Congressional Republicans and the Supreme Court’s majority, especially its Chief Justice, need to accept that Donald Trump isn’t a normal person and that America is ruled by a President who is psychologically, emotionally and uncontrollably [emphasis added] fixated on enriching and empowering himself, and unable [emphasis added] to relate to, understand or consider anything else, including what’s best for America. He is set free by his inability to feel guilt, shame, remorse, or empathy. Only upon accepting this, will Republicans and the Supreme Court grasp the urgency to remove him from power.
Trump’s behavior illustrates his condition. He’s defied six court orders, including the Supreme Court’s. One was needed to restart billions in foreign aid he froze, even though it spreads America’s influence and military might around the world, including the countries installation military bases. Trump’s freeze is enabling China’s and Russia’s military advancements beyond ours. Moreover, foreign aid seeds foreign industries that buy U.S goods. For 10 years, major recipients of U.S. aid were responsible for two-thirds of the growth in U.S. exports.
Trump demonstrated his inability to feel guilt, shame or empathy when he cancelled most of our foreign medical aid, risking hundreds of thousands of deaths and serious diseases worldwide. He also paused all domestic assistance for education, health care, anti-poverty programs, disaster relief, medical research, and prevention of animal cruelty.
His inability to consider the consequences of his decisions is manifest in his most destructive tariffs since President Hoover’s, which extended the Great Depression by a decade. The tariffs boosted the probability of a global recession to 60%. Worse, Trump could mismanage it into a depression. It was international cooperation that prevented the Great Recession of 2008 from becoming another depression. There will be no international cooperation this time. Trump’s alienation of our trading partners and his obsessive allegiance to Putin that threatens all of Europe has trashed our allies’ trust in America’s government. The cooperation he’ll sorely need in a financial downturn won’t be there.
Moreover, Trump’s cabinet will be useless — they are like school children planning mischief compared to what will be needed, and they’re there only to cheer on his misguided decisions. But don’t worry about Trump. He’s eliminating the anti-corruption guardrails to create the perfect environment for graft, self-dealing and lucrative influence-peddling. He’ll be fine.
The most compelling proof of his focus away from what’s best for America is his appointment of the most unqualified and dangerous cabinet in our history which threatens America with disease and death (see video), diminished our military prowess, a politicized FBI (see video), intelligence that accommodates Putin and the prosecution of officials who did their job for the country.
So, why are Republicans waiting to impeach and convict Trump? If it’s to keep their seats, they will most likely lose them to a Democratic in the next election or to a primary challenger whose not a Trump devotee.
Why is the Supreme Court is dragging its feet instead of allowing lower courts to hold Trump and his enablers for civil contempt (which the president can’t pardon) and jailing him until he complies with their orders. It’s time to stop Trump’s delay tactics that the Supreme Court accommodated to save him from multiple criminal trails.
