‘This is the presidency’: Conservative Jennifer Rubin says new Cohen revelations demonstrate collusion and make Trump’s ‘entire presidency illegitimate’ Thursday night’s revelations that Michael Cohen will testify that Donald Trump knew about his son Donald Trump Jr’s plans to meet with a Russian spy to discuss getting “dirt” on Hillary Clinton has caused a breakthrough with some analysts. Washington Post conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin is not a Trump defender, but has stopped short of declaring that Trump clearly engaged in collusion with the Russians. “This is collusion,” she said. “This is a fraud on the American people. This is a fraud on the election. It makes his entire presidency, in my mind, illegitimate. This is the thing that he’s been worried about all along. He’s been afraid that Democrats are trying to discredit his administration, his presidency. And guess what? They’re right. Because if he did this, he got elected with the help of a hostile foreign power.” Rubin said that Trump’s panic after Cohen’s offices were raided “is now very explainable.” Trump’s claims about a “witch hunt” now appear absurd, she suggested. “Well, the witches are in packs and droves now. They’re popping up out of every corner. And, if this is correct—and we have to have that caveat again and again and again, we do not know if Michael Cohen really is going to say this and they’re really corroborating witnesses—but if there were, this is it. This is the presidency.” Watch below. https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/pr...n-make-trumps-entire-presidency-illegitimate/
Yeh, right. Trump is going to see this and resign later today. Let's see now. Trump should be jailed and impeached if it can be proven that he willingly took steps to get dirt on Hillary from the Ruskies. Meanwhile it has been demonstrated beyond doubt that the FBI and Clinton campaign colluded and financed a current or former KGB agent to get dirt on Trump and it was then used to spy on Americans involved in a political campaign that the FBI was committed to undermining and/or overthrowing. Miss Histrionics there might want to consider that along with the other pussies here. Cohen is facing some serious prison time on all his other charges unless he can come up with some highly useful-to-Mueller bullshit to plead his way out. Yeh, no pressure to lie there. All the lefties feign concern about Russian influence. Meanwhile, the entire state intel apparatus in DC has been exposed as and continues to function as KGB type goons and they are cheering it on as long as Trump is in the crosshairs. If the entire top leadership of the FBI was colluding to rig the outcome of an election, that's fine for them. Nothing to see there. Witch hunt.
She's just now coming up with this? Pretty funny. Kind of like calling herself a "conservative columnist." Way to be relevant, Jenny.
TCDD, Trump criminal denial disorder is going to get pretty bad this year. With the combination of shared hate and very poor capacity to detect self-error I don't think there is anything, literally anything, Trump can be found out for that a lot his supporters can't twist about in their minds.
"Respected conservative columnist"? LOL, she is an unhinged nevertrump neocon moron. She fulfills the same role at the fake news WashPost that that Navarro woman does on fake news cable, ie pretending to be a conservative republican and attacking Trump.
With all due respect, you cannot support Trump and call yourself a conservative. What Trump has done to the budget and his relentless attacks on the Justice Department makes it impossible for any true conservative to support him. I understand the “he’s better than a democrat” argument but the “you’re not a conservative” line for critiques doesn’t hold water. True conservatives have legitimate gripes with Trump. Have you ever considered you’re not actually a conservative?
If you want to inform yourself, you are welcome. EDITORIALS Income Tax Revenues Are Up 9% This Year — Is Trump Tax Cut Paying For Itself? Reprints 7/11/2018 Supply-Side Economics: Democrats scoffed at Republicans who said the Trump tax cuts would at least partially pay for themselves through higher economic growth. But it looks like the GOP had it right all along, as revenues climb. X The latest monthly budget report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office finds that revenues from federal income taxes were $76 billion higher in the first half of this year, compared with the first half of 2017. That's a 9% jump, even though the lower income tax withholding schedules went into effect in February. The CBO says the gain "largely reflects increases in wages and salaries." For the fiscal year as a whole — which started last October — all federal revenues are up by $31 billion. That's a 1.2% in increase over last year, the CBO says. The Treasury Department, which issues a separate monthly report, says it expects federal revenues will continue to exceed last year's for the rest of the 2018 fiscal year. But wait a minute. According to Democrats, the Trump tax cuts were supposed to blow a massive hole in the deficit. IBD Newsletters Get exclusive IBD analysis and action news daily. Last November, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi promised that "this thing will explode the deficit." She also said that "after the Republicans' tax plan blows a multi-trillion-dollar hole in the deficit, they will sharpen their knives for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and vital job-creating investments for middle class families." Even now, Pelosi is sticking to her guns. In June, she called it "the deficit-exploding GOP tax scam for the rich." All along, Republicans countered that the tax cuts would spur additional economic growth, which would generate additional revenues, which would offset at least some of the cost of the tax cuts. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's response to that? "It's just made-up, fake math to hide another deficit-busting tax cut to benefit the wealthiest Republicans." Look at what's happened since the tax cuts went into effect. Economists hiked their projections for growth this year once the tax cuts passed. The CBO changed its 2018 forecast from 2% before the tax cuts passed to 3.3% after they took effect. In that same report, the CBO admitted that this added growth would offset a significant chunk of the tax cuts. Other Democratic big lies about the tax cuts continue to fall. They called the tax cuts a giveaway to the rich. But the rich will end up paying a bigger share of income taxes because of the Trump tax plan. They said workers wouldn't benefit, but millions got bonuses, raises, and improved benefits because of the corporate tax cuts. And real median household income is now at all-time highs. Democrats also said that tax cuts would do nothing about the $2.9 trillion in profits that corporations had parked overseas. In fact, corporations are bringing hundreds of billions of dollars in profits back as a direct result of changes in the corporate tax laws — 12% of the nearly $3 trillion held overseas came back to the U.S. in just the first three months of 2018. That will mean more economic growth and additional corporate revenues. It's the Spending, Stupid As we have said many times in this space, the problem the country faces isn't that taxes are too low, but that spending is too high. The CBO projects that even with the Trump tax cuts in place, taxes as a share of GDP will steadily rise over the next decade, and will be higher than the post-World War II average. But bringing in more tax revenues doesn't help if spending goes up even faster. And that has, unfortunately, been the case, as the GOP-controlled Congress has gone on a spending spree. Look at it this way. Tax revenues are up by $31 billion so far this fiscal year compared with last year. But spending is up $115 billion. In other words, the entire increase in the deficit so far this year has been due to spending hikes, not tax cuts.
I am a natural "conservative", whatever it has become in the US it is nothing close to the pre-90s idea and certainly not a relative of international conservative norms any longer. I would be very interested in hearing an honest reply to that question. But I think there will be a change-subject as such reflection seems beyond people who can swallow seven contradictions before breakfast. I would expect the reason they are not conservative really is they are closer to something else. In the thrall of cult narcissism. Narcissists aren’t very conservative but believe in inequality https://www.newscientist.com/articl...-very-conservative-but-believe-in-inequality/ Are narcissists more likely to be right-wing conservatives or rebellious liberals? A study of narcissistic personalities reveals they typically combine elements of both, helping to explain some of President Trump’s actions.
LOL, was thinking the same thing, in what world do you have to live in to consider Jennifer Rubin a conservative, the woman is a fully unhinged nutjob, the other day she was on Maher's show calling for a boycott of all businesses in Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski's states if they dont block Trumps supremecourt nominee. Conservative my ass.