CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley on a recent poll showing 50% of Americans support impeaching and removing Trump from office:
After Congress votes, “you’re going to see that movement grow even more… He’s a base politician. He doesn’t know how to turn this around.” pic.twitter.com/wR9iCB4Jho— New Day (@NewDay) November 29, 2019
Courtesy of Newsweek:
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley predicted that President Donald Trump is in “deep trouble” after a recent poll showed that 50 percent of respondents want the commander-in-chief impeached and removed from office.
Brinkley, who is a professor of history at Rice University and a best-selling author, made the remark during a Friday interview with CNN, in which he discussed the network’s latest impeachment poll that showed that support for the president’s impeachment and removal remained steady at the end of November compared to October. However, there has been a significant jump since the spring, when only 36 percent supported Trump’s impeachment.
CNN anchor John Avlon pointed out that looking back at previous impeachment proceedings for President Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, the trend was different. Polls in support of Nixon being impeached remained below 50 percent until August of 1974, the same month Nixon resigned. In the case of Clinton, support for impeachment never rose above 35 percent
“It just tells you what deep trouble Donald Trump’s in,” Brinkely assessed, responding to Avlon’s comments. “I mean, when you have 50 percent of the country wanting you – not just impeached – but removed from office, and the game hasn’t even gotten fast yet,” the historian continued, “I think when the vote’s taken by Congress to impeach him, and he’s wearing the eye on his chest, you’re going to see that movement grow even more.”
Brinkely said that the poll results “tells you he doesn’t have a lot of friends. He’s a base politician. He doesn’t know how to turn this around.”
I don’t know know if Trump realizes this but his only hope of surviving these impeachment proceedings lies with Fox News, and their ability to shape reality for their viewers.
If these same hearings were happening in a time before Fox News Trump would already be toast and Mike Pence would have started his campaign to win the American people’s support for 2020.
An election by the way that he would definitely lose.
However with the help of Fox News Trump has managed to create a narrative that he is under attack from the Left and that their entire case is manufactured out of nothing and baseless.
Just like the Republicans in Washington, if Fox News believes they have lost the ability to shape reality and that continued support for Trump will cost them viewers, they will pile on and start reporting the truth and then Trump is dead in the water.
Roger Ailes created Fox News because he believed that Richard Nixon’s presidency would have survived if there had been a strong conservative news outlet supporting him.
This is the test of that theory.
I don’t know that I’d even call him a politician.
Meanwhile, 330 million Americans remain in serious danger every day until he has been impeached and removed from office.
https://www.vogue.com/article/bombshell-movie-fox-news-wardrobe-closet-costumes
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/bombshell-fox-new-roger-ailes-metoo-exclusive-image/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombshell_(2019_film)
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trump-thinks-he-can-get-away-with-murder-because-police-do-all-the-time/
“roughly 1,000 documented police killings that take place every year in the U.S., fewer than 1 percent result even in an arrest — and convictions are even more rare.
an ordinary cop can usually do the very thing it was so jarring to hear a presidential candidate boast about: Shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it
(provided it’s 5th Avenue in Harlem and not the Upper East Side).
Trumpism is part of an international trend, its roots are squarely domestic– and in many ways rooted in American policing. families and community members of police victims have long known the bullying and gaslighting that has now grown so familiar to all under Trumpism.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trump-at-war-with-pentagon-after-meddling-in-gallagher-case-and-turning-it-into-a-national-clown-show-report/
“He’s interfering with the chain of command, which is trying to police its own ranks,” – “They’re trying to clean up their act and in the middle of it the president parachutes in — and not from information from his own commanders but from news talking heads who are clearly gaming the system.” The Times notes, “As a result, the president finds himself more removed than ever from a disenchanted military command, adding the armed forces to the institutions under his authority that he has feuded with, along with the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies and diplomatic corps.”
