Trump -psykoosi

En nyt keksinyt mihin ketjuun tämä ansiokas artikkeli sopisi paremmin kuin tänne... vajaa kymmenen vuotta jenkkifirmoissa sai minut nimeämään tämän johtamistyylin autistic school of managementiksi. 99% ajasta vallitsee Willful Neglect/ Reckless Indifference jossa päätös- ja ongelmavastuulle kyhätään kantoastia suorittavan portaan selkään, 1% on hillitöntä raivoa kun kaikki paska kipataan siihen.

Ehkä sopii just tähän ketjuun!

ps. ja minut indokrinoitiin sen verran perusteellisesti että olen edelleen Elohimin fan boy...:)

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-life-inside-gigafactory/
 
Yle:
Yhdysvaltalaismedia: Trump oli ”kolmas mies” tapaamisessa, jossa hyssyttelyrahoista sovittiin

Trumpin entinen asianajaja Michael Cohen on juuri tuomittu vaitiolorahojen maksamisesta.

Yhdysvaltalaismedioiden mukaan presidentti Donald Trump olisi ollut ”kolmas henkilö huoneessa”, jossa sovittiin hyssyttelyrahojen maksamisesta Trumpin kanssa suhteessa olleille naisille.

Liittovaltion syyttäjien tällä viikolla julkaisemien tietojen mukaan vuonna 2015 käytiin neuvottelu, jossa sovittiin, kuinka välttää negatiivisia Trump-uutisia presidentinvaalikampanjan aikana. Tapaamiseen osallistuivat The National Enquirer -lehden johtaja David Pecker, Trumpin silloinen asianajaja Michael Cohenin sekä ”kolmas mies”.

Raportti ei nimeä "kolmatta miestä", mutta uutiskanava NBC:n mukaan(siirryt toiseen palveluun) kyseessä olisi Trump itse. Myös The Wall Street Journal -lehti on aikaisemmin kirjoittanut, että Trump olisi ollut läsnä tapaamisessa, jossa vaitiolomaksuista sovittiin.

Paljastukset sijoittavat Trumpin siihen huoneeseen, jossa suunniteltiin rikollisia toimia, jotka vaikuttivat käynnissä olevaan presidentinvaalikampanjaan.

Trumpin entinen asianajaja on juuri tuomittu vankilaan kolmeksi vuodeksi muun muassa vaitiolorahan järjestämisestä. Cohen myönsi maksaneensa hiljaiseksi aikuisviihdetähdet Stormy Danielsin ja Karen McDougalin, jotteivät naiset kertoisi julkisuuteen seksisuhteistaan Trumpin kanssa.

Torstaina Trump twiittasi monisanaisesti, ettei hän koskaan ohjeistanut Cohenia rikkomaan lakia. Valkoisesta talosta on jo aiemmin tiedotettu, ettei Trump ole tehnyt mitään väärää vaalikampanjaansa liittyen. Lisäksi Trump on sanonut saaneensa tietää vaitiolomaksuista vasta jälkikäteen.
 
50-100 miljoonalle punaniskalle uppoaa.

Niin ja ne 50-100 miljoonaa "punaniskaa", ne saattavat vielä olla vaikuttamassa siihenkin autetaanko Eurooppaa enää kolmatta kertaa. Se on se syy miksi minä olen ollut huolestunut monien eurooppalaisten poliitikkojen sanomisista. Niistä saattaa jäädä jälkiä niiden "punaniskojen" ajatuksiin.
 
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Juuri näin. Suomestakin osattu vittuilla sinne suuntaan sevverran hienosti, että ihmettelen, jos äänestäjiä tai itse Palpatinea kiinnostaa ns. vitunkarvan vertaa, mitä jossain sysikaukana Suomessa vingutaan vinoilun jälkeen.
 
