"Impeachment exposed Trump’s corruption, but the confluence of a pandemic, a financial crisis and the stoking of societal divisions has roused the soul of the American people,"
@AVindman
writes in an op-ed.
From The Post Editorial Board:
Enough has been learned about Brett M. Kavanaugh's partisan instincts that we believe senators must vote “no.”
We do not say so lightly. We have not opposed a Supreme Court nominee, liberal or conservative, since 1987.
From the Editorial Board:
Trump now plans to cordon off an area for the Fourth of July in front of the Lincoln Memorial reserved just for dignitaries, family and friends.
Nothing about reserved seating says “We the people.”
"I'd vote for a tuna fish sandwich before I'd vote for Donald Trump again."
The latest ad from Republican Voters Against Trump just might work,
@paulwaldman1
writes:
"I’m a single-issue voter,"
@MaxBoot
writes. "My issue is the fate of democracy in the United States. Simply put, I have no faith that we will remain a democracy if Republicans win power."
Three years ago,
@ebruenig
began investigating a story that had weighed on her since high school: Fellow student Amber Wyatt reported that she was raped in a storage shed off a dirt road in their Texas hometown.
Vice President Pence should immediately gather the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Congress, which would be required to ratify the action if Trump resists, should do so.
Pence should serve until President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
“I don’t expect anybody to give two s--ts about my opinions,” D.C. police officer Michael Fanone told CNN.
“But I will say this: Those are lies. And peddling that bulls--t is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol.”
@realDonaldTrump
“To wink at racism or to condone it through silence, or false moral equivalence, is no better and no more acceptable than racism itself."
Republicans are actively defending a man who stained the history of the presidency with a meeting at which martial law was on the agenda,
@MJGerson
writes
The impeachment trial will not result in Trump’s removal, but it could well result in Republicans’ removal from the Senate majority,
@JRubinBlogger
says
"The land of Mahatma Gandhi, Abul Kalam Azad and Rabindranath Tagore is being reduced to a caricature of hate on the global stage."
The latest from
@RanaAyyub
:
A trial will force the nation to look at Trump, now disgraced and stripped of official power, as he really is: a would-be autocrat who tried to cling to power by force, writes
@Eugene_Robinson
From the Editorial Board:
It is our view that more than enough proof exists for the House to impeach President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Here is a summary of the evidence:
The closeness of the results underscores the alarming reality that a significant plurality of Americans supports the most disastrous, most dangerous president in our history,
@RuthMarcus
writes
The government we defended last Jan. 6 has a duty to hold all the perpetrators accountable, write
@libradunn
and
@SergeantAqGo
, U.S. Capitol Police officers.
"The silence of Republicans today in the face of presidential behavior that is unacceptable by any reasonable standard is both striking and deeply disappointing," former defense secretary William S. Cohen writes
@realDonaldTrump
"Racists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, their sympathizers. They are extremists who fomented violence. All Americans must condemn and reject."
Trump lost the election.
He lost the recounts.
He lost 59 of 60 court cases.
He lost the vote certifications.
But
@SenRonJohnson
forges ahead with his fraudulent attempt to undermine the election, Dana
@Milbank
writes:
@washingtonpost
"I fully understood that there could be legal consequences — but I wanted to make sure that Texas didn’t get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested."
Read and listen to Alan Braid's op-ed:
From the Editorial Board:
The Saudi “investigation” of the disappearance of
#JamalKhashoggi
does not exist.
Rather, President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are conspiring with the Saudi leadership, buying time for them to build a cover story.
"It was Pelosi who did what the media has not done — interject, fact-check to his face and refuse to allow him to operate in a parallel reality,"
@JRubinBlogger
writes
@realDonaldTrump
“The violence in Charlottesville is a tragedy and an unacceptable, impermissible assault on American values." - a presidential president
Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants who celebrate his offenses or people who lack the courage to speak up.
Gen. Milley’s forthright apology is a welcome departure from that norm, the Editorial Board writes
Confronted by a skilled examiner, Trump would melt down in minutes,
@gtconway3d
writes.
"He’d be humiliated, and he knows it — which is why he’s too terrified to give testimony under oath, and why it won’t happen."
Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency with the country on the verge of civil war, but no president in history has inherited the array of challenges facing President Biden,
@RuthMarcus
writes
In our system, Texas isn’t the boss of Pennsylvania,
@gtconway3d
writes.
"Allowing such suits would invite a multistate free-for-all every time a presidential election is held."
It’s time to entertain the possibility that President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually know what they’re doing and are really good at their jobs,
@Eugene_Robinson
writes
The very fact that Kushner has any job at all in the government is deeply inappropriate, writes
@paulwaldman1
.
The fact that he has seized such sweeping authority over so many policy areas is abominable.
"Whatever Mueller found (and we still know very little) will not change the fact that Trump simply lacks the intellect and integrity — the gravitas — for the most important job in the world,"
@MaxBoot
writes
Trump’s repeated insistence that he can lose only if there is fraud must be called out for what it is: unAmerican, antidemocratic hogwash, the Editorial Board writes
Every voter should know that, at a time when hospitals, cities and states cried out for help with the pandemic, the president’s allies in Congress tossed a $170 billion lifeline in the direction of Trump, Kushner and other rich people, Dana
@Milbank
writes
William McRaven oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.
He writes in an op-ed:
If good men like Joe Maguire can’t speak the truth, we should be deeply afraid.
"This is a circus,"
@JoyceWhiteVance
tells
@JRubinBlogger
.
"It’s Trump making a mockery of our system of government, and its checks and balances, because he is afraid of what will happen if the American people ever hear the truth."
@realDonaldTrump
"While they have deep and noxious roots in our history, they mustn't be given any quarter nor any license today." - a presidential president
@realDonaldTrump
"Americans should not excuse, and I as president will not countenance, fringe elements in our society who peddle such anti-American ideas."
Trump’s narcissism deadens any ability he might otherwise have had to carry out the duties of a president in the manner the Constitution requires,
@gtconway3d
writes.
"He’s so self-obsessed, he can only act for himself, not for the nation."