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Trump Administration Subpoenaed Apple for Data on Two House Intelligence Committee Democrats
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Of course, no other President could or would have accelerated the process. Trump has Special Powers, obviously. So special, that the three Casinos he owned all went bankrupt. Casinos... where you literally take money off people for nothing in return. Just because he's Trump, doesn't mean he must always win - see recent Presidential Election for details.
NB: Yes, he did lose. By the same margin that he won his single term - which he claimed was a landslide.
At what point does the tsunami of filth that emanates from him become intolerable and inexcusable? What exactly would he have to do to change you mind that he's not the person you think he is?
You need to look at the video of the press conferences. He did not say to inject disinfectant. Go take a look.
Now I'm no constitutional scholar, I don't even play a political scientist on TV - but no - I do not believe that "to serve and protect their citizens" is a useful "job description", for the office of president.
Note that "serving" the citizens is implicit in taking political office within a democratic system (direct or indirect).
The constitution - as the main document that codifies the rights, freedoms and redress of a country's citizens - is larger than any particular person and, in the case of the USA, was specifically crafted to avoid situations such as the tyranny of the majority - which remains a threat in secular times.
Therefore I think that the President's duty to uphold the Constitution is actually more important than the unquantifiable "protect its citizens".
I don't think that Trump did a good job at any of the above - but that is not relevant to what the function of the office of the President should be and is.
NB am not an American citizen, but have significant experience with the USA.
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We're talking past each other. You're referencing his constitutional obligations. I am not, right from the beginning with my first post.
Just as an example...the oath of office says nothing about the president telling the truth to the American people. And that's fine. Still, I and many others believe he should.
You mean like taking over the healthcare industry, student loan program, establishing a department of education, complicit in the censoring of public discourse in social media, the forced closure of privately owned automoibile dealers, etc.?
Again I ask, what did laws/actions did Trump specifically do for you to call him a dictator?
Although you aren't a citizen you seem to understand the responsibilities of the federal government better than those who are.
Vol. 2 of the Mueller report literally said they can't prosecute Trump while he's in office. I challenge you to read that report and tell me there was no wrong doing. Did it meet the high bar that is "conspiracy"? Thats debatable, and DOJ doesn't go to trial unless they have a rock solid case.
But Trump made some horrifically awful decisions during his first campaign. Taking a meeting with Russians? How dumb do you have to be?
Spying on the press and political rivals is a good start. I think his words were closer to a dictators than anything. Like if DOJ would have let him just jail people he didnt like, i think he would have gone there. He certainly tried to.
Just because they were too incompetent to accomplish their goal doesn't mean they didn't have one. Don't defend terrorists.
No one's defending anyone. Let's just stop with the hyperventilating, left/media talking point nonsense about what this was. This was no worse than any other idiotic behavior perpetrated at the Capitol, including the 2020 Lafayette Square Antifa/BLM protest. Dip-wad behavior by unarmed protestors does not an "insurrection" or "coup" make -- no matter how hard one side or the other tries to position it.
Americans have zero understanding what Communism is, so to illustrate you point to a anti communist pro capitalist country, Russia and then somehow this makes Trumps non-war foreign policy a bad thing. You didn't get the memo on the bounty-hoax. Even the MSM admitted it was just the latest attempt to prevent you from supporting the anti war pro minority president. And they succeeded. You refuse to support the president who didn't start a new war and helped minorities, but come next election you will once again pretend these are your core values.
TikTok is an app from a Communist country, spying on American citizens. Every public official swears an oath to protect the homeland against foreign and domestic enemies. Now, you may or may not side with this particular enemy, I don't know, but protecting their subversive activities in America hardly makes you a patriot.
They were absolutely armed. Yes, with guns. Just because an insurrection failed doesn't mean it wasn't one. The supporters of the election loser invaded the legislature while it was in session certifying that he'd indeed lost. Again, stop defending terrorists.
I did. What was Mueller's recommendation to congress (who could prosecute) again?
Are we talking about the same meetings? The ones as President Elect, where meeting with foreign officials is normal and expected? The meetings with "Russians" before the election with were clear opposition set-ups (one of many).
On their face value, meetings for dialogue with Russia are not a bad thing.
No question he did/said things that were monumentally stupid during the first campaign. References to Mexican citizens and others were dreadful. But we really need to bring in Hillary's dreadful prior comments if we are going to go down that rabbit hole. I'd rather not, but her Super Predator comments are imprinted in my mind, just as Trump's are in yours.
Please provide evidence of capital protesters armed with firearms.
It was a crowd of geriatric Qanon Baby Boomers, Feds, attention-thirsty You Tubers, and experienced leftist political activists LARPing as Trump supporters. Of course it failed.
The January 6th events were not Trump's core supporters. Don't try to keep pinning that on us, as we do not associate anyone voting Biden or Bernie to be burning cities down all last summer.
The stuff you're making up is the funniest thing I've ever read. He ignored the dire warnings of his national security advisors, who turned out to be right, and then intentionally lied to the American public about the 15 cases disappearing in two weeks.
Stop making excuses for trump's cowardice.
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One man, Lonnie Coffman, is facing multiple weapons charges after police say they found him in possession of five guns, eleven Molotov cocktails, a crossbow, smoke bombs and a stun gun.
Coffman was arrested only because police were investigating pipe bombs that were discovered near the Capitol at the Republican Party and Democratic Party headquarters and noticed one of the guns in his truck while securing the area.
Authorities have said they don't believe Coffman was behind the pipe bombs and have yet to identify a suspect.
In charging documents filed with the federal district court in D.C., police said they searched Coffman’s truck while sweeping the areas around the pipe bombs, finding the weapons along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a list of public officials and journalists that identified them as “good guys” and “bad guys.”
“In the end, this is a defendant with access to firearms and numerous other lethal weapons, dangerous incendiary mixtures creating napalm, who appears to have been motivated to conduct violence against our elected representatives,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
“The defendant brought these weapons to the immediate vicinity of the U.S. Capitol Building, and traveled to the area with two firearms on his person. The amount of weapons suggests an intent to provide them to others, as no one person could reasonably use so many at once,” they added.
Police seized alarming number of weapons on Capitol rioters, court documents show
Police have seized an alarming number of guns from President Trump’s supporters who descended on Washington, D.C., last week and stormed the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress’s…
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Guns and ammunition were found in and around the Capitol, notably on Cleveland Grover Meredith, Lonnie Coffman, and Christopher Alberts, and of course the crowd wasn't thoroughly searched. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/capitol-protesters-were-armed-with-variety-of-weapons/ https://www.politifact.com/factchec...jan-6-capitol-assault-was-armed-insurrection/
People waving giant Trump flags while storming the Capitol in his name aren't his core supporters? Please.