TRUMP's CRAZY MOVES: WHAT DO THEY TELL US?

…Crazy Trump, is nothing different for President Trump

 

Trump’s ongoing attempts to interfere in the Russian investigation has to be stopped.

 

OK, what have we learned about the president and one week of his crazy, impromptu moves? (and they don’t stop with just this one week!)

 

Last Monday, we learned that the former acting AG, Sally Yates had warned that the former National Security Advisor, Mike Flynn, had been lying and was possibly compromised by the Russians.  But the president then did nothing about it for more than two weeks.

 

On Tuesday, Trump fired the Director of the FBI while he is in Los Angeles, and at first the president lied as to the reason for the firing.

 

On Wednesday, the VP and others repeated the president’s lie about the firing, and then he again lied that it had nothing to do about the investigation into the Russians and the US elections.

 

On Thursday, the president threw the VP and all his other supporters under-the-bus that had repeated the president’s lie.  The president did this by confirming that it was a lie.  He later Tweeted that because he was such a “highly active president”, you can’t hold any of the White House aides responsible if they offered some misinformation from the president.  (They may not be up to date on the president’s latest falsehoods.)

 

On Friday there was the bizarre Trump Tweet that was a direct threat to the former FBI Director Comey that he’d “…better hope there isn’t any tapes of his conversations of his former dinner with the president”.

 

This week, the latest polls showed that the American public had also taken notice by a low approval rating of 39%.

 

So, on this single business week of crazy presidential activity, what does it tell us about the president?

 

Here is what we learned:

 

This president was so ill-prepared to be our president, he has absolutely no impulse control. (He has no clue that the world can change on what a US president says.)   Trump has never had to report to anyone.  His company was always a private operation, so there was never a B.o.D. to answer to, and he was such the authoritarian leader that what he said was the law.  And if he changed his mind, that was the new law…period.

We also learned that the White House officials job are mainly to protect the Office of the President of the United States. The WH staff has been put on notice that failure to carry out that obligation, will no longer be tolerated.  In addition, it became clear that this president will most likely continue to personally de-stabilize this nation’s long-time democracy.

 

What is now crystal clear is that this White House, starting with this president, but includes his top advisors and aides, they as a total group have a total disregard for providing straight information to the American people.

 

Rather than attempting to build a team of professionals for checking this president’s impulsive behavior and its worst issues, the president has instead surrounded himself with a group of “impulse enablers”.

 

Of all the talented individuals working at the White House, too many of the key White House roles are filled by people whose only talent seems to be those that “enhance damage”, not “control damage”.  In just the case of the Press Secretary and the Deputy Press Secretary, Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, these individuals have immediately spoken up in reinforcing whatever the president’s latest actions are, regardless if they are contradictory.  They have no response for why or how the president changed his mind, it’s just a case of “forget what I said before, here’s the latest truth”.

This is also what goes on with Trump’s top aides, including the White House Counsel, Don McGahn and the Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus.  These two, among others, were immediately put in a compromising position when Trump summarily dismissed Director Comey while he was in the middle of overseeing the Russian election investigation. 

 

It is time not only for McGahn and Priebus to go away, but also for a clean sweep of those additional White House officials who cannot say “no” to the president.  Speaking truth to power, must begin with a commitment to the truth and not to Kellyanne Conway’s convenient “alternative facts.”

 

Let’s face it, our lying president lost his credibility a long time ago.  He has personally shredded it, especially when he decided to fire the FBI director.  This was in the wake of the director’s request for more resources to investigate the Russian connection.  By doing this when he did it, it has again cast a dark cloud over the rule of law and administration of American justice.

The need now for having a special counsel to investigate Russia’s interference in our elections could not be clearer.  And for investigating the possible collusion by the Trump campaign.  Trump’s ongoing attempts to interfere in the investigation just keep piling up, and that has to be stopped.

 

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