There are so many parts to the crimes committed by this president and his administration that it creates a fog of normalizing clear acts of conspiracy, complete dereliction of duty, incompetence, and betrayal of country. It all starts to bleed together into something holistic that seems too big to prosecute, too big to be true, too big to categorize into small words like collusion, too open and plain too be so obviously illegal at such a scale by the actual president of our country, or too big to be anything other than a political deep state coup (by those who think this way).
But take any one detail or thread, and you get great clarity on the magnitude of the conspiracy and gravity of what has transpired and is being ignored and excused by so many tribal loyalists. Look at Trump and Manafort for example:
Trump minimizes the relationship and role in the campaign though he knew him since the 80s and he was the campaign manager (he owns a friggin condo in Trump Tower for goodness sake). Why is he hiding his relationship?
Trump appointed him campaign manager with knowledge of his Russian ties so that means he was hired either because of these ties or despite these ties. So is Trump already in act of collusion with the hire or just a terrible leader/judge of character?
Manafort is reaching out to Russian oligarchs (deal making regarding personal debts, help to elect Trump, and lifting of sanctions) during and AFTER he is a part of the campaign. He reports directly to Trump and there are reports that they spoke and coordinated dozens of times a day. Is there any chance in the universe that a candidate's campaign manager is freelancing negotiations with Russia and their oligarchs/intelligence community in exchange for help with election and US policy positions and the candidate does not know and has not agreed? That is simply impossible and more impossible given Trump's small organization that is run like a tight mafia family where he controls and decides everything.
Trump campaign (as directed by Manafort) makes an out of the blue and incomprehensible change to GOP platform to be pro-Russian and lessen sanctions. There is simply no plausible explanation for this mysterious platform change and the weird way it went down other than some time of capitulation or secret deal with oligarchs/Putin.
Trump fires Manafort and now retroactively seems to want to position it as some sort of vague act of getting rid of questionable behavior/connections. So he tries to claim no knowledge, but also knowledge that required his action to fire. At the time, journalists were starting to reveal Manafort's background and the spin was that this was a distraction. So again, that means Trump was aware of Manafort's background and didn't want it made public. If everything is up and up, why hide it?
If Trump wants to claim that he cleaned house and got rid of dirty Manafort, then that means that for all these years he has known about illegal activity in his own campaign, and contact between his campaign and Russia while publicly denying any such contact, taking no steps to tell Americans about the threat and protect us, and all while he has worked to obstruct and hinder the investigation into Russian meddling and at the same time align himself with Russian interests and against American allies and interests. An American president not concerned with an attack on our government, that benefitted him, that he does so far as to say he doesn't think it happened though he knows about his staff's connections to Russia? Please.
And now Trump waves the possibility of a pardon, to a man he alleges he barely knows, who committed crimes against the country and whose verdict was overwhelmingly guilty and unquestioned and for whom there has been no new evidence of innocence, for what reason exactly? The president is offering bribes right in front of our faces and we do nothing about this?
Are any one of these things the acts of an innocent man? Is there any plausible lawful explanation?
Just the few salient details of Trump and Manafort, those that have been made public to date, are grounds for not only impeachment, but arrests at every level of government and the media. And yet we are stuck in Trump's intentional distractions of the small conversations of this tweet or that. The shutdown and the wall are obstruction of justice writ large, manufactured debate and crisis to draw attention away from what we should really be doing, indicting this entire illegal cabal and defending the nation, our sovereignty, and our principles. The onslaught of the Trump fog has dulled our outrage and protracted our required response. And the MAGA hat-wearers, and posters on these boards even, seem absolutely okay with this level of corruption and the dishonesty in this WH and the conservative media. I can't comprehend being an American and arriving at that level of "loyalty" or denial.
"The Bear will not quilt, the Bear will not dye!"
But take any one detail or thread, and you get great clarity on the magnitude of the conspiracy and gravity of what has transpired and is being ignored and excused by so many tribal loyalists. Look at Trump and Manafort for example:
Trump minimizes the relationship and role in the campaign though he knew him since the 80s and he was the campaign manager (he owns a friggin condo in Trump Tower for goodness sake). Why is he hiding his relationship?
Trump appointed him campaign manager with knowledge of his Russian ties so that means he was hired either because of these ties or despite these ties. So is Trump already in act of collusion with the hire or just a terrible leader/judge of character?
Manafort is reaching out to Russian oligarchs (deal making regarding personal debts, help to elect Trump, and lifting of sanctions) during and AFTER he is a part of the campaign. He reports directly to Trump and there are reports that they spoke and coordinated dozens of times a day. Is there any chance in the universe that a candidate's campaign manager is freelancing negotiations with Russia and their oligarchs/intelligence community in exchange for help with election and US policy positions and the candidate does not know and has not agreed? That is simply impossible and more impossible given Trump's small organization that is run like a tight mafia family where he controls and decides everything.
Trump campaign (as directed by Manafort) makes an out of the blue and incomprehensible change to GOP platform to be pro-Russian and lessen sanctions. There is simply no plausible explanation for this mysterious platform change and the weird way it went down other than some time of capitulation or secret deal with oligarchs/Putin.
Trump fires Manafort and now retroactively seems to want to position it as some sort of vague act of getting rid of questionable behavior/connections. So he tries to claim no knowledge, but also knowledge that required his action to fire. At the time, journalists were starting to reveal Manafort's background and the spin was that this was a distraction. So again, that means Trump was aware of Manafort's background and didn't want it made public. If everything is up and up, why hide it?
If Trump wants to claim that he cleaned house and got rid of dirty Manafort, then that means that for all these years he has known about illegal activity in his own campaign, and contact between his campaign and Russia while publicly denying any such contact, taking no steps to tell Americans about the threat and protect us, and all while he has worked to obstruct and hinder the investigation into Russian meddling and at the same time align himself with Russian interests and against American allies and interests. An American president not concerned with an attack on our government, that benefitted him, that he does so far as to say he doesn't think it happened though he knows about his staff's connections to Russia? Please.
And now Trump waves the possibility of a pardon, to a man he alleges he barely knows, who committed crimes against the country and whose verdict was overwhelmingly guilty and unquestioned and for whom there has been no new evidence of innocence, for what reason exactly? The president is offering bribes right in front of our faces and we do nothing about this?
Are any one of these things the acts of an innocent man? Is there any plausible lawful explanation?
Just the few salient details of Trump and Manafort, those that have been made public to date, are grounds for not only impeachment, but arrests at every level of government and the media. And yet we are stuck in Trump's intentional distractions of the small conversations of this tweet or that. The shutdown and the wall are obstruction of justice writ large, manufactured debate and crisis to draw attention away from what we should really be doing, indicting this entire illegal cabal and defending the nation, our sovereignty, and our principles. The onslaught of the Trump fog has dulled our outrage and protracted our required response. And the MAGA hat-wearers, and posters on these boards even, seem absolutely okay with this level of corruption and the dishonesty in this WH and the conservative media. I can't comprehend being an American and arriving at that level of "loyalty" or denial.
"The Bear will not quilt, the Bear will not dye!"
