Tag: Trump doesn’t believe in the Constitution

Trump suggests that protesting should be illegal

Washington Post logoPresident Trump has long derided the mainstream media as the “enemy of the people” and lashed out at NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem. On Tuesday, he took his attacks on free speech one step further, suggesting in an interview with a conservative news site that the act of protesting should be illegal.

Trump made the remarks in an Oval Office interview with the Daily Caller hours after his Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh, was greeted by protests on the first day of his confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill.

“I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that,” Trump said. “I think it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protesters. You don’t even know what side the protesters are on.” Continue reading.

Media is starting to grasp the master narrative of the Trump presidency: His attempt to maximize presidential power

AlterNet logoThis article was co-produced with Press Watch, a new website that monitors and critiques American political coverage.

The critical mass of evidence that Donald Trump accepts no limits when it comes to serving his own interests has increasingly emboldened mainstream political journalists to situate the drip-drip of new revelations within the master narrative of Trump’s presidency: That he has consistently distended and abused the powers of his office.

That is essential context, because it explains the otherwise inexplicable — and because it ineluctably calls attention to the post-Trump imperative to rebuild and reinforce the constitutional barriers to presidential tyranny that Trump and his accessories in the Republican Party have so profoundly corroded.

Veteran White House correspondent Stephen Collinson, who now writes for CNN.com, provided a master class in contextualizing the news on Tuesday. His article was pegged to the testimony from former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch about how she had run afoul of Trump’s personal fixer Rudy Giuliani, who was secretly extorting Ukrainian officials to incriminate Trump’s political rivals.

View the complete November 7 article by Dan Froomkin from Salon on the AlterNet website here.