Donald Trump's Fatal Errors

Fun article on Politico below about the 3 key mistakes Trump made in rolling out his ill-advised Muslim travel ban.

The article doesn't even mention that zero Americans were killed by people from the countries Trump banned, while thousands of American were killed by people from countries he did NOT ban--countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He also left off the ban countries in which he has business interests, like Egypt and (again) Saudi Arabia.

But I thought it would be fun to start a thread in which we catalog the many fatal mistakes of soon-to-be-impeached-and-convicted President Donald Trump: not merely things we dislike, but unconstitutional and illegal actions he takes that will inevitably lead, as they always do in Shakespearean tragedies, to his ultimate and unavoidable downfall.



POLITICO: 3 key Trump mistakes that led to the travel ban court defeat

My thinking is that they will use him to get through as much of their conservative agenda as possible in the least amount of time--and then they will wait for any one of his many conflicts of interest to influence public opinion. Once a sufficient percentage of the public has turned, they will abandon him to the impeachment process.

The support that he has now is skin-deep not deeply loyal.

Trump never had a mandate and is obviously incapable of building a coalition with non-family members.

Summary of Trump's troubles follows:

* He's quickly losing the social conservative wing of the party thanks to his aborted Muslim ban, apathy towards the less fortunate, and family's graft

* He's pissed off the federal judicial priesthood

* The intelligence community loathes his National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. See CIA freezes out top Flynn aide (POLITCO)

* There are at least 3 rival factions fighting for Trump's attention within the White House. Prediction: two of them along with Congressional hawks who hate both Putin and Assad will eventually coalesce germinating the mother of all mutinies. They will give Pence plausible deniability.

* Fiscal conservatives will bolt as soon as details emerge of his 8th Wonder of the World Wall and Star Wars Defense Shield 2.0. See Making Our Military Strong Again (whitehouse.gov)

* He's initially surrounded himself with neophytes who haven't discovered the levers of power in DC

* Sean Spicer is famous-for-DC right now but the frat-boy-done-good act will grow stale quickly

Updated On: 2/11/17 at 10:10 AM

Rumors are flying that both Flynn and Priebus might be hearing "YOU'RE FIRED!" soon.

Here's the thing: If Flynn made the call to the Russian ambassador in order to undermine a sitting president, that would constitute an act of high treason.

But here's the bigger thing: If it can be proven that Flynn made that call at the request of President-elect Trump, then Trump is guilty of a high crime and misdemeanor, an impeachable offense.

At least someone was smart enough to give Pence, what...plausible deniability.

Pence did not learn that Flynn misled him on Russia until last week

By Abby Phillip, Ellen Nakashima and Jenna Johnson February 14 at 4:59 PM

Vice President Pence first learned that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled him about the nature of his contact with a Russian official on Feb. 9, a full two weeks after other White House officials were briefed on the matter, an aide to Pence said on Tuesday.

Complete WaPo article at: the deets...

The New York Times is reporting...

Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contact With Russian Intelligence

This has the potential to be bigger than Watergate.

And monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C.

The unraveling of a President. Very well put. It's also the unraveling of an administration. The rest of the world is looking at us and shaking their collective heads and pronouncing: "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk"

The fake news really like this McMaster pick, here's hoping this is as great a pick as they're claiming.

And now, anti-vaccination is becoming trendy again among stupid idiots: Trump energizes the anti-vaccine movement in Texas

Note to self: Do not kill unborn babies. Wait until they are born and let smallpox and measles do the work.

Updated On: 2/22/17 at 10:59 AM

God I miss when we had a literate President. Someone who convey a policy position without referring to an entire group as rapists and murderers.

Updated On: 2/22/17 at 02:13 PM

Poor Kellyanne!



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/white-house-yanks-kellyanne-conway-from-tv-after-string-of-disastrous-appearances-report/