Trump burns the Trump Presidency to the ground

Just wait until he's on the 17th hole at one of his golf clubs any Saturday, slip his smart phone from his pocket, and take his golf cart away. Withdraw all of the limousines and change the locks on the White House doors. Piece of cake.
 
Donald Trump is doomed — and he knows it

Donald Trump is doomed, and he knows it — in the limited, animalistic way he ever knows anything. His electoral prospects are dwindling toward the mathematical vanishing point, and his historical legacy is now sealed. There is no possible future in which he will not be remembered as the most catastrophically corrupt and incompetent U.S. president of the past 100 years, and quite possibly ever.


Everything about Trump’s behavior in recent weeks or months speaks to this dawning, if childlike, half-awareness that he is staring right in the face of doom, defeat and failure. He has played chicken with those things his entire life, and has convinced himself — and to a large extent, the rest of us — that he can evade them through sheer cunning and the most brazen, shameless forms of salesmanship, which he mistakes for intelligence. None of that is working now, and his desperation is palpable.

It seems clear that Trump believed he could suppress or prevent the coronavirus pandemic through sheer force of will, and when that failed he believed he could use his dipshit Jedi mind-tricks to convince people that it either didn’t exist or didn’t matter.

He believed his ludicrous Bible-clutching photo-op in front of St. John’s Church would cause patriotic moms and dads in the heartland to weep and swoon at his godly power. (In fact, I believe a great many devout Christians, including some conservative evangelicals, felt profoundly insulted, and not for the first time.) He believed his Keystone Kops pseudo-military intervention in Portland, Oregon — mail-order fascism on the cheap, as Salon columnist Lucian K. Truscott IV has put it — would be a display of macho dominance that would make the notional “suburban housewives” he both desires and despises go wobbly in the knees.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/donald-trump-is-doomed-and-he-knows-it/
 
Yep, Trump is doomed and damned in history. It will be interesting to see how Ivanka tries to wriggle out of this, though. Don Jr. will go down with Dad. Erick will try to fade into the wallpaper and he hasn't been public enough to be hunted down. But Ivanka and Jared. It will be interesting to see what they do. I'm betting they already have their house built in Israel. Will Ivanka divorce Jared when he's carted off to prison?
 
‘Trump is scared’ and ‘literally does not appear to understand’ what is going on around him: White House reporter


White House correspondent Brian Karem says that President Trump is losing the “strength and vigor” that carried him to an election win in 2016, especially in the wake of recently being “eviscerated” by Chris Wallace of Fox News and Jonathan Swan of Axios.

The interviews “not only exposed how unprepared Trump is for the long-interview format, but how unfamiliar and unrelatable he remains to facts,” Karem writes. “He literally does not appear to understand them.”

There was a time when a blusterous Trump would pick fights with reporters, but now he can “barely muster the get-up-and-go to turn the page on the briefing notes that he pretty obviously hasn’t looked at before lumbering to the podium,” Karem writes.

What happened? According to Karem, Trump is scared.


“He’s losing. He knows it. And in his mortal terror, the only place where he can still muster bravado is Twitter.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...house-reporter/?utm_source=push_notifications
 
Trump’s hamfisted attempt to sabotage the Postal Service may be the worst self-inflicted wound of his flailing campaign

Trump’s malignant narcissism makes it difficult for him to understand that things impact other people. It’s a trait that makes him uniquely unqualified to govern, and is presently leading him down a potentially disastrous path with his clumsy scheme to undermine the Postal Service in order to make it unable to handle a surge in absentee ballots. We can’t know what’s going on in Trump’s head, but it seems likely that he simply does not understand that he can’t sabotage the Postal Service’s ability to deliver ballots in a timely manner–and stick it to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in retaliation for The Washington Post’s reporting–without also screwing over active service-members, rural communities, people waiting for their Social Security checks and medications, etc.


