Another brilliant Facebook post by Dan Rather. I’ll share the best parts. My emphasis.
We’re now six months into the Trump Presidency…and what do we have? Especially in light of the stunning new New York Times interview with Mr. Trump?
A reasonable analysis is: What we have is the weakest, most chaotic, toxic and confusing first six months of any U.S. Presidency in history. Only Abraham Lincoln got off to a worst start, with the country virulently divided over slavery and the Civil War looming.
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No elected President—none—has had such a tumultuous, scandal-threatened, and downright mind-boggling start, with such low public approval, as has this one. And this has happened while the President’s party controlled both Houses of Congress, now likely the Supreme Court, a majority of governorships and state legislatures—and the FBI.
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In his NYT interview, Mr. Trump blasted his own appointed Attorney General, former Senator Jeff Sessions, and, in effect and not for the first time, threatened Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible crimes involving Trump family members and associates and Russia. Mr Trump specifically demanded that Mueller avoid looking into the President’s tax returns and financial dealings. In other words, “don’t follow the money,” in regards to possible Russian dealings or anything else. Thus, raising anew the question, “what is he hiding?”
So, six months in, and on and on it goes. Where it ends no one knows.
A real journalist (like Mr. Rather) would ask that question, and would continue asking it until we got answers. Good luck finding such a journalist today, but it’s a moot question anyway, seeing as we get almost no access to spokespersons and the access we have is off-camera (not to mention completely dishonest and often contradictory).
It is certainly worth repeating this, though: the so-called-Pr*sident has complete party control over all branches of government, and still can’t get anything done. Even facing walls of obstruction, the Obama administration was productive until the end. There is no excuse, other than complete incompetence in the best case scenarios, and intentional acts of treason in the worst case.
Every time the so-called-Pr*sident opens his mouth he seems to be reducing his chances of making it to 2020, let alone being elected to a second term.