The President Is A Cheater--today's LA Times.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Link: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-trump-cheater-20190608-story.html

The Mueller report amply chronicles President Trump’s staggering, decades-long crime spree. Like an iron skillet to the head, the extent of Trump’s corruption seems to have stupefied voters, legal scholars and, of course, Congress, all of whom are currently at a loss for a remedy.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in her run for the Democratic nomination for president, put it best: “If he were any other person in the United States, based on what’s documented in that report, he would be carried off in handcuffs.”

But because our norms appear to be inadequate to the current catastrophe in the White House, Trump is not yet in handcuffs. So while Congress equivocates about the Mueller report and its implications for impeachment, voters ought to recognize a more homespun truth that it doesn’t take a degree in con law to understand.

The president is a cheater.

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thanks so much!

[kentuck]

2. He's more than a cheater.

He's rotten to the core.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Oh, I agree, my dear kentuck!

I actually don't think the two are mutually exclusive.

[kentuck]

12. They are not mutually exclusive...

...but "cheater" doesn't seem to capture the extent of his depravity.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Well, that was the word the author used. So I went with it!

You're right, of course.

[kentuck]

16. Well, the average person probably understands "cheater" much better than some other descriptions?

... at least, if they are Trump supporters.

(I knew that was not your description)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. ...

[kentuck]

55. To a true journalist. :-)

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. I think in simple brief language, "cheater and liar" sums him up pretty well....

for public consumption. And, most people despise life-long cheaters and liars.....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. cheater, liar, thief, coward, scumbag

Might have to invent a new class of scumbags to describe TrumPutin.

[Doitnow]

39. When we get his financial record, we'll be able to put it all together. Lie, Cheat and Steal. Motto

for the trump party. Hang it on them all.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. What is so apparant is,

our Fourth Estate unwilling to call this sucker out for what he is. Had it been Obama or any work a day person,all hell would have busted by January of 2017.

One of many failures of the Norms.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Indeed, this is true. I guess because the corporate masters are republicans.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. See this daily in what used to be

middle of the road of liberal Media,is now owned by hard right individuals of Rethug Donors. Living in Vegas,there is only on Daily Paper and it is owned by Adelson and his Family. It never was a middle of the Road Paper years ago,but at least they employed some liberal writers before Sheldon took over.


Talk about editorial hate in plain site.

[oldsoftie]

20. I hear him called out on a daily basis on news programs. Fact checked in real time.

But its up to the House to do anything about it

[Sherman A1]

7. They are just figuring this out????

So nobody payed any attention to his behavior since say, Oh, the 1980s or thereabouts?

Pardon me for a moment......

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I suspect that the author knew this from before.

But she chose now to write about it.

His behavior hasn't been a cause for alarm until he ran for the office--nobody thought he had a chance at winning. Why get alarmed when he wasn't going to win? Or so we thought.

We just didn't pay attention because he was a private citizen. And then it was too late to stop him.

[dchill]

10. The president is a low-down, dirty varmint.

Yosemite Sam knows.

[trueblue2007]

11. OF COURSE HE IS.... AND HE SHOULD BE LIVING IN THE SLAMMER RIGHT NOW!!!

#LockHimUp ..... #LockUpAllTheTrumps

[DallasNE]

14. Most Cheaters Try To Hide It

Trump wears it as a badge of honor (as does McConnell).

As a consequence, America has lost its way. And it will take time to build the consensus on how to put it back together, including the safeguards to prevent it from happening again. Indeed, with Citizen United still in place, it may not be possible.

[calimary]

15. Commander-in-CHEAT.

Last edited Sun Jun 9, 2019, 04:14 PM - Edit history (1)

He’s cheated everywhere, every time. Throughout his entire sneaky-ass belligerent bullying lying scamming dishonest cheating life.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Great read!

When the dealer and the player cheat together in the big casino, the technical term is “collusion.”

[KayF]

19. the president kicks his ball so much...

Trump kicks his ball so often from the rough to the fairway that caddies have nicknamed him Pele, after the legendary Brazilian footballer.

[Dirty Socialist]

21. Why wasn't he arrested before 2016???

He showed criminal activity well before he was elected. Why wasn’t he busted a long long time ago? And I wonder how many rich people get away with crimes like tax evasion? My poor dad got into a little bit of trouble with the I RS over $29. What the fuck?

[Sherman A1]

22. Precisely

The "Esteemed" Mr. Trump's activities have been out in the open for a very long time. I am surprised that he was never called to account but as you say the rich folks get away with crimes and alike.

[Dave Starsky]

47. He was probably busy ratting out the competition.

So the authorities probably didn't mind that he ran his own penny-ante scams.

Trump has zero loyalties to anyone.

[Captain Zero]

52. Dave, I agree. And...

I think he was an informant or confirmed info at various times. I think THAT is the reason he said I'm f---ed when he saw Mueller was appointed. He probably supplied info on John Gotti to Mueller when Mueller was taking down Gotti in NY City. Trump bought a lot of cement over the years and the mob is who sells that in New York City.

[PufPuf23]

23. Thank you CaliforniaPeggy kr

You are such a good-hearted person.

I am strongly leaning towards Elizabeth Warren for 2020. She did say it best.

