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MAGA ‘Implosion’: GOP power shrinks in Washington as chaos hobbles Republican schemes – MSNBC
Mar 13, 2024 #MAGA #GOP #Republicans
Many Republicans plan to skip the House GOP retreat as tensions run high inside the party. Fewer than 100 Republicans have RSVP’d to attend the retreat, which is less than half of the entire conference, MSNBC’S Katie Phang is joined by MSNBC’s Johnathan Capehart and The BBC’s Katy Kay. (Check out The Beat’s playlist: https://msnbc.com/ari
Trump has taken the Republican Party into his own stream of income available exclusively to him and his family by purging the Republicans from party leadership that refuse to bow to him in complete blind obedience and absolute loyalty with fealty going only to him, allegiance only to him, decisions only made by him, his perspectives on everything as the only one used (whether they make any sense or are based in reality or not.)
From an interview with Bill Kristol of the Bulwark on Amanpour recently –
(5.18)>>Now they’re going to come back with really you know the real plans of how not to be thwarted. So I think it’s much more dangerous this time. >>So what do you think they’re going to do? >>The things Trump tried to do after he lost the election November 3rd to January 6, what he tried to do in the defense department, what he tried to do in the Justice Department, what he tried to do in the intelligence agencies. I think those are all things he will now try to do from day one.
Will he transform America on January 21st 2025 into an Orban-like Hungary state or something like that? No, of course not. We have many many more structures and institutions that will slow him down so to speak. But over a year, two years, three years the kinds of appointees he might put into Justice and Defense, all these barriers we kind of take for granted. The Criminal Division of the Justice department is not going to be used to go after your critics or that contracts are not going to be given out in other departments simply to friends, all the things that have happened on the margins of American politics for decades and for centuries and that we’ve mostly pushed back successfully against but those are the abuses we think of right? The scandals that Nixon and the justice department Nixon trying to use the CIA those scandals will become kind of the routine for Trump.
It didn’t happen because there were a lot of barriers in place to just having a president snap his fingers and fire people from the civil service or from military service but again if they get to work on that on January 21st 2025 uh you know a few months later they can remove a lot of those barriers so that’s what uh Trump sort of said when you mentioned Victor Orban the authoritarian leader in Hungary comes down to Mara-Lago last week and Trump said I want to be that way I want to be able to just order and he orders and he gets things done
(9.16) // but the dysfunction is not solved by dictatorship or by arbitrary rule that makes things even worse uh there are re one of the worst things about the whole about Trump and Trump ISM it makes it harder to pursue sensible reforms because honestly what has to defend the status quo against these kinds of attempts at arbitrary power but the status quo does need to be reformed to be fair Joe Biden has done a fair amount of uh reforming he’s pursued a pretty activist agenda he’s gotten a lot of stuff through Congress so it’s not as if we’ve seen entirely seen dysfunction in the Biden era and he’s got bipartisan support let’s say for aiding Ukraine in foreign policy uh and there it’s Trump himself and Mike Johnson his his Speaker of the House who’s stopping a by a policy that it has bipartisan support of helping Ukraine against Putin get through so you know they complain about the dysfunction but then they add to the dysfunction
Bill Kristol, 2024 on Amanpour, Bill Kristol on Trump’s “Authoritarian Vision” for a Second Term
He’s not wrong – the people Trump is pulling around him in deals to get their support is like watching all the powers of our government being used as trading cards or assets to be given out in trade for Trump getting his power to take over our presidency. And, all the powers and resources of our nation are at stake.
Meanwhile, Russia mocks Trump hosting Orban at Mara-Lago like he’s a king. But, he thinks as president, the powers are those of a king. He worshiped and praised Orban and he does Putin even more so. And, it is obvious that Trump will install all the powers of a dictatorship using our government resources to do it with many of those people and organizations like the Christian Nationalists getting much of our governments’ power in trade for supporting him in their evangelical churches, using their massive organizations’ resources, their money to buy ads and influence campaigns online, etc. ad nauseum.
