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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1166956)	9/26/2019 8:13:25 PM
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The secret to Trump's scandals is there's no secret Windsor Mann President Trump doesn't think bad things are bad when he does them. Before the White House released the Memorandum of Telephone Conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump tweeted, "Will the Democrats apologize after seeing what was said on the call with the Ukrainian President? They should, a perfect call — got them by surprise!" Trump thinks the memorandum is beneficial to him even though it contains damaging information suggesting a quid pro quo between the two leaders — incriminating information on Joe Biden in exchange for U.S. military aid. "The United States has been very, very good to Ukraine," Trump told Zelensky. "I wouldn't say that it's reciprocal necessarily because things are happening that are not good but the United States has been very very good to Ukraine." Later, Trump said, "I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it." This is as close as it gets to showing a quid pro quo short of Trump saying, "This is a quid pro quo." Indeed, it's not so much a quid pro quo as a quid amateur quo: an act of malfeasance so flagrant that it seems, to some, innocuous. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called it "a nothing (non-quid pro quo) burger." Vice President Mike Pence said, "As the President said a week ago, he did nothing wrong." Because Trump sees nothing wrong with it, neither do his supporters. As The Atlantic's David Frum observed, "Trump takes advantage of a human tendency to think, If he's not ashamed, maybe he did nothing wrong." The most scandalous thing about Trump's scandals is that he perpetrates them in plain view. He recently said that he never said he would meet with Iran's leaders without preconditions — even though he said on television that he would meet them without preconditions. He asked the Russians to hack into Hillary Clinton's emails on live television. He admitted to Lester Holt on television that he fired former FBI Director James Comey because of "this Russia thing." Trump gets away with shameful things by being so shameless about doing them. His shamelessness has rubbed off on his aides. Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, testified under oath that he had "no obligation to be honest with the media." Lewandowski was, as Politico's Jack Shafer put it, "honest about his dishonesty." Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, went on TV last week and made a similarly audacious confession. After denying that he asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, Giuliani, when pressed on the matter 30 seconds later, exclaimed, "Of course I did!" Like their boss, Trump's henchmen are boastful of their misdeeds. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was right when he described Trump in 2016 as " utterly amoral." Trump doesn't know the difference between right and wrong. That's why he keeps doing scandalous things in the open — because he doesn't know they're scandalous. Trump's supporters tolerate his depravity because it's genuine. Jerry Falwell Jr. tweeted last year: "Complaining about the temperament of the @POTUS or saying his behavior is not presidential is no longer relevant. @realDonaldTrump has single-handedly changed the definition of what behavior is 'presidential' from phony, failed & rehearsed to authentic, successful & down to earth." Trump was right when he said his supporters wouldn't mind if he shot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue. In the Trump era, committing crimes in public is more acceptable than committing them in secret. We are more eager to convict someone if we find a smoking gun hidden in the woods than if the perpetrator hands it to us and confesses to "a perfect murder." theweek.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1166956)	9/26/2019 8:48:29 PM
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President Claims Quid Pro Quo Covered Under Executive Privilege by James Schlarmann WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the firestorm of controversy swells around his call with the Ukrainian president, President Donald J. Trump has pivoted again, this time claiming that he has the right under the powers of the Constitution to “do a quid, a pro, and a quo all at once” based on the concept of “Executive Privilege.” Speaking to reporters a day after releasing a summary of transcripts of the call between himself and the Ukrainian president, President Trump insisted that even if he did attempt to pressure a foreign government to help him win an election, that was not impeachable. Mr. Trump said that he’s been “told many, many times” by Attorney General Bill Barr that literally anything he does is legal and constitutional. Mr. Trump told the media that any attempt he made at arranging a quid pro quo agreement for an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden would be “completely and totally covered by Executive Privilege.” “Here’s the thing, everything I do is legal. If the president does it, it’s legal. We established that in the Nixon era,” Trump said. “But even if it wasn’t constitutional, I have this thing called Executive Privilege which means I get to hide whatever-the-fuck I want from whoever-the-fuck I want to hide it from, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Not one of you can do anything about it.” Farting, Trump continued. “Does that sound like something a society built on equality, freedom, and self-governance would stand for? Of course not,” Trump said, picking his nose and wiping it on Stephen Miller, “but clearly at this point, the horse is out of the barn. Nobody batted an eyelash as the executive branch of our government sucked up more and more power while it was average politicians who were doing the sucking. But now all of a sudden we wanna freak out and impeach when it’s a slimy, full-fledged lifelong white collar criminals, like your favorite president? Bullshit.” Mr. Trump squeezed another squeaker from his rectum, and pushed forward. “I literally get to say and do whatever I want, and it’s all secret under executive privilege,” Trump insisted. “Look at the whistleblower. First of off, I banned whistles and whistling in MY White House for a reason. But more importantly, look at how we were able to shut that whistleblower up for a few days so we can hack up the transcripts of the call? And then we get to hide those misdeeds under executive privilege. What a brilliant setup! I wish I’d have had executive privilege when my first two wives asked I if I was stepping out on them!” Claiming he’d had “way too much KFC” the night before, Trump continued to fart and talk. “Man, times like these I miss Sarah Huckabee. I could blame so many farts on that dog and she’d just keep on taking it,” Trump said with sadness in his voice. “Anyway, let me reiterate this — under our interpretation of executive privilege, I can murder someone and you can’t do anything about it. I could steal your car, and you can’t ask me about it, because, again, executive privilege.” Pushing extra hard, Trump got one more pretty foul smelling fart out of his bowels, and wrapped up his impromptu press conference. “So, one last time I just want to say it, because I know you FAKE NEWS ANGRY BOB MUELLER CROOKED HILLARY LOCK HER UP URANIUM ONE JOE BIDEN’S SON MEDIA won’t get it right unless I say it a million times,” Trump said, “I’m above the law. I’m better than you. Because I’m president. Sure that’s not in the Constitution. Sure that flies in the face of what we’re all taught about our government in the third grade. But, and I cannot stress this enough — I don’t fucking care. And neither does Bill Barr. So, and let me be very clear here, suck it.” alternativelyfacts.com