Trump’s committing this crime with with his trademark subtlety. He installed a wingnut Republican donor and party activist who holds investments in companies that compete with the USPS as Postmaster General. That donor, Louis DeJoy , has overseen new measures to limit overtime, removed hundreds of mail sorting machines from processing centers, cut Post Office hours and pulled up mailboxes in various states. And this has become one of the rare stories of Trump’s corruption that’s getting sustained attention from the press.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...iling-campaign/?utm_source=push_notifications
 
Trump’s hamfisted attempt to sabotage the Postal Service may be the worst self-inflicted wound of his flailing campaign

Trump’s malignant narcissism makes it difficult for him to understand that things impact other people. It’s a trait that makes him uniquely unqualified to govern, and is presently leading him down a potentially disastrous path with his clumsy scheme to undermine the Postal Service in order to make it unable to handle a surge in absentee ballots. We can’t know what’s going on in Trump’s head, but it seems likely that he simply does not understand that he can’t sabotage the Postal Service’s ability to deliver ballots in a timely manner–and stick it to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in retaliation for The Washington Post’s reporting–without also screwing over active service-members, rural communities, people waiting for their Social Security checks and medications, etc.


Trump’s committing this crime with with his trademark subtlety. He installed a wingnut Republican donor and party activist who holds investments in companies that compete with the USPS as Postmaster General. That donor, Louis DeJoy , has overseen new measures to limit overtime, removed hundreds of mail sorting machines from processing centers, cut Post Office hours and pulled up mailboxes in various states. And this has become one of the rare stories of Trump’s corruption that’s getting sustained attention from the press.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...iling-campaign/?utm_source=push_notifications

Yep, it's starting to look like Trump's war against the United States Postal Service has blown up in his face.

Trump officials could face criminal charges for USPS sabotage — and the president may not be able to pardon them


Members of the Trump administration could face legal jeopardy over efforts to sabotage U.S. Postal Service operations to interfere with the 2020 presidential elections.

“Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) made a criminal referral to the New Jersey Attorney General on Friday night, asking him to impanel a grand jury to look at possible breach of state election laws by President Trump, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and others for ‘their accelerating arson of the post office,’ he said. Alarming headlines have emerged in recent days as many states prepare to facilitate widespread mail balloting due to the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump openly admitted he was withholding federal aid from the postal service to prevent mail-in voting, and USPS has notified 46 states and D.C. that it will struggle to deliver some mail ballots on time,” The Daily Beast reported Friday.


If DeJoy or others were charged in New Jersey for state crimes, Trump could not pardon them as his power only applies to federal crimes.


And New Jersey isn’t the only state investigating the possible violations of the law.

In Arizona, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Friday wrote a letter to state Attorney General Mark Brnovich, asking him to investigate whether crimes have been committed.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...the-president-may-not-be-able-to-pardon-them/
 
170,000 Americans dead. Another 1,000+ died today.

His brother died today.

He went golfing again. He's nearly golfed one full year of his 4 years of office. Over 260 days. $140 million worth of golf trips to his own golf courses. So he's paid himself $140 million to golf while hundreds of thousands of Americans die, including our soldiers by Russian bounties and his own brother.
 
Trump is scaring away voters by treating them as if they are as ignorant as he is

“Trump’s America is a cynical and base place where people are identified as extreme avatars and insulting stereotypes instead of as complex individuals. But is it reality?’ Lewis asked. “This worldview helped him win in 2016, because enough voters believed the caricature he sold us about himself (a bogus image of wealth and success), as well as the image he sold us about others (Lyin’ Ted Cruz, Crooked Hillary, the ‘fake news’ media, you get it). But after nearly four years, it is helping him lose bigly in 2020.”

Stating the president views the world in a “superficial” way at best, the conservative columnist conceded, “We all think in stereotypes about matters of which we’re ignorant. But most of us are only ignorant about a few things. Trump is ignorant of most matters and therefore thinks in stereotypes about most things.”


Trump’s view of women he notes is the most toxic — and that is what is really hurting him as the election nears.

