There’s an OpEd in today’s Washington Post “Trump is a cancer on the presidency. Congress should remove him” by someone identified simply as “a lawyer in New York.” Why is this particular lawyer’s opinion that Trump should be impeached so special?
According to the 2000 census there were 57,000 lawyers in New York City, 42.1 per 1000 people. I doubt very many would get a byline that merely identified them as “a lawyer.”
Of course you’ve probably figured this out.
The lawyer isn’t just any lawyer as this classic three word tweet from March shows:
You’ll need a subscription to the WaPo to read the OpEd. Here are some choice excerpts from his article which first lays out the reasons Trump should be impeached, all of them articulated elsewhere, but then compares Trump with Richard Nixon. Nixon, who he considers passive in Watergate prior to the cover-up, comes off as a paragon of virtue compared to Donald Trump who he calls a “one-man show” trying to influence the Mueller investigation.
His aides tried to stop him, according to Mueller: “The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.”
As for Trump’s supposed defense that there was no underlying “collusion” crime, well, as the special counsel points out, it’s not a defense, even in a criminal prosecution. But it’s actually unhelpful in the comparison to Watergate. The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.
The investigation that Trump tried to interfere with here, to protect his own personal interests, was in significant part an investigation of how a hostile foreign power interfered with our democracy. If that’s not putting personal interests above a presidential duty to the nation, nothing is.
White House counsel John Dean famously told Nixon that there was a cancer within the presidency and that it was growing. What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J. Trump.
Needless to say George Conway is in a unique marriage and his view of Trump is colored by the fact that his wife works closely with him as one of his primary defenders. In addition to this, he is among the select group who have an ability to get under the president’s skin.
With this prominent opinion piece let’s see if Trump tweets about him today. So far he hasn’t tweeted at all this morning, unusual for him suggesting something is brewing in his unbalanced mind. The Game Over tweet from 24 hours ago is still on the top of his Twitter page.
My photoshops from yesterday.
I also post my photoshops on my Twitter page and Instagram.
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Kellyanne Conway told reporters at the White House that the release of the Mueller report was the “best day” of Trump’s presidency since his 2016 election. “I called this a political proctology exam,” Conway later said on Fox News, “and he’s emerging with a clean bill of health.” But last night, her husband, George Conway, published a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post calling for Trump’s impeachment. “White House counsel John Dean famously told Nixon that there was a cancer within the presidency and that it was growing. What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J. Trump,” he wrote. “Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay.”
From Vanity Fair:
“A NORMAL PERSON WOULD HAVE BEEN INDICTED”: TRUMPWORLD RECKONS WITH THE MUELLER REPORT’S DEVASTATING IMPACT
William Barr couldn’t save them. In 448 pages, a deeply corrupt West Wing culture was revealed. And the real time bomb, says a Trumpworld insider, “is the S.D.N.Y.”