Year: 2019
Trump Has Become a ‘Human Repellent Spray’ for Suburban Voters
“If you had any doubt that Trump was a human repellent spray for suburban voters who have a conservative disposition, Republicans getting wiped out in the suburbs of New Orleans, Louisville and Lexington should remove it.”
— GOP strategist Tim Miller, quoted by the New York Times.
Young Voters Want Trump Gone
58%
A new Harvard Institute of Politics poll finds 52% of young Americans and 58% of likely general election voters under 30 want President Trump impeached and removed from office. Only 28% of likely voters feel differently.
Overwhelming Majority Back Impeachment
70%
An overwhelming 70% of Americans think President Trump’s request to a foreign leader to investigate his political rival, which sits at the heart of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, was wrong, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. A slim majority of Americans, 51%, believe Trump’s actions were both wrong and he should be impeached and removed from office. But only 21% of Americans say they are following the hearings very closely.
Trump Has Deported Fewer than Obama
260,000
Washington Post: “Though President Trump has made cracking down on immigration a centerpiece of his first term, his administration lags far behind President Barack Obama’s pace of deportations. Obama — who immigrant advocates at one point called the ‘deporter in chief’ — removed 409,849 people in 2012 alone. Trump, who has vowed to deport ‘millions’ of immigrants, has yet to surpass 260,000 deportations in a single year.”
Trump’s Impeachment Defense, Deconstructed
45
Daniel Dale has a list of 45 ways President Trump has been dishonest about Ukraine and impeachment.
Kilimnik Offers His View on Washington’s Stance Toward Ukraine
“DC does not give a shit about Ukraine. It is a tool in their political fight. An object. A dildo with which Dems and GOP fuck each other.”
— Konstantin Kilimnik, former business partner of Paul Manfort’s in Ukraine, to BuzzFeed News.
Trump’s Corruption and Criminality Coming to the Fore
“From the perspective of President Trump’s frustrated critics, the attempts to subject him to legal accountability have amounted to a long string of failures. Robert Mueller failed to produce a clear indictment of his dealings with Russia, and impeachment appears headed toward a partisan stalemate that will leave him in office. … But as Trump’s constant boil of rage attests, those efforts have hardly failed. The legal ring surrounding him is collectively producing a historic indictment of his endemic corruption and criminality.”
— Jonathan Chait
Putin Said to Be Source of Trump’s Bogus Ukrainian Conspiracy Theory
Every conspiracy theory has a source. More often than not, however, the source is impossible to track down. Not so with Trump’s pet theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 election.
The source of that thoroughly disproved assertion was Trump’s handler, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Putin first mentioned it in public during a news conference with right-wing Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, in 2017:
