Donald Trump has now stained the presidency's office thoroughly.
I am not talking about the oval office, with its new and striking golden ornaments that seem to extend during the day, as if the famous night president is multiple there, while others sleep, taking advantage of their unpleasant rules of night social networks between applying more layers of the golden brown blade for a king. Those golden geegows are simply Trump's literal stain in the oval office.
I am talking about the figurative stain: what Trump does and says there during the day, in view of the media cameras, the reporters and the adult retainers invited by their performances. With that behavior, he sees only the real oval office but the idea of the office of the president of the United States.
Who can forget, as much as one would like, Trump's bullying humiliation of the President of the War War of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in February and, in May, his Premeditated attack About President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, with false statements from the genocide of that nation against Afrikaner White farmers?
But Trump's performative power game on Tuesday could overcome them all for shame. Unfortunately, this time his goal, President Obama, was not present to reject. The bully would not dare to get into Obama's face, knowing that the counterweight of his predecessor against lies could be a knockout. (In the presence of Obama, in fact, Trump is all jokes and bonhomie, like At the funeral of Jimmy Carter Earlier this year, when the other former presidents rejected it).
The word “unprecedented” is very used, justifiably, to describe Trump's actions, but was never more appropriate: the acting president without foundation claimed that the former president was “treacherous”, a crime punishable by death, and all ordered his minions of application of the law to arrest, prosecute and imprison the man.
(Apparently, Trump, a sentenced and sexual abuser awarded, forgot that last year, to avoid pre -electoral judgments linked to his alleged crimes related to the documents of January 6 and classified, he had persuaded a supreme deferens court so that Give the presidents virtual immunity of criminal prosecution. Narcissistic that he is, maybe Trump believes that the atrocious ruling only applied to him, not to obama all the other past and future president).
“It's guilty. This was betrayal,” Trump pronounced of Obama, falsely reviving conspiracies that the then president and his intimate circle lied about Russia's pro-trump interference in the 2016 campaign as a way of undermining Trump's legitimacy. But for eight years, Vladimir Putin's electoral interference in 2016 has been a well -established fact, documented by multiple investigations, including a directed by the president of the Intelligence Committee of the then Senate Marco Rubio, the Republican of Florida who is now Trump Secretary of State.
While Trump glared at Obama, sitting beside him in the familiar wing chairs of the Oval Office, it was another foreign dignitary, President Filipino, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., which made him the last witness of how Trump has extinguished the lighthouse of the United States as a global example of democratic norms and transfers of peaceful power.
Yes, Trump's diatribe against Obama, as well as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, were another of their manic attempts in the last three weeks to distract the swamp from its handling of what is known as the archives of Jeffrey Epstein, files in which its name appears, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The administration's refusal to publish federal records of pedophilia and the sex traffic research of Trump's late billionaire and friend, despite Trump's past promises, Atty. General Pam Bondi, the director of the FBI, Kash Patel and the deputy of Patel, Dan Bongino, is a disaster of his own creation, and the first to draw the condemnation of the loyal base in another way of Trump. That is what is so nervous to the president.
And yes, we must avoid having the bait of Trump distractions.
But … for a president to falsely alleges that a former president is a traitor, and suggest that his spirits in the Department of Justice and the FBI must act against that former president, is a distraction that must attract the attention of the Americans.
Certainly, Obama, who has been frustrated by Democrats for a long time for his reluctance about criticizing Trump, thinks so. On Tuesday he had a spokesman for a sting of a sting statement.
“Out of respect for the presidency's office,” “our office normally does not dignify the constant nonsense and the wrong information that flows from this White House with an answer. But these statements are outrageous enough to deserve one.” He referred promptly to Rubio's support and bipartisan Report 2020 To make fun of the “strange accusations,” Trump stays.
The basis of Trump's statements of Obama's betrayal is a report Launched on Friday by its director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congressman with a conspiracy mentality. It is not coincident, Gabbard has been desperate lately to return to Trump's good thanks, having fallen from favor In recent months. Your report, together with it Criminal reference To the Department of Justice against Obama and others, he seems to have made the trick, at least for now. Trump is singing his praises.
Gabbard described what she calls a “traitorous conspiracy” of Obama and the Democrats to bury the findings that Russia did nothing to alter the result of 2016, Trump's victory, and to promote the “deception” that Trump owed his choice to Russia. But Obama and his assistants repeatedly They assured the Americans that Russia did not manipulate the real vote of 2016 by hacking the electoral machinery. On the other hand, Obama and his team constantly maintained, together with later researchers, that Russia's interference was limited to a trolls and internet -based bots campaign that promotes Trump and denigrated Clinton to US voters. They never stated that the interference determined the result of the elections.
Here is the irony: Trump is building A false case against Obama to distract his restless base from Very real case Involving his friend and companion Playboy Epstein, one in which he may or may not be involved in irregularities, and for his failure to bring Epstein's elite accomplices to justice. However, in doing so, Trump is again establishing their followers for disappointment and disappointment. Because there is no case of Obama, and there is no “justice” for the salivation base.
It is a sordid dilemma that Trump deserves. Too bad he brought him to the presidency.
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