Will This Man Take Down Donald Trump?

[CousinIT]

"I like you. You and me, we’re going to be best friends.”

It is early January, and Eric Schneiderman is sitting in his 25th-floor office above Lower Manhattan, doing his best Donald Trump impression, puckering his lips into a duck face, scrunching up his nose and lowering his voice into something that resembles the president’s outer-borough growl.

Schneiderman is recalling his meeting with Trump in 2010. Back then, Schneiderman was running for attorney general of New York, and Trump was still in his pre-birther, reality TV host phase. Trump had donated money to one of Schneiderman’s opponents in the Democratic primary. Schneiderman managed to pull off a come-from-behind victory, and after the race, he went to Trump Tower to ask for a donation for the general election. Trump coughed up $12,500 to the Democrat, and Schneiderman went on to beat his Republican opponent and win.

But Trump and Schneiderman did not become best friends. That meeting was the beginning of a long and increasingly bitter saga between the two. Schneiderman took up the state’s existing case against Trump University—New York wanted the school to drop the “university” from its name, since it was not chartered as an institution of higher learning and lacked a license to offer instruction—and as he pursued it over the next five years, he became the target of a relentless series of personal attacks from the Trump camp. Trump filed an ethics complaint alleging that Schneiderman offered to drop the suit in exchange for donations; he went on television to denounce Schneiderman as a hack and a lightweight, and said he was wasting millions of taxpayer dollars when he should have been going after Wall Street. (Never mind that Schneiderman had already been declared “the man the banks fear most” by the liberal magazine The American Prospect.) “The whole scorched-earth strategy towards those who would challenge him, we got a preview of,” says Schneiderman.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/eric-schneiderman-donald-trump-new-york-214734

[elleng]

1. A good one,

posted yesterday: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016176541

[burrowowl]

2. K&R!!!!!!

[pat_k]

3. The best comes at the end:

The best comes at the end:

“We are facing a crisis, not over conservative or liberal, but a crisis over whether or not the rule of law is respected or not, over whether the Constitution is respected or not, and whether the central American notion of equal justice under the law and that everyone be treated with dignity and equality and fairness—all that is at issue now,” he told the crowd.

But don’t despair, he hastened to add. “There is good news, too: Those who were asleep,” he said, “are now awake.”

For the sake of our future, I hope he is right.

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Wow, you were right

The last line gave me chills - in a good way!

[pat_k]

6. Great DU name!

I am not counting on enough people waking up, but hope springs eternal!

No matter what, I'll keep doing what I can to help a fire under the Dems in Congress. What the nation needs to see from them is 100% opposition to every single part of the Trump/Right-Wingnut agenda. Doesn't matter if they think they can "win." Standing and fighting, win or lose, is a "winner." They could finally prove that they actually HAVE some principles they are willing to go all out for. As Bill Clinton said, “When people are insecure, they’d rather have somebody who is strong and wrong than someone who’s weak and right.”

Unfortunately, it's an effort to look to the future with the kind of hope needed for action. So called Democratic "leadership" over the past few decades doesn't inspire confidence. Some of the thoughts that give me nightmares:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028593113#post9

[AwakeAtLast]

7. Thank you!

My original one was "WakeMeUp". We were allowed to change when Obama was elected in 2009, I think.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. K&R ..good stuff. Thank you!!! n/t

[Cha]

8. Kick for Schneiderman