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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 04:32 PM Jul 2019

Trump: Constitution gives me 'the right to do whatever I want as president'

By
Kaili Joy Gray -
July 23, 2019

That is not what the Constitution says.

Trump gave an hour-long speech Tuesday to Turning Point USA, an organization of conservative teens who support Trump, in which he revived some of his favorite talking points and even offered a few new ones.

He relived his 2016 electoral victory, he repeated his smears on the four Democratic members of Congress he's been attacking for more than a week, and he claimed the Constitution allows him the power to do whatever he wants.

"Then I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president," he claimed to the crowd of MAGA-capped fans. "But I don't even talk about that."

It should go without saying that no part of the Constitution grants the president of the United States the right to do whatever he wants. Article II does, however, state that the president "shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

https://shareblue.com/trump-constitution-gives-me-the-right-to-do-whatever-i-want-as-president/

Well shit for brains you are talking about it...............................and your minions with the red hats have as much as shit for brains between their collective ears like you .......................

Oh goody there high schooled twits. I just can't wait for there teachers to ask them, What did you do during the summer.....................Oh I went to become a fascist racists at a sexual predator hosted event .........................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough

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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
1. I thought this was The Onion when I read the headline of this post...
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 04:35 PM
Jul 2019

...and it's getting harder to tell the difference every day, isn't it? There was a time in this country when a President--any Prersident--who said this would have had his ass impeached that very day. But our democracy has fallen so far, that nothing matters anymore...

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
2. Yepper spot on.............................and I thought my generation was nuts..............
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 04:40 PM
Jul 2019

these twits have been and are living in homes being taught this shit and they walk among us....................that's what is scary............they lack any empathy.................

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. is this the speech where he did the supposed white power sign?
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 04:55 PM
Jul 2019

clip of that has been all over twitter......

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
4. yes it is his three right handed fingers sticking up into the air............
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 05:00 PM
Jul 2019

small thumb on the pointing finger, making it look like some circle...............yep that one, that racist training ground for high schoolers to meet and greet with a racist with orange hair, yep that same place ......................tax dollars being used to incite hate................................

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)
13. He's furthering the brainwashing of his minions. He can't actually rewrite the Constitution BUT
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 06:38 PM
Jul 2019

He can say whatever he wants about it and they will believe it. So when impeachment happens, they will support his claim its unconstitutional.

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