{"id":45307,"date":"2020-05-16T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45307"},"modified":"2020-05-16T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T19:15:31","slug":"joe-biden-brilliantly-nails-trumps-descent-into-corruption-and-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45307","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Brilliantly Nails Trump’s Descent Into Corruption and Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"

From day one of his accidental presidency, Donald Trump has exhibited clear signs of his aspirations to emulate the brutal dictators<\/a><\/strong> that he so admires (Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin). His reverence for the trappings of totalitarianism has been thinly disguised as he openly exchanged love letters with his autocratic heroes and behaved in a manner that mimicked their oppressive methods of governing.<\/p>\n

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On Friday evening Trump committed yet another act of obvious abuse of power. Hoping to avoid media scrutiny, he quietly sent a letter to Congress indicating his intention to fire<\/a><\/strong> Steve Linick, the State Department’s Inspector General. Linick just happened to been investigating misconduct by Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.<\/p>\n

The Inspector General’s position is supposed to be an independent watchdog post to protect the integrity of government agencies. That’s why Trump could not fire Linick outright, but had to give Congress a 30 day notice. Unfortunately, due to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s blind obedience to Trump, it is still likely that nothing will be done about this, at least from McConnell’s perch.<\/p>\n

This negligence on the part of Republicans in Congress is all the worse considering that this isn’t the first time that Trump has fired an IG who was investigating his administration. Nor is it the second time. Or the the third. Linick’s dismissal follows that of Inspectors General Christi Grimm (Health and Human Services), Glenn Fine (Defense Department), and Michael Atkinson (Intelligence Community). Each of these people were non-partisan career professionals who served administrations of both parties. Each of them were probing misconduct in the Trump administration. And all of this took place within a six week period.<\/p>\n

Trump has been executing a slow-motion version of a Saturday Night Massacre, wherein he’s terminating honorable public servants who were doing their jobs on behalf of the American people. His brazen lawlessness seems to be growing unchecked ever since the Senate failed in their duty<\/a><\/strong> to remove him from office after his impeachment.<\/p>\n

Trump is becoming ever more desperate in recent days as the coronavirus death toll for Americans approaches 90,000. Which is another even more tragic consequence of the GOP’s acquiescence to Dear Leader. Lately Trump has been fixated on a thoroughly imaginary “scandal”<\/em> that he has been calling “ObamaGate.”<\/em> There is no rational explanation for what he’s alleging, and given the opportunity, even he couldn’t define it. But he has been tweeting up a storm with links to rabid Obama haters making bizarre and unsupported accusations.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning Trump embarked on a raging Twitter-palooza that included one tweet<\/a> saying that \u201cScandal has defined the Obama Administration.\u201d<\/em> Which is peculiar considering there is not even a hint of any untoward activity by President Obama over the eight years of his presidency. However, there is nothing but scandal and corruption engulfing Trump and his confederacy of criminals, many of whom have already been indicted and convicted.<\/p>\n

So Trump’s current obsessive acting out against IGs is just his way of trying to put a lid on the discovery of his raging malfeasance in office. He is writhing in fear of losing in November and being held accountable for his presidential crime spree. He knows that his approval ratings are plummeting and most polls show Joe Biden beating him nationally, as well as in many of the crucial swing states. So it is especially sweet to see Biden excoriating Trump in a succinct yet effective tweet of his own:<\/p>\n

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It seems the way to get fired by President Trump is not to commit wrongdoing, but to investigate it. https:\/\/t.co\/7cb5FAZRJP<\/a><\/p>\n

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n