Mikey J said it's all out in the open so it's not a problem.

SCOTUS said gratuities are not bribes.

DOJ is an accessory to the crimes.

Media and corporations must stay silent or are pay "protection money."

That's the ballgame, folks.

That's the most effective way of shutting down dissent.

Roy Cohn the Mafia lawyer taught him how to do this decades ago. Trump has eclipsed his teacher, he has take it to a whole new level.

We are in deep trouble here in the USA. It was only a matter of time. We have a relatively weak Constitution and our structure of government (gerrymandered House, over-representation of Red states in the Senate) really had limited safeguards against someone like Trump.

It will not be over with Trump. There are others waiting in the wings that are ready and eager to take the throne and who will be even more emboldened to put the boot on our necks.

Most of us aren't desensitized to it, most of us are continually outraged, not only at Donnie, but at his supporters and at the media that normalizes it.

The idea that one lie is a maybe norm shattering but then if he does it again and again it becomes oh well, ... well, no. Not at all. If a serial killer kills again and again we don't just shrug, we get more and more outraged and look forward to his capture.

Claiming we become desensitized only serves to normalize it.


That's as bad as the point of the article, that it's not a scandal if you're shameless, in the first place.

moron who won't go away, I think I am desensitized. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt he will, on a daily basis, say or do something outrageous, dumb, illegal, usually all three. It's baked in and I expect it.

the opposition and push back against him in his first term, where in my opinion he was far more benign and at least had some credible people in his admin, was far more focused, organized and persistent. His onslaught on so many fronts is just so intense, it seems to be keeping everyone on their heels.

Re-framing the James Carvel quote. Everything the criminal president does is corrupt, whether it's political, financial, or abuse of power, It is the unifying principal of everything republican.