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Trump plots Extortion & breaks Oath of Office in first 24 hours! [1]
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Date: 2025-01-23
Shortly after being sworn-in as POTUS, Trump blithely signs various Executive Orders from the Oval Office while flippantly employing his diarrhoea-of-the-mouth to proffer inane commentary to a gaggle of toady reporters who were allowed in on the promise to only toss him a variety of “soft-ball” queries.
During his undignified display of frat-boy behavior wherein he mocks the power of the Presidency as he blithely signs one Executive Order after another, many of which having potentially devastating implications for 10’s of millions of Americans, while he unwittingly reveals his true immature and criminal nature as he utters a continuous diatribe of sheer inane nonsense. At one point, like a pre-pubescent seeking validation for his behavior, he asks if anybody had seen his predecessor have any “. . . conference like this one, huh,, huh?”. Then he enters into low-brow teen-age banter with a reporter, asking if they know what BRIC’s are, as if he—the Prez—were the smartest person in the room.
Continuing his crazed diatribe, Trump reveals his true criminal-self to the world when he says it’s ok to use the Office of the Presidency to perform extortion and at the same time intimates his services as President are “up-for-sale”, as long as the price is right and he benefits personally from it. It occurs as he discusses the Tik-Tok issue. He tells us that without his approval Tik-Tok is worthless; but with his approval and signature on the deal, Tik-Tok could be worth as much as $1 trillion! Then his Freudian-slip displays his true intentions when he says something like, “I should get at least,,,,,,, er,,, umm,,, we should at least get half, right?” He then goes on to justify that it’s ok to get half because without his support nothing will happen and therefore at least half of the value should belong to him/us.
Hello, that’s a text-book definition of an extortion plot! And just as surely as that’s an extortion plot, equally certain will be the response of his fellow crooks, cronies, and MAGA critters. They’ll come dashing in to support his Freudian-slip with their various shop-worn and hack-kneed cliché’s dripping off their chins—“he was joking,,,, he didn’t mean what he said,,, he would never do that,,, he blah, blah, blah”. They believe because Trump uses a pencil, subterfuge, and bluster to perform his crimes, rather than a gun and bludgeon, then those actions are not criminal. To them White-collar crime isn’t really crime and the only thing Bernie Madoff, Bernie Ebbers and the “Lehman Brothers” did wrong was get caught!
And his Oath of Office is broken when he signs his executive order ending birth right citizenship! An Oath that was taken moments before signing this order! The Oath calls upon Trump to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Instead of protecting, defending, and preserving the Constitution, this Order directly attacks it and attempts to undermine Amendment 14 of that Constitution!
Disgraceful, contemptible, and criminal don’t begin to describe Trump’s behavior in the first 24 hours of this term in office. If Congress was doing its job, they should be looking into drawing up Articles of Impeachment for both of these grievous items—admitted plotting extortion as President and breaking his Oath of Office by attacking Amendment 14. And where is the Press in reporting on this?
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