Trump certainly is suffering cognitive decline and I don’t know if it’s as bad as people are claiming but it sure is making it difficult for him to keep his lies straight.
I don’t even know if it’s cognitive decline is enough to remove him but a lot of other things are enough to remove him like his pathological lying and his felony conviction to name a few.
Consider all the crimes he has committed in office (both terms are appropriate to consider) and other actions (not specifically partisan policy issues) that are grounds for impeachment / removal from office. If you stop before 20, you probably missed some, and you certainly did not count the Multiple charges of each type of crime etc...
I do think his lying to the people can be considered a not unreasonable 'ground' to impeach on, but considering 'freedom of speech'... it is one of the weaker ones. His felony conviction did not involve (in any meaningful way) his position as POTUS.
Remember, Trump and SCOTUS embrace the idea of the 'unitary Executive' meaning Trump has absolute authority over the executive branch, meaning since he has the authority, he also has the responsibility. Especially when he makes clear he endorsed those choices by doing nothing to stop them in a timely manner. Reacting only after being FORCED to does not count.
Reasons:
*Bribery
*Extortion, Emoluments -
*- both foreign and domestic
*Insurrection Jan 6 -
*- and in his second term - giving aid AND comfort to all of those who helped him in his attempted insurrection
*Cognitive decline fits the criteria usable in the 25th amendment - which can certainly be used in the impeachment process
*Not spending monies that must be spent per the law.
*Spending money without permission of any law.
*Firing people that he had no right to fire because he violated both the clear law regarding those departments and / or positions
*Putting people into positions he had no legal right to do.
*Directing DoJ to persecute his enemies
*Pardoning for money and favors and to conceal his own crimes
*Obstruction of the law to release the Epstein files
*Endorsing Murder on the open waters (piracy) with no warrant, no existing war, no evidence, no legal justification
*Endorsing the killing of people (including citizens, but Immigrants have rights too)
*Endorsing the removal of civil rights from people in this nation (again, citizenship does not matter)
*Willfully disobeying court orders, which resulted in removing rights from people.
*Sending masked, armed thugs with no ID or warrants into our streets, terrorizing everyone.
*Willfully targeting people for attack by the same people he pardoned for violence, with lies.
*Obstruction of an investigation (Volume 2 of the Mueller report)
*Implementing tariffs illegally, and improperly, to extort money, favors etc
*Abusing relationships with countries we have treaties with, such as Canada, NATO, Mexico... treating treaties as another deal to violate, like he always does.
*Negotiating a massive financial deal (Reportedly 12 Trillion dollars), violating the spirit if not the law of the MANY Sanctions on Russia.
*Engaging in or threatening war with multiple countries when that is the power of congress.
*Illegally sending National guard and our military to a state to 'enforce laws' against the will of the governor of the state, violating the 10th amendment, and the law.
*Attempting to subvert the 2026 election - with threats of ICE, with calls of midterm gerrymandering, with efforts to enforce his election rules on states without constitutional authority to do so, and other efforts which will become clear by 2027.
*Suing the government for billions and directing the government not to contest it
*Suing companies who want the government to allow them to engage in very profitable transactions using his obedient agencies to extort.
*Pressuring law firms, colleges etc to comply with his desired behavior or else he would abuse his authority over those agencies to punish them.
*Consistently lying (not little lies) about matters of public importance.
__NOTE: just because Trump fails a lot of the time, does not forgive his efforts.
I count 30 categories of crimes etc... each of them with large numbers of 'counts' (instances, each of them a crime)). And that is just off the top of my head. I feel confident we can find more categories.
Do you think that might be enough to warrant an impeachment? Use them ALL. Every single count of every single category. The pattern of it all, the conspiracy of it all, the depth and breadth, scope and range of all his crimes is part of the grounds for removal. If not for all of these, then why was impeachment included in the constitution? If not now, when? If not Trump, who? It is taught to every school child as an essential 'check' on the president. Are we not supposed to protect and uphold the Constitution?
NOTE: Congress, for impeachment is not bound by the letter of the laws, certainly not 'statute of limitations' or SCOTUS's flawed judgements on executive power.
