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OH MY: Trump’s Competency and the 25th Amendment was Raised on Fox News by Democratic Congressman

Posted by on May 1, 2025 at 12:51 pm. 0 Comments :

The case for declaring that Donald Trump is mentally unfit to serve as president has been made by many experts and professionals in the psychiatric field. But it doesn’t take an expert to see that Trump’s behavior in office is profoundly disturbed, erratic, and dangerous. In fact, it was made during his first term by a group of doctors that came together as “Duty to Warn.”

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Donald Trump, Insane, Straight Jacket

In the 100 days since his inauguration, Trump has managed to crash the economy, alienate America’s allies, embrace its foes, dismantle critical agencies, and defy the courts and the Constitution, all while exalting himself as the messiah of his deranged MAGA movement. But no matter how hard he tries, he has been unable to convince the American people that he is capable and trustworthy.

SEE THIS: Trump Marks His First 100 Days By Glorifying Why Most Americans See Him as ‘A Dangerous Dictator’

While the majority of Americans have seen through the facade that Trump presents, a small faction of the population remains steadfastly loyal and blissfully ignorant. They can be identified by the media that they consume, which is primarily Fox News.

However, on Wednesday the curtain that covers Trump’s maladies and malevolence was pulled aside briefly. On Will Cain’s primetime Fox News program, Rep. Dan Goldman was interviewed about the state of Trump’s presidency at the 100 day mark. But their discussion went somewhat off course for a Fox segment on Trump when the matter of his competency was raised by Cain…

Cain: Even if you disagree, Congressman, and clearly you do with much of the president, the competency of the sitting president today, I think that the accuracy and the truth of those words do matter.
Goldman: Well, I don’t think he’s competent, Will. I don’t know what to tell you. Whether his cognitive abilities are sufficient to get past the 25th amendment, we don’t know that right now. But I think what is clear is that he has driven our country into a disastrous economy. He has undermined the fundamental rule of law and democracy. He is taking away benefits in order to cut taxes for the rich. I think even you, Will, would have to agree with me that this first hundred days is not at all what he promised the American people.
Cain: No, I’m sorry to notify you, I do not agree with you. I think this first 100 days is exactly what he promised the American people, and more importantly, exactly what was voted on by the American people.
Goldman: But I think the American people thought that he was going to lower costs, not raise them.

Dan Goldman to Will Cain on Trump: "Well, I don't think he's competent, Will. I don't know what to tell you." ?

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-30T20:45:26.867Z

That’s a lot of honest analysis for your average Fox News viewer to consume. They are not accustomed to hearing that Trump has cognitive deficiencies, or the examples of how those deficiencies impact the nation and the people. To be sure, most of Fox’s viewers are confirmed cult devotees who will dismiss everything that Goldman said. But the exposure to it could seep into the thoughts of a few whose minds are not cemented shut.

Unsurprisingly, Cain disagreed with Goldman. But his arguments for doing so were the sort of hollow rhetoric that is to be expected of a cult Pharisee. Obviously the American people did not vote for Trump to undermine democracy, increase the cost of living, terminate their healthcare and Social Security, or deport people – including U.S. citizens – with no legal basis or due process.

Goldman’s remarks on Fox News are the sort of medicine that the right-wing MAGA minions need. That includes the ones in Congress. And Goldman also addressed them on Thursday in a House committee hearing. Speaking to his Republican colleagues, Goldman said that…

“I don’t understand how you’re gonna be able to look yourself in the face knowing that you voted to allow our federal government to detain and deport United States citizens simply because you do not want to vote against something that Donald Trump may support.

“Do you have a thought of your own? Do you have a belief of your own? Or is everything literally just whatever Donald Trump tells you it should be?”

Rep Dan Goldman.

— Chris Hauck (@chrishauck.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T15:31:20.051Z

That’s a silly question. Of course “everything is literally just whatever Donald Trump tells [them] it should be?” Trump is the only one in MAGA World who has any thoughts or beliefs. And those are are as wispy as a fog on a sunny morning. They will change from one moment to the next. But they are what GOP members of Congress cling to for dear life.

Some day Republican representatives will realize that they need to be more afraid of voters than of Trump. And with the way that the current polls ore going, that day may be upon us sooner than we think. But still not sooner than we hope.

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Jim Jordan Refuses to Provide Democrats with ‘Whistleblower’ Testimony Given Only to Republicans

Posted by on May 18, 2023 at 1:11 pm. 8 Comments :

Jim Jordan’s absurdly named House Subcommittee on the “Weaponization of the Federal Government” held a hearing Thursday that featured three former FBI agents who claim to be “whistleblowers.” However, that claim appears to be rooted in nonsense and crackpot conspiracy theories.

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Jim Jordan, Biden's Emails

The witnesses that Jordan invited to testify have already lost their security clearances due to misconduct related to their participation in, or support for, the January 6th insurrection that was incited by Donald Trump. What’s more, they are being financially supported by Kash Patel, a close Trump aide. Consequently, their credibility is suspect, to say the least.

RELATED: New GOP Subcommittee Chair Openly Admits His Only Purpose is to ‘Make Life Hell’ for Democrats

During the hearing, Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman confronted Jordan with regard to his refusal to share the transcripts of witness testimony that was previously given in private and exclusively to Republicans on the Committee. Goldman pointed out that the Committee rules require such testimony to be provided to all members. Which is something that Jordan, as chairman, should know. But after apprising Jordan of these facts, the following exchange took place…

Goldman: [Reading from the rules] “Such records shall be the property of the House and each member delegate, and the resident commissioner, shall have access thereto.” Why does that not apply? Where is the whistleblower exception in the rules of Congress that says that does not apply?
Jordan: It is the prerogative of the Committee to decide.
Goldman: No it’s not.
Jordan: We have the whistleblower’s testimony. The whistleblower does not wish that to be made available to the Democrats at this time.
Goldman: The whistleblower doesn’t make Committee rules, sir.

Whereupon Jordan simply ignored Goldman and recognized the next member for questioning. He seems to believe that he can just make up rules as he goes along. And if those made up rules violate the most basic precepts of fairness and democracy, that’s just too bad.

Goldman, however, is right. Witnesses do not get to tell Congress who can have access to their pre-testimonial depositions. How can Democrats determine what inquiries to make if they don’t even know what the witness is asserting? How can the witnesses’ accounts be examined or challenged if members don’t know what those accounts allege?

Jordan is purposefully preventing Democrats from being able to engage in a substantive debate. He doesn’t want them to learn anything potentially controversial, or that might lead to embarrassing facts being disclosed. Jordan doesn’t offer any timeline for which Democrats could have access to the testimony transcripts. Perhaps he is simply saving all of that for a future interview on Fox News.

It’s also possible that these so-called whistleblowers don’t really have anything significant to say. Or maybe their allegations can be easily refuted. It’s reminiscent of the “missing whistleblower” that Oversight Committee Chair James Comer claims to have lost.

SEE THIS: HOW CONVENIENT: GOP Oversight Committee Chair Says He Can’t Find His Star Witness Against Biden

Since assuming the barest of majorities of the House of Representative, Republican efforts to smear Democrats have been pitiful failures. They have held hearings wherein their members have humiliated themselves with idiotic questions, and their witnesses have provided nothing but debunkable bullpucky.

And yet they persist with these mockeries of legislative activity, littered with imaginary witnesses and fluff-filled fantasies dressed up as evidence of utterly fictional scandals. So topping it off with tyrannical breaches of established rules shouldn’t surprise anyone. But it should still nauseate them.

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