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Trump is Embarrassing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019d think if you were President of the United States, you\u2019d know the Constitution.  President Trump Thursday morning warned in his \u201cpress briefing,\u201d held almost literally under the blades of Marine One,<\/em> that he hasn\u2019t even started using his \u201c\u2026Article II powers.\u201d  At least he knew where the powers of the Presidency lie in the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then he said he would go to the Supreme Court if the House of Representatives tried to impeach him. His argument:  that he has never committed, \u201c treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors,\u201d the Constitutional reasons for impeachment. You can\u2019t blame him for seeking a more favorable venue than the House.  He appointed two justices to the Supreme Court, and there are three more who come from a Federalist Society background that Trump feels favors him. That’s five judges out of nine, a lot better odds than he has in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His problem is that another portion of the Constitution, Article I, Section 2, states that the House \u201c\u2026shall have the sole power of impeachment.\u201d  A Federalist Society justice, committed to the original meaning of the Constitution, would have a difficult time trying to tell the House how they are to use their \u201csole power,\u201d not talking about the four \u201cmore liberal\u201d justices.   Clearly it\u2019s a power that doesn\u2019t include the Courts, and allows the House to interpret their authority as they choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What high crimes and misdemeanors were to the founding fathers was based on English Common Law. High crimes were crimes against the state, as opposed to \u201ccommon\u201d crimes that were crimes against individuals.  Kill a neighbor: a common crime, kill the King, a High crime. High crimes were not necessarily felonies, and not even necessarily crimes in the statutory sense. A President who fires an employee like the FBI Director, or directs another employee to lie to Federal investigators, may be acting within his authority, but may still be committing an act in the \u201cimpeachable\u201d sense if that act abuses his powers and injures \u201cthe state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The classic \u201cgovernment class\u201d scenario, is that the President shoots someone, say on Fifth Avenue. He cannot be arrested or charged (though I expect the NYPD would still try), he would have to be impeached and removed from office first.   The impeachment would be for the \u201chigh crime\u201d of conduct unacceptable for the President of the United States. Then the common charge, murder, could be brought in Court.  President Andrew Johnson was impeached for breaking a Congressional law, the Tenure of Office Act, which had no criminal penalty attached.  The House determined he had committed a \u201chigh crime;\u201d that was enough to bring on impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And one last \u201cgovernment class\u201d reminder:  impeachment is the process of bringing the President (or other Executive or Judicial branch members) to trial in front of the Senate.  It is the House of Representatives’ duty, passed by a majority vote of the members.  The Senate then determines whether the accused is \u201cconvicted\u201d with the penalty of removal from office, and requires a two-thirds majority vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, surprise, President Trump doesn\u2019t know the Constitution, even when it directly affects him.  You’d think all of those high-priced lawyers working for him would clue him in.  He probably doesn\u2019t listen; he\u2019s too busy tweeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s embarrassing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a mythological concept called \u201cdrunk truth.\u201d  It goes that if you say something when you\u2019re drunk, it\u2019s more likely to be true because \u2013 well \u2013 you\u2019re drunk and less likely to be careful about your speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump might have a different \u201ctruthiness disability\u201d called \u201cpre-dawn truth.\u201d  In a 4:57 AM tweet storm Thursday, he sent out the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia, Russia, Russia! That\u2019s all you heard at the beginning of this Witch Hunt Hoax…And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn\u2019t exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News Media,…..<\/em>…say he fought back against this phony crime that didn\u2019t exist, this horrendous false accusation, and he shouldn\u2019t fight back, he should just sit back and take it. Could this be Obstruction? No, Mueller didn\u2019t find Obstruction either. Presidential Harassment!<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oops!!\u00a0\u00a0Did he really confess that Russia helped him get elected?\u00a0The tweet was soon denied (thank you internet for saving everything) and Trump reversed it to the media under\u00a0Marine One, <\/em>\u00a0but there it is.\u00a0\u00a0And our President has made it clear; he is a VICTIM!!!\u00a0A VICTIM of Presidential Harassment!\u00a0Talk about a \u201csnowflake,\u201d I guess this harassment is waking him in the pre-dawn hours, making him sit up in bed in his expensive silk underwear and tweet; forcing him to tell the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the VICTIM is on the attack, back against Robert Mueller again.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s embarrassing, that the President of the United States lies to America like a sixth grader caught with a cigarette.  He tells lies, about why Mueller went to the White House (to advise the President on who to select for FBI Director, not get the job), and about the \u201cthirteen angry Democrats\u201d in the Special Counsel office, and about just about everyone else who has the courage to stand up against him, including Congressman Justin Amash, a conservative Republican from Michigan who actually read Mueller’s Report.  The lies are recognized by most Americans, and has become so common that little is said.  The Washington Post <\/em> (certainly not Trump\u2019s favorite) keeps count: 10,111 lies in 828 days since Trump assumed the Presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A President who doesn\u2019t understand the Constitution or the law, who has \u201cpre-dawn honesty syndrome,\u201d who claims victimhood, attacks our most outstanding citizens, and constantly, consistently, and pathologically lies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is embarrassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump is Embarrassing You\u2019d think if you were President of the United States, you\u2019d know the Constitution.  President Trump Thursday morning warned in his \u201cpress briefing,\u201d held almost literally under the blades of Marine One, that he hasn\u2019t even started using his \u201c\u2026Article II powers.\u201d  At least he knew where the powers of the Presidency lie in … Continue reading “Trump is Embarrassing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump is Embarrassing : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Donald J Trump - is embarassing to America. 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