@realDonaldTrump @SenSasse @washingtonpost This country is facing more than a Constitutional crisis. Trump’s emotional volatility and inability to control himself demonstrates the extreme danger he poses to this country as the result of his impulsive—even reckless—behavior...
The urgent issue facing Congress is how long can we remain safe when the President is crippled mentally and it is more likely than not he will act out in dangerous or inappropriate ways to re-establish his power as President...
Trump will be easily influenced by the far right telling him what to do. He will be even more sensitive to criticism by what he calls fake news. Trump will start having episodes of severe paranoia. He will engage in more and more risky behavior...
He will flood Twitter with increasingly dramatic and provocative tweets against anyone he sees as a danger. He will terminate anyone who resists his ideas but become more heavily depend on advisors who embrace him and support his foolhardy actions like that with the Ukraine...
This downward spiral may lead Trump to make a bold attempt in the face of impeachment to try to become an autocratic leader of the US. He already is using authoritarian methods, defiance of Congress and the law, he is advising members of the executive branch to defy lawful...
orders from Congress, he has witnesses refusing to testify on grounds such as privilege which have no legal merit, he using the Justice Department as his personal legal counsel and it is insulating his cabinet from prosecution for contempt of Congress...
He is misusing military appropriations to build his Wall and he is using his cabinet members to gather bogus evidence to prove Clinton lost the popular vote. Trump's perception of reality is so distorted and his belief in his own greatness so exaggerated it appears he sees the...
impeachment investigation and his open defiance of the law by calling on China for assistance, as providing the gateway to power and installing himself as the autocratic President of the United States.
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