A majority of Republicans in many red states are also OK with taking away women’s and girls’ rights to abortion as a result of rape - even when perpetuated against children. They dress it up as high minded morality when it is actually cruel and depraved. |
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OP, Trump began his time as President by disclosing intelligence information. Intelligence and military officials have disclosed that he had little or no interest in understanding military deployments, international security, and they had to dumb down their briefing sessions with him.
He has no respect for the country's laws and institutions, least of all our Constitution. When he was told that the Vice President was being threatened with lynching, his response was "so what?" When he was told that armed individuals were showing up at his rally in DC on January 6, he wanted them let in. If the people who attacked the Capitol had been left-wing, he would have cheerfully called for authorities to just shoot them. Instead, he told these people he loved them. He tried to leverage Ukraine's request for military assistance by demanding personal favors. Before he was president, he was a swindler who did not pay his debts and defrauded people who bought into his promotion of Trump University, thinking they too could gain wealth. Whatever his statements about the border, he himself employed undocumented immigrants at his golf resorts. Although other politicians have cheated on their spouses, only Trump has boasted about his sexual aggression towards women, and only Trump has been found to pay off a prostitute in order to protect his political ambitions. Probably for most people, who gets elected president does not have a huge impact on their daily lives. For others, the impact can be staggering--such is if you are a woman in Texas with a pregnancy complication and end up having to risk death from sepsis because Trump appointed justices who would overturn Roe v Wade, and they did just that, enabling the state of Texas to enact and enforce the very laws that would endanger that woman. But it's not just about whether we get personal advantage or disadvantage based on who is president. If I were a member of a middle-class household in Germany in the 30s--and not Jewish, not Catholic, not a Socialist, and not disabled--life might work out pretty well for me. But in the end it would be on my conscience what happened to other people in order to make me more prosperous. It's also about the system of government we have, the one to which, to become a citizen, I think you had to swear allegiance to. Do you remember that oath? It includes "I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America." Guess what, you have seen this former president do everything he possibly could to attack that Constitution and those laws--even before he skedaddled with boxes of classified documents he had no legal right to stash in his bathroom. So, please just think about that. |
Thank you for your clear eyed summary …. |
| Because he fundamentally does not believe in the rule of law. |
Fact check: she's a porn star, not a prostitute. Everything else you said is true. |
I occasionally exceed the posted speed limit. John Wayne Gacy killed a lot of people. We both have troubles with the law. Trump stole national defense documents, is a tax cheat, tried to overthrow the government and prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and routinely seeks to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. judicial system. He doesn't believe in the rule of law -- which is different than not obeying the law at all times. |
Agree - it is absurd that you even have to articulate the false equivalences … there is no comparison. |
| What’s not to love about a man running for President so he can stay out of jail?! |
+1 to all and the bolded needs to be pointed out more often |
| He is a terrible human. I can't think of one positive trait he has |
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I hate him because he has absolutely zero respect for women except as a sex object.
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Their interaction was a business transaction. |
He paid to keep her from telling her story. He did not pay her for sex. |
There was compensation involved in exchange for the act. It was a business transaction |
No one is this dumb 1. Trump stole $1.8 from sick children with Cancer at ST Judes. He only stopped at that number because he was caught 2. Trump & Co stole $4 mil from New York 9/11 first responders doesn't get more unamerican than that. 3. Trump is the only President in the history of the US that did not accept the vote. That right there is a disqualification we do not have KINGS we live in the US not MAGADONIA 4. Project 2025 5. RW garbage 6. Dictatorships 7. Criminality like no other person in the History of the US. 8. Lying sack of crap OP you are literally an idiot. |