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brooklynite

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Wed Sep 25, 2019, 09:33 AM Sep 2019

David Frum: We've Reached the Breaking Point

The Atlantic

Back in the early days of the Trump presidency, Trump’s enablers wistfully suggested that he might grow into the job as he learned not to do corrupt things.

In June 2017, news broke that Trump had demanded FBI Director James Comey go easy on Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser. “The president’s new at this,” then–House Speaker Paul Ryan said at the time. “He’s new to government. So he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI, and White Houses. He’s just new to this.”

Give him time, Ryan seemed to suggest, and Trump might stop acting like a criminal in office.

Trump drew a very different conclusion from the one to which Ryan had hoped to nudge him. He concluded: Nobody is going to stop me.
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David Frum: We've Reached the Breaking Point (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2019 OP
Another statistic... Newest Reality Sep 2019 #1
I will believe it when the amoral pig is dragged kicking and screaming from the WH. Thomas Hurt Sep 2019 #2

Thomas Hurt

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2. I will believe it when the amoral pig is dragged kicking and screaming from the WH.
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 09:50 AM
Sep 2019

Until then there isn't anything certain about getting rid of Trump.

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