Monday, September 23, 2019

Donald Trump vs. The United States Of America [nyt]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/opinion/trump-ukraine-whistle-blower.html

Donald Trump vs. The United States Of America

Just the facts, in 40 sentences.

By David Leonhardt

    Sept. 22, 2019

Sometimes it's worth stepping back to look at the full picture.

He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/us/politics/trump-whistleblower-complaint.html

He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/trump-russia-clinton-emails.html

He divulged classified information to foreign officials.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/trump-intelligence-national-security.html

He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/world/europe/trump-putin-election-intelligence.html

He hired a national security adviser whom he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-adviser.html


He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/opinion/trump-administration-corruption-conflicts.html

He genuflects to murderous dictators.

He has alienated America's closest allies.

He lied to the American people about his company's business dealings in Russia.

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/11/29/18117910/cohen-trump-tower-moscow-mueller-testimony

He tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html

He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/29/trump-daily-schedule-executive-time-944996

He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president's job.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/

He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/trumps-insults-idiot-woodward-806455

He has repeatedly denigrated a deceased United States senator who was a war hero.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/politics/johnny-isakson-john-mccain/index.html

He insulted a Gold Star family — the survivors of American troops killed in action.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html

He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as "nasty."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sons-trump-responds-barbara-bushs-disdain-revealed-biography/story?id=62195300

He described white supremacists as "some very fine people."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/trump-white-supremacy.html

He told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/us/politics/trump-twitter-squad-congress.html

He made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/27/566783261/trump-brings-up-pocahontas-at-event-honoring-navajo-code-talkers

He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.

He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as "rapists."

He has described women, variously, as "a dog," "a pig" and "horseface," as well as "bleeding badly from a facelift" and having "blood coming out of her wherever."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/trump-women-insults.html

He has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.

https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12

He enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/16/timeline-the-accusations-against-roy-moore/

He waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA

He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/opinion/trump-violence.html

He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/sunday/trump-impeachment.html

He uses a phrase popular with dictators — "the enemy of the people" — to describe journalists.

He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/columnists/trump-mueller-sessions-tweet.html

He has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.

He said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.

He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/trump-impeachment-obstruction-justice.html

He violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent extramarital affairs.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5453404/USDOJ-Cohen-20181207.pdf

He made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

He has refused to release his tax returns.

He falsely accused his predecessor of wiretapping him.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/mar/21/timeline-donald-trumps-false-wiretapping-charge/

He claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.

He has ordered children to be physically separated from their parents.

He has suggested that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putin's Russia.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin/index.html

He has called America a "hellhole."

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-07-25/assignment-trump-is-the-complainer-in-chief-but-tells-democrats-who-complain-to-leave-the-country-new-story

He is the president of the United States, and he is a threat to virtually everything that the United States should stand for.

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