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Originally posted by Zecpull:
[quote]Three women, who previously have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct, banded together Monday /quote]

One of them is the Secretary for the Clinton foundation.. I wish there was a way to hook these women up to a lie detector and a Taser every time they lie..they get tased until they pass out.

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by Zecpull:
[quote]Three women, who previously have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct, banded together Monday /quote]

One of them is the Secretary for the Clinton foundation.. I wish there was a way to hook these women up to a lie detector and a Taser every time they lie..they get tased until they pass out.

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With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office. Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low.


White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday dismissed the president's smear as a misunderstanding because he used similar language about men. Of course, words used about men and women are different. When candidate Trump said a journalist was bleeding from her "wherever," he didn't mean her nose.

And as is the case with all of Trump's digital provocations, the president's words were deliberate. He pours the gasoline of sexist language and lights the match gleefully knowing how it will burst into flame in a country reeling from the #MeToo moment.

RNC: Democrats’ response is laughable

A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.

This isn’t about the policy differences we have with all presidents or our disappointment in some of their decisions. Obama and Bush both failed in many ways. They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.

Donald Trump, the man, on the other hand, is uniquely awful. His sickening behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on common values and the consent of the governed.

It should surprise no one how low he went with Gillibrand. When accused during the campaign of sexually harassing or molesting women in the past, Trump’s response was to belittle the looks of his accusers. Last October, Trump suggested that he never would have groped Jessica Leeds on an airplane decades ago: “Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.” Trump mocked another accuser, former People reporter Natasha Stoynoff, “Check out her Facebook, you’ll understand.” Other celebrities and politicians have denied accusations, but none has stooped as low as suggesting that their accusers weren’t attractive enough to be honored with their gropes.

If recent history is any guide, the unique awfulness of the Trump era in U.S. politics is only going to get worse. Trump’s utter lack of morality, ethics and simple humanity has been underscored during his 11 months in office. Let us count the ways:

He is enthusiastically supporting Alabama's Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of pursuing — and in one case molesting and in another assaulting — teenagers as young as 14 when Moore was a county prosecutor in his 30s. On Tuesday, Trump summed up his willingness to support a man accused of criminal conduct: “Roy Moore will always vote with us.”

Trump apparently is going for some sort of record for lying while in office. As of mid-November, he had made 1,628 misleading or false statements in 298 days in office. That’s 5.5 false claims per day, according to a count kept by The Washington Post’s fact-checkers.

Trump takes advantage of any occasion — even Monday’s failed terrorist attack in New York — to stir racial, religious or ethnic strife. Congress “must end chain migration,” he said Monday, because the terror suspect “entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with national security.” So because one man — 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. who came from Bangladesh on a family immigrant visa in 2011 — is accused of attacking America, all immigrants brought to this country by family are suspect? Trump might have some credibility if his criticism of immigrants was solely about terrorists. It isn’t. It makes no difference to him if an immigrant is a terrorist or a federal judge. He once smeared an Indiana-born judge whose parents emigrated from Mexico. It’s all the same to this president.

A man who clearly wants to put his stamp on the government, Trump hasn’t even done his job when it comes to filling key government positions that require Senate confirmation. As of last week, Trump had failed to nominate anyone for 60% of 1,200 key positions he can fill to keep the government running smoothly.

Trump has shown contempt for ethical strictures that have bound every president in recent memory. He has refused to release his tax returns, with the absurd excuse that it’s because he is under audit. He has refused to put his multibillion dollar business interests in a blind trust and peddles the fiction that putting them in the hands of his sons does the same thing.

Not to mention calling white supremacists "very fine people," pardoning a lawless sheriff, firing a respected FBI director, and pushing the Justice Department to investigate his political foes.

It is a shock that only six Democratic senators are calling for our unstable president to resign.

The nation doesn’t seek nor expect perfect presidents, and some have certainly been deeply flawed. But a president who shows such disrespect for the truth, for ethics, for the basic duties of the job and for decency toward others fails at the very essence of what has always made America great.

USA TODAY's editorial opinions are decided by its Editorial Board, separate from the news staff. Most editorials are coupled with an opposing view — a unique USA TODAY feature.

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A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore...

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Originally posted by justjoe:
Supposedly, some Republicans will formally accuse the FBI of political bias.

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Originally posted by jljones:
Fellas, I have often said that Congress can do something about this. Defund each agency until they stop being a political arm and go back to doing the job they are supposed to.

But, they choose not to. Why? It is all part of a sad game that everyone in Washington plays. Both parties do not want change. They want the world to keep spinning s it is. Change is a word only used in Republican terms when they are up for reelection.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by jljones:
Fellas, I have often said that Congress can do something about this. Defund each agency until they stop being a political arm and go back to doing the job they are supposed to.

But, they choose not to. Why? It is all part of a sad game that everyone in Washington plays. Both parties do not want change. They want the world to keep spinning s it is. Change is a word only used in Republican terms when they are up for reelection.

How would it be for some powerful political firce to defund the agency you work for unless and until the leadership bends to their will?

All these employees on unemployment, defaulting on their home loan, missing their vacations, no Christmas for the kids, and God forbid, no contributions to the retirement fund!

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by jljones:
Fellas, I have often said that Congress can do something about this. Defund each agency until they stop being a political arm and go back to doing the job they are supposed to.

But, they choose not to. Why? It is all part of a sad game that everyone in Washington plays. Both parties do not want change. They want the world to keep spinning s it is. Change is a word only used in Republican terms when they are up for reelection.

How would it be for some powerful political firce to defund the agency you work for unless and until the leadership bends to their will?

All these employees on unemployment, defaulting on their home loan, missing their vacations, no Christmas for the kids, and God forbid, no contributions to the retirement fund!

Happens all the time to
People in public and private sectors who aren’t doing their jobs.

Why should the federal government get a pass? The same weak argument is always applied to this. We are often told that we can’t cut money to entitlements because of the children. This is no different. This is the same type of BS we are constantly fed on why nothing can be done with the education system. If there is measurable evidence that I am abusing my office, leaking information and the like, they can me with no regard to my retirement and house payment.