>1. Trump has been skipping intelligence briefings since his win, a practice condemned by Republican and Democratic experts that puts every American here and abroad in grave danger.
>2. Since Nov. 8, Trump has talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin more than any other world leader — more than the leaders of the United Kingdom, Germany or France, more than the leader of the state of Israel, more than the leaders of nations hosting our nuclear weapons overseas.
>3. Trump’s first post-Nov. 8 call to Putin came before he talked to our own Pentagon.
>4. Trump — surely aware of the post-Nov. 8 reports that Russian propagandists spread fake news during the election — has not commented on what should be an obvious concern, that a foreign power interfered with an election in which he took part.
>5. Trump has rejected the assistance of our own State Department in preparing for conversations with world leaders and conducted calls over unsecured phone lines, creating a vulnerability that could be exploited by adversarial actors.
Not even going to bother reading past point 1, but a wall alone will be the most security that any president has added to the country in decades.
Luis Young
>should i keep going?
keep going until you fall off a cliff sure yeah go for it
Jack Robinson
. Trump’s first post-Nov. 8 call to Putin came before he talked to our own Pentagon.
Is that not normal? I mean, I assume that world leaders will want to talk to the newly elected president as soon as possible
Mason Sanders
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Grayson Reed
Post more Komari-chan
Joseph Cox
Post sources for those 5 first Until then, sage
Parker Rodriguez
that's sort of a yes.
>6. Trump has made no moves since Nov. 8 to release his tax returns from any recent years, making it impossible to evaluate the full extent to which he owes or is owed money by foreign or domestic banks, individuals or other entities. Foreign debts owed by Trump may compromise his decision-making regarding foreign powers, including adversarial ones, creating a vulnerability that could be exploited by adversarial actors.
>7. Trump has selected as his national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, who had a secret internet connection installed in a forbidden location at the Pentagon, disclosed classified information without approval, and has said Islam is “a cancer” and not a religion.
>8. Trump urged that Nigel Farage be named ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States. Farage is a rival of the U.K. prime minister, and Trump’s weighing in on the matter has been described as a “startling break with diplomatic protocol” — not with just any nation, but with our most important ally.
>9. The prospect of working for a President Trump and the behavior of Trump’s advisors are causing military, diplomatic and intelligence experts to eschew service in his administration.
>Trump’s attitude toward democratic norms, demonstrated after Nov. 8, indicates that he cannot be trusted to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.
>10. Trump said “millions of people” voted illegally in the 2016 election without providing any evidence — undercutting the legitimacy of the literal foundation of our system of government and suggesting (even if we consider only Clinton’s supporters) that 64 million or more Americans may be subject to felony arrest.
Carter Phillips
I only have one
later
>11. Trump’s campaign manager appeared to threaten U.S. Sen. Harry Reid with legal action and said Trump is being “gracious and magnanimous” by not prosecuting Clinton. Setting aside Trump’s current lack of authority to prosecute someone, these incidents suggest Trump intends to use the United States justice system to settle scores against political enemies or that he expects to be seen in a positive light simply for not doing so.
>12. Trump has derided post-election protests as “unfair”; said certain protesters should lose their citizenship; and demanded an apology from actors who delivered a statement from the stage to vice-president-in-waiting Mike Pence — suggesting Trump may be unwilling to uphold Americans’ First Amendment free-speech protections when those speaking are critical of him.
>Trump’s approach to his current and future holdings, demonstrated after Nov. 8, has amounted to using the presidency to enrich himself and his family; he does not plan to stop doing so. Trump would be violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution from the moment he takes the oath of office.
Benjamin Nelson
>13. Even if he had not devoted time to his businesses at all after Nov. 8, Trump is the physical embodiment of a global ethics failing and conflict of interest because of his investments and the leverage of his name as a brand in enterprises around the world, especially in Brazil (his “venture is embroiled in a criminal investigation”), India (his projects are “being built through companies with family ties to India’s most important political party”), Turkey (where Trump’s proposed U.S. ban of Muslims angered officials) and the Philippines (whose special envoy to the United States is Trump’s partner in a $150 million project). The Constitution instructs that “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument [gift]… from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” It will be impossible for Trump to fail to violate this section of the Constitution, known as the Emoluments Clause, unless he separates himself entirely from his businesses.
>14. Numerous diplomats and others accepted invitations to a post-election reception at a Trump-owned hotel in Washington, D.C.; “a dozen diplomats, many of whom declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak about anything related to the next U.S. president, some said spending money at Trump’s hotel is an easy, friendly gesture to the new president.” Trump is thus benefiting financially — in a real, ongoing manner, in the form of money received from foreign governments — from being president-in-waiting, meaning he will be violating the Emoluments Clause from the moment he takes the oath.
Isaiah Johnson
Is it even true?
Trump has been getting intelligence briefings since he became the republican candidate.
I haven't heard anyone but a blogger on the huffington post claim this.
Parker Thomas
>15. Even if they had not devoted time to Trump’s businesses at all after Nov. 8, three of Trump’s children (Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka), who are all involved at the highest levels with those businesses, are also involved at the highest levels with Donald Trump’s government transition process and thus are physical embodiments of conflicts of interest that result in Donald Trump violating the Emoluments Clause.
>16. Trump, as president-in-waiting, asked a British leader (Farage) to oppose wind farms that might sully the views from one of Trump’s Scottish golf courses. In doing this, Trump used the office of the President of the United States to advance a personal business interest, and responsiveness or the appearance of responsiveness on the part of Farage would mean Trump has violated the Emoluments Clause.