[malaise]

25. Truth will out

and it's out

[spanone]

26. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍

He's a Criminal.

[erronis]

27. He's only getting away with it because he was enthroned.

The question is still open. Who is really running/ruining the government?

Is it the RW oligarchs in this country (Adelson, Mercer, Koch)? Or foreign influences?

Is the (r)epuglcon party really that capable of subverting real governance throughout the nation? I know most of the elected things are morons but do their think-tanks really have better thinkers than us?

Does the M$M really bare much of the responsibility for not being more questioning, more fair in their reporting? How about some of the channels that appear to have more liberal pundits (MSNBC)?

Can the blogosphere with its millions of different faces counter a determined effort to kill democracy?

Can federal and state elections make thing "right" again if the adversary is willing to cheat by every means possible?

Sorry, too many questions. Wake me when we have the answers. Or, probably, better not.

[smirkymonkey]

28. K&R

[mnhtnbb]

30. Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

was an excellent read. Written by Rick Reilly, a former sports writer for Sports Illustrated. Explains how 45's endless cheating at all things golf transfers to the rest of his life.

It is beyond me how 60 million people could have been conned by the guy. So much of his cheating, unethical, and questionably legal behavior was well known to so many people.

Although Trump is a disaster for the country, removing him from office is not going to fix the fact that 60 million people thought he was the best choice for the job. A lot of those people will still vote in 2020.

The Democrats need to stop equivocating about impeachment. It has to be done. The Democrats need to grab media attention--through impeachment hearings--the way Trump grabbed media attention by being such a buffoon. It has to be rammed home day after day after day, that the man has committed high crimes and misdemeanors and is unfit to hold office.

[calimary]

40. Yep! And + an extra thousand for your last paragraph, mnhtnbb.

[Skittles]

31. try to imagine if a woman or a POC behaved like he does

Donald Fucking Trump DEFINES white male privilege

[PatrickforO]

34. He does. I have a very good friend

who says that having Trump follow Obama provides a real contrast that forces us to confront our white privilege.

He points out that if we contrast Obama, who is arguably a good, moral man, a good family man, an ethical man - someone we can all admire, with Trump, who is a small-minded, mean-spirited con artist, the contrast forces cognitive dissonance.

Speaking for myself, I'm only partly in agreement with that. I believe Trump is a complete disaster; he and his wreckers have hacked apart our social, moral and economic fabric in ways that will literally take decades to repair. Merely helping Americans regain lost confidence in our institutions will require years of thoughtful policies, and a massive reeducation of Americans aimed at getting them out of the right-wing bubble and exposing them to the truth.

[Skittles]

37. there's no question there's a startling contrast between Obama and Trump

same with their wives AND their children......it's proof that being a fine, moral man is not good enough for racists if you're a black man, while they will lower the bar for a rich white asshole. Heck, as someone said, the bar wasn't just lowered for Trump, it is on the ground rolling around.

[uponit7771]

54. Yes

[PatrickforO]

32. Excellent article. Thank you for sharing it. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

33. He should be carried out in a straitjacket.

[pbmus]

35. 'The Big Con'

[Demovictory9]

36. k&r

[Farmer-Rick]

38. There is only 1 reason Traitor Trump is president

It is because the rich capitalist kings of America who control the United States want him there. If a few of them had put their money against him or at least tried to get rid of him now, he would be gone.

They don't seem to mind that a dithering psychotic criminal and his sex worker represent them and the United States. It's probably the type of representation they and capitalism deserve.

[Nitram]

41. "Cheater" comes nowhere close to the kind of crimes and misdemeanors Trump is guilty of.

He's a criminal, a liar, a thief, a bully, and a con man.

[Poiuyt]

42. He needed to cheat to win the presidency in 2016. I have no doubt he'll

be cheating in 2020.

[Ferrets are Cool]

43. So? The sitting POTUS is indeed above the law and cannot be prosecuted for breaking laws.

I do NOT accept that, but I don't know what I can do about it.

[BlueJac]

44. K&R

[lordsummerisle]

45. k&r

Based on his ability to never having to face consequences, we're on the road to being screwed right through 2020 and beyond...

[Crash2Parties]

46. Congress is not "at a loss". The Senate is enabling him 100%

It's misleading to report it as if all of the Senate wants to stop him but is just befuddled as to how to go about it.

[aikoaiko]

48. Sadly, for a bunch of Americans, if you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough to win

The LA Times admonishment that the President is a cheater is really just a rallying cry for his base.

A newspaper from the town that hosted the LA Raiders should know this.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Sorry, but I disagree. The author is not part of the Times' editorial board.

She is a regular Sunday columnist there. This did not appear on the Editorial page, but on the Op-ed page.

She loathes tRump and that should be obvious.

[aikoaiko]

50. I wasn't clear. I'm sure she does loathe Trump.

All I meant was that a majority of Trump voters will like that he is a cheater.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

51. Well, they already knew that. And yes, they like since it validates them.

[argyl]

53. With this SOB I go between white hot anger and boneweary disgust.

I really try to stay pissed. Can't let this small, nasty creature get me down.

I do shake my head in astonishment that this "thang" wasn't shamed and discarded decades ago.