Tangential to this issue, and maybe more generally for the likes of GulfTiger…
Ukraine/Russia.
Anybody that remembers Trump’s first Impeachment remembers that it was based on Trump’s “perfect call” with Zelenskyy.
In that call, Trump threatened to withhold some $300M of US taxpayer dollars – already allocated to Ukraine to help them fend off Russian aggression – unless Ukraine, working through Rudy Giuliani, fabricated dirt on Joe Biden, then Trump’s likely 2020 opponent – dirt that still seems to elude legitimate discovery four years later, it should be said.
There could have been no greater gift to Putin than denying Ukraine previously allocated US aid dollars at such a perilous time, and the greatest part for Trump was – per usual – he was blackmailing using somebody else’s money: the American taxpayers’.
Similarly, in the current election cycle, Trump has repeatedly said that he’d essentially stop the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza, and secure the release of Americans held in Russia (eg, Evan Gershkovich) with a phone call, immediately upon being re-elected (ie, as President-elect, not even waiting to take the office).
As Trump held Ukraine hostage on that phone call, he daily reminds us now that he still holds the Ukrainian people hostage, just as he holds the Middle East hostage, and just as he holds any Americans being held by the Russians hostage.
The clear implication is that he could make that phone call at any time he wanted (unless – of course – there’s just not much he can do for Putin as TFG (ie, Vlad’s not taking his calls)).
He simply chooses not to.
And if any of that matters to you At. All., then you know what you have to do: just hand the title to the long-running but perpetually fragile American Democratic Experiment directly over to him.