“No matter what Trump’s antediluvian mind tells him, college-educated white women are not, by and large, 1950's-era ‘housewives’—nor are they particularly afraid of how Joe Biden is going to ‘abolish the suburbs.’ Instead, they are working moms repulsed by the vulgarity, chaos, and unrest unleashed by Donald Trump,” he explained before adding Trump’s views and pandering to Christians is little better.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...s-conservative/?utm_source=push_notifications
 
Yep, it's starting to look like Trump's war against the United States Postal Service has blown up in his face.

Trump officials could face criminal charges for USPS sabotage — and the president may not be able to pardon them


Members of the Trump administration could face legal jeopardy over efforts to sabotage U.S. Postal Service operations to interfere with the 2020 presidential elections.

“Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) made a criminal referral to the New Jersey Attorney General on Friday night, asking him to impanel a grand jury to look at possible breach of state election laws by President Trump, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and others for ‘their accelerating arson of the post office,’ he said. Alarming headlines have emerged in recent days as many states prepare to facilitate widespread mail balloting due to the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump openly admitted he was withholding federal aid from the postal service to prevent mail-in voting, and USPS has notified 46 states and D.C. that it will struggle to deliver some mail ballots on time,” The Daily Beast reported Friday.


If DeJoy or others were charged in New Jersey for state crimes, Trump could not pardon them as his power only applies to federal crimes.


And New Jersey isn’t the only state investigating the possible violations of the law.

In Arizona, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Friday wrote a letter to state Attorney General Mark Brnovich, asking him to investigate whether crimes have been committed.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...the-president-may-not-be-able-to-pardon-them/

The hobbling of the United States Postal Service to rig the November election is also causing immense collateral damage. Delays in mail delivery hurt people on medications, in need of paychecks and pension checks to pay the rent and of legions of small business owners to ship goods to customers. Many of those suffering are Trump supporters so his scheme is unlikely to win more votes..
 
More than 70 Republican former national security officials come out in support of Biden


More than 70 former Republican national security officials, including some former members of the Trump administration, came out in support of Joe Biden's bid for president Thursday, according to an open letter that also offered a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump's first term in office.

"We are profoundly concerned about the course of our nation under the leadership of Donald Trump," the officials wrote. "Through his actions and his rhetoric, Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as President."

Some signers include former FBI Director William Webster, former Defense Secretary under President Obama Chuck Hagel and former CIA Director Michael Hayden.


The letter outlines 10 reasons the signers believe Trump isn't fit for the Oval Office.

"Donald Trump has gravely damaged America's role as a world leader," the first point in the letter says. Other items include declarations that Trump is "unfit to lead during a national crisis," "solicited foreign influence," "aligned himself with dictators," "disparaged our armed forces, intelligence agencies, and diplomats," "undermined the rule of law," "dishonored the office of the presidency," "divided our nation," "attacked and vilified immigrants" and "imperiled America's security."

"While we – like all Americans – had hoped that Donald Trump would govern wisely, he has disappointed millions of voters who put their faith in him and has demonstrated that he is dangerously unfit to serve another term. In contrast, we believe Joe Biden has the character, experience, and temperament to lead this nation," the letter reads.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/more-70-republican-former-national-232142014.html
 
Trump is a ‘kamikaze president’ leading the Republican Party to its own destruction: Conservative journalist

Veteran conservative journalist Tim Alberta has written a lengthy report for Politico detailing the state of the current Republican Party — and he’s concluded that the party has no ideas other than mindlessly supporting President Donald Trump.

In previewing this week’s Republican National Convention, Alberta writes that most of the RNC will be devoted to venting culture war grievances, while very little time will be spent outlining plans to make life better for the American people.