Olga Skabeeva gloats over Viktor Orban and Donald Trump
Wannabe Dictator: Donald Trump has confused the job of President with King – MSNBC
Feb 7, 2024 #msnbc #january6 #trump
Rep Zoe. Lofgren (D-CA) and former member of the January 6th Select Committee, Tim Heaphy, former lead investigator for the January 6th Select Committee, and Rick Stengel, former top state department official during the Obama Administration join Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the House GOP continuing to do Trump’s bidding by introducing legislation that Donald Trump did not engage in insurrection, the same week the Supreme Court is set to hear his ballot eligibility case.
CLIP OF TRUMP SAYING – 0:08
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE AUTHORITY IS TOTAL. THAT’S THE WAY IT’S GOT TO BE.
>> WHEN THE PRESIDENT DOES IT, IT’S NOT ILLEGAL?
>> I’M SAYING A PRESIDENT UNDER ARTICLE TWO, IT’S VERY STRONG. READ IT. >> IT GIVES ME ALL THESE RIGHTS.
Wannabe Dictator: Donald Trump has confused the job of President with King, Feb. 7, 2024
Trump and the Republican Party are compromised and no longer exist as supporters of the United States, our Constitution and our founding principles of freedoms, human & civil rights for all citizens, equal justice and the rule-of-law, liberty for all as a God-given right to every human being. They don’t believe any of that and fully intend to destroy all of it in pursuit of their self-serving goals at the expense of all of our lives, all of our potential and all of our nation’s future.
There is no good in this to stand by and pretend it isn’t all that bad to have a dictator. The king we fought against was no different than Trump and he is no less a tyrant than Hitler was or Putin is now.
The Republican Party is gone. Its resources belong to Trump in every way now. There is no separation between Fascism and the Trump plans to use our government as it suits him. There is the Election 2024 in November that is likely to be distorted in all the ways we’ve watched Trump do in 2016 and in 2020.
RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 U.S. ELECTIONS
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES; FALSE REGISTRATION OF A DOMAIN NAME; AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT; CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-elections
On July 13, 2018, a federal grand jury sitting in the District of Columbia returned an indictment against 12 Russian military intelligence officers for their alleged roles in interfering with the 2016 United States (U.S.) elections. The indictment charges 11 defendants, Boris Alekseyevich Antonov, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, Nikolay Yuryevich Kozachek, Aleksey Viktorovich Lukashev, Artem Andreyevich Malyshev, Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Ivan Sergeyevich Yermakov, Pavel Vyacheslavovich Yershov, and Viktor Borisovich Netyksho, with a computer hacking conspiracy involving gaining unauthorized access into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, stealing documents from those computers, and staging releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The indictment also charges these defendants with aggravated identity theft, false registration of a domain name, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Two defendants, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk and Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, are charged with a separate conspiracy to commit computer crimes, relating to hacking into the computers of U.S. persons and entities responsible for the administration of 2016 U.S. elections, such as state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and U.S. companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration of U.S. elections. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. issued a federal arrest warrant for each of these defendants upon the grand jury’s return of the indictment.
FBI Most Wanted, RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 U.S. ELECTIONS
Trump is doing a tremendously wrong thing for the US and our citizens when he claims he is still president and even more so, when he claims Russia’s interference in our elections is a hoax. Maybe he should move to Russia. He would love it and be so much happier there under Putin’s rules.
Trump as dictator on Day One will be a dictator on Day Two. Look at the long list of civil ,& human rights roll backs done by Republicans when he was in office before – https://civilrights.org
Trump does not deserve to be president because he does horrible things when he is president or given the opportunity to hold that much power and where he can order the people in our government to do what he wants without anything to hold him back from what he chooses to do with it.
We have an option to choose who we want for our president or any place in our government. This indicted criminal and known business fraud Trump and his admiring, worshipful fealties to money, power, foreign dictators, big business donors and billionaires – should not be on the list of people chosen for anywhere in our government, especially not for our nation’s presidency.
- cricketdiane, 03-14-24
Trump FOREIGN EXPOSURE Again Surges Into CROSS-HAIRS
Mar 13, 2024 Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union Address last week, and urged Republicans to join him in standing up to Vladimir Putin. He also called out former President Trump for telling Putin he could do “whatever the hell he wants.” Investigate journalist Dave Troy discusses the history behind Donald Trump’s affinity for Putin and his strongman approach to governing. Support Veterans for Responsible Leadership Here: http://www.vfrl.org. Support Against All Enemies here: http://www.patreon.com/KenHarbaugh
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