Trump Presidency Under Real Threat

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Honest or not, if any one person is to be directly blamed for Clinton losing the election, it's James Comey. It's like Putin is a scapegoat - plus implicating Putin harms Trump in the process.

The three major factors that went into this outcome are Comey's letter, Russia's meddling, and Republican voter suppression. There were of course other reasons such as the media giving Trump billions of dollars in free media while hounding Clinton over Republican witch hunts. All in all it was a confluence of factors but the first three are why I along with many others do not see this President as legitimate.

There are times when I wish Trump would just go away. I feel depressed when I think about him and his reactionary traits. His "alternative facts" and "fake news."

The guy just annoys me.

Nobody's really a bargain, if you ask me.

I think it's a tossup as to whether he'll be bought up on charges; it might be more likely for his cronies to be bought up on charges.

Even though the Eisenhower years were a time of conformity, I sense they were a time of unbridled optimism, too--except, of course, for the nuclear threat. Eisenhower was strongly against McCarthyite tendencies.

And he was strongly against "Industrial-Military" complex, even though he was a career military man. He had many virtuous traits.

There are a lot of factors that go into an election result but if I were to pick three.

1. Pissed off voters who had a right to be pissed off in the right states who voted for Trump because they liked his attitude and message or they did not like him but wanted to take a chance on somebody to be equivalent of a guy swinging a hammer in a glass room

2. Hillary Clinton

3. Trump unlike anybody else being able to identify and market himself to the voters described in reason 1

At most the Russian interference exploited the existing situation.

If Trump is found in collusion with Russia he will not be removed because of a combination of these factors

1. The Republicans are for the most part getting the policies they want and are going to get the Supreme court nominees they want.

2. Most Republicans that vote to remove Trump will face harassment or worse and a primary challenge. His supporters are by far the most loyal out there and they are arguably up to 40 percent of the electorate. While his support is the lowest all time for a new president it has not gone down in any appreciable way since the inauguration despite continuing pronouncements that this time he is really in trouble.

I have to agree with the reasons given for Trump winning. I also have to agree that this thing with accusing Russia of interfering with the election needs to stop. The media should give us some concrete evidence or stop. It only damages their credibility and makes Trump appear to be correct.

It's actually difficult to influence the populous in one intended direction or the other. If you sat down with average Joe and Jane American and really delved into why they voted as they did, you would probably find it had very little to do with what was in the media, particularly for Trump voters.

Tax returns

I thought we already did that, do we need another year of(illegally obtained) tax returns to show that Trump paid a higher rate than Hillary, Obama, and Bernie Sanders?

That was nothing, probably leaked by DJT himself. Two pages that show none of the corporate connections? C'mon.

Trump never said "alternative facts". Conway did as a flub. But that's how these things work. The public becomes convinced that Trump introduced "alternative facts" as a new policy.

It's funny how Conway's one time flub, seems to get repeated by the public more often than anything Trump himself either said or tweeted.

I don't see anything positive in Trump. I don't understand why people like him.

The most plausible reasons I have heard for Clinton losing the election were.

She was basically coming off as Obama's protege, which basically meant 4 more years of Obama.

Her campaign strategy was basically "I'm not Donald Trump" and "There needs to be a first woman president".

She didn't visit enough key States.

Her potential health problems.

hahaha come on, Rachel Maddow made a bigger fool of herself than when Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's "vault" and now you're actually blaming Trump? These paranoid conspiracies are really getting out of hand. Tax returns really don't show that much, anything you'd be interested in would be found in the much more extensive financial disclosure. All these attacks on Trump are wishful thinking at this point basically, they blew their wad long ago and these are just desperate attempts to trumpet BS narratives to mislead the public. Like the whole "Russia hacked the election" nonsense, that is purposeful lie that the media hasn't taken time to correct.

Hillary had more baggage than any candidate in history, she's been around a long time. Hillary is the embodiment of the corrupt status quo, too many people hated her guts. Hillary is basically the reason we got our first black president and the reason we got Donald freakin Trump of all people as president, I really don't think people like her all too much.

How is she the reason Donald Trump is president? Republicans had a number of other candidates from their party, and they chose Trump. I don't think they would have chosen anyone else if someone other than Clinton was running. And if Clinton lost the democratic primaries, then that means Sanders would have likely won. I don't see any republicans voting for Sanders as he's a borderline socialist.

If the Democratic primary wasn't rigged then I think in all likelihood Joe Biden would of ran and won the nomination, he was a much much stronger candidate than Hillary but he got blackballed out of the race. Could he have defeated Trump? Maybe, I don't like Joe Biden but he at least knows how to relate to other human beings and come across as a decent person. I think a lot of Bernie's support was anti-Clinton who might of voted for someone else if they were a more viable candidate, I don't think people really understand the shear amount of baggage the Clinton's have because if they did they wouldn't of supported them in the first place. Hillary was the easiest possible candidate to run against, I was saying this for years.