>17. Trump, as president-in-waiting, met with business leaders from India who are building a Trump-branded apartment complex in Mumbai. In doing this, Trump used the office of the President of the United States to advance a personal business interest, and responsiveness or the appearance of responsiveness on the part of these business leaders would mean Trump has violated the Emoluments Clause.
>18. One or more of Trump’s children — who are expected to manage Trump’s businesses — were present for meetings with government officials from Japan, the Philippines, Turkey, Argentina and Japan. In doing this, Trump’s children leveraged the effect of the office of President of the United States to advance Donald Trump’s personal business interests, and responsiveness or the appearance of responsiveness on the part of these government leaders would mean Trump has violated the Emoluments Clause.
Josiah James
>19. Trump has made no moves since Nov. 8 to release his tax returns from any recent years, making it impossible to evaluate the extent to which he owes or is owed money by foreign or domestic banks, individuals or other entities. Foreign debts renegotiated or credit terms extended in Trump’s favor would mean Trump has violated the Emoluments Clause.
>20. Trump’s unwillingness to live full-time at the White House means the Secret Service apparently will have to occupy space at Trump Tower in New York. Protecting the president is the highest priority and cannot be questioned. The problem is that rent on this space would accrue to Trump, who has given no indication that he would forego it. Trump would thus benefit financially—in a real, ongoing manner—from being president, meaning he will be violating the Emoluments Clause from the moment he takes the oath.
>Trump’s additional ethical failings, demonstrated after Nov. 8, disqualify from him from the presidency and would make it impossible for him to serve as president.
>21. Documents released after Nov. 8 reveal Trump’s charitable foundation admitted to violating “a legal prohibition against ‘self-dealing,’ which bars nonprofit leaders from using their charity’s money to help themselves, their businesses or their families.”
>22. Documents released after Nov. 8 reveal Trump’s foundation received $150,000 from a Ukrainian businessman in exchange for a speech delivered while Trump was a candidate for president.
>23. Trump paid $25 million to settle fraud lawsuits against his Trump University real-estate seminar enterprise.
Ryder Williams
>24. It was revealed after the election that Trump attempted to bribe Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly and other reporters in exchange for favorable coverage.
>25. Trump added an Electoral College elector, Florida Attorney Gen. Pam Bondi, to his transition team. Bondi gained notoriety because she “personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates.”
>Since Nov. 8, Trump has at least abided, arguably promoted and in any case served to encourage white supremacism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
>26. Trump named as his senior strategist Steven Bannon, “a leading light of America’s white nationalist movement accused of using misogynistic, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, and barely hidden racist language throughout his professional life.” He is the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, whose main website “traffics in racism, anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant hysteria”; its links “are often spread on Twitter and Facebook alongside Nazi rhetoric and racial slurs.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Bannon “was the main driver behind Breitbart becoming a white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill.” Numerous observers have described Bannon as a white nationalist or white supremacist. Court filings indicate he did not want his daughters attending a certain school because of its high Jewish population. He “occasionally talked about the genetic superiority of some people and once mused about the desirability of limiting the vote to property owners,” even if that would exclude many black voters.
Jackson Turner
>27. Trump’s success Nov. 8 was celebrated in Washington, D.C., days later by a conference of white supremacists who shouted “hail victory,” the German translation of the Nazi-era proclaimation “Seig Heil!” Trump has said only, “I don’t want to energize the group, and I disavow the group. It’s not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why.” He offered these remarks in a meeting with reporters where no cameras were present rather than in a setting that would be accessible to the majority of Americans.
>28. More than 700 hate crimes have been reported since Nov. 8, mostly tied to white Americans physically assaulting or emotionally abusing nonwhite and/or non-Christian Americans or vandalizing property with messages of hate, including numerous depictions of the Nazi swastika. Provided with every opportunity to address the nation and speak to the nation’s anxieties—to tell those committing these acts to stop and to tell the victims of these acts that they have been wronged and are entitled to the protection of the law—Trump has remained silent.
>29. Given opportunities to do so since Nov. 8, Trump and his advisors have not ruled out the creation of an unconstitutional registry of certain citizens due to their religion (Muslims).
30. A Trump surrogate cited World War II-era American internment camps of people of Japanese descent as “precedent” for a Muslim registry.
>31. Trump is reportedly being advised as president-in-waiting by Frank Gaffney, a conspiracy theorist who has said Republicans and government workers have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, that Saddam Hussein was behind the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building and that President Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya.
Josiah Thompson
>32. Trump said he would nominate for attorney general Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who has referred to civil rights groups such as the NAACP as “un-American” and “falsely charged three African American civil rights activists in Alabama, including a longtime adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., with 29 counts of mail fraud, altering absentee ballots and attempting to vote multiple times.”
Have some leddit gold and all the upboats i can give!
Bentley Richardson
>huffington post wew fucking lad
Camden Garcia
>Trump's whole campaign is about being anti-establishment >it is somehow a bad thing that he is behaving like someone who is anti-establishment
Brayden Scott
>sources? >I'll post them later xD End yourself my man
Owen Cox
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Chase Williams
oh let me help you fill out the other side.
1. He won the votes in enough states to win the electoral college vote.
Xavier Nelson
32 is a lot
Daniel Morgan
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>MUH GOD EMPEROR! >I DIDNT GET DUPED! >MAGA HATS WERE MONEY WELL SPENT!
yes, continue to spam memes and shitpost instead of thinking and criticizing your leaders. Absolutely brilliant way of changing the world for the better.
Joseph Roberts
32 non-arguments. Everything is either bullshit or has no baring on whether or not the electors should remain faithful to their vote. But thanks for helping to Correct the Record.