Michael Cohen kertoi Trumpin tienneen etteivät maksut naisille olleet lainmukaisia ja niiden tarkoitus oli vaikuttaa vaalikampanjaan. Trump käski Cohenin hoitamaan asiaa ja käski Cohenia järjestämään maksut naisille. Maksu Karen McDougalille sovittiin suoraan Trumpin ja David Peckerin kesken, Cohen vain tarkisti heidän tekemät asiakirjat.
Stephanopoulos: He is saying very clearly that he never directed you to do anything wrong. Is that true?

Cohen: I don't think there is anybody that believes that. First of all, nothing at the Trump organization was ever done unless it was run through Mr. Trump. He directed me, as I said in my allocution and I said as well in the plea, he directed me to make the payments, he directed me to become involved in these matters. Including the one with McDougal, which was really between him and David Pecker and then David Pecker's counsel. I just reviewed the documents ... in order to protect him. I gave loyalty to someone who truthfully does not deserve loyalty.

Stephanopoulos: He was trying to hide what you were doing, correct?

Cohen: Correct.

Stephanopoulos: And he knew it was wrong?

Cohen: Of course.

Stephanopoulos: And he was doing that to help his election?

Cohen: You have to remember at what point in time that this matter came about -- two weeks or so before the election. Post the Billy Bush ["Access Hollywood"] comments, so, yes, he was very concerned about how this would affect the election.

Stephanopoulos: To help his campaign?

Cohen: To help him and the campaign.

Stephanopoulos: You mention dirty deeds in your allocution yesterday. When you think about it, when you look back, did you know what you were doing?

Cohen: I am angry at myself because I knew what I was doing was wrong. I stood up before the world yesterday and I accepted the responsibility for my actions. The actions that I gave to a man, who, as I also said in my allocution, I was loyal to. I should not be the only one taking responsibility for his actions.

Stephanopoulos: So he's still lying?

Cohen: Yes.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mic...e-stephanopoulos-transcript/story?id=59816305
 
Sakko tullee, eli ei näillä eväillä saada presidenttejä erotettua.

Edellinen sakko tuli Obamalle ja hänen lainvastainen rahamäärä oli 1.8miljoonaa. Näin ollen sakoksi määrättiin 375000 dollaria.

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-2008-campaign-fined-375000-085784
Eikö tämä ollut jo kaikille selvä, kyseessä on täysin eri asiat.

Obaman kampanja maksoi sakkoja kun sille tuli kampanjan viimeisinä päivinä niin paljon lahjoituksia etteivät ehtineet kirjata kaikkia ylös, Trumpin kampanjallahan oli samantapaisia rikkeitä. Obama ei henkilökohtaisesti ollut osallisena. Kyse ei ollut rikoksesta vaan rikkeestä.

Trump henkilökohtaisesti määräsi lakimiehensä rikkomaan lakia ja tämä lakimies sai kyseisestä tempusta vankeustuomion. Kyseessä oli rikos jolla pyrittiin vaikuttamaan vaalitulokseen. Kyseessä oli myös temppu joka on riittävän vakava viraltapanoon.

Tämä whataboutismi ei tunnu trumpistien keskuudessa kuolevan ikinä.
 
Eikö tämä ollut jo kaikille selvä, kyseessä on täysin eri asiat.


No tottahan toki, mitä muutakaan voi odottaa. Ajattele ku jonkun pitäisi myöntää että ukkoa ei saada erotettua.


Tämä whataboutismi ei tunnu trumpistien keskuudessa kuolevan ikinä.

Nii kele.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4...om-a-slam-dunk-says-former-federal-prosecutor

Michael Cohen's guilty plea and subsequent sentencing don't mean it's a slam-dunk that President Trump will be hit with charges of breaking campaign finance laws, former federal prosecutor Joseph Moreno said Thursday.
 
No tottahan toki, mitä muutakaan voi odottaa. Ajattele ku jonkun pitäisi myöntää että ukkoa ei saada erotettua.




