So Trump has gone from asking Russia to hack Hillary and the Democrats to extorting Ukraine for dirt on Joe Biden; and now he openly asks China to investigate the Bidens. I guess he thinks well he got away with it once maybe if he does it out loud and not just on an official White House phone call with another head of state he will get away with it again.
And meanwhile he’s ruining the reputation of a dedicated public servant, who is by all accounts a good person.
I find this infuriating. First place Trump is obviously violating his oath of office and must be removed ASAP.
Second, he cannot be allowed to run for President again. He is clearly rigging the election before our very eyes.
Third, these smears on Biden are just reprehensible. But this tactic is hardly limited to Donald Trump. Mudslinging is a Republican specialty.
The decades of Republican attacks on the Clintons were bad enough. They hounded Bill Clinton and finally impeached him for lying about a private consensual affair and tormented Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton with obscene questions which were apparently written by none other than Brett Kavanaugh.
Then they started in on Hillary Clinton. But her emails. And the Clinton Foundation. And Uranium One. And Benghazi.
Now this?
If I were Biden I would take a page from Trump's long book and sue. I'd sue Trump's pants off. I would sue him for every last brass chandelier and every brick in every ill-gotten tower.
Meanwhile though that leaves the American people with yet another damaged public servant who deserves better. And we deserve better.
But as long as the GOP is bereft of ideas except enrich the rich, oppress women and people of color and destroy the environment we're doomed. They shamelessly attack and destroy good Democratic candidates who do have ideas and who can lead. Look what they did to John Kerry.
Shame on the Republicans. They are utterly immoral and deplorable to the bone. And if a Republican does have a conscience, does still believe in law and order they attack him viciously. They went after Grassley for defending the whistleblower. They are going after Amash who had to leave the GOP. They are spreading disinformation about Mitt Romney.
This isn’t a normal political party. It’s totalitarian and maybe, fatally dangerous to American democracy.
Here’s the story about what they’re doing to Republican critics of Trump:
www.washingtonpost.com/…
Frankly I think we need to be tough enough to withstand the barrages of disinformation that helped put Trump into the White House in the first place. Too many of us were discouraged or turned off by the lies in 2016. Republicans have to be brave enough to deal with it too even though it’s hard. Nobody wants to be attacked. But it’s really just WORDS.
We can’t let them get us down.