A Charlatan and a Threat to Democracy

 


A US District Court judge has slammed former president Donald Trump as a "charlatan" and a menace to American democracy.


A federal judge on Thursday called Donald Trump a threat to democracy, accusing the former president of instigating a mob of "weak-minded" followers to attack the US Capitol on January 6, Politico reported.

"I think our democracy is in trouble," US District Judge Reggie Walton said, "because, unfortunately, we have charlatans like our former president who doesn't, in my view, really care about democracy but only about power."

Walton, who was appointed to the DC Circuit by former President George W. Bush, lashed out at Trump after the jury trial of a January 6 insurrectionist.

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  1. Northern PoVApril 15, 2022 at 7:10 AM

    While all the above is true., I am a little nostalgic for the good old days ...

    when the President was busy playing patty-cakes with Lil'Kim and French-kissing Vlad, the world was a safer place..


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    1. The Disaffected LibApril 15, 2022 at 9:41 AM


      "A safer place" Was it really?

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    2. Northern PoVApril 15, 2022 at 10:47 AM

      Yes! Any objective assessment would say yes to that question.
      tRump was too busy grifting and tweeting to heed the clarion call of the war industry ('Why can't we just use nukes?')
      Biden and his yellow dogs may get us all killed.

      A very convenient war:
      "For those proponents of the status quo intent on sustaining an American proclivity for materialism and militarism, the Russo-Ukraine War could not have happened at a better time. Indeed, it comes as if a gift from the gods.

      In terms of immediate impact, that war has affected the American polity in two ways. First, it is diverting attention from Washington’s manifest inability to deal effectively with an accumulation of problems to which our profligate conception of freedom has given rise, preeminently the climate crisis. The horrifying news out of Kharkiv or Mariupol buried the latest report warning that ongoing climate mitigation efforts are almost certain to fall short, with catastrophic consequences.
      Michael Beckley and Hal Brands teach at Tufts and Johns Hopkins, respectively. Both are also senior fellows at the hawkish American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

      And both welcome the Ukraine War

      as the medium that will reignite an American commitment to the sort of assertive and muscular approach to global policy favored in militaristic quarters. Russian President Vladimir Putin, they write, has handed the United States “a historic opportunity to regroup and reload for an era of intense competition” — with not only Russia but also China meant to be in our crosshairs. The call to reload is central to their message."
      https://tomdispatch.com/putin-changed-the-subject/

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    3. The Disaffected LibApril 17, 2022 at 6:21 AM

      Thanks for the link, NPoV. I usually visit Tomdispatch every Monday morning but I missed this. I really appreciate Andrew Bacevich, enough that I have three or four of his books kicking around this swamp. As a retired Colonel he has seen American militarism from both sides and has courageously called it out.

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  2. TrailblazerApril 15, 2022 at 1:24 PM

    Perhaps A President Trump would have asked Vlad to invade just to find the dirt on Biden.
    I suspect he would have at the very least given Vlad his blessing; nod nod, wink wink.
    Trumps danger to the world is fading but his disciples scare the heck out of me.
    Poilievre and his trucker thugs are a real threat to Canada.
    Russia as we know it is finished.
    It's military has shown itself incapable of winning the proxy war in the Ukraine and would likely fail miserably against a united Europe

    TB

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    1. The Disaffected LibApril 17, 2022 at 6:26 AM

      I worry about post-Ukraine Europe, TB. Everything that Putin seeks to achieve might backfire if NATO extends its reach to Finland and Sweden. The war studies wonks at King's College contend that the next major war will probably be inadvertent, the protagonists painting themselves into corners.

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  3. Northern PoVApril 16, 2022 at 7:58 AM

    "Biden to expand drilling on public lands to lower gas prices"

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  4. The Disaffected LibApril 17, 2022 at 6:28 AM

    Yep. And Junior is greenlighting a new field off Newfoundland said to be capable of 2-million barrels a day.

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