I can't imagine people being dumb enough to re-elect him but I didn't think people were dumb enough to elect him in the first place. I think he'd have to do something extremely bad for Senate Republicans to vote him out with the necessary 2/3 majority.
Well, in 2016 Donald Trump got through the primaries largely unnoticed and unexpected in a crowded primary field, and then ran against an opponent who stole the debate questions by colluding with CNN and the former head of the Democratic Party, Donna Brazile. Hillary had a former Ku Klux Klan leader as her mentor (Robert Byrd, a U.S. Senator who voted against every major civil rights bill he saw including the 1964 Civil Rights Act) and went to great lengths to delete her email server.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/17/donna-brazile-admits-leaking-debate-questions-to-c/
insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/16/sean-hannity-blasts-hillary-clinton-democrats-race-hypocrisy-robert-byrd-kkk-trump
Democrats continue to have a very corrupt and dishonest field of candidates that make them highly vulnerable. Cory Booker for example committed voter fraud in 2007.
www.nj.com/news/2009/12/essex_county_freeholder_samuel.html
Beto is a crook who tried to destroy small Texas businesses and neighborhoods to benefit his billionaire father in law while on the El Paso City Council.
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/us/politics/beto-orourke-el-paso-texas-senate.html
Elizabeth Warren still faces the controversy over her Native American heritage, which is less than the average American. Bernie Sanders is a socialist nut, and both of their Medicare For All and Green New Deal proposals are ridiculous and would bankrupt the country.
Kamala Harris is a racist more concerned with answering questions over whether she's black enough than solving the country's problems.
www.politico.com/story/2019/02/12/kamala-harris-2020-black-race-1167030
So, given all of the problems of the Democrat field of candidates, I would say Trump ONLY stands a chance if he gets through the primary elections; probably by avoiding a serious challenge to his right by a legitimate conservative alternative. If he were to make it through the primaries, the lack of an electable alternative would greatly increase his likelihood of winning.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/17/donna-brazile-admits-leaking-debate-questions-to-c/
insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/16/sean-hannity-blasts-hillary-clinton-democrats-race-hypocrisy-robert-byrd-kkk-trump
Democrats continue to have a very corrupt and dishonest field of candidates that make them highly vulnerable. Cory Booker for example committed voter fraud in 2007.
www.nj.com/news/2009/12/essex_county_freeholder_samuel.html
Beto is a crook who tried to destroy small Texas businesses and neighborhoods to benefit his billionaire father in law while on the El Paso City Council.
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/us/politics/beto-orourke-el-paso-texas-senate.html
Elizabeth Warren still faces the controversy over her Native American heritage, which is less than the average American. Bernie Sanders is a socialist nut, and both of their Medicare For All and Green New Deal proposals are ridiculous and would bankrupt the country.
Kamala Harris is a racist more concerned with answering questions over whether she's black enough than solving the country's problems.
www.politico.com/story/2019/02/12/kamala-harris-2020-black-race-1167030
So, given all of the problems of the Democrat field of candidates, I would say Trump ONLY stands a chance if he gets through the primary elections; probably by avoiding a serious challenge to his right by a legitimate conservative alternative. If he were to make it through the primaries, the lack of an electable alternative would greatly increase his likelihood of winning.
Trump won because the demonuts lost all touch with reality and real people so they had a choice of a lunatic or a narcissist promising them jobs. And if they pick creepy Joe Biden I think Trump will be a two term president.
Tax avoidance is legal
Tax evasion is not
The Trump is going down like a common Al Capone...
Tax evasion is not
The Trump is going down like a common Al Capone...
Yes, well, when it's corruption vs. corruption, an electoral race turns into a popularity contest. Trump accepted a $1 billion loan from China in exchange for an executive order protecting Chinese ZTE jobs.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-zte-order-after-china-gave-millions-to-trump-organization-tied-project-2018-5
Trump's Secretary of Transportation and wife of Mitch McConnell, Elaine Chao, is actively working for the Chinese government.
www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/03/18/secret-empires-mitch-mcconnell-ellen-chao-used-political-power-make-family-rich
Trump has done nothing to drain the swamp, reduce the deficit (either debt or trade), or improve employment (which continues to increase at the same level as it did three years before Trump took office and has still not recovered to pre-recession levels).
www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-population-ratio.htm
Unfortunately all of that will become largely irrelevant if Trump wins the primaries. It will be him vs. a corrupt Democrat; and more Americans are conservative than liberal (and it's not close). Trump has the edge in tapping populist outrage just by merit of saying the right things. Most Americans disagree with abortion after 12 weeks, believe young earth creationism is more likely than evolution, oppose trade with China, and want smaller government with less regulation.