“The party of rugged individualism will spend as much time whining as reveling,” he writes. “Headliners will take turns bemoaning media bias, denouncing the obstructionist Democrats, cursing the unfair timing of the coronavirus, decrying their loss of culture, rebuking corporate America for kneeling at the altar of social justice and accusing the Deep State of stacking the deck against them.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...ive-journalist/?utm_source=push_notifications
 
As Trump becomes more and more isolated, he’s becoming more and more dangerous. He has staggered from one strategy to another, desperately gambling that scare tactics, photo-ops, self-adulation, grandiose lies or name-calling might boost his approval ratings.

So far, all of his attempts to improve his reputation have blown up in his face.


Trump screamed that the schools had to open, on the assumption that parents were tearing their hair out. But polls showed that parents cared much more about their kids’ health than the reopening of the schools.


Trump used flashbang grenades and tear gas to clear the lawn of a church near the White House so he could pose for a photo op with a Bible in his hand. The photo op failed and the American People were largely appalled at Trump’s use of brute force against church officials and peaceful protestors.


Next, Trump resorted to police-state tactics, sending federal forces to Portland, Oregon, where they are were wanted. That backfired too.


Now Trump is trying to keep people from voting by sabotaging the Post Office and publicly declaring that he would not accept the November election result unless he’s declared the winner. This is the sort of rhetoric you hear from third world dictators, not the leader of a democracy.


And As Trump becomes more desperate and isolated, the risk of a schism in the Republican Party is becoming more likely. With a few notable exceptions, most Republican governors have distanced themselves from Trump and his catastrophic leadership in the corona pandemic.

In the next ten years don’t be surprised if you see the Republican Party split into two parties, with a neo-fascist Party picking up the banner of Trump and a party of traditional conservatives, perhaps following in the footsteps of Republicans like Barry Goldwater and John McCain.
 
In the past few months the COVID-10 virus has killed more than 180,000 Americans. Protecting the American People from COVID should be a top priority for every elected official in America, but when asked what Trump's priorities would be if he was grated a second term, here's what his answer was:

“But so I think, I think it would be, I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done."

What the fuck was that?

Is he drunk? Is he on drugs? Is he having a stroke? Does he even remember that he's supposed to be running the country?
 
Two dozen former Republican lawmakers come out against Trump on first day of GOP convention

Two dozen former Republican lawmakers on Monday came out to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on the first day of the 2020 Republican National Convention.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tw...gop-convention/?utm_source=push_notifications

And then there's this

‘A total wipeout’: Former senior Trump officials see no path to victory in November

According to a report at Politico, former officials who held senior positions in Donald Trump’s White House are privately — and not so privately — stating that they don’t see him winning re-election in November, with one going so far as to say the president may be facing a “total wipeout.”

With the Republican convention now in the rearview mirror, both the Trump and Democratic presidential Joe Biden’s campaigns will now go into overdrive but some conservatives who worked for Trump claim there is a strong undercurrent of Republicans who have already abandoned the president.


Noting, “At least 19 former top Trump administration officials in total have broken publicly with their former boss in one form or another,” Politico’s Daniel Lippman wrote, “It amounts to a never-before-seen wave of defections of people who have denounced him or his policies or criticized his character in other ways.”

Speaking with former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, the ex-White House aide stated that he knows of at least 20 officials tied to the administration who are voting for Joe Biden “but don’t want to speak publicly to avoid getting hit by Trump on Twitter.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/a-...officials-see-no-path-to-victory-in-november/
 
‘Trump is scared’ and ‘literally does not appear to understand’ what is going on around him: White House reporter


White House correspondent Brian Karem says that President Trump is losing the “strength and vigor” that carried him to an election win in 2016, especially in the wake of recently being “eviscerated” by Chris Wallace of Fox News and Jonathan Swan of Axios.

The interviews “not only exposed how unprepared Trump is for the long-interview format, but how unfamiliar and unrelatable he remains to facts,” Karem writes. “He literally does not appear to understand them.”

There was a time when a blusterous Trump would pick fights with reporters, but now he can “barely muster the get-up-and-go to turn the page on the briefing notes that he pretty obviously hasn’t looked at before lumbering to the podium,” Karem writes.

