Should Donald Trump run for President in 2024?
1. He took classified documents and stored them in unlocked rooms.
2. He had dinner with two known antisemitic men.
3. He is now talking about suspending the Constitution.
Should he disqualify himself? In 2020 he said Biden was too old to become President. If Trump is reelected in 2024, he will be five months older than the age Biden was in 2020.
1. He did not "take" classified documents, he retained them and fought with the Library of Congress as to whether he could continue holding on to them. The documents were not left in an unlocked room, that is a complete mischaracterization of the information released. They were stored in his resort in offices not accessible to anyone without authorization and he still has Secret Service personnel providing security to his Mara Lago resort. To say they were unprotected is a farce. Had this been the case, the FBI would have retrieved them a long time ago.
2. Maybe so and the facts are still coming out about that. Having dinner with antisemitic people does not make one antisemitic. You do know his son-in-law and his daughter are Jewish right? I assume you also noted his support to Israel as President right? The fact is, we have no idea how the dinner played out, what happened, what they may have talked about, etc. This is why it is important to get all the facts before judging people.
3. Trump, as usual, spoke irrationally and I personally think he never meant "suspend the Constitution" as he was referring to rules in general on the Twitter topic. He's frustrated about Twitter's actions to suppress information and rightfully so. However, the way he articulates his frustration and such is what I take issue with. Not because I believe he wants to do away with the Constitution. There are plenty of folks on the left who want to do away with all kinds of parts of the Constitution (Right bear arms, Electoral College, some even want to allow children and illegal immigrants to vote). What Trump said in typical Trump fashion, not separating and qualifying his statements, was stupid and yes, it is a big reason why I do not want him to run.
With that said, I will not be voting for him in the Primaries. The General election has yet to be determined, but a second term for Biden I believe will be much worse. Either way, we'd be screwed, which is why I say it is time for the American people to start promoting my generation (X) and end the Baby Boomer era of control over the office of the President (and several other significant positions). It's not their age I'm concerned about so much (although Biden absolutely looks like he doesn't know where he is or what he's doing), it's their ability to grasp today's issues and resonate better with the American people. Trump and Biden are both set in their ways and way too polarizing, so I have little desire to see either of them continue. There are better options out there. But if you think Trump or even Biden will "disqualify" themselves, I don't think you understand these people that well. In the end, even two new candidates will be turned into polarizing figures, but I didn't like either one of these two before they chose to run from President. Finally, if you're going to use those three points to call for Trump to disqualify himself, have you ever put thought to Biden's questionable actions and statements? They're essentially two peas in the same pod.
Who? The President? That's right. So, then-President Trump granted himself permission to see / hold / carry documents.
That's within his authority. Then-VP Biden? Not so much.
Let's hear your intellectual honesty condemn former VP Biden's boxes of classified documents in his unsecure garage. C'mon. Do it.
The current president, who is also the Democrat nominee for the upcoming election, also "dodged the draft" with the same number of medical waivers as former president Trump. The current president has also had numerous allegations of sexual impropriety, including from his own daughter (written in her diary). He was also viewed and condemned for decades for touching / "sniffing" women who he had no objective right to be pawing.
The current president was instrumental in pushing through many of the racist laws that caused the imprisonment of many Blacks from the 1990s through today.
The current president *still* makes racially-divisive and condescending remarks - like at his recent campaign stop where he said that unlike Blacks, Hispanics weren't a simple people (yes, I paraphrased that).
"These factors and questionable behaviors are not consistent with the leader of the free world!"
Like LBJ did? Like Carter did? Like Clinton did? The last good Democrat president was JFK, and even he was a lech. Most presidents, in fact, regardless of party, have been immoral in their personal lives.
Your opinion is biased - but, that's okay, it's an opinion... just don't pretend that "your guy" is any better than "the other guy."
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Broward County, FL, judge and prosecutor broke over 58 laws to get Ken Hovind, aka, Dr. Dino, in prison for 8yrs and then tried to keep him there using USPS lawfare.
If you disturb the agenda too much, shake too many feathers, they come after you.
I tend to ignore mean tweets, law fare and media attacks. Just look at what he has done and what he has promised to do. Yes Im voting for Trump.
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Milley added that the US-led war against the Taliban, launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, was a “strategic failure.”
Trump, his family and the GOP radicals are criminals, pure and simple.