news.gallup.com/poll/245813/leans-conservative-liberals-keep-recent-gains.aspx
That Trump is a hypocrite on all of those issues who says one thing and does another won't matter that much if he runs against a candidate who is openly opposed to what the majority of the country wants. They'll figure he's closer to at least supporting what they want than the other candidate, and since both are clearly corrupt, they'll stick with him.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-zte-order-after-china-gave-millions-to-trump-organization-tied-project-2018-5
Trump's Secretary of Transportation and wife of Mitch McConnell, Elaine Chao, is actively working for the Chinese government.
www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/03/18/secret-empires-mitch-mcconnell-ellen-chao-used-political-power-make-family-rich
Trump has done nothing to drain the swamp, reduce the deficit (either debt or trade), or improve employment (which continues to increase at the same level as it did three years before Trump took office and has still not recovered to pre-recession levels).
www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-population-ratio.htm
Unfortunately all of that will become largely irrelevant if Trump wins the primaries. It will be him vs. a corrupt Democrat; and more Americans are conservative than liberal (and it's not close). Trump has the edge in tapping populist outrage just by merit of saying the right things. Most Americans disagree with abortion after 12 weeks, believe young earth creationism is more likely than evolution, oppose trade with China, and want smaller government with less regulation.
news.gallup.com/poll/245813/leans-conservative-liberals-keep-recent-gains.aspx
That Trump is a hypocrite on all of those issues who says one thing and does another won't matter that much if he runs against a candidate who is openly opposed to what the majority of the country wants. They'll figure he's closer to at least supporting what they want than the other candidate, and since both are clearly corrupt, they'll stick with him.
Trump is using Obama's playbook. You have to realize, Obama ran as a conservative populist in both his elections.
* Obama campaigned against gay marriage, stating that "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix." Obama dishonestly claimed to support traditional marriage multiple times on the campaign trail, saying "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage" and "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/11/barack-obama/president-barack-obamas-shift-gay-marriage/
* Obama campaigned on reducing abortions and stated that when the subject of life begins was above his pay grade.
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/barack-obama-faith-adviser-book-abortion-reduction-214635
* Obama campaigned on shrinking the debt, reducing the deficit, not increasing the debt limit, and pay as you go rules.
www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/oct/21/leonard-lance/barack-obama-broke-promise-cut-annual-deficit-half/
www.snopes.com/fact-check/ceiling-whacks/
* Obama campaigned on securing the border and cracking down on employers that hire illegal immigrants.
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/286/secure-the-borders/
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/287/crack-down-on-employers-who-hire-undocumented-immi/
* Obama campaigned on stopping outsourcing and ending tax deductions for companies that offshore.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obamas-record-on-outsourcing-draws-criticism-from-the-left/2012/07/09/gJQAljJCZW_story.html
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/1113/end-tax-deductions-companies-offshore/
In other words, Trump is using Obama's playbooks, tell Americans whatever they want to hear, make a pretense of doing something, and then behind the scenes do the opposite. However, lack of serious opposition could guarantee him another term if he gets through the primaries to face an opponent whose platform is the reverse of what Americans want.
* Obama campaigned against gay marriage, stating that "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix." Obama dishonestly claimed to support traditional marriage multiple times on the campaign trail, saying "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage" and "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/11/barack-obama/president-barack-obamas-shift-gay-marriage/
* Obama campaigned on reducing abortions and stated that when the subject of life begins was above his pay grade.
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/barack-obama-faith-adviser-book-abortion-reduction-214635
* Obama campaigned on shrinking the debt, reducing the deficit, not increasing the debt limit, and pay as you go rules.
www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/oct/21/leonard-lance/barack-obama-broke-promise-cut-annual-deficit-half/
www.snopes.com/fact-check/ceiling-whacks/
* Obama campaigned on securing the border and cracking down on employers that hire illegal immigrants.
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/286/secure-the-borders/
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/287/crack-down-on-employers-who-hire-undocumented-immi/
* Obama campaigned on stopping outsourcing and ending tax deductions for companies that offshore.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obamas-record-on-outsourcing-draws-criticism-from-the-left/2012/07/09/gJQAljJCZW_story.html
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/1113/end-tax-deductions-companies-offshore/
In other words, Trump is using Obama's playbooks, tell Americans whatever they want to hear, make a pretense of doing something, and then behind the scenes do the opposite. However, lack of serious opposition could guarantee him another term if he gets through the primaries to face an opponent whose platform is the reverse of what Americans want.
What do Americans want?
