Trump the monster within5/18/2023 Trump (note that these are ones related to The Big Lie a whole other set of laws would enable a whole other set of charges related to The Big Rip-off)ġ8 U.S. Your Handy-Dandy Guide to Some of the Federal Laws Under Which A.G. Little doesn’t know much, but the biggest thing he doesn’t know is that he just stepped over into a place where everything is bigger than he is, where everything is just beyond the grasp of his little mind and his little hands. A twisted, malignant, metastasizing tumor of need and narcissism and knee-jerk nastiness, Mr. ![]() If someone else failed or was worse off, he was better, a “winner,” and so he cheated and harassed and ridiculed the unfortunate, the stranger, the down and out appealed to the basest instincts of the basest among us huffed and puffed and blew himself to gigantic proportions, at least in his own little brain. And so he used Daddy’s money to build big, erected his name in Midas-gold letters across the landscape–his every action screaming, “I am worth something.” Everything became a zero-sum game. Neglected as a child, he grew into a black hole of neediness. A man with little education, little taste, little knowledge, little concern for other people. Camera back to reveal Rod Serling standing D.R. The Loneliness of the Teflon Trumpkin, Film Excerpt Jacob noted that Eastman himself “acknowledges that his proposal violates several provisions of statutory law.” In addition, both historical court decisions and one as recent as the day before contradicted Eastman’s plan. The memo responded to John Eastman’s memo laying out the plan for Pence to hand the election to Trump by refusing to count a number of Biden electors. Yesterday, Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney reported that on January 5, 2021, then–vice president Pence’s attorney Greg Jacob wrote a three-page memo concluding that what the president and his supporters were demanding Pence do the next day would break the 1887 Electoral College Act-that is, the law-in four different ways. Dowd called former president Trump an “American monster” and compared him unfavorably to Frankenstein’s monster, who at least “has self-awareness, and a reason to wreak havoc… knows how to feel guilty and when to leave the stage.” Our monster, in contrast, is driven only by “pure narcissistic psychopathy-and he refuses to leave the stage or cease his vile mendacity.” Today in the New York Times, columnist Maureen Dowd reacted to Thursday’s revelations that Trump was “deadly serious about overthrowing the government,” by laying out the main points: Trump knew he had lost the election, and he was willing to see his vice president hanged in order to avoid being labeled a loser. Heather Cox Richardson, historian, summarizes some of the fallout from the first public meeting of the 1/6 Commissuon:
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