardon or commute the sentences of hundreds of people who have moved beyond their crimes, and long after all investigations have ended. Sometimes, presidents issue pardons to try to help the nation move past bitter divisions, such Gerald Ford’s pardon of Nixon and Jimmy Carter’s general pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers. And occasionally, presidents issue pardons to friends, relatives, or supporters, and even at the request of a foreign government, such as Bill Clinton’s controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.

But never has a president embroiled in scandal used the pardon power to protect himself. Nixon’s refusal provides useful history. On March 1, 1974, a federal grand jury indicted former chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, former chief domestic advisor John Ehrlichman, and five other aides for criminal conspiracy stemming from the Watergate cover-up. The president was exposed as well. To be sure, the Department of Justice took the position that a president cannot be indicted while in office. But the grand jury named Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator. And before Ford pardoned him, he risked future prosecution.

On August 7, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, employing different channels, approached the White House and asked for pardons. They did not need to point out that the risk of prison time makes people more likely to testify. Yet Nixon rejected their request. The next day, he announced his resignation and submitted himself to fate. Gerald Ford later pardoned Nixon on September 8, 1974. Haldeman and Ehrlichman each served 18 months in prison. Neither ever fully testified under oath; their accounts of the Watergate cover-up are found only in their White House recordings, and Nixon’s secret tapes…”

Trump forgets to bring human empathy with him to Puerto Rico article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-forgets-bring-human-empathy-him-puerto-rico

Empathy is something America’s worst-ever president is incapable of feeling, and as with his other visits to hurricane stricken locales, he did nothing to see the actual damage inflicted, opting instead to present another staged photo op to try and make himself look good while failing miserably…

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