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This is not okay
This is not okay
By Editorial Board July 25
WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a tweet Tuesday for not aggressively investigating Hillary Clinton, most attention focused, understandably, on the implications for Mr. Sessions. Yet even more alarming than the presidents assault on his own attorney general is Mr. Trumps return to the lock her up theme of his 2016 campaign. We need to recall, once again, what it means to live under the rule of law. Since his inauguration six months ago, so many comparisons have been made to banana republics that it is almost unfair to bananas. But there is a serious point to be made about the difference between the United States of America and a state ruled by personal whim.
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{Trumps latest rage tweets reveal a lawless, out-of-control president}
To list those basic expectations is to understand how low Mr. Trump is bringing his office. Just in the past few days, he urged Navy men and women to call Congress on behalf of his political goals and turned the National Scout Jamboree into an unseemly political rally, calling the nations politics a cesspool and a sewer and disparaging his predecessor and the media. Routinely he trades in untruths, even after they have been exposed and disproved. He has launched an unprecedented rhetorical assault on the independence of the Justice Department, the FBI and the special counsels office and now he is again threatening his defeated 2016 opponent.
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Whats at stake is much more than the careers of a particular attorney general or special counsel. The United States has been a role model for the world, and a source of pride for Americans, because it has strived to implement the law fairly. When he attacks that process and seeks revenge on his opponents, Mr. Trump betrays bedrock American values. Its crucial that other political leaders say so.
By Editorial Board July 25
WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a tweet Tuesday for not aggressively investigating Hillary Clinton, most attention focused, understandably, on the implications for Mr. Sessions. Yet even more alarming than the presidents assault on his own attorney general is Mr. Trumps return to the lock her up theme of his 2016 campaign. We need to recall, once again, what it means to live under the rule of law. Since his inauguration six months ago, so many comparisons have been made to banana republics that it is almost unfair to bananas. But there is a serious point to be made about the difference between the United States of America and a state ruled by personal whim.
....
{Trumps latest rage tweets reveal a lawless, out-of-control president}
To list those basic expectations is to understand how low Mr. Trump is bringing his office. Just in the past few days, he urged Navy men and women to call Congress on behalf of his political goals and turned the National Scout Jamboree into an unseemly political rally, calling the nations politics a cesspool and a sewer and disparaging his predecessor and the media. Routinely he trades in untruths, even after they have been exposed and disproved. He has launched an unprecedented rhetorical assault on the independence of the Justice Department, the FBI and the special counsels office and now he is again threatening his defeated 2016 opponent.
....
Whats at stake is much more than the careers of a particular attorney general or special counsel. The United States has been a role model for the world, and a source of pride for Americans, because it has strived to implement the law fairly. When he attacks that process and seeks revenge on his opponents, Mr. Trump betrays bedrock American values. Its crucial that other political leaders say so.
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This is not okay (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2017
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no_hypocrisy
(46,094 posts)1. What's problematic is that Trump will continue to hound HRC because
it's another one of his "campaign promises" that he just HAS TO keep to "Americans".
Just because it didn't get traction with the Senate and Sessions this week doesn't necessarily mean that Trump won't find another way to get her investigated and indicted.
All you have to do is look at Governor Don Siegelman to know that it's more than feasible.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)2. republicans need to step up....
yeah, right....