Yes, indeed: “WMD” (which BTW is not a word, but I’ll let that slide). “One word.” You cite one WORD from one President in the past. You have, in fact, supported my point. Thank you.
We now have a President who urps out thousands of words, lies, meaningless statements, boasts and brags, and general excrement every single day and throughout the day with NO filters on himself. If you are seriously and thoughtfully comparing the way thump conducts himself as President day in and day out with the way ANY other President has conducted himself, then you are so far out of touch with reality that I cannot communicate with you. Sorry.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t think or want to win. BUT, what’s with the collusion/conspiracy the Russians? Wasn’t that all about helping him win so they could do some tit for tat?
I think Nava was using WMDs and Loser Don’s access to them as an example as to how things could get much, much lower. We may be in the basement, but it looks like the building has a sub-sub-basement.
This is what I suspect. He was setting himself up to be the new president’s biggest, most-famous antagonist. He was likely planning on building a media company around it. Load her up with taint during the campaign, and then spend the next four years making a billion dollars talking about it. Harping on the Obama birther shit was just the seeds of an idea; Hillary’s emails, Bengazi, et al were going to be the golden apples he was going to really cash in on.
No, I was referencing the WMD which Hussein totally, totally, totally had, except it turns out not. That was another president who did a lot to make the US lose face; those WMD moved the POTUS from “trustworthy” to “can’t be trusted without independent verification” even for the staunchest allies of the US. But that was, say, from the third floor to the second. Donny has moved it somewhere below the sewers.
For all his faults, I think W acted in what he thought were the best interests of the country. I disagree with what he wanted to do, but I don’t think anything was done with the intent of destroying the nation and I don’t think he personally sought profit from the position nor do I think he was a racist, misogynist Islamophobe.
He lied or tolerated lying in order to kill and torture people. He did have more decorum than Trump, and he might have had better intentions. But a lot of people died and were tortured.
Yeah, there’s that. The torture part is unforgivable. Before W, I never thought we’d have a president as bad as Reagan. Then Bush came along and I thought he would never be topped as worst ever. But Donald absolutely blew them both out of the water with his evil nature, stupidity, and incompetence. W thought he was in the right, Donald simply doesn’t care.
I’ve always thought Trump didn’t intend to win. Hell, you could see it in their faces the night of the election when it was called for him. They all looked dazed and frightened wandering around on the stage. Melania was dressed in what looked like her version of a Snuggie, better suited to a comfy final trip back home to Trump Tower than the biggest night of her husband’s life. The venue was the drab Midtown Hilton, not a Trump property all glitzed to the max as you would expect if Trump meant to win. The whole event screamed, “WTF?”
Russians had encouraged Trump to robustly dispute the results of the election when he lost, so it’s hard to think they actually expected him to win. Their hope was to at least make the election close – but I don’t think they dared believe they could engineer a win. They wanted to make Hillary’s presidency a living hell and to continue their efforts to delegitimize our democracy. That said, I think they were fine with it either way. They definitely want those Magnitsky Act sanctions lifted. For the Russians, there was no down side.
But the Russians could only control events on their end, not what happened here in the USA. And that’s where Comey’s move to reopen the email investigation on October 28th played its part. Up to that point, Hillary seemed to be ahead by a thin but discernible margin of 3-6%. That disintegrated in the wake of Comey’s actions, just in time to bump Trump into the Win category.
It’s interesting, too, that this is the trajectory that the Republican party is on. With W, they thought he was right. With Trump, they think he’s pissing off Democrats and that’s enough.