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The Week When President Trump Resigned


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2017 Aug 19, 4:23pm   1,602 views  2 comments

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/opinion/sunday/president-trump-resignation.html?mcubz=3&_r=0

A president is supposed to safeguard the most sacred American institutions, repairing them if need be. Trump doesn’t respect them. He has sought to discredit and disempower the judiciary, the free press, the F.B.I., the Congressional Budget Office. He even managed to inject politics into, and pollute, the Boy Scouts. This is the course of a tyrant.

I haven’t mentioned Russia. How astonishing that it can be left out and there’s still a surfeit to rue.

Trump hasn’t been exercising the duties of his office. He’s been excising them, one by one. The moral forfeiture of the past week was the capper.

And as I watched the Bushes and the generals and Trump’s former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination step into the public square to enunciate their own principles about murderous bigots and domestic terrorists, I realized that they weren’t going through any typical this-is-what-makes-us-Americans motions. They weren’t preening.

They were, in the words of The Washington Post’s James Hohmann, “filling the void.” If Trump wasn’t going to do his job, others had to.

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1   FNWGMOBDVZXDNW   2017 Aug 19, 5:52pm  

Even Bannon is saying Trump's presidency is over now.

2   anonymous   2017 Aug 20, 12:28am  

the beautiful thing about a free country is that a huge swath of citizens can be simultaneously completely satisfied with and supportive of President Trump.

attempts to subversively mute that are done so at one's own peril.

the new york times and other similar acts, a whole cult of urban liberals, soft males, brainwashed victimhood freaks, et al. completely revealed just how full of shit they were upon trump's electoral victory after the public endured months on end of declarative "he's got no chance / he's finished"

what now? more of the same "he's finished"?

keep digging the hole, morons.

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