If they were charging papers for all of the crimes committed by Trump alone they would need a wheelbarrow to bring them all. The law is on the side of the people when it comes to Trump and every criminal in his orbit. We can keep saying it and proving it and saying it and proving it but realistically, given the fact that America is now a horrible country in so many ways and that our criminal justice system is beyond dysfunctional, the chance of justice being done by our government and courts is slim and none and if something is done it will be very incomplete justice.
Americans need to wake up to the fact that when it comes to these criminals the law does not apply. Only a handful of Republicans want to see justice done for the victims and for every American. There needs to be a purge and the purge needs to start ASAP. The best way to fix this would be for the military to round up every rich and powerful person in this country and then eventually the world and detain them in a detention center indefinitely until this gets sorted out and justice is done. What has happened here in America probably happens in other countries but that’s only a guess. We all assumed that America was better than this but we were foolish to think so because if we dig just a little bit below the surface, and do our own investigating we will find that America has been a very horrible horrible lawless country that is committed crimes against humanity Globally and domestically.
We have this bullshit notion that people are innocent until proven guilty. It sure sounds nice but that has never been how it is. If we wanna be realistic about it, when we look at the Epstein mob and the Trump mob and the corporate mob we should not presume that any of them are innocent because they’re not innocent. Just by the fact that someone is a billionaire his proof that they are guilty of some crimes because there is no way that someone can get that wealthy honestly and legally. Anyone who has that much wealth and is OK with having that much wealth and power is guilty.
If America becomes a country of laws and morality again and these people are brought to justice and executed as they should be, Americans should be given the opportunity to pull the trigger at the firing squad, put the rope around their necks, And drop the blade of the guillotine on their throats. This is our country supposedly and we should be allowed to be part of the bloodletting. We not only should be involved in the purge of these people these subhuman but we should also be part of the purge of their stench.
It is simply a two step process. Remove ALL money from politics, by law, by constitution if necessary. Make it simple and bold how to do it. No option to 'opt out' or 'use your own money' for politics. Make use of internet to provide places where people can go to promote their candidacy.
Make lying in politics (not just during campaign mode) illegal, with punishments being simple corrections - fact checking, with harsher sanctions for repeated lies and lies meant to harm others. The fact checking is done real-time, with all events having sufficient delay in transmission to allow for it.
Put a cap on wealth. And when it passes, do not allow the money to leave. With multi-billionaires, that level of hoarding is not healthy for anyone. Make the cap high enough to motivate people to excel, but at a certain level, to be measured in terms reflecting inflation, nobody can use anymore, beyond that level it is all about power and endless greed.
Notice did not limit 'income', simply what they have. Nobody gets to own everything. There are many ways to structure an economy, that still includes the essential aspects of capitalism which is the most adaptable system there is, which does not turn the whole nation into a giant game of Monopoly, where at the end of the game, everyone but the winner has nothing at all.
Not saying this part is easy, people with power will not give it up easily. That is why the first steps have to be money out of politics and stop the lying.
High level public servants in the federal government are not there to serve the people who protect the constitution, they are there to enrich themselves. A lot of them are hiding the money and a lot of them don’t even bother hiding the fact that many congressmen and senators are multi millionaires.
There was a time when filthy rich people paid their fair share via income taxes. Look at what the top Income tax rate was during the Eisenhower administration. Google top tax rate by president.
MAGATS are stupid pieces of shit and they don’t have the brain cells to grasp certain concepts. If you were to say to them the filthy Rich should be taxed at 80%, The MAGAT would see that as unfair. If we text any billionaire at 80%, They would still be filthy filthy filthy filthy filthy rich.
A corporate campaign contribution is a bribe. It’s not just congressmen and senators taking bribes from corporate, it’s the top people in every branch and department in our government who are taking bribes because they work for corporate not the people. The American government is kleptocracy.
Trump nearly tripled his wealth after becoming president.
Corporations and the filthy rich are above the lawand that give them freedom to rape hand pillage and that’s what they do and they have a little wild to do it by a government that works for them and not us.
First, regarding Trump and his administration and their crimes. The fundamental problem is we rarely if ever give shape to the scale and scope of his crimes and their consequences. Most people do not emotionally count beyond five. After five their eyes glaze over. They disconnect. So present them with four or five broad categories, but with a number beside it that shows how many 'charges' are in that group. When you open it, you see another set of four or five sub categories. Eventually you find a specific type of crime and you prioritize them, with only about five per screen, numbered, with something like '15-20 of 63'. For instance on the bribery, start with the largest bribes first.