Trump has forgotten Dictatorship 101 – get the military and law enforcement agencies on your side.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pressured-his-alcoholic-brother-about-his-career-now-he-has-regrets-/2019/08/07/58ec2d70-b216-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html
Fred Jr>“He was a fun-loving person who enjoyed life.”
“He was as far from Donald’s personality as you can get,”
“Trump has said for years that watching his brother’s downfall was instructive, particularly his backing down in the face of their father’s scolding. Donald Trump shaped himself in a way that is now familiar: pushing back against anyone who questions him and becoming the kind of “KILLER” his father wanted to run the family business.
“I stood up to him,” Trump wrote in his autobiography, “and he respected that.”
Speaking that same year in a CBS interview, Trump again came close to putting some of the blame on himself, while still hedging. “Perhaps it was my fault and perhaps my father’s fault for egging him on to business because he wasn’t good at it, because he didn’t like the business,” Trump said. He said his brother “totally gave of himself and he gave himself to other people” and was open. “I tend to be just the opposite.” He told CNN that his brother was “a much nicer guy than me, to be totally honest with you.”
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/30/the-war-crimes-president-donald-trump-doesnt-understand-the-damage-hes-causing-to-the-military/
trained killers = “unit cohesion.”
“it cannot be emphasized enough how dangerous the pardons are that Trump has issued to war criminals, not to mention the way he has celebrated their crimes. It sends a message to the rest of the military that crimes committed while at war won’t be prosecuted” – “The contrast between the way Trump has celebrated war criminals and the way he has trashed real heroes who have served honorably and with valor” – “He’s a lawless president presiding over a lawless administration, and now he wants the military to fight lawless wars”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/crime-and-punishment-rural-people-are-more-punitive-than-city-dwellers/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/in-trumpland-every-week-is-a-horror-show-yet-somehow-the-next-week-is-always-worse?ref=home
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/during-a-quiet-holiday-week-new-evidence-of-trumps-financial-crimes-emerge/
What Fresh Hell ‘O’
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/30/intelligence-committee-draft-ukraine-report-074518
The House Judiciary Committee is slated to hold its first impeachment hearing on Wednesday, with a panel of constitutional experts explaining exactly what constitutes an impeachable offense, including defining the nebulous “high crime and misdemeanor” term specified in the Constitution.
Trump has made clear he intends to portray the hearings as a partisan distraction from more urgent work of the nation. He tweeted Saturday about flying to London next week for a NATO summit, chiding Democrats for holding their first hearing “on same dates as NATO.”
Since the announcement of the inquiry, House impeachment investigators have collected hundreds of hours of closed-door depositions and public testimonies from 17 current and former officials on Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to open investigations that could help his reelection campaign.
Senior Democrats have said they want to keep the inquiry focused on the Ukraine scandal.
But other Democrats, including several on the Judiciary Committee, have pushed back, arguing that they should expand their investigation to include the obstruction of justice allegations detailed in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and other alleged misdeeds committed by the president.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/justice-department-laying-groundwork-for-trump-criminal-investigation-based-on-ukraine-revelations-report/
“The last time the department investigated the president — special counsel Robert Mueller’s multi-year probe — it stopped short of charging Trump with any crimes, citing an internal legal OPINION that says a sitting president can’t be indicted while in office. The same issues would apply to the Ukraine situation,” the report concludes.
https://www.justice.gov/file/19351/download
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/the-next-steps-in-the-impeachment-inquiry?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
News is saying they are calling it a Global Nixon impeachment process. So many countries. So little time to transfer funds.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/nytimes-paul-krugman-explains-why-republicans-selling-out-their-party-for-trump-was-predictable/
https://robertreich.org/post/189419164570?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
The politician I’m talking about, of course, is Mitch McConnell.
Trump has to go, but so does McConnell.
As to the question of who is worse, Trump or McConnell — the answer is that it’s too close to call. The two of them have degraded and corrupted American democracy. We need them both out.
#RacistRapist2020 #MoscowMitch
Did he ever wash his hands after pawing Stormy’s vag?