Friday, October 18, 2019

CAN WE AFFORD TO LET TRUMP CONTINUE?

I realize that the next election is only about a year away; however, can we afford to let President Trump continue his rule until the election is over? I'm thinking of the Syrian Kurds that President Trump has abandoned and are now being slaughtered by the Turks.  And the whole Ukraine corruption scandal deserves an impeachment all by itself.

As I am writing this, Mick Mulvaney has confessed to quid pro quo on Ukraine for political purposes.*

Trump could do something else like these in the next year, even several scandals.  Let's see there is NATO that he seems not to like because many participants haven't paid up.  Or maybe withdrawing all our troops from Afghanistan.  What about withdrawing our troops from South Korea?  Trump at some point has considered all of these actions.  And of course, he stopped our Naval military maneuvers to please the dictator of North Korea.

Then there are possibilities of Trump doing something not considered like removing all troops from Iraq.  There may be something in our foreign relations I have not even considered.  My guess is that Trump will do something more of the nature of the Syrian troop withdrawal during the next year, and, maybe, even more than one thing such as involving Ukraine or some other country he thinks he can bribe.

Note added November 21, 2019:  An example of what I mean is a Trump change to a long-held policy stated November 18, 2019: The U.S. no longer will consider Israeli settlements to be illegal under international law, officials said Monday, in a move that formalizes the Trump administration’s treatment of the West Bank and shifts decades of U.S. policy.
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-to-say-israeli-settlements-arent-illegal-11574104691)

Note added November 25: Now President Trump has dipped deep into military justice by ordering that a Navy Seal who took a picture where he poses with a corpse killed in Iraq should retain his navy Seal medal.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/opinion/letters/trump-navy-seals.html)  How did Trump even know this was going on? Trump began to get involved in the Gallagher case in the spring after Bernard Kerik, a former business partner to his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, became an advocate for the family and made appearances in conservative media.

The SEAL also changed his defense team to include Marc Mukasey, a lawyer for the Trump real estate company.
(https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-s-actions-in-navy-seal-case-raise-concern-about-role-in-military-justice-1.608691)

What will it take to get Senate Republicans to act?

* http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/white-houses-mulvaney-admits-there-was-quid-pro-quo-ukraine

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