Scrutify: To pull apart, inspect, study, analyze. examine.
Trump was 20 minutes LATE – Leaving hundreds of older veterans and their spouses waiting in the rain.
Trump spent 8 minutes (7 minutes and 48 seconds) at the Arlington memorial, then left.
Now 73, he was of age to be drafted for a war in which fighting reached a ferocious peak in the late 1960s and 58,000 Americans were killed. He did not serve in any capacity.
Trump received five deferments from service, four academic and one on dubious medical grounds.
Donald Trump will not set out to build an authoritarian state. His
Excerpt from the book The American Crisis, What Went Wrong. How We Recover. by the writers of The The Atlantic
immediate priority seems likely to be to use the presidency to enrich
himself. But as he does so, he will need to protect himself from legal
risk. Being Trump, he will also inevitably wish to inflict payback on
his critics. Construction of an apparatus of impunity and revenge will
begin haphazardly and opportunistically. But it will accelerate. It will
have to.
Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic.
The past four years in the United States have been among the most turbulent in our history—and would have been so even without a global pandemic and waves of protest nationwide against police violence. Drawn from the recent work of The Atlantic staff writers and contributors, The American Crisis explores the factors that led us to the present moment: racial division, economic inequality, political dysfunction, the hollowing out of government, the devaluation of truth, and the unique threat posed by Donald Trump. Today’s emergencies expose pathologies years in the making.
Featuring leading voices from The Atlantic, one of the country’s most widely read and influential magazines, The American Crisis is a broad and essential look at the condition of America today—and at the qualities of national character that may yet offer hope.
With contributions by: Danielle Allen, Anne Applebaum, Yoni Appelbaum, Molly Ball, David W. Blight, Mark Bowden, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lizabeth Cohen, McKay Coppins, James Fallows, Drew Gilpin Faust, Caitlin Flanagan, Franklin Foer, David Frum, Megan Garber, Michael Gerson, Elizabeth Goitein, David A. Graham, Emma Green, Yuval Noah Harari, Ibram X. Kendi, Olga Khazan, Adrienne LaFrance, Annie Lowrey, James Mattis, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Angela Nagle, Vann R. Newkirk II, George Packer, Elaina Plott, Jeremy Raff, Jonathan Rauch, Adam Serwer, Clint Smith, Matthew Stewart, Alex Wagner, Tara Westover, and Ed Yong.
Trump tweets video with a retweet showing supporters shouting “White Power”.
The tweet has since been deleted, but the following video capture shows the shame Trump is bringing upon the United States while people simply protest for equal justice.
I’ll send you the articles…. I would like you to do us a favor tho…
Trending on twitter…
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned two Army officers accused of war crimes in Afghanistan and restored the rank of a Navy SEAL platoon commander who was demoted for actions in Iraq, a move critics have said would undermine military justice and send a message that battlefield atrocities will be tolerated.” 1
“President Trump intervened in three cases involving war crimes accusations on Friday, issuing full pardons to two soldiers and reversing disciplinary action against a Navy SEAL despite opposition raised by military justice experts and some senior Pentagon officials.” 2
The following tweet is causing a stir on the Internet. 3 4
Cartoon for June 26, 2019 on #trump #BorderCrisis #BORDER #TrumpCamps #TrumpConcentrationCamps pic.twitter.com/Gui8DHsebl
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) June 26, 2019
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) criticized President Trump’s focus on arming teachers on Feb. 26, saying that teachers “don’t want to do that.” [1] Body language tells it all.
Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) would rather increase law enforcement presence in schools as opposed to arming teachers with firearms. (Reuters)
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“You don’t know until you test it, but I think — I really believe I’d run in there, even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Trump said, telling the assembled governors at a recent gathering at the White House. [1]
But he will do this with bone spurs? [2] … and NO military training?
President Trump’s assertion that he would have run toward the Parkland, Fla., gunman had he been near the school would have been a bold claim for just about anybody to make. [3]
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The REAL numbers of Nielsen Ratings:
BUT, more lies coming from the White House. “45” even states that only is base was tuning in on Fox. What about the rest of the world that watches non-biased television?
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