Hiding behind your Presidency only works for so long Mr Trump
ONALD TRUMP is promising a civil war within the country he is supposed to unite.
“If the Democrats are successful in removing the
President from office (which they will never be) it will cause a civil war-like fracture in this nation from which our country will never heal,” the panicking President tweeted this week.
The shocking claim is just one of dozens Trump has trumped up since an enquiry into whether he should be impeached was launched.
“Was this person SPYING on the US President? Big Consequences,” he warned the person who blew the whistle on his pressuring of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to help him win re-election by asking him to investigate a political rival.
“You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now,” he later told a gathering of diplomats, hinting the whistleblower should receive the death penalty.
Trump, backed by his Republican goons, has been in meltdown ever since details of his calls with Zelensky were made public after a CIA agent came forward to o express concerns.
The informant alleged the President had tried to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 American election by investigating Joe Biden “for personal gain”.
According to the unidentified intelligence official, White House officials als were so “deeply disturbed” by the US leader’s phone call with Zelensky, that they tried to cover it up.
The whistleblower’s complaint was initially held back from politicians by acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, after he consulted with the White House.
But after the Trump administration released a “memorandum of conversation” of the July phone call, which the US leader thought would clear him of any wrongdoing, it is now at the centre of Trump’s possible impeachment.
The move, against the wishes of senior cabinet members, backfired spectacularly with critics saying the conversation was a clear breach of power and the President should be impeached.
During the call, Trump is heard asking Zelensky to do him “a favour” and investigate Biden and his son, Hunter Biden over their time and work in the Ukraine.
But what is most shocking throughout it all is the clarity of Trump’s wrongdoing.
By his admission, and backed up by the transcript, he abused the power of the presidency to enlist a foreign government to help him politically.
Unlike the Mueller investigation into 2016 Russian election meddling, people don’t have to
wade w through thousands th of pages of evidence evid to find the truth – it is as a clear a bell.
It seems Trump has learnt nothing over the past three years.
All presidents know every move they make is subject to scrutiny. The problem, however, for Trump is his closet was filled with skeletons before he entered the White House, and now he can’t stop adding decomposing bodies to the pile.
And while it appears to most that Trump is above the law, this is only the situation as long as he remains in office. Once he leaves, he can be indicted for any past crimes, including any he may have committed as President.
At that point, Trump’s only legal protection will be the time limit for charging a crime. For most crimes, including campaign finance and
obstruction violations, that is five years which is why for him his re-election is so vital.
Three years ago, Trump’s run for the presidency was motivated by power and greed.
Today, he needs the protection a second term in office would bring.
Trump has been embroiled in dog fights ever since he was elected.
The prospect of swapping a gold-plated toilet for a moulded plastic prison one will be his biggest yet.