Nii kele.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4...om-a-slam-dunk-says-former-federal-prosecutor

Michael Cohen's guilty plea and subsequent sentencing don't mean it's a slam-dunk that President Trump will be hit with charges of breaking campaign finance laws, former federal prosecutor Joseph Moreno said Thursday.
Väitätkö tosiaan että Obaman kampanjan rike ja Trumpin rikos ovat keskenään samanarvoisia? Obaman kampanja sai sakon vaalikomissio FEC:ltä jolla ei ole valtuuksia rangaista rikoksista kyseessä oli siis siviilioikeudellinen asia ja syyllinen oli tietysti kampanja ei henkilö. Cohen sai tuomion rikoksesta jonka teki henkilökohtaisesti Trumpin määräyksestä kyseessä ei siis ollut FEC:n antama siviilioikeudellinen rangaistus kampanjalle.

Eli yritä saada itsesi ymmärtämään siviili- ja rikosoikeuden ero sekä henkilöhkohtaisen ja organisaation syyllisyyden välinen ero.
 
Cohen sai tuomion rikoksesta jonka teki henkilökohtaisesti Trumpin määräyksestä kyseessä ei siis ollut FEC:n antama siviilioikeudellinen rangaistus kampanjalle..

Puhut yksikössä. Aikaisemmin kerroit, että Cohen sai vankeutta siitä yksittäisestä ja väitetystä Trumpin rikoksesta.

Trump henkilökohtaisesti määräsi lakimiehensä rikkomaan lakia ja tämä lakimies sai kyseisestä tempusta vankeustuomion. Kyseessä oli rikos jolla pyrittiin vaikuttamaan vaalitulokseen. Kyseessä oli myös temppu joka on riittävän vakava viraltapanoon.

Vaikuttaa siltä, että et edes tiedä mistä Cohen tuomittiin.
 
Niin ja ne 50-100 miljoonaa "punaniskaa", ne saattavat vielä olla vaikuttamassa siihenkin autetaanko Eurooppaa enää kolmatta kertaa. Se on se syy miksi minä olen ollut huolestunut monien eurooppalaisten poliitikkojen sanomisista.

Eikös tämä ajaisi sinun asiaasi lähes täydellisesti? Pääsisit leikkimään sotaleikkejä tai ainakin seuraamaan niitä:rolleyes:, ja sitten se ainoa poliittinen ongelmasi eli maahanmuuttokysymys ratkeaa.

Ja maailmaan syntyisi uusi 650M ihmisen LIITTOVALTIO (kutsutaan sitä sitten vaikkapa tosi-eurostoliitoksi), joka olisi sitten tämänkin palstan "erittäin oikeistomielisille" tarpeeksi oikeistomielinen.

Ja jos joku 150M ripulinhajuinen diktatuuri ajaa Euroopan yli, niin olemme todellakin ansainneet sen. Auttaisi USA sitten tai ei.
 
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Puhut yksikössä. Aikaisemmin kerroit, että Cohen sai vankeutta siitä yksittäisestä ja väitetystä Trumpin rikoksesta.



Vaikuttaa siltä, että et edes tiedä mistä Cohen tuomittiin.
Cohen sai tuomion mm. kampanjarahoitusrikkomuksesta, käytin yksikköä sillä tämä syyte on se joka koskee Cohenin lisäksi Trumpia. Kerro nyt miksi vertaat Trumpin rikosta ja Obaman kampanjan rikettä toisiinsa kun niiden välillä ei ole yhteyttä. On älyllisesti epärehellistä rinnastaa nämä kaksi asiaa toisiinsa. Toinen on siviilioikeudellinen rike ja toinen on rikos josta tuomiona on vankeutta. Toisesta päättää FEC ja toisesta syyttäjä. Ero vakavuuden asteessa on todella merkittävä.
 
Halvalla ryssät vaikuttivat...

Google Finds Accounts Connected to Russia Bought Election Ads
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Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, in San Francisco last week. Google’s role in the coordinated Russian campaign during the 2016 presidential campaign has been closely followed.CreditStephen Lam/Reuters
By Daisuke Wakabayashi

  • Oct. 9, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has found evidence that Russian agents bought ads on its wide-ranging networks in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign.