On each category, such as bribes, describe the consequences, such as: 'Affects judgement and choices of the government, to ignore the law and to favor only those rich enough to afford the bribes. Typically this results in worse results for the rest of the people, like you.'
Then on each count you provide the evidence, and for far too many, the evidence is already public.
Problem we have had is we keep focusing on one. One crime at a time. Maybe on a busy day up to three, but these crimes keep shifting from week to week. Most people, especially in a conservative bubble see at most one, and they do not go into much detail as a rule, and then their 'talking heads' make a joke about it and they move on. People who do not follow this stuff close get confused, and then they hear the lies from Trump, or the accusations from Trump and since they do not look close they never see those accusations have no evidence behind them.
We have video, we have presentation skills, we can use animation. We are not limited to a person talking at you, describing complex matters of law, to persuade people.
One of the tactics that the MAGA Republicans and Trump and corporate liars employed was to overwhelm the fact checkers with more lies to debunk than they could handle. This is been a republican two step for a long time. He called Distracting & Steal. Then they employ another trade tactic called Divide & Conquer.
We also have to rethink about how we judge the right wing media lie machine. Theorized that it was rightly media particularly Fox News that poisoned minds of the MAGATS. They may have some truth to it But Fox News is about profit. They know that Trump supporters want to be lied to In order to fuel their natural depravity. These people are losers at life and they want to blame somebody for the fact that they are losers, so they blame Woke, LGBTQ, legalism, progressivism etc. and they do it all reflexively. I’m like regular lemmings, They don’t just walk off the cliff, These MAGATS become violent And on January 6 they tried to murder the vice president of the United States Mike Pence simply because he followed the law.
I think it’s really important that people except the facts about resident of the Bible Belt. By every measure of depravity the majority of white Southerners are horrid and hypocritical. We used to say they were low information votes or one issue voters But in reality a huge percentage of white Southerners who are native to the south are genetically predisposed for immorality. Slavery and segregation proves it.
I will not argue on genetics, as it sounds too much like the arguments racists have used and I really do not want to go there, but we do not need genetics to address the problem because even with a predisposition to such behavior, education and culture can correct it, however, that is precisely the problem. The prevalent culture of these 'haters' raises children to think the same way and our education system often ignores such 'hot button issues'. Notably when the education system does address them, they are attacked by these haters, often on 'religious grounds'.
I agree, that LIES, especially affecting politics needs to stop, by law, with real consequences. Such behavior needs to have quicker judgement than six months later. While Lawsuits can be used, they are too slow. Think in terms of the timeline we use to get murderers off the street.
Put it forward as a law, then wait for the Republicans to scream about how it is communistic, socialistic, counter to the first amendment... because they want to lie without consequences.
White culture is non existent. We are an amalgamation of many cultures and races. It’s the racist and bigots who believe this disappearance is real. White foods namely are processed junk foods. This guy should be escorted to the door and never let back into Congress.
Trump is famous for throwing "crap" against the wall to see what his base will accept. He was losing the fight in Minneapolis, so he cut bait. He was losing the fight in LA, so he cut bait. He got the nickname "TACO" which he earned, with gusto...because he has walked back so many issues, like Tariffs on Mexico and Canada, then he reinstated some. He has thrown the Stock Market into chaos, along with our relationships around the world.
This White Supremacist BS is right on Par with the past actions, that he has had to walk back.
Seriously, I can't wrap my head around the fact that Trump and his cabal are still there. WHY haven't they been removed when overwhelming evidence of participation in Pedophilia and Money Laundering became known with multiple hints of murder. This isn't one or two references. It's hundreds of references from dozens of people.
Is this nation so morally depraved that it's OK for white trash like Trump and his thugs to rape and kill our children. Since when do people think it won't happen to their children! It must be OK with the people of American to sacrifice their 7-15 year old children to despicable acts of violence in the name of some misguided belief in his rhetoric. Do people really think it has stopped and won't continue. Your kids are next.
Trump certainly is suffering cognitive decline and I don’t know if it’s as bad as people are claiming but it sure is making it difficult for him to keep his lies straight.
