It’s been obvious over the past several years that Trump considers himself above the law. His oath of office, the Constitution of the United States, and the laws under which the rest of us live are mere guidelines that he can ignore whenever he wants to. This, of course, stems from his upbringing and the way in which he has done business throughout his life. Pay for nothing; apologize for nothing; do nothing. He has adhered to this way of living for the entirety of his presidency and there is no question that he is not going to deviate from it anytime soon. Anyone who opined that he would become more presidential as time passed has been proven entirely wrong; instead he has made the office itself less presidential.
BILL ME LATER. When Trump was criss crossing the country while running for the presidency, he oftentimes praised the police forces who turned out to maintain security and keep the peace while Trump’s people busily assaulted reporters and liberals. But they didn’t do it out of the goodness of their hearts. The Trump campaign was supposed to pay them. So now it’s over two years later and the police forces of ten cities are owed over $800,000 by the Trump campaign. And here’s no shock at all; the campaign has absolutely no intention of paying anyone. Why should they? Throughout his career Trump is notorious for hiring people to do work for him and then stiffing them, challenging them to take him to court if they have any hope of receiving compensation. That’s how he operates. He screws people over. It’s a cost of doing business.
BRING ON COLLUSION. For two years now, Trump has repeated a familiar refrain when it comes to the Mueller report. “No collusion!” he has said over and over, ignoring the fact that the report was never seeking to find out if there was any. It’s never mentioned anywhere in its mandate and the word has no legal meaning. Yet this week, in an interview with George Stephanpoulos (dude, seriously, change your name to George Stevens or something) he basically asserted, repeatedly, that he would be totally open to a foreign country approaching him with scurrilous information about an opposition candidate. Would he listen to it or would he inform the FBI? Well, heck, he’d do both, he claimed, although he went on to say that never in his life had he ever contacted the FBI about anything, even though he had witnessed all manner of things that were presumably illegal. So the subtext was that no, he wouldn’t tell the Feds about it at all. Even though to keep such information to himself or to accept help from a foreign country is illegal, he would not hesitate to do so. There’s a word for that: Collusion. He sent a direct message to anyone interested in helping to skew another election that he is completely open to it. He has since tried to walk it back, claiming that of COURSE he’d contact the FBI, a recanting that convinces no one except for the idiots on Fox News who–outraged that Trump would speak to anyone aside from them–are demanding of each other to know why in the world Trump would even bother to speak to George in the first place. Since they’re Trumpists, naturally their go-to tactic is insults, because that’s what Trump routinely resorts to.
LIES, ÐÃMN LIES AND STATISTICS. Trump’s internal polls have been released that dictate what we all hope to be true: that voters uniformly aren’t supporting him for reelection. The polls indicate that Biden would clobber him; that Sanders would clobber him; that most of the Democrats would clobber him. Has he taken that as a cue to change his ways? To come up with carefully designed plans to address things that matter to the voters? To shut down his Twitter account? Of course not. Instead he has now coined “FakePolls” as his new mantra, declaring that either the news outlets reporting them are lying, or that the polls are false. Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt; it is where Trump lives.
KELLYANNE CON JOB. It’s been exactly seventy years since the passing of the Hatch Act, which was created to prevent members of the Executive Branch from participating in certain forms of political activity. For one thing, they can’t go out and attack other politicians. It is an act that Kellyanne Conway has routinely ignored, and the Office of Special Counsel has stated that she should be fired for doing so. Is Trump going to do that? Fire her because she has routinely violated the law? Of course not. Why are you asking? Why are you even wondering? It’s already been said: Trump has no respect for the law and sees no reason why he or anyone who works for him has to pay the slightest bit of attention to it.
You know, the more I ponder impeachment, the more I’m starting to believe that the Democrats are overthinking. It is beyond question that his attempts to obstruct justice are impeachable offenses. Beyond question. What it comes down to is, is the House going to do its job or fail to do so because of political considerations? They have a constitutional obligation to oversee the President and thus far have shirked their duty in that regards. It’s clear that Trump is not the slightest bit interested in doing his job. Is the House of Representatives going to do theirs?
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