Carl Bernstein: Trump desire to prosecute Clinton 'defining moment' and 'demonstration of his...

[DonViejo]

Carl Bernstein: Trump desire to prosecute Clinton ‘defining moment’ and ‘demonstration of his unfitness’

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 11/21/18 09:56 AM EST

Washington Post veteran journalist Carl Bernstein took aim at President Trump on Wednesday over reports that Trump had approached the White House counsel about prosecuting Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey through the Justice Department.

In an interview on CNN, Bernstein slammed the incident as an example of Trump's "unfitness" to be president.

"This is a defining moment in the Trump presidency," Bernstein says. "This is a demonstration of his unfitness to be president of the United States, of his abuse of presidential power, of his embrace of authoritarian power."

"We are now watching a president of the United States undermine the very principles of our democracy," Bernstein continues. "The president takes an oath to defend the constitution of the United States, to uphold it and to protect it. This president daily abuses it, but never have we seen such flouting, such willingness to abuse the constitution."

Bernstein's remarks follow a report from The New York Times claiming that the president talked to his White House counsel Don McGahn about using the Justice Department to prosecute Comey and Clinton, two of his top critics. McGahn reportedly rebuffed the president, telling him such a decision would lead to accusations of abuse of power.

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[Achilleaze]

1. UNFIT FOR DUTY: the republican draft-dodging, casino hustler who...

is deeply indebted to the russian mob, and devoid of honesty, integrity, respect, and honor.

Most Deplorable of All: that self-identified 'christian" republicans have submissively elevated him as their spiritual "leader" and as the republican family-values role model for their children and grandchildren. Sad.

[klook]

2. When an ultra-partisan right-winger like McGahn thinks he's going too far,

he's going too far.

[Merlot]

5. HWe don't need an ultra partisan right winger to tell us what's wrong

[klook]

14. True enough.

And it's probably not so much that McGahn sees what's wrong, but that his own self-preservation instinct has told him that following Trump to the bitter end is not going to pay off.

[dalton99a]

3. The criminal is entirely unfit for office in every imaginable way.

[Mr. Ected]

4. Ignorant Americans don't understand the dysfunction

They see this as a sign of strength, the Constitution be damned. Stupid people doom our nation, and God knows we've got a shit ton of them mulling about.

[Itchinjim]

6. And it will be completely forgotten by Monday.

Because between now and then he'll do ten or twelve even more scandalous or criminal acts. It's beyond the saturation point with his daily bullshit. It's not "scandal fatigue" anymore, it's "scandal coma"
This cannot continue.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Spot on!

And when Mueller releases whatever he has - McTurtle will claim there isn't enough to do anything about it, Flake will say that "it looks pretty bad" and do nothing, and Faux News will cover the governmental problems in Great Britain and Germany because everything is fine here. And a week later things will continue on as-is until we hopefully kick ass in 2020.
It's our last chance..........................

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. Took the words right out of my mouth.

I was listening to MSNBC in the car when the latest “bombshell” broke. Listening to all the “legal experts” talk about how this is so impeachable I just wanted to drive my car in to a bridge abutment.

HE’S. NOT. GOING. TO. BE. IMPEACHED.

He acts, we react, we run around pulling our hair out, he struts around like the cock of the walk, the media rends their garments, and 40% of the population says “suck it libtards we drink your tears.”

[Vinnie From Indy]

16. Nailed it!

Cheers!

[sandensea]

7. Very third-wordly of him

You see it in all of these "new right" despots: the use of lawfare to eliminate opponents, predecessors, critics, or even just people with whom they have a personal grudge.

[safeinOhio]

9. Consider that any further prosecution of Hillary

will set a precedent for prosecution of him and his family's Email.


Like to see a reporter bring this up.

[Eyeball_Kid]

10. Is this news?

For how many months have journalists and political science experts been screaming that Trumpy is "unfit" for the job? NO. How many years? Bernstein is declaring that Trumpy's desire to prosecute HRC is a "defining moment"? Every day is a defining moment. Every day Trumpy damages the US. The defining moment came when Trumpy and the late (not great) Roger Ailes collaborated on boosting and installing Trumpy into the news cycle back in 2015. There are countless "defining moments." Of course Trumpy tried to order the DOJ to prosecute HRC and Comey. He wouldn't be the evil bastard he is if he didn't.

[D_Master81]

12. Unfortunately

Unfortunately we know they will talk their way out of this enough to satisfy the base and keep anything from happening. I assume they’ll say something like “he only discussed it, he didn’t pursue it and there are a lot of Americans that think those people should be investigated “.

[hibbing]

13. Ho hum

Just like during the campaign, a new outrage will emerge tomorrow, or perhaps two and the corporate media will move on. We can all list at least 20 things that would have sunk a candidate at any other time in our history.


Peace

[Cha]

15. yeah.. trump is a vicious

vacuous vindictive monster.

[malaise]

17. I want to be alive for the moment when we

collectively shout YOU'RE FIRED and then LOCK HIM UP!

[oberliner]

18. There seems to have been a lot defining moments