The FACTS are public documented historical records.
Reality of trump’s administration leaks.
A.) The Trump Administration’s Extraordinary Leak Investigations
A Times reporter on the news that Democrats’ and reporters’ phone data were seized by the Justice Department.
By Isaac Chotiner
June 16, 2021
SOURCE : https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-trump-administrations-extraordinary-leak-investigations
B.) The Intercept_
CIA DROVE SPIKE IN MEDIA LEAK INVESTIGATION
REQUESTS UNDER TRUMP
Records released by the Department of Justice provide new details about Trump's campaign against whistleblowers and leakers.
Jason Paladino, Nick Schwellenbach, Ken
Klippenstein
July 29 2021, 7:00 a.m.
SOURCE : https://theintercept.com/2021/07/29/media-leak-whistleblower-trump-cia/
C.) Leaks Of Classified Info Surge Under Trump
04.08.19
SOURCE : https://fas.org/publication/leaks-surge/
1.) JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Under Trump, more leaks — and more leak investigations
There were 120 leak referrals for possible prosecution in 2017 and 88 in 2018, up from 37 in 2016 and 18 in 2015, according to a top intelligence watchdog.
Criminal referrals for prosecutions relating to leaks have surged in the Trump administration — likely the result of a big increase in unauthorized disclosures of classified information, a leading intelligence watchdog says.
The number of leaks that were reported as potential crimes by federal agencies reached record high levels over the last two years, according to data released by the Justice Department last week and reported Monday by the Federation of American Scientists, which monitors the intelligence community.
SOURCE : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna992121
2.) TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFERRED A RECORD NUMBER OF LEAKS FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
Efforts to crack down on leakers skyrocketed under Trump, according to a Justice Department document obtained via FOIA.
March 2 2021, 6:51 p.m.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION referred a record number of classified leaks for criminal investigation, totaling at least 334, according to a Justice Department document obtained by The Intercept under the Freedom of Information Act.
While leak investigations had already been on the rise under the Obama administration, which prosecuted more than twice as many leakers under the World War I-era Espionage Act as all previous administrations combined, that number still rose sharply under the Trump administration.
In 2017, there were a staggering 120 referrals for leak investigations from government agencies to the Department of Justice — higher than any year since at least 2005. There were also 88 criminal referrals for leaking classified information in 2018, according to the document, 71 in 2019, and 55 for the first three quarters of 2020, according to the most recent data available. By comparison, during the Obama administration, there were 38 referrals in 2016, 18 in 2015, and 41 in 2014.
SOURCE : https://theintercept.com/2021/03/02/trump-leaks-criminal-investigation/
3.) May 13, 2018 - Politics & Policy
White House leakers leak about leaking
SOURCE : https://www.axios.com/2018/05/13/trump-white-house-leakers-leak-about-leaking
BONUS -
The Cabinet
Established in Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, the Cabinet’s role is to advise the President on any subject he may require relating to the duties of each member’s respective office.
President Donald J. Trump’s Cabinet includes Vice President Mike Pence and the heads of the 15 executive departments – the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General. Additionally, the Cabinet includes the White House Chief of Staff and heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, United States Trade Representative, Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Small Business Administration.
President Trump’s Cabinet
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue
Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller
Secretary of Education Elisabeth Prince DeVos
Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.
Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt
Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe
Administrator of the Small Business Administration Jovita Carranza
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao
Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie
Vice President Michael R. Pence
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
SOURCE : https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-trump-administration/the-cabinet/
The Trump Administration’s Extraordinary Leak Investigations
A Times reporter on the news that Democrats’ and reporters’ phone data were seized by the Justice Department.
You can’t say that had it been a Democrat you would feel the same, as MSG Sweeney stated, I call that bullshit too.
Trump prides himself in disrupting any normalcy. I have known of Trump’s behavior going back to 75 when I live in NYC.
Dude is mentally sick and he has been very vocal about it and shown it that he will brake the law and is up to you to prove it. He will clog the judicial system with appeals until it runs out of prosecution time and gets dismissed for lack of prosecution. If you support this POS, you are part of the problem as well.
I held TS/SCI clearance for most of my career, and the classified documents are a HUGE sticking point with me. You or I would be in “Iron Bar City” if we had taken even one classified document, but some people want to excuse his behavior because he claims he is entitled to keep them.