No, We Won't Just 'Get Over It'
We will continue to push for impeachment. We will step up efforts to expose his high crimes and misdemeanors. We will mock his pretenses and obvious lies.
Can you tell? I have zero respect for the man who is unfit to serve. This freak show has extended beyond its shelf life and the stench from the rot needs more than a strong sanitizer.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/no-we-wont-just-get-over-it/ar-AAJ5RcL
The New York Times
October 21, 2019
Charles M. Blow
No, We Wont Just Get Over It
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But, last week the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, lifted the veil on that lie, confirming during a televised briefing that there was indeed a quid pro quo. As The New York Times reported, Mr. Mulvaney told journalists
that the aid was withheld in part until Ukraine investigated an unsubstantiated theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for hacking Democratic Party emails in 2016 a theory that would show that Mr. Trump was elected without Russian help.
Since making this shocking statement, Mulvaney has been struggling to clean it up, to tell the world that he didnt say what he clearly said.
And, in the moment of making the statement, Mulvaney proudly proclaimed: I have news for everybody: Get over it. Theres going to be political influence in foreign policy.
No, Trump world, we are not just going to get over it, not now or ever.
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Trumps strategy is simple: Be brazen. Conduct your corruption in plain sight. And, it follows a simple logic: If it were wrong, I would be ashamed of it and attempt to conceal it. The fact that I havent attempted to shroud it is proof of its virtue.
That is whats maddening about the Trump presidency: how much harm has been done as America looked on, with full awareness of the damage, and Trump has yet to be held accountable for any of it.
But that time is drawing to an end.
Wrong is wrong, whether you parade it or put it away. In fact, it is the flaunting of wrongdoing that should carry more of a penalty, not less of one. We cant allow our numbness to make this normal. It isnt.
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