The findings from an internal inquiry draw Google further into the growing investigation of how social networks and technology services were manipulated by the Russian government to spread misinformation and sow division during the 2016 election.

Using accounts believed to be connected to the Russian government, the agents purchased $4,700 worth of search ads and more traditional display ads, according to a person familiar with the company’s inquiry who was not allowed to speak about it publicly. Google found the accounts through its own research and information provided by other technology companies.

Google found a separate $53,000 worth of ads with political material that were purchased from Russian internet addresses, building addresses or with Russian currency. It is not clear whether any of those were connected to the Russian government, and they may have been purchased by Russian citizens, the person said.

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The messages of those ads spanned the political spectrum. One account spent $7,000 on ads to promote a documentary called “You’ve Been Trumped,” a film about Donald J. Trump’s efforts to build a golf course in Scotland along an environmentally sensitive coastline. Another spent $36,000 on ads questioning whether President Barack Obama needed to resign. Yet another bought ads to promote political merchandise for Mr. Obama.

The ads appeared mainly alongside Google’s search results or on websites that use Google ads outside the search company’s own sites. It was not clear whether such ads appeared on YouTube or the Gmail email service, the person said.

There is a chance that Google may find other ads from Russian-linked accounts, the person familiar with the investigation said.

Microsoft, a distant rival to Google in the internet search and advertising market, said Monday evening that it too was examining whether suspected Russian agents used its services to show political ads during the 2016 election. Microsoft’s Bing search engine accounts for about 23 percent of searches in the United States, compared with more than 63 percent for Google, according comScore, an internet measurement firm.

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Google has been called to testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Nov. 1. But it has so far escaped the intense scrutiny confronting Facebook after the social network admitted that it discovered 470 profiles and pages to the internet Research Agency, a Russian company with ties to the Kremlin.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, said on Monday that it should not be surprising that Russians were using Google as well as Facebook and Twitter. The only thing that is surprising, he said, is that it took so long for Google to find the activity.

“It will take more time and length and breadth to know what Russia did on social media,” Mr. Schiff said. “But the themes are consistent across platforms: the desire to help Donald Trump, to hurt Hillary Clinton and the desire to set Americans against each other.”

In addition to the Senate committee hearing, Google and Facebook are expected to testify at another Nov. 1 hearing before the House Intelligence Committee. Twitter was also invited to the House committee hearing, but it was not clear on Monday whether officials from the company planned to attend.

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Facebook has said the Russian company had placed 3,000 ads on its network at a cost of about $100,000. Last month, Twitter said it had found about 200 accounts that appeared to be linked to a Russian campaign to influence the election.

Google is the only company that sells more digital advertising than Facebook, and its role in the coordinated Russian campaign has been a source of intense speculation in Washington and Silicon Valley. The Washington Post reported that Google had found that Russian agents hoping to spread misinformation had spent tens of thousands of dollars on the company’s advertising platforms.

But Google’s investigation has not found the same type of pinpoint advertising that Russian agents conducted on Facebook. The social network allows advertisers to target its audience with more specificity than Google, including users with a wide range of political leanings.

The 2016 presidential election was the first time that Google allowed targeting by political leanings and it allowed just two categories — left-leaning and right-leaning.

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However, Google has not found any evidence that the ads from the accounts suspected of having ties to the Russian government used these political categories or geographic parameters to focus on specific groups, the person familiar with the company’s investigation said. The ads were much more broad, aimed at English-language queries or any users in the United States, for example.

A Google spokeswoman, Andrea Faville, said the company had a policy that limited political ad targeting and prohibited targeting based on race and religion.

“We are taking a deeper look to investigate attempts to abuse our systems, working with researchers and other companies, and will provide assistance to ongoing inquiries,” Ms. Faville said.