What happened? According to Karem, Trump is scared.


“He’s losing. He knows it. And in his mortal terror, the only place where he can still muster bravado is Twitter.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...house-reporter/?utm_source=push_notifications

Burdened by failures, Trump tries gaslighting, changing the subject

the exercise itself was an elaborate attempt to shift the nation's attention away from the president's catastrophic failures on addressing the coronavirus pandemic. While polling suggests the defining issues of the 2020 race are the COVID-19 crisis and its effects on the economy, Trump hopes to convince voters that the real issue is urban unrest -- not its causes, of course, but its existence.

Much of the U.S. mainstream, however, won't reshuffle their priorities because the president told them to. As the national death toll inches higher -- the virus took more than 1,100 American lives yesterday, and we're experiencing death tolls on par with the Sept. 11 attacks every three days -- and the unemployment rate hovers at levels unseen since the Great Depression, the president faces a daunting challenge: telling the electorate that his failure was a success, and that the entire issue isn't quite as important as the "rioting, looting, arson, and violence" that he insists has become common in Trump's America.

And finally, when the president wasn't trying to scare voters into believing he's the only thing standing between them and imminent societal breakdown, he was simultaneously trying to convince voters that he'd created a utopia that only exists thanks to how awesome his awesomeness is.

The trouble, however, is that Trump doesn't actually have meaningful accomplishments; he has four years of failures, scandals, breakdowns, and missed opportunities.

And so, the president lied. A lot. An awful lot. At a seemingly uncontrollable pace, at a volume that suggested there was something deeply wrong with his relationship with reality.

Gaslighting has become a sort of political life-preserver for Trump, something he turns to when everything else goes wrong. The Republican signaled last night that he hopes the tactic will keep him afloat for another 67 days.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow...p-tries-gaslighting-changing-subject-n1238661
 

Trump’s most ardent defenders have disappeared from the airwaves as his campaign flounders: report


"People who were once close to him have scurried away. Dubious ethical decisions have complicated the message. And others, like a chunk of the country, are simply exhausted by the show.”

What is concerning to the White House is not just the lack of supporters making the cable TV rounds, but the ones who have turned on the president and now appear only to dish dirt and attack the president.


“Others who frequently appeared on television to boost Trump are now Trumpworld turncoats. Reality television star Omarosa Manigault Newman, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, former Trump campaign official A.J. Delgado, and Cohen all regularly appeared on television to boost the then-Republican candidate in 2016. Now, they openly criticize the president and his campaign,” the report notes.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...he-airwaves-as-his-campaign-flounders-report/
 
And then there's this

‘A total wipeout’: Former senior Trump officials see no path to victory in November

According to a report at Politico, former officials who held senior positions in Donald Trump’s White House are privately — and not so privately — stating that they don’t see him winning re-election in November, with one going so far as to say the president may be facing a “total wipeout.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/a-...officials-see-no-path-to-victory-in-november/

High turnout by Trump’s base won’t be enough to get him re-elected: analyst
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/hi...lected-analyst/?utm_source=push_notifications
 
Depends on what the members of the electoral college do. Will they follow the Supreme Court ruling or not? Will all the states sign on or not? We will just have to wait and see.
 
Top Republican warns Trump that his war against the USPS could kill the GOP in November: ‘We’re screwed’

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told President Donald Trump in a “private meeting” that the Republican Party could be “screwed” if he continues to fight a war with the U.S. Postal Service.

According to Axios reporter Alayna Treene, McCarthy told the site, “We could lose based on that.”

He reportedly spent “hours” with Trump trying to walk through the facts and figures and why it was so crucial for the president to tone down the conspiracy theories, but it was clear the president either didn’t get it or didn’t care.