I don’t even know if it’s cognitive decline is enough to remove him but a lot of other things are enough to remove him like his pathological lying and his felony conviction to name a few.
Consider all the crimes he has committed in office (both terms are appropriate to consider) and other actions (not specifically partisan policy issues) that are grounds for impeachment / removal from office. If you stop before 20, you probably missed some, and you certainly did not count the Multiple charges of each type of crime etc...
I do think his lying to the people can be considered a not unreasonable 'ground' to impeach on, but considering 'freedom of speech'... it is one of the weaker ones. His felony conviction did not involve (in any meaningful way) his position as POTUS.
Remember, Trump and SCOTUS embrace the idea of the 'unitary Executive' meaning Trump has absolute authority over the executive branch, meaning since he has the authority, he also has the responsibility. Especially when he makes clear he endorsed those choices by doing nothing to stop them in a timely manner. Reacting only after being FORCED to does not count.
Reasons:
*Bribery
*Extortion, Emoluments -
*- both foreign and domestic
*Insurrection Jan 6 -
*- and in his second term - giving aid AND comfort to all of those who helped him in his attempted insurrection
*Cognitive decline fits the criteria usable in the 25th amendment - which can certainly be used in the impeachment process
*Not spending monies that must be spent per the law.
*Spending money without permission of any law.
*Firing people that he had no right to fire because he violated both the clear law regarding those departments and / or positions
*Putting people into positions he had no legal right to do.
*Directing DoJ to persecute his enemies
*Pardoning for money and favors and to conceal his own crimes
*Obstruction of the law to release the Epstein files
*Endorsing Murder on the open waters (piracy) with no warrant, no existing war, no evidence, no legal justification
*Endorsing the killing of people (including citizens, but Immigrants have rights too)
*Endorsing the removal of civil rights from people in this nation (again, citizenship does not matter)
*Willfully disobeying court orders, which resulted in removing rights from people.
*Sending masked, armed thugs with no ID or warrants into our streets, terrorizing everyone.
*Willfully targeting people for attack by the same people he pardoned for violence, with lies.
*Obstruction of an investigation (Volume 2 of the Mueller report)
*Implementing tariffs illegally, and improperly, to extort money, favors etc
*Abusing relationships with countries we have treaties with, such as Canada, NATO, Mexico... treating treaties as another deal to violate, like he always does.
*Negotiating a massive financial deal (Reportedly 12 Trillion dollars), violating the spirit if not the law of the MANY Sanctions on Russia.
*Engaging in or threatening war with multiple countries when that is the power of congress.
*Illegally sending National guard and our military to a state to 'enforce laws' against the will of the governor of the state, violating the 10th amendment, and the law.
*Attempting to subvert the 2026 election - with threats of ICE, with calls of midterm gerrymandering, with efforts to enforce his election rules on states without constitutional authority to do so, and other efforts which will become clear by 2027.
*Suing the government for billions and directing the government not to contest it
*Suing companies who want the government to allow them to engage in very profitable transactions using his obedient agencies to extort.
*Pressuring law firms, colleges etc to comply with his desired behavior or else he would abuse his authority over those agencies to punish them.
*Consistently lying (not little lies) about matters of public importance.
__NOTE: just because Trump fails a lot of the time, does not forgive his efforts.
I count 30 categories of crimes etc... each of them with large numbers of 'counts' (instances, each of them a crime)). And that is just off the top of my head. I feel confident we can find more categories.
Do you think that might be enough to warrant an impeachment? Use them ALL. Every single count of every single category. The pattern of it all, the conspiracy of it all, the depth and breadth, scope and range of all his crimes is part of the grounds for removal. If not for all of these, then why was impeachment included in the constitution? If not now, when? If not Trump, who? It is taught to every school child as an essential 'check' on the president. Are we not supposed to protect and uphold the Constitution?
NOTE: Congress, for impeachment is not bound by the letter of the laws, certainly not 'statute of limitations' or SCOTUS's flawed judgements on executive power.
If they were charging papers for all of the crimes committed by Trump alone they would need a wheelbarrow to bring them all. The law is on the side of the people when it comes to Trump and every criminal in his orbit. We can keep saying it and proving it and saying it and proving it but realistically, given the fact that America is now a horrible country in so many ways and that our criminal justice system is beyond dysfunctional, the chance of justice being done by our government and courts is slim and none and if something is done it will be very incomplete justice.
