"The most amoral man to reach the presidency...a thin-skinned narcissist... cheated on his 1st wife with his 2nd wife, been found liable for sexual abuse, lies in every breath"
I went on @BBCQuestionTime in Philly & the Trump fans in the audience didn't like this answer from me:
Gavin Newsom goes off on the Trump Family corruption:
Newsom: And I’m not talking about the $100,000 watches. I’m not talking about the guitars that he’s selling that you didn’t even know about, or the Bibles, or the sneakers. I’m not talking about all that.
I’m talking about what’s happening substantively with these kids and these investments, and the Pentagon contracts they’re receiving on rare earth minerals and drone companies, and all the stuff that’s happening with the Kushner family, the Witkoff family, the “Board of Peace,” which is about getting a piece of the Middle East.
Let’s talk about the UAE and high-value chips, where they’re getting a piece of our national security, where the Biden administration held off. But as long as you can get a deal done with the UAE on the private family businesses, then all of a sudden national security becomes less of an important talking point.
Or how about the tariff relief in places like Vietnam for the golf courses and the development deals, and the dozen other countries that he’s doing business in? How about all the corruption as it relates to the self-dealing with his resorts and all of his assets that the Secret Service and taxpayers are subsidizing? Or directing G7 investments? Or the emoluments issues across the spectrum every day? Or just the day trading literally behind the Oval Office desk, or showing up on your calendar at a company that you just invested in because you know that stock’s going to pop because you’re going to promote it the next day?
All of this happening—this open sewage system. You talk about draining the swamp. He gave it a presidential suite with gold leaf.
And you’re seeing this gross corruption at a scale and scope never before seen in modern American history. This is stuff I don’t even imagine exists at this scale in a year and a half, even in Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong-un’s North Korea.
This disgusts me on so many different planes. Disregarding his youth, it is blatantly obvious he has NO idea what he’s talking about and never lived through what Gerald Ford called “our national nightmare” like I did.
JD Vance: I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy
If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it's not all that different from what the same group of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump
It's really sad because if we had elected a normal president, the 250th anniversary of our country would have been a really cool celebration of everything that makes this country great.
Instead, we get one miserable, unpopular asshole inserting himself into every little thing and making it about himself.
And it was entirely predictable if you had a pulse the past 10 years. Oh well...
Nixon's own Attorney General resigned rather than help shut down the investigation into Watergate.
Nixon wasn't brought down by a press cycle. He was brought down by his own actions—and by members of his own party having the courage to stand up to him.
Not the insight Vance thinks it is. Can be both true that Nixon was a) entirely corrupt and b) not corrupt enough that anyone in Trump’s Washington would notice.
350 feet is longer than a football field. Someone cutting that long of a gash in the bottom of a concrete pool would need sophisticated equipment and have to do it in SCUBA gear. It's completely insane.