On Facebook, fake Russia-linked accounts — in which fictional people posed as American activists — promoted inflammatory messages on divisive issues. Those accounts bought advertising to promote those messages and reach a bigger audience within the Facebook universe, while promoting the incendiary posts to different locations or people with established political leanings for maximum impact.

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The Russian-linked accounts did not target ads based on political affiliation, but it raises the question of why Google allowed such targeting for the 2016 election when it had not done so in the past. The only location where Google allows ad targeting by political affiliation is the United States.

Google is working with Jigsaw, a think tank owned by its parent company, Alphabet. Jigsaw has been doing research for 18 months on fake news and misinformation campaigns and Google is applying some of those findings in the investigation into Russian election meddling, the person said. It is also working with other technology companies like Facebook and Twitter, in addition to independent researchers and law enforcement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/technology/google-russian-ads.amp.html
 
Vaihteeksi toisenlainen lukusuositus tänne Trump-sirkuksen keskelle: näyttäisi, että Washingtonissa edelleen on aikuisia töissä, ja yksi näistä aikuisista (piti elää tämäkin päivä että näin kirjoitan) on tuleva edustajainhuoneen puheenjohtaja, demarien Nancy Pelosi.

Nostoja:

- Oikeasti republikaanien ja demareiden välit ovat paremmat ja yhteistyö toimivampaa, kuin mitä voisi julkisuuskuvalta odottaa. Tämä oli etenkin mieluisaa luettavaa.
- Pelosi pitää Presidentin impeachment-prosessia viimeisenä hätäkeinona, jota ei tulisi käyttää jos vaihtoehtoja on.
- Pelosi aidosti uskoo, että jos Trumpin tutkinnasta löytyy oikeasti jotain aidosti raskauttavaa, niin republikaanit ottavat asian vakavasti.
- Trumpin salasuhteet ja niiden hiljaiseksi maksaminen ei häntä oikeasti hetkauta, ei pidä rikkeitä tai rikoksia valtakunnan tasolla vakavana. Tässä vertaus Clintonin impeachment-prosessiin, jonka katsoi hölmösti nostetulta siinä mielessä, että läpimenon edellytyksiä ei ollut. Samalla huomio, miten tästä huolimatta tai osin sen auttamana Clinton pääsi toiselle kaudelle. (Muistan hyvin, kuinka kurkkua täynnä - hah - olin kaikkia yksityiskohtia, joita tuotiin julkisuuteen kuukaudesta toiseen).
- Menettelytapa tulee Trumpin osalta olemaan, jos Pelosista on kiinni, että mikäli vakavaa löytyy, niin edustajainhuoneen ja senaatin puheenjohtajat kaikessa hiljaisuudessa käyvät Valkoisessa talossa kertomassa, että nyt se on soromnoo, äänet on kerätty, joten ilmoita itse erostasi.
- Lopuksi, aikovat toki ottaa tilanteesta kaiken irti ja kärventää Trumpia minkä voivat, mutta ei polttaa karrelle. Katsovat sen olevan oma pidemmän aikavälin etu, sen sijaan että Pence pääsisi aloittamaan puhtaalta pöydältä.

Onkin mielenkiintoista miten republikaanit päätyvät tekemään omaa pelikirjaansa. Hupia siis tiedossa vielä pitkäksi toviksi! :uzi:

Näin siis Vanity Fair:

