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Seth Cotlar
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Seems like a good time to recall that Trump's now imprisoned campaign manager, Paul Manafort, helped the pro-Russian president of Ukraine engineer a black ops strategy against his political rival that resulted in her being "locked up" on false pretenses. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/a…
That would be the pro-oligarch, pro-Russian former president of Ukraine, whose payments of over $10 million to Manafort were revealed in this NYTimes story from August of 2016. nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/…
For more on the Ukraine story, check out this podcast from the tremendous journalists at @propublica. wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trump…
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Reading Sean Wilentz's review of "American Carnage," in which he sees the roots of Trumpism in GWB's presidency, brought to mind the way Bush stoked the fires of homophobic bigotry to boost his electoral fortunes in 2004. nytimes.com/2004/02/24/pol…
Bush announced his support for a *Constitutional Amendment* to ban same-sex marriage the very week that he kicked off his re-election campaign.
His target audience had no trouble picking up what Bush was laying down. The "gay agenda" had to be stopped in order save "civilization."
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This very real, MAGA defense of Trump resembles "the insanity defense" one might use in court--"even if the defendant knew what he or she was doing, he or she is deemed insane where he or she was incapable of recognizing the wrongfulness of the action committed."
Even if we grant that this is a plausible defense of Trump as a human, it's not a great defense of him remaining in office. The inability to discern right from wrong is not exactly a quality one would want in one of the most powerful people in the world.
Here's the other thing...there is plenty of evidence that most of the people around him in his Administration ARE capable of discerning right from wrong. This is reflected in the actions they've taken to protect Trump from himself. Those folks have no defense.
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Thought experiment for the GOP: Say Joe Biden had his personal lawyer, let's say Ed Rendell, travel to India to look into what appear to be the corrupt business practices of Donald Trump, Jr. I assume Fox News and Lindsey Graham would be cool with that? vox.com/world/2018/2/2…
Or let's say Biden had his personal lawyer, let's say Hillary Clinton, go to Azerbaijan & Iran to ask those governments to pursue credible reports that the Trump family helped launder money for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Thumbs up from Hannity, yes?
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Or let's say Biden had his personal lawyer, Eric Holder, meet with Chinese prosecutors to look into accusations that there was some corruption involved in Ivanka's recently granted patents there. Andrew McCarthy is totally on board, right? citizensforethics.org/ivanka-trump-t…
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