Trump threatens the life of the whistleblowers

Did anyone else notice that Trump actually threatened the life of the whistleblowers? He said:

“…he or she or whoever the hell it is — sort of like, almost, a spy. I want to know who’s the person that gave the whistleblower, who’s the person that gave the whistleblower the information, because that’s close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? With spies and treason, right?”

We used to handle them a little differently than we do now,”


Handle them differently now?  Death is what he means.   By the way, the law protects whistleblowers and their identity.  This lawless tyrant is in the process of adding to the charges to be leveled against him in his upcoming impeachment.


This is mob boss speak. Trump has many avid followers and some are dangerously prone to violence. This seems to me to be a call to “rub out” the whistleblower.


He thinks he can get away with anything.



This is going to keep getting uglier. This man and his enablers can always go beyond our darkest imaginings.  The closer he comes to impeachment the more desperate he will become.  And he is getting closer...   

What happens when an egomaniac narcissist thinks he can get away with anything?

What happens when an egomaniac narcissist thinks he can get away with anything?  He tries to get away with more and more and more and.....


Until he is stopped.


Our egomaniac narcissist president hasn't yet done what he speculated he could get away with - shoot someone on 5th Avenue in NYC and not lose any support from his base.  But, who knows what he'll try next?


So, he has to be stopped.  I think it may actually be happening now.

Quid Pro Quo doesn’t matter

 Trump spin doctors are trying to change the whistleblower story to whether or not there was a quid pro quo deal with Ukraine in order to get dirt on Biden and his son. That is not the story. That is not the hurdle to impeachment. The story is requesting aid on a political opponent of a foreign government. That is conspiracy with a foreign government to help the presidents reelection.

Quid pro quo would be worse but not necessary for impeachment of this lawless man.

Everybody does not do it. Getting help for your presidential election campaign from a foreign government is conspiracy with the foreign government. Asking for help from a foreign Government is impeachable whether or not the foreign government helps.  He did more than ask. He did more than request. It was a mob boss shakedown. It was worse than a request. But all it had to be to be impeachable was a request. 

This is not hard to figure out.

Of course he should be impeached. The phony criteria of quid pro pro is just that – phony.

The man has no shame. Does the Republican Senate?

Whistle blower update

This ongoing story seems to be changing to Trump pressuring Ukraine to dish up dirt on Joe Biden's son.  I guess that means Trump is afraid of Biden.  That probably helps Biden.


If the current version of the story turns out to be true, that would be Trump actively soliciting help from a foreign power to help him get elected.  Conspiracy?  Perhaps this time, the foreign power refused.  Or maybe not.  Trump escaped being charged with conspiracy with the Russians in the Mueller report, not because he rebuffed Russia's help, but because it couldn't be proven that he sought Russia's help.


This time, Trump himself seems to have not only sought a foreign power's help, he coerced it. 

Impeachable?  Of course.  Will the Republican Senate finally get sick of this nitwit's unconstitutional abuse of power? 


I wouldn't count on it.  This is really disgusting.


The story develops.

Whistle blower says Trump made an alarming promise to an un-named foreign leader

What has Trump promised a foreign leader, and who is that foreign leader?  An intelligence official was so alarmed by this promise that he or she filed a formal whistleblower complaint. 

"Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community..." 

This doesn't look like just some anti-Trump "gotcha" event.  For an intelligence official to feel they have to go to this extent to warn the country of what they obviously see as a threat to our country is pretty serious, and could be very serious indeed.

It is not a mystery that Trump has had numerous secret conversations with Putin of Russia, and that Trump has been doing remarkably damaging things to American interests, and remarkably helpful things to Russian interests, ever since his campaign and election.  For example: 

Internationally:

• Attacking and weakening America's relationships with America's allies around the world - withdrawing from NAFTA and the TPP, attacking NATO, attacking the European Union by supporting English extremists Brexit, pulled out of the Iran nuclear accord and ceding leadership in the world on disarmament
• Destroying America's reputation of being the nation of hope and opportunity for refugees seeking asylum
• Destroying America's moral leadership in the world by leading cruel attacks and treating refugees heartlessly
• Demanding that Russia be re-invited to the G7 after all the nations had driven Russia out after Russia attacked Crimea

Domestically:

• Threatening to question the validity of the 2016 election (if he would have lost) And already threatening to question the validity of the 2020 election if he loses.
• Weakening each and every government department, from the State Department, to the Department of Energy, to the Environmental Protection Agency, to all but the Defense Department.
• Getting rid of science experts in agriculture, environment, nuclear cleanup and safety, etc. etc.   (He hates experts because they actually know things)
• Overtly and proudly declaring his white supremacy and inflaming racial divides in the country as an expression of his beliefs and as a campaign tactic to arouse his base
• "Joking" that he will be president for three or more terms.
  So, an intelligence official was so alarmed by the promise that Trump made to a foreign government, Russia is the obvious most likely, but it could be North Korea, Israel??
   
  Our president is a threat to American security.  He is either a ridiculously bumbling fool or under the control of a hostile foreign power (or both).

Don't trust Trump with sensitive foreign intelligence

Trump has proven himself to be untrustworthy with U.S. intelligence secrets.  The latest proof of this is that we find out today that the CIA is fully aware of Trump's stupidity/perfidy.  Michelle Goldberg writes:


"According to CNN, in a secret mission in 2017, America “extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government,” partly because of worries that Trump’s cavalier handling of intelligence information could expose the person. On Monday evening, The New York Times added to the story, reporting that the source was a Russian official whose job provided “access to the highest level of the Kremlin.”

“The secret removal of the high-level Russian asset has left the U.S. without one of its key sources on the inner workings of the Kremlin,” reported CNN’s Jim Sciutto"  So he loses key info on Putin's Kremlin.

And let's remember some earlier Trump revelations to our enemies of sacred state secrets:

"Trump, you’ll remember, was in office for only a few months before he revealed to Russia classified intelligence about ISIS that originated in Israel, potentially endangering a source who was, as The Wall Street Journal reported, “the most valuable source of information on external plotting by Islamic State.”  So, he loses key info on ISIS.

And, another memory:

"Not long after, Trump bragged to Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte about the presence of American nuclear submarines off North Korea. (“We never talk about subs!” stunned Pentagon officials told BuzzFeed News.)" So he warns North Korea of military secrets.

And another in a long line of this man's attack on U.S. security:

"Less than two weeks ago, Trump tweeted what was likely a classified photo of the aftermath of an explosion at an Iranian space center. From the image, journalists and internet sleuths were able to deduce important information about the type and location of the satellite that produced it. “This is the first time in three and a half decades that an image has become public that reveals the sophistication of U.S. spy satellites in orbit,” reported Wired." So he gives Iran info to help them hide from the world their missile work.

So, is Trump just an unstable, mentally ill, unbalanced fool?  or is he an agent of Russia following orders to weaken and destroy America's leadership in the world.

I think it is the latter.  I am tired of giving him the benefit of the doubt and saying he is just stupid and nuts.  He could well be reacting to Russian blackmail.  And America and the world loses.