The Real, Cynical Reason Pelosi Won’t Impeach Trump
Democrats are willing to stoke the fire, but they want a controlled burn. Why get in the way of a good thing?
T.A. FrankDecember 13, 2018 4:28 pm
<div data-xf-p="1" data-reactid="212"><div data-xf-p="1" data-reactid="213"><div data-xf-p="1" data-reactid="214">&lt;img data-fr-image-pasted="true" alt="Nancy Pelosi in sunglasses walking next to Chuck Schumer" data-fr-src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos...68,c_limit/Nancy-Pelosi-Trump-Impeachment.jpg" title="" data-reactid="220"&gt;</div></div></div>&lt;p&gt;Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer walk out of the West Wing to speak to members of the media, December 11, 2018.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock.&lt;/p&gt;
With an indictment of Donald Trump for campaign-finance violations looking possible, talk of impeachment is back. To be fair, talk of impeachment began on November 9, 2016, and never stopped, but call it a flare-up. “This criminal must be brought up by the Congress of the United States for impeachment,” said Rep. Maxine Waters a few days ago. “And if we don’t . . . we’re derelict in our duty.” Waters isn’t alone. Billionaire Tom Steyer, the leader of a national impeachment drive, continues his efforts. “Democrats should do the right thing: impeach Mr. Trump,” he tweetedthis week. “Don’t try to game out what happens. Do the right thing. Period.” Congressional newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has also endorsed the effort.

The argument for impeaching Trump has been straightforward: when a U.S. president has committed high crimes, justice and the rule of law call for the ultimate sanction. You cannot uphold the pillars of the Constitution if you look the other way in favor of expediency. “Electoral politics don’t matter,” tweeted Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce.“‘Optics’ don’t matter. Sean Hannity doesn’t matter. The House now has an unavoidable constitutional obligation to open an impeachment inquiry. If it declines, the constitutional provision is nothing more than what Jefferson called it: a scarecrow.” Perhaps a bubbling up in such arguments is why one analyst, Greg Valliere of Horizon Investments, places the odds of impeachment at 55 percent.

But if you’re the gambling sort and could use a little money, taking the other side of that bet might help with retirement. (Might, I said. Call off the class-action specialists.) My broker at All-Seeing and All-Knowing Investments, LLC, places the odds at 5 percent. And even that might be high. There are many reasons Democrats will steer clear of impeachment, and expedience is only one of them.

While expedience is always a powerful force in political life, it’s not the biggest barrier to impeachment. Certainly, older Democrats remember the midterms of 1998, the year that Republicans set the impeachment train going against Bill Clinton. To general surprise, Republicans wound up losing a few seats in the House, a setback that was widely interpreted as a rebuke of impeachment zealotry. But Clinton’s approval ratings were reaching 70 percent as impeachment got underway, whereas Trump’s struggle to stay above 40. Trump’s alleged offenses, while minor in comparison to those of many non-impeached presidents, are also more severe than those of Clinton. And it’s possible that impeachment worked better for Republicans than conventional wisdom suggests. The circus kept Clinton’s sins in the public eye, and the shame of it all caused Al Gore to distance himself from an otherwise popular president. So political positioning might even favor impeachment, in theory. Of course, in purely tactical terms, the risk-to-reward ratio of impeachment is unfavorable, and Democrats don’t feel like testing it, but the point here is that expedience is only one of many reasons, far from the most important, that Democrats will restrain themselves.

High-mindedness, in this case, matters more. Democrats like Nancy Pelosi sincerely believe that impeachment is terrible for the country. At best, you get a crippled head of state and a political system in quiet turmoil. At worst, you cause a constitutional crisis. Also, every time you misuse impeachment, you cheapen it. The very idea of impeachment is far less frightening to a president today than it was 20 years ago, because Clinton showed it could be an unpleasant but temporary ordeal, like a stay in the hospital. Poor judgment by Republicans made it into a paper tiger. Every precedent set by one side also encourages the other side to follow suit. Impeachment begets impeachment. Democrats don’t want that.

Related to the high-mindedness is another comforting reality: there is a base level of goodwill between the two parties in the House. This is odd to say, given how incommensurable and bitter the political divides have become. But political disagreements and standard-issue partisan games don’t poison the waters. (For example, Republicans know that their investigations into the F.B.I., while not without some merit, will get shut down, and they accept that. Similarly, Democrats knew that Trump was going to benefit from a lot of double standards set by his own party, and they accept that.) What infuriates either side is a breach in implicit boundaries, such as when Newt Gingrich deployed a new brand of attack rhetoric in the 1980s and 1990s, or when Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay held a vote open for three hours. Currently, though, despite all tensions over policy, House Republicans have played fair enough to mollify House Democrats, and the two sides get along better than you’d think. When Pelosi asserts that truly impeachment-worthy crimes would get Republican buy-in for action, she means it.

