Did stable genius just hire a tv lawyer who hasn't practiced law in years?
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Well.. .what do you want... the stable genius married a woman who hasn't practiced prostitution in years.
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Recent events suggest we may have all underestimated how seriously impairing Trump's mental state is. He is now behaving like a caged hyena. It is going to get worse as he strikes at everyone who doesn't accept that he is a "very smart guy" and the source of credit for his business ventures becomes increasingly imperiled. It is only a matter of time now before he orders Rosenstein to fire Mueller. Will the Republican Congress continue to sit on their hands while being held hostage in the House by a lunatic fringe of their party. Trump the Demagogue has now added China to his list of scapegoats. Will he attempt to draw attention away from his crimes and galvanize his support by starting yet another war. He can't legally attack another country that has not attacked the U.S. without getting Congress to approve. However, with the Republican Congress paralyzed and certified lunatics surrounding Trump, who knows what might happen? We have used mistaken attacks and falsified facts as the justification for war in the past (Vietnam, Iraq), why not again?
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This is my fear. The Republicans have got to realize the damage is done, the mid terms, 2020, you name it. They've milked this cow for all its worth (SCOTUS, tax cuts, cronyism), so why not replace with pence before he drags the market down further?
It's not like ignoring Mueller's results and finding Trump not culpable will suddenly paint the GOP in better light.
Of course , then Fox would keep repeating , ''YOU CANNOT CRITICIZE A WAR PRESIDENT.''
Trump Abandons His Anti-Iraq Campaign Stance And Hires A Key Warmonger
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton was a loud cheerleader for the 2003 invasion.
One of the things that distinguished Donald Trump from the rest of the crowded Republican presidential field in the 2016 election was his unflinching criticism of the Iraq War.
“Obviously the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake,” Trump said in February 2016.
“We should have never been in Iraq,” he added. “They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none, and they knew that there were none.”
With the exception of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), none of the other Republican candidates were talking like that. They acknowledged mistakes were made, but none was willing to go after the presidency of George W. Bush so directly.
But on Thursday, Trump threw his skepticism out the window and chose one of the loudest cheerleaders for the 2003 Iraq invasion to be his new national security adviser.
Bolton is a notorious warmonger, calling for the United States to go to war with both Iran and North Korea.
In the run-up to the Iraq War, Bolton was the Bush administration’s top diplomat on arms control, and he pushed the line ― which the country now knows to have been a lie ― that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
“We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in Iraq,” Bolton said in 2002.
And even though the primary justification for the war was bogus, Bolton has stood firm that he believes the invasion was the right choice.
“I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct,” he said in 2015. “I think decisions made after that decision were wrong, although I think the worst decision made after that was the 2011 decision to withdraw U.S. and coalition forces.”
Trump gained momentum in part because of his opposition to Iraq. It wasn’t the primary issue in the race, but it was an important one. After all, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was widely considered to be the front-runner for the nomination. He stumbled early in the campaign, however, when he was unable to give a straight answer about whether he thought his brother’s war in Iraq was a mistake.
Trump capitalized on the war issue. He claimed, over and over, that he was against the war all along ― including before the invasion. It was a way that this real estate developer tried to show that he was better on foreign policy than his rivals were.
But there is zero publicly available evidence that Trump opposed the invasion. Instead, there was a 2002 interview with Howard Stern in which Trump tepidly supported the invasion. Trump’s dislike of the endeavor, at least publicly, came well after the war was underway.
Trump saw an opening ― dissatisfaction with the war and the Bush foreign policy legacy ― and seized on it, even if he did so disingenuously.
Like other recent hires by Trump, Bolton is a frequent presence on cable news.
Bolton does not need Senate confirmation.