Americans need to wake up to the fact that when it comes to these criminals the law does not apply. Only a handful of Republicans want to see justice done for the victims and for every American. There needs to be a purge and the purge needs to start ASAP. The best way to fix this would be for the military to round up every rich and powerful person in this country and then eventually the world and detain them in a detention center indefinitely until this gets sorted out and justice is done. What has happened here in America probably happens in other countries but that’s only a guess. We all assumed that America was better than this but we were foolish to think so because if we dig just a little bit below the surface, and do our own investigating we will find that America has been a very horrible horrible lawless country that is committed crimes against humanity Globally and domestically.
We have this bullshit notion that people are innocent until proven guilty. It sure sounds nice but that has never been how it is. If we wanna be realistic about it, when we look at the Epstein mob and the Trump mob and the corporate mob we should not presume that any of them are innocent because they’re not innocent. Just by the fact that someone is a billionaire his proof that they are guilty of some crimes because there is no way that someone can get that wealthy honestly and legally. Anyone who has that much wealth and is OK with having that much wealth and power is guilty.
If America becomes a country of laws and morality again and these people are brought to justice and executed as they should be, Americans should be given the opportunity to pull the trigger at the firing squad, put the rope around their necks, And drop the blade of the guillotine on their throats. This is our country supposedly and we should be allowed to be part of the bloodletting. We not only should be involved in the purge of these people these subhuman but we should also be part of the purge of their stench.
Regarding wealth:
It is simply a two step process. Remove ALL money from politics, by law, by constitution if necessary. Make it simple and bold how to do it. No option to 'opt out' or 'use your own money' for politics. Make use of internet to provide places where people can go to promote their candidacy.
Make lying in politics (not just during campaign mode) illegal, with punishments being simple corrections - fact checking, with harsher sanctions for repeated lies and lies meant to harm others. The fact checking is done real-time, with all events having sufficient delay in transmission to allow for it.
Put a cap on wealth. And when it passes, do not allow the money to leave. With multi-billionaires, that level of hoarding is not healthy for anyone. Make the cap high enough to motivate people to excel, but at a certain level, to be measured in terms reflecting inflation, nobody can use anymore, beyond that level it is all about power and endless greed.
Notice did not limit 'income', simply what they have. Nobody gets to own everything. There are many ways to structure an economy, that still includes the essential aspects of capitalism which is the most adaptable system there is, which does not turn the whole nation into a giant game of Monopoly, where at the end of the game, everyone but the winner has nothing at all.
Not saying this part is easy, people with power will not give it up easily. That is why the first steps have to be money out of politics and stop the lying.
High level public servants in the federal government are not there to serve the people who protect the constitution, they are there to enrich themselves. A lot of them are hiding the money and a lot of them don’t even bother hiding the fact that many congressmen and senators are multi millionaires.
There was a time when filthy rich people paid their fair share via income taxes. Look at what the top Income tax rate was during the Eisenhower administration. Google top tax rate by president.
MAGATS are stupid pieces of shit and they don’t have the brain cells to grasp certain concepts. If you were to say to them the filthy Rich should be taxed at 80%, The MAGAT would see that as unfair. If we text any billionaire at 80%, They would still be filthy filthy filthy filthy filthy rich.
A corporate campaign contribution is a bribe. It’s not just congressmen and senators taking bribes from corporate, it’s the top people in every branch and department in our government who are taking bribes because they work for corporate not the people. The American government is kleptocracy.
Trump nearly tripled his wealth after becoming president.
Corporations and the filthy rich are above the lawand that give them freedom to rape hand pillage and that’s what they do and they have a little wild to do it by a government that works for them and not us.
First, regarding Trump and his administration and their crimes. The fundamental problem is we rarely if ever give shape to the scale and scope of his crimes and their consequences. Most people do not emotionally count beyond five. After five their eyes glaze over. They disconnect. So present them with four or five broad categories, but with a number beside it that shows how many 'charges' are in that group. When you open it, you see another set of four or five sub categories. Eventually you find a specific type of crime and you prioritize them, with only about five per screen, numbered, with something like '15-20 of 63'. For instance on the bribery, start with the largest bribes first.
