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Is there a single institution that the Insurrectionist in Chief did not politicize? (Original Post) malaise May 2021 OP
trump makes nixon look like a piker spanone May 2021 #1
Yep malaise May 2021 #4
No Wonder Biden wanted a different detail....Jeeezus spanone May 2021 #10
I hope all the lying lawyers are disbarred malaise May 2021 #19
Carol Leonnig is scaring me re: Trump and the Secret Service. Ocelot II May 2021 #2
Same here malaise May 2021 #5
And how far back does it go? JHB May 2021 #11
Great question malaise May 2021 #13
And the Trump adm policy changes were by the two worst political groups in the U.S. the political ShazamIam May 2021 #3
You left out the women haters and the racists malaise May 2021 #6
Mostly they're the same people - fake Christians, greedy libertarians, Ocelot II May 2021 #9
Agree malaise May 2021 #12
If so, wouldn''t the news folks have been all over it? I don't remember hearing that but it is ShazamIam May 2021 #20
True, but most of us here in DU know that is a core idea in both groups. ShazamIam May 2021 #17
I think there may be a long-established lepidopterist society in Normal, Illinois that is still Atticus May 2021 #7
Has to look that up malaise May 2021 #8
The only way the rest of us will be safe is if Trump is in prison world wide wally May 2021 #14
Well he could croak malaise May 2021 #15
That was his original plan ... via covid world wide wally May 2021 #16
As Marley would sing malaise May 2021 #18
Can you imagine the future the children face, stripped of their wealth and priviledge. 3 mothers, 5 ShazamIam May 2021 #21
You might hope the Easter Egg Roll was an exception ... sadly, it was not. eppur_se_muova May 2021 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise May 2021 #23
Everything became part of his Con malaise May 2021 #24
Agree! Tho imo "politicize" doesn't begin to describe instilling massive corruption Hortensis May 2021 #25

JHB

(37,161 posts)
11. And how far back does it go?
Tue May 18, 2021, 05:33 PM
May 2021

Remember the horseshit stories about Bill and Hillary Clinton that were sourced to anonymous Secret Service personnel.

Were the writers making it up? Or were they repeating what lying sources told them?

Similar situation to the NYC FBI office, Wiener's laptop, and spinning it into "new evidence" against Hillary.

ShazamIam

(2,575 posts)
3. And the Trump adm policy changes were by the two worst political groups in the U.S. the political
Tue May 18, 2021, 05:18 PM
May 2021

Christians who think this nation is theirs alone and the anti-government privatize everything feudalistic pirates self identified as libertarian in nature meaning, violent oppression of the masses in fact.

Ocelot II

(115,836 posts)
9. Mostly they're the same people - fake Christians, greedy libertarians,
Tue May 18, 2021, 05:31 PM
May 2021

woman-haters and racists. Birds of a feather...

malaise

(269,157 posts)
12. Agree
Tue May 18, 2021, 05:33 PM
May 2021

Question - did Trump prevent the SS from protecting Biden from election night?

I want that answered

ShazamIam

(2,575 posts)
20. If so, wouldn''t the news folks have been all over it? I don't remember hearing that but it is
Tue May 18, 2021, 05:57 PM
May 2021

believable. But then again about the news folks, they are aiding the Republicans in the downplaying of the Capital attack.

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
7. I think there may be a long-established lepidopterist society in Normal, Illinois that is still
Tue May 18, 2021, 05:24 PM
May 2021

"untainted" and, well---"normal". With that possible exception, the tendrils of the funky green plague-mist of Trumpism have infected everything.

ShazamIam

(2,575 posts)
21. Can you imagine the future the children face, stripped of their wealth and priviledge. 3 mothers, 5
Tue May 18, 2021, 06:03 PM
May 2021

children all clamoring for a share of nothing but a soiled name.

eppur_se_muova

(36,289 posts)
22. You might hope the Easter Egg Roll was an exception ... sadly, it was not.
Tue May 18, 2021, 06:50 PM
May 2021

He gave a speech about "rebuilding" the military.

Response to eppur_se_muova (Reply #22)

malaise

(269,157 posts)
24. Everything became part of his Con
Tue May 18, 2021, 06:53 PM
May 2021

The Trump administration was a kakistocracy. May turn out to be the most corrupt administration in US history

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
25. Agree! Tho imo "politicize" doesn't begin to describe instilling massive corruption
Tue May 18, 2021, 07:00 PM
May 2021

AND the Republican Party's typical systematic and opportunistic destruction in preparation for dismantling. They do it every time they get enough power. Long pattern.

At very least, Trump used all institutions as patronage opportunities for incompetent position-holders and corrupt contractors.

But now, add "treason" to the corruption. Politicize doesn't begin to describe the profound betrayal of duty and country by some in the Secret Service.

Unbelievable but horribly real. Reminds me of how afraid I was that Obama would not live to finish his first term. I watched the horrifying events described, also turmoil and betrayal within the WH's uniformed police.

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