This gets to the inescapability of politics in all of this. Those who see impeachment as a clean matter of upholding the rule of law in the face of crime, who see only cowardice or a concern for “optics” in attempts to avoid it, tend to have greater confidence in their conceptions of impartiality than those who urge restraint. Impeachment is like yelling, “Fire!” Unless everyone can see the flames, as opposed to your side alone, you lose credibility, with serious repercussions in all directions. That’s what happened to Republicans in 1998, and this, just as much as midterm setbacks, is what many Democrats take as the crucial lesson.

If Pelosi understands anything better than nearly anyone else, it’s the workings of consensus. Impeachment is the breakdown of consensus, and if you’re using it in the hopes of getting a president booted out of office, then you’re doing it wrong. Republicans impeached Clinton because there was no bipartisan consensus to do more than that. They wanted to make a point and draw some blood. If the crimes are indisputably heinous, however, then, as Pelosi sees it, impeachment never happens. Instead, the leaders of the House and Senate pay a visit to the Oval Office and say, “Mr. President, we have the votes to impeach and convict you. The jig is up.” Then the president, as Nixon did, resigns. The circus is averted.

There’s a final dirty truth about why Democrats aren’t going to impeach Trump: they don’t think he’s that bad. Oh, sure, they despise him. (No angry e-mails, please.) Pelosi thinks he’s a coarse and erratic buffoon. But she doesn’t think he’s a Hitler or Mussolini or Pinochet or Franco or Erdoğan or even Orbán. She remembers scandals from previous presidencies, such as warrantless wiretapping or Abu Ghraib or the sale of arms to Iran with a portion of the profits being diverted to rebels in Nicaragua. Payoffs to sexual partners look mild in comparison. (She also knows about far worse among some of her colleagues in the House. Thirty years in Washington will do that.)

Anti-Trump passions have therefore presented Democrats like Pelosi with a tricky balance to strike. They value the outrage and voter mobilization, and they’re willing to stoke the fire, but they want a controlled burn. That means tamping down impeachment talk. They’re happy to accuse Trump of crimes and suggest that impeachment would be merited, but then they pull back from the brink. The offenses outlined in recent filings concerning Trump’s payoff to porn actress Daniels are “impeachable,” noted Jerrold Nadler, the incoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee, but “whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question.” A weakened and infuriated Trump is an ideal foil for a party looking to retake the White House, and so is the party covering for him. If Trump were gone, Mike Pence would clean the slate and exhibit far more self-control. So why get in the way of a good, or at least not-all-bad, thing?
 
No nyt ovat mannerlaatat kääntymässä?

R-senaattori Hatch aiemmin tällä viikolla kommentoi senaatinkäytävälle odottaneille toimittajille, että Trump on ollut hyvä presidentti ja hän ei välitä mitä tämä on tehnyt. Kun kysyivät väitetyistä kampanjarikkomukista. Moni pahoitti mielensä mutta so not, näistä on vähät välitetty.

Nyt päinvastoin Hatch teki julkilausuman, jossa pahoitteli käyttäytymistään, ja korosti että Trump ei hänkään ole lain yläpuolella, vaan että jos jotain on tehnyt niin vastaa siitä kuin kuka tahansa muukin. Ja että Muellerin tutkinnan pitää antaa jatkua.

 
Mick Mulavaneysta tulee virkaatekevä kansliapäällikkö.
Mulvaney will replace John F. Kelly, who Trump announced last weekend would be stepping down as chief of staff.

“I look forward to working with him in this new capacity as we continue to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump said of Mulvaney in a tweet. “John will be staying until the end of the year. He is a GREAT PATRIOT and I want to personally thank him for his service!”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-house-chief-of-staff/?utm_term=.51b232e77157
 
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