Americans generally want a conservative politician. Even Democrats like Obama recognize this, which again is why Obama ran on a platform opposite of his actual positions; because he was just telling Americans what they wanted to hear based on Gallup polling. Like Obama, Trump is a former Democrat who supports the LGBT movement; he just pretends to care about the Bible and conservative ideals for political purposes.
Most Americans are:
* Opposed to abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy, and only support abortion in rare cases like rape and life of the mother. This is the position held by most countries worldwide also, which typically ban abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The U.S. is extreme in allowing abortion in all 9 months of pregnancy, and until 24 weeks under any circumstances. Most women, by the way, support the GOP 20-week abortion ban that Democrats oppose.
news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/08/02/guess-who-likes-the-gops-20-week-abortion-ban-women/
* Supportive of young earth creationism. Although young earth creationism has lost support in recent years, it still remains the dominant belief in U.S. politics. The last time evolution and creationism were polled in direct opposition to one another in terms of likelihood (2007), 66% of Americans said young earth creationism was definitely or probably true to only 53% who said evolution was true.
news.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx
* Critical of gay marriage. Although attitudes towards gay marriage have changed substantially in recent years, virtually every time the issue is put on the ballot, Americans have voted to define marriage as between a man and a woman. A total of 30 states passed at least 31 ballot referendum laws defining marriage between a man and a woman between 1998 and 2012; meaning that the peoples of those states all voted to define marriage as between a man and a woman. This included even some liberal states like California (which did so twice, Proposition 8 and Proposition 22) and Oregon. Gay marriage was only legalized by the Supreme Court declaring that all 30 states' ballot referendum laws were unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).
news.gallup.com/poll/1651/gay-lesbian-rights.aspx
ballotpedia.org/Marriage_and_family_on_the_ballot
* Supportive of smaller government. Far more Americans consistently say there is too much government regulation than too little. A clear majority (53%) say the federal government has too much power.
news.gallup.com/poll/243662/americans-worry-less-government-regulation.aspx
* Opposed to trade with China. A clear majority, 62%, say that trade with China is unfair. Nonetheless they do not support Trump's tariffs as a solution.
news.gallup.com/poll/236843/americans-say-china-trade-unfair-trade-canada-fair.aspx
news.gallup.com/poll/238013/americans-say-china-tariffs-harmful-helpful.aspx
Most Americans are:
* Opposed to abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy, and only support abortion in rare cases like rape and life of the mother. This is the position held by most countries worldwide also, which typically ban abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The U.S. is extreme in allowing abortion in all 9 months of pregnancy, and until 24 weeks under any circumstances. Most women, by the way, support the GOP 20-week abortion ban that Democrats oppose.
news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/08/02/guess-who-likes-the-gops-20-week-abortion-ban-women/
* Supportive of young earth creationism. Although young earth creationism has lost support in recent years, it still remains the dominant belief in U.S. politics. The last time evolution and creationism were polled in direct opposition to one another in terms of likelihood (2007), 66% of Americans said young earth creationism was definitely or probably true to only 53% who said evolution was true.
news.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx
* Critical of gay marriage. Although attitudes towards gay marriage have changed substantially in recent years, virtually every time the issue is put on the ballot, Americans have voted to define marriage as between a man and a woman. A total of 30 states passed at least 31 ballot referendum laws defining marriage between a man and a woman between 1998 and 2012; meaning that the peoples of those states all voted to define marriage as between a man and a woman. This included even some liberal states like California (which did so twice, Proposition 8 and Proposition 22) and Oregon. Gay marriage was only legalized by the Supreme Court declaring that all 30 states' ballot referendum laws were unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).
news.gallup.com/poll/1651/gay-lesbian-rights.aspx
ballotpedia.org/Marriage_and_family_on_the_ballot
* Supportive of smaller government. Far more Americans consistently say there is too much government regulation than too little. A clear majority (53%) say the federal government has too much power.
news.gallup.com/poll/243662/americans-worry-less-government-regulation.aspx
* Opposed to trade with China. A clear majority, 62%, say that trade with China is unfair. Nonetheless they do not support Trump's tariffs as a solution.
news.gallup.com/poll/236843/americans-say-china-trade-unfair-trade-canada-fair.aspx
news.gallup.com/poll/238013/americans-say-china-tariffs-harmful-helpful.aspx
Mr Trump played the political game to perfection and gained the prize of the presidency. He is a very smart cookie and will be difficult to displace.
He will remain in power until he has passed all the laws that the true power require, then he will be dismissed like Obama, Clinton, Bush, Regan etc
Same in the UK, same in EVERY democracy.
Democracy gives the illusion of choice, but they who control the money supply dictate the leaders and laws.
Same in the UK, same in EVERY democracy.
Democracy gives the illusion of choice, but they who control the money supply dictate the leaders and laws.
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