The Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Episode VI: No Witnesses, One Defector, No Checks or Balances

The metaphor here is absolutely insane. The pillars of American Democracy include —squints— the intelligence community?

Thank God the Democratic Party hasn’t collapsed into rubble yet, that’s all we have left to prop up our democracy.

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Also cops and two political parties. I feel like these are four rather large threats to democracy.

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The Stone sentencing recommendation fiasco was just an elaborate ruse to help identify more deep state swamp rats who needed to be DRAINED. Well done, Mr. President!

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Someone should remake that. It should just say America on top, with a “democracy” pillar crumbled but 10 other pillars still holding it up that just say “racism”

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Still holding!

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Facebook needs a pillar.

Nailed it.

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This is the guy Manafort was providing briefings on the campaign to, and of course the assumption is that they were (duh) passed on to Putin.

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https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1227360537241104386?s=19

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Have all 4 resigned from the Department of Justice?

Great, so now Trump can replace all these people with sycophant lackeys? I don’t know what to say about these people if they haven’t learned that resigning in protest does nothing of consequence in this scenario.

I think the proper play is to make them fire you and then refuse to leave.

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Yes

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1227025542114881536?s=20

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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1227352806992072704?s=20

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https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1227372374049394688?s=20

Gotta think this one’s gonna merit a HIGHLY concerned. Troubling, even.

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BESIDES FLIPPER

https://twitter.com/alex_mallin/status/1227371454771212289?s=20

Where is Gump when we need him for coincidences that work in our favor?

Cliffs: in Dec 2019, Trump nominated the woman who was overseeing the Flynn and Stone cases for a job at Treasury, so she left her old job (and a Barr loyalist took over). White House just pulled her nomination for the new gig…

https://www.axios.com/trump-jessie-liu-treasury-us-attorney-838d1a3b-1d4d-414c-ac7d-77a7ba6d4edb.html