On each category, such as bribes, describe the consequences, such as: 'Affects judgement and choices of the government, to ignore the law and to favor only those rich enough to afford the bribes. Typically this results in worse results for the rest of the people, like you.'
Then on each count you provide the evidence, and for far too many, the evidence is already public.
Problem we have had is we keep focusing on one. One crime at a time. Maybe on a busy day up to three, but these crimes keep shifting from week to week. Most people, especially in a conservative bubble see at most one, and they do not go into much detail as a rule, and then their 'talking heads' make a joke about it and they move on. People who do not follow this stuff close get confused, and then they hear the lies from Trump, or the accusations from Trump and since they do not look close they never see those accusations have no evidence behind them.
We have video, we have presentation skills, we can use animation. We are not limited to a person talking at you, describing complex matters of law, to persuade people.
One of the tactics that the MAGA Republicans and Trump and corporate liars employed was to overwhelm the fact checkers with more lies to debunk than they could handle. This is been a republican two step for a long time. He called Distracting & Steal. Then they employ another trade tactic called Divide & Conquer.
We also have to rethink about how we judge the right wing media lie machine. Theorized that it was rightly media particularly Fox News that poisoned minds of the MAGATS. They may have some truth to it But Fox News is about profit. They know that Trump supporters want to be lied to In order to fuel their natural depravity. These people are losers at life and they want to blame somebody for the fact that they are losers, so they blame Woke, LGBTQ, legalism, progressivism etc. and they do it all reflexively. I’m like regular lemmings, They don’t just walk off the cliff, These MAGATS become violent And on January 6 they tried to murder the vice president of the United States Mike Pence simply because he followed the law.
I think it’s really important that people except the facts about resident of the Bible Belt. By every measure of depravity the majority of white Southerners are horrid and hypocritical. We used to say they were low information votes or one issue voters But in reality a huge percentage of white Southerners who are native to the south are genetically predisposed for immorality. Slavery and segregation proves it.
I will not argue on genetics, as it sounds too much like the arguments racists have used and I really do not want to go there, but we do not need genetics to address the problem because even with a predisposition to such behavior, education and culture can correct it, however, that is precisely the problem. The prevalent culture of these 'haters' raises children to think the same way and our education system often ignores such 'hot button issues'. Notably when the education system does address them, they are attacked by these haters, often on 'religious grounds'.
I agree, that LIES, especially affecting politics needs to stop, by law, with real consequences. Such behavior needs to have quicker judgement than six months later. While Lawsuits can be used, they are too slow. Think in terms of the timeline we use to get murderers off the street.
Put it forward as a law, then wait for the Republicans to scream about how it is communistic, socialistic, counter to the first amendment... because they want to lie without consequences.
White culture is non existent. We are an amalgamation of many cultures and races. It’s the racist and bigots who believe this disappearance is real. White foods namely are processed junk foods. This guy should be escorted to the door and never let back into Congress.
Trump is famous for throwing "crap" against the wall to see what his base will accept. He was losing the fight in Minneapolis, so he cut bait. He was losing the fight in LA, so he cut bait. He got the nickname "TACO" which he earned, with gusto...because he has walked back so many issues, like Tariffs on Mexico and Canada, then he reinstated some. He has thrown the Stock Market into chaos, along with our relationships around the world.
This White Supremacist BS is right on Par with the past actions, that he has had to walk back.
Seriously, I can't wrap my head around the fact that Trump and his cabal are still there. WHY haven't they been removed when overwhelming evidence of participation in Pedophilia and Money Laundering became known with multiple hints of murder. This isn't one or two references. It's hundreds of references from dozens of people.
Is this nation so morally depraved that it's OK for white trash like Trump and his thugs to rape and kill our children. Since when do people think it won't happen to their children! It must be OK with the people of American to sacrifice their 7-15 year old children to despicable acts of violence in the name of some misguided belief in his rhetoric. Do people really think it has stopped and won't continue. Your kids are next.
If you want to know what's happening under the "ballroom" go to drea dossier on substacks she has found evidence of a data centre.
I see a common thread: A general inability to answer questions, and the times they manage this straightforward task, they do it with lies.