This may be one of the more depressing polls you will see this year.
Courtesy of ABC News:
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe President Donald Trump’s encouragement of a foreign leader to investigate Trump’s political rival and his family is a serious problem, but only 17% said they were surprised by the president’s actions, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.
The poll, conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News, asked Americans about a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which Trump urged his Ukrainian counterpart to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Attorney General William Barr to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, according to a memo released by the White House.
In a polarized electorate, attitudes about the severity of Trump’s actions broke strongly along partisan lines, with Democrats three times as likely to find the conversation a very or somewhat serious problem — 91% of Democrats compared with 32% of Republicans.
Democrats also were even more likely to have the most intense feelings, with nearly 3 in 4, about 72%, saying they thought the president’s comments were a very serious problem, compared to 41% of Independents.
Republicans were less intense in their skepticism about the seriousness of the problem than Democrats were in their conviction it was a problem — 37% of Republicans said it wasn’t serious at all, but 13% of Republicans responded that it was a very serious problem compared to only 2% of Democrats who said the president’s actions related to Ukraine were not a problem at all.
Still, Trump’s actions during the phone conversation were not surprising to a large majority of Americans. About 83% responded that they were not so surprised or not surprised at all that Trump had such a conversation, with little variation by partisanship. Only 3% of Americans said they were very surprised.
Only 3% of Americans were very surprised that the president of the United States used his office to pressure another world leader into digging up dirt on a political opponent, man that is just tragic.
If Barack Obama had done this we would be in deep denial and unable to fathom how he could ever do something like that.
But with Donald Trump it seems so onbrand that we barely even raise an eyebrow.
Like I said, this is depressing.
The president by hoax has crossed a serious line. The minions that stay with him will be in serious trouble. It can’t happen soon enough.
Melania Trump helps him by playing the happy, mostly mad/sad, third wife. She is probably innocent as far as knowing much about specific phone calls. She knows his character, bad as it be. She knows how he operates.
As first lady Melania doesn’t have thoughts and can’t speak about reality. A recent post from September 24th
https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1176631191920943104
It could be from an old film noir production (crime dramas that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations).
Whatever language she claims to have this week, of course, her tongue is tied.
She speaks through style and her particular fashion.
Tied or forked tongue she posts mood and an escalator.
That says enough.
She’ll go down in history as a nothing.
“We’re painting the roses red! We’re painting the roses red!”
With due apologies to Disney.
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Trench coat ‘close to a spy’
Trump Seeks Treason Inquiry https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/trump-calls-for-treason-inquiry-into-house-impeachment-leader
President demands to meet anonymous whistle-blower ‘accuser’
Trump has equated the complaint behind inquiry to espionage
The series of Twitter posts Sunday night is his latest attack on the whistle-blower who raised concern over his controversial July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy now at the heart of an impeachment inquiry, and they’re likely to prompt new questions about whether Trump is violating protections in place for government employees seeking to expose unethical behavior.
“certain individuals” are offering a $50,000 bounty for the whistle-blower’s identity, CBS said. The string of Sunday evening tweets was a continuation of Trump’s attacks on those who have criticized his behavior. In a meeting with diplomats in New York on Thursday, Trump described the controversy over the whistle-blower’s report as a “war” and equated the complaint to espionage.
House Democrats, including Schiff, released a statement on Thursday warning Trump to stop “reprehensible witness intimidation.”
“Threats of violence from the leader of our country have a chilling effect on the entire whistle-blower process, with grave consequences for our democracy and national security.”
(Updates with threats against whistle-blower in fourth paragraph.)
Kiddos,
Flotus is hard at work for you. Nothing will stop her, she is in the trenches everyday.
She is fighting the bullies that terrify you, she stands up for all children, it is her passion and her legacy.
She works tirelessly to protect all children born to the right parents in the right place, as she does for her son Barron.
Hear her roar. Now is not the time to hide and slink. This is the time to voice your position. Stand up strong.
Follow @Flotus messages no matter how cryptic, you will understand one day.
She will keep you updated on the scary traitors and stand with her man. If it takes a civil war, just bite your blankies and stay undercover. The spies will be found, like the old days they will be handled.
Do not fear a civil war, keep up your target practice. Don’t let the bullies win. @Flotus is here for nurturing, care and a fight that can only #BeBest.
I think he has syphilis which makes him crazy…
The @WhiteHouse officials who loaded the transcript of the call into the classified nsc system are part of the cover up. Work for a criminal you become one.
Donald & Barney
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFqvGQVUcAAKL2R?format=jpg&name=900×900
Just catching up
https://twitter.com/TrumpinTheShark/status/1177977894473273349
Boy, that down escalator ride sure has been a metaphor for his whole term in office. I knew it would be bad, but I never dreamed of this mess.
We all ave to reminder. This was NOT a transcript of the call. Only a summary of the phone call. An official transcript is a word by word dictation of the actual call. The TRANSCRIPT is still being kept secret. And if this was what was released, we can only imagine what was actually said. And ahem on the MSM for not differentiating this fact.