The Trumpty Dumpty Report
The sewer
rats scurrying around the White House are honing their authoritarian skills
possibly to the detriment to their own survival. They convinced the
Moron-in-Chief to proclaim the nation to be in dire need of a national security
proclamation in order to build a Mt. Rushmore-like monument to the dirtiest of
all rats-Donald J. Trump.
The Cretin signed a
proclamation declaring a national emergency even after he dismissed its
seriousness when he said, “I didn’t really need to do it. I just wanted to make
things go faster.” There are currently several lawsuits challenging Trump’s
go-around of Congress to feed his greedy, self-aggrandizing demented ego in
order to build a wall to memorializing his failed presidency was a concern when
the authors of the Constitution created it. They were fearful of the abuse of
presidential executive overreach. Subverting Congress through presidential
overreach is what Trump is doing today. Now we have to wonder if Trump has
walked himself into being impeached? Nixon faced the Articles of Impeachment as
a result of his abuse of his presidential powers. A president can be removed
from office for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Presidential abuse of powers fits into this definition.
“The powers relating to
impeachment are, as before intimated an essential check in the hands of
[Congress] upon the encroachments of the executive” was written by Alexander
Hamilton.
Trump seems to be raising
his middle finger at Congress by forcing the courts to back his stealing of
public funds to build his wall, which is an abuse of presidential overreach to
obtain his goals.
In 1971, Nixon proclaimed a
national emergency as a way to go around Congress to say there was a national
emergency regarding the nation’s financial reserves and to impose an additional
10% surcharge on certain imports.
What is now known as the
Federal Circuit Court in D.C., wrote a decision at the time in response to a
lawsuit filed against the Nixon overreach which said, “Though such a broad
grant may be considered unwise, or even dangerous should it come into the hands
of an unscrupulous, rampant president, willing to declare an emergency when
none exists, the wisdom of a Congressional declaration is not for us to
decide.”
Was this 1971 court
decision foreshadowing Donald Trump’s “unscrupulous” proclamation?
In 1974, Nixon had three
Articles of Impeachment filed against him by Congress based upon presidential
misconduct, as was included in the Constitution.
Today The Cretin continues
to go around Congress as he decided to give Saudi Arabia nuclear technology
resources. And, The Cretin asked the temporary and former acting A.G. Matthew
Whitaker to ask an attorney, a Trump appointee, from the Southern District of
N.Y. to take over the Michael Cohen case. This sounds like another abuse of
presidential powers by attempting to influence an active justice department
case that involves him.
It now seems to be the
right time for Congress to proceed as Congress did in 1971 to begin Trump’s
impeachment.
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