“I tried to show him … you know who is most afraid of COVID? Seniors,” said McCarthy. “And if they’re not going to go vote, period, we’re screwed.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/to...-usps-could-the-gop-in-november-were-screwed/
 
Trump allies worry re-election campaign is low on cash as advertising pulled in key states: report

“The Trump campaign is expected to increase television spending next week, but several Republicans said that Bill Stepien, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager since July, was taking a cautious approach after the former leadership spent huge sums on television and digital ads earlier this year, to no discernible effect,” the report states. “The light television spending and advertising blackouts in some key states have mystified allies, raising questions about how much cash the campaign has in the bank.”

Adding to Trump’s woes is his inability to reach voters outside of his base with the Times reporting, “Mr. Trump’s campaign advisers maintain that their private surveys are more encouraging than public polling. But while Mr. Trump’s swerve toward a strident law-and-order message has helped him consolidate conservative support, his rhetoric about rioting in a handful of cities does not appear to have swayed moderates, strategists in both parties said.”

“Allies of Mr. Trump believe there is virtually no chance that he can win the popular vote, and they have seen some states on his victorious 2016 map shift markedly away from them. They are particularly pessimistic about Michigan, which Mr. Trump narrowly won four years ago, and are looking to flip Nevada, which has many white voters without college degrees, and especially Minnesota, the state he lost by the closest margin four years ago and the site of weeks of unrest following the police killing of George Floyd,” the Times notes.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/tr...h-as-advertising-pulled-in-key-states-report/
 
Trump allies worry re-election campaign is low on cash as advertising pulled in key states: report

“The Trump campaign is expected to increase television spending next week, but several Republicans said that Bill Stepien, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager since July, was taking a cautious approach after the former leadership spent huge sums on television and digital ads earlier this year, to no discernible effect,” the report states. “The light television spending and advertising blackouts in some key states have mystified allies, raising questions about how much cash the campaign has in the bank.”

Adding to Trump’s woes is his inability to reach voters outside of his base with the Times reporting, “Mr. Trump’s campaign advisers maintain that their private surveys are more encouraging than public polling. But while Mr. Trump’s swerve toward a strident law-and-order message has helped him consolidate conservative support, his rhetoric about rioting in a handful of cities does not appear to have swayed moderates, strategists in both parties said.”

“Allies of Mr. Trump believe there is virtually no chance that he can win the popular vote, and they have seen some states on his victorious 2016 map shift markedly away from them. They are particularly pessimistic about Michigan, which Mr. Trump narrowly won four years ago, and are looking to flip Nevada, which has many white voters without college degrees, and especially Minnesota, the state he lost by the closest margin four years ago and the site of weeks of unrest following the police killing of George Floyd,” the Times notes.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/tr...h-as-advertising-pulled-in-key-states-report/

What this article fails to mention is that Trump has stolen millions from his re-election campaign and used it for his own personal legal expenses.

Trump is a criminal with lots and lots of sexual harassment, sexual assault and corruption scandals surrounding him. He's taken almost $60 million from election campaign funds and spent it on lawyers to try and keep his ass out of prison.
 
What this article fails to mention is that Trump has stolen millions from his re-election campaign and used it for his own personal legal expenses.

Trump is a criminal with lots and lots of sexual harassment, sexual assault and corruption scandals surrounding him. He's taken almost $60 million from election campaign funds and spent it on lawyers to try and keep his ass out of prison.

This is what you get with Trump.

He does lots and lots of shameful, illegal shit. He needs to hire lawyers to cover it up, but he doesn't want to spend his own money on lawyers, so he finds a way to spend other people's money on lawyers to deal with his shameful legal problems.
 
What this article fails to mention is that Trump has stolen millions from his re-election campaign and used it for his own personal legal expenses.

Trump is a criminal with lots and lots of sexual harassment, sexual assault and corruption scandals surrounding him. He's taken almost $60 million from election campaign funds and spent it on lawyers to try and keep his ass out of prison.

If Trump is still alive when the dust on his presidency settles, he's up to his neck in criminal reckoning of his own making. His tenacious hanging on to office reflects that he realizes it. The biggest upside of the present is that Trump is suffering--from his own behavior.
 
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