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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charl...KE2-jXZy_RSmlo
A longtime leading conservative voice slammed President Donald Trump on Thursday as “ignorant and foul-mouthed,” and warned the nation is in a constitutional crisis.
Charles Fried, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University who was solicitor general to President Ronald Reagan, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes how he fled Czechoslovakia when the Nazis took over and eventually settled in the United States.
“I’ve had a wonderful life here. I love it, as do my children and my grandchildren,” he said. “And this man terrifies me.”
Fried added:
[Trump] says that the Constitution said ― and he said this to a bunch of high school students ― ‘I can do whatever I want, that’s what Article II says.’ Well it doesn’t, any lawyer knows that, any lawyer except maybe [Attorney General] Bill Barr and Mr. Cipollone [White House counsel Pat Cipollone].
“Our fidelity is to the law, and to the office,” Fried said. “Not to a man.”
Fried warned that Trump’s refusal to cooperate with Congress by blocking officials from testifying has placed the nation in a constitutional crisis.
“They are in contempt,” he said of officials who won’t testify. “Of course, [Trump] is in contempt.”
Hayes called Fried a “conservative legal legend” and asked what his fellow scholars on the right think of Trump.
“They are horrified,” Fried answered. “It is the very opposite of the great Republicans, like Ronald Reagan, like Dwight Eisenhower. Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower speaking the way this man speaks? Or Lincoln? Or Teddy Roosevelt? This man is ignorant and foul-mouthed.”
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
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Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
evince (10-14-2019)
Awesome. Not all Conservatives are totally cucked.
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
Lol, another "Conservative legend" nobody ever heard of. Everyone knows Havard Law is chock full of Conservatives.
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I think stuff like this is kind of bad for the country too. Rednecks aren't all stupid, but when mainstream media makes fun of them like this, it drives them further to the Right. They become susceptible to people like Trump who claim that the establishment hates them.
can't wait to see those Trump-sucking GOP'ers at town halls next year, IF they have the balls to host one
Mainstream Media makes fun of rednecks? Where the hell do you get this, Gomer? Show me just one example of the Mainstream Media making fun of Rednecks. Nobody needs to make fun of rednecks. They do a great job of doing that themselves. And they become susceptible to people like Trump because of their stupidity, not because people make fun of them. You're really reaching here SBS. Too bad you don't have a better argument. This one is just plain silly. Or maybe YOU are a redneck and just don't realize it, Gomer.
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
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Imagine you come from a region and a culture where mainstream society ignores your concerns because the establishment thinks you and your family are all fat stupid racist alcoholics. Wouldn't you be more willing to trust someone who seemed to be the opposite of the establishment?
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