THE White House windbag’s latest Twitter firestorm over the Russian investigation over the weekend has plumbed new depths and further debased the office of POTUS. How ordinary American citizens can bear to allow this maniac to continue this type of behaviour is beyond me.
It would appear that the country has become desensitised to this Twitter verbal diarrhoea with its heavy mix of lies and denial, and as no one in either the media or the houses of government are prepared to stop him, he will continue to fly in the face of truth and reality, spewing his lies and reducing the USA to the laughing stock of the world, alongside the UK thanks to May and Co’s recent Russian Brexit distraction. It would appear she and Johnson have taken a leaf out of the Tangerine One’s book in their approach to their own Russian conundrum.
Trump’s continued ranting about Mueller’s investigation is becoming more and more bitter and personal as the days go by, and it is plain to all that his behaviour is a consequence of the immense stress he is under in this regard.
His comments are that of a man close to the edge of breaking up altogether, and the last thing the world needs is for Trump to retreat into his lair without a steadying influence of any kind, where his paranoid tendencies can run free. Where that would lead God only knows, but it would not have a happy ending.
He is protesting his innocence far too often now and usually someone who does this has a lot to hide. Mueller is playing a very clever game here, taking his time to gather all the evidence, turning all the relevant people and assembling a watertight case which will hopefully, when presented to the POTUS, result in him seeing no other option but to resign like Nixon did when faced with the same choices.
The one fear all of us should have is that he will crack and try to fire Mueller and disband his investigation before the tipping point comes, and one could not bank on Sessions or Rosenstein being strong enough to resist him if he were to go for this option.
This would, I fear, cause a constitutional crisis in America which would split the Republican Party asunder and cause serious divisions across American society which could have catastrophic outcomes.
I was heartened to read that some Republican senators, such as the influential John McCain, tweeted warnings to the windbag to not try anything with Mueller’s investigation as it would mean the end of his presidency if he did.
It would appear that the way to curtail him will be down to the American voters in the midterm elections in November. They can vote out as many Republican senators as possible, thus handing control of both Houses to the Democrats, which would neuter him and make it much easier for him to be impeached when the time comes.
The world is watching you Mr and Mrs America, hoping against hope that you will be stronger than the whimps that stand by and let him rampage. Now is the time to show your disgust for the man who is dragging your country into the gutter and making it the laughing stock of the world. Make America sane again!
Ade Hegney
Helensburgh
AS Trump manoeuvres himself closer towards dictatorship (come on Mueller – catch up) and Brexit creates an economic and social and military basket case out of the UK at a time when it should be playing for Team Planet; when all the chickens of decades of rampant British privatisation and failure to invest in infrastructure are coming home to roost – why wouldn’t Putin be smiling?
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh
YOUR front page headline, “Davidson Accused of ‘stealth attack’ on devolution” (The National, March 19), reveals it all.
It is quite obvious that Ruth Davidson has realised that neither she nor any other Conservative MSP has a cat in hell’s chance of ever becoming First Minister and therefore she has embarked on a campaign to undermine the effectiveness of the Scottish Parliament.
Sadly, no doubt she has the tacit consent of her Conservative colleagues in Westminster.
Thomas L Inglis
Fintry
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