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I mean doesn't he pretty much exemplify every single deadly sin?
And probably broken each of the ten commandments multiple times.
I mean doesn't he pretty much exemplify every single deadly sin?
Oh I dunno about that. I'm sure was perfectly respectful to his dad.And probably broken each of the ten commandments multiple times.
I've never understood how any self-identified Christian could view Trump with anything other than loating.
This is basically what I getting at, except you've put it a bit more articulately.The thing with Trump is he's so blatantly the opposite of what Christians claim to be about that you feel even the worst of them shouldn't be able to look past it.
it's because lots of them are huge fucking hypocrites who pretend to be pious but are full of shit. or they are willing to horse trade: look the other way at trump's authoritarian actions in exchange for some pro-life judges.
Former national security adviser John Bolton alleges in his upcoming book that President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to increase agricultural purchases from the U.S. in order to improve his electoral prospects in farm states, the New York Times and Washington Post report, citing advance copies of the book.
The big picture: The book, which the Trump administration is suing Bolton to block, alleges several episodes in which the president's dealings with foreign leaders reflected an apparent single-minded desire to be re-elected. On several occasions, Bolton claims Trump expressing willingness to intervene in criminal investigations "to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked."
Highlights:
The bottom line: “I am hard pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton writes, according to the Post.
- In May 2018, Bolton writes that Turkish President Erdogan handed Trump a memo claiming that the state-owned bank Halkbank, which was under investigation by the Justice Department, was innocent. "Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people," Bolton writes.
- In the advanced copy of the book obtained by the Times, Bolton claims that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Bolton a note during Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un that commented on Trump, saying: “He is so full of shit.” Pompeo reportedly dismissed Trump's North Korea diplomacy as having "zero probability of success.”
- In an essay adapted from his book published in the Wall Street Journal, Bolton writes: “One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him. Xi said the U.S. had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly."
- "These and innumerable other similar conversations with Trump formed a pattern of fundamentally unacceptable behavior that eroded the very legitimacy of the presidency," Bolton continues. "Had Democratic impeachment advocates not been so obsessed with their Ukraine blitzkrieg in 2019, had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about Trump’s behavior across his entire foreign policy, the impeachment outcome might well have been different."
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The National Security Council declined to comment.
... on the 30th anniversary of China’s massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Trump refused to issue a White House statement. “That was 15 years ago,” he said, inaccurately. “Who cares about it? I’m trying to make a deal. I don’t want anything.” And that was that.
One of Trump’s favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpies and say, “This is Taiwan,” then point to the historic Resolute desk in the Oval Office and say, “This is China.” So much for American commitments and obligations to another democratic ally.
He recalls Trump asking Kelly if the nation of Finland is part of Russia
"...Trump says journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: 'These people should be executed. They are scumbags,' Trump said."
Trump said invading Venezuela would be “cool” and that the South American nation was “really part of the United States.”
Basically they are gonna fight tooth and nail from now until November to minimise mail voting in the hope that the virus and other access issues will keep voter turnout low. As we knew I suppose but a surprise to hear him literally say it. Trump is so dumb... I understand the strategy, and I understand that it makes sense for him to give statements saying "Mail votes are susceptible to fraud"" - but to so explicitly say "I need to win these legal cases to win" seems foolish.“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump told Politico. “We have many lawsuits going all over. And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think — I think it puts the election at risk.”