{"id":34086,"date":"2017-03-04T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34086"},"modified":"2017-03-04T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:34:43","slug":"now-can-we-declare-trump-insane-and-remove-him-from-office-tweetstorm-on-wiretaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34086","title":{"rendered":"Now Can We Declare Trump Insane And Remove Him From Office? (Tweetstorm On Wiretaps)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons to impeach Donald Trump, or otherwise remove him from office, continue to mount. His conflicts of interest, financial corruption, sexual predatory behavior, associations with mobsters, and on and on. And this is the guy that the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34033\" target=\"_blank\">media swoons over<\/a><\/strong> for his allegedly newfound <em>&#8220;presidential&#8221;<\/em> demeanor? The most troubling of his growing collection of scandals is the unsavory relationship he and his administration have with Russia and Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-wiggum-presidenty.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31433\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1645992002082255\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, on Saturday morning Trump revealed another reason to remove him from the presidency. He is <strong>STRAIGHT UP BONKERS!<\/strong> Note this latest torrent of deranged tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my &quot;wires tapped&quot; in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837989835818287106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is it legal for a sitting President to be &quot;wire tapping&quot; a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837993273679560704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837994257566863360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon\/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837996746236182529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As usual, Trump provided no evidence that these paranoid accusations have any truth to them. They appear to be a wild excursion into a hallucinatory nightmare that only he can experience. His determination to find villains plotting his demise is taking over his already hampered mental state. Professionals in the psychiatric field have warned of his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/donald-trump-mental-illness-narcisissm-us-president-psychologists-inauguration-crowd-size-paranoia-a7552661.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;malignant narcissism&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> and other dangerous lapses of cognitive ability. Since his election, legislators from both sides of the aisle have drafted bills to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33833\" target=\"_blank\">mandate a White House psychiatrist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s descent into ever deeper madness seems to be reaching a pinnacle. These tweets cover a lot of maniacal territory. For instance, he is accusing Obama of something that a president has no power to do. Only a law enforcement entity such as the FBI can request surveillance warrants. And in these circumstances even they would need permission from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court\" target=\"_blank\">FISA court<\/a><\/strong> to proceed. This <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jan\/10\/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t new information<\/a><\/strong> either, as Trump insinuated.<\/p>\n<p>His reference to McCarthyism demonstrates that he has no idea what that is. Obama did not make any baseless allegations of treasonous affiliations. Trump didn&#8217;t even assert that. To him McCarthyism is just an epithet to toss around recklessly to malign his perceived enemies. The Watergate reference is a bit more on track, except that in that affair Nixon tapped his own phones.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump offered no support for his bizarre claims, the Guardian <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/mar\/04\/donald-trump-accuses-obama-of-wire-tapping-his-office-before-election\" target=\"_blank\">speculates<\/a><\/strong> that he got his info from ultra-rightist radio host, Mark Levin. On his Thursday night show Levin talked about the alleged steps Obama took to undermine Trump\u2019s campaign. That unsubstantiated lunacy was later picked up by Breitbart News, the wingnut hack factory formerly run by Trump&#8217;s chief White House strategist, Stephen Bannon.<\/p>\n<p>This is reminiscent of Trump&#8217;s frequent use of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34010\" target=\"_blank\">unverified lunacies<\/a><\/strong> from right-wing media that show up on his Twitter feed within minutes of them airing on Fox News. The President resides in a hermetically sealed bubble of far-right conspiracy theories and fake news. He regurgitates what he see and reads from dubious sources as fact and doesn&#8217;t even bother to cite those sources. Bloomberg News recently <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-03-02\/trump-s-world-increasingly-shaped-by-fox-news-and-fox-by-trump\" target=\"_blank\">documented<\/a><\/strong> the extent to which Trump relies on Fox News, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>The most puzzling part of this is trying to come up with a motivation for making these accusations now. Generally Trump&#8217;s intentions are easily discerned as distractions from some other abhorrent activity on his part. However, all this does is to remind people of his nefarious connections to Russia. Congressman Ted Lieu noted this in a candid and colorful tweet on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mr. President: If there was a wiretap at Trump Tower, that means a fed judge found probable cause of crime which means you are in deep shit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i7dUMtHXmo\">https:\/\/t.co\/i7dUMtHXmo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedlieu\/status\/838044902961229824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All of this points to a deteriorating mental state on the part of our President. This is the man who controls the nuclear codes. Yet he is easily influenced by the likes of Mark Levin, Alex Jones, and his own top aide, Bannon. The circumstances developing in the White House are exactly why the nation ratified the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/amendmentxxv\" target=\"_blank\">25th Amendment to the Constitution<\/a><\/strong>. Section four of the Amendment provides guidance in the event that <em>&#8220;the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If there were ever a situation in which that argument could be made, it is now. And it isn&#8217;t just because of these recent tweets. Trump&#8217;s entire history in public life is symptomatic of psychological disorder. His pathological lying, his relentless egotism, his multiple marriages and public affairs, his faulty, and often imaginary, recollections, and his childish outbursts and insults, all suggest deep emotional abnormality. It&#8217;s long past time that he be evaluated and directed to somewhere that he get the help he obviously needs. And in the process, protect the country from further harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons to impeach Donald Trump, or otherwise remove him from office, continue to mount. His conflicts of interest, financial corruption, sexual predatory behavior, associations with mobsters, and on and on. And this is the guy that the media swoons over for his allegedly newfound &#8220;presidential&#8221; demeanor? The most troubling of his growing collection of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[875,183,982,554,33,206,895,1072],"class_list":["post-34086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-alex-jones","tag-barack-obama","tag-breitbart","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-mark-r-levin","tag-steve-bannon","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-wiggum-presidenty.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-8RM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38549,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38549","url_meta":{"origin":34086,"position":0},"title":"STOP THE PRESSES! 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