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With Public Calls For Foreign Election Interference, Trump Puts Infamous ‘Fifth Avenue’ Murder ‘Joke’ To Test
Donald Trump put his famous "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody" theory to the test on Thursday when he told the world, on national television, that he's considering asking Chinese president Xi Jinping to investigation Joe and Hunter Biden.
That Trump would say that, out loud, to people with working ears, in the middle of an impeachment inquiry centered around his efforts to compel Ukraine to launch similar investigations, is a testament to his unwavering faith
“borderline psychotic”, finally an apt characterization of Trump.
Pelosi and Dems have to go from Warp l to Warp 5 and go into hyper-mode to offset the trump/GOP counter measures. The faster the Dems attack and keep pressure on, the better chances that this story will not just become a Mueller debacle that drags out to a stupid conclusion. Putting on massive pressure ASAP helps force the trump retarded tweets and ramps up instability and more and more brazen push-back, all of which plays into the press focusing attention on how inept and corrupt the GOP is. With Nixon, the impeachment effort, was divisive and polarizing and solidified supporters in each camp and so, in this era, you have trump zealots who don’t care about their guy killing anyone, if anything they support any criminal activity and want their boy to be a bad ass gangster super star — but meanwhile, in the real world, the vast majority of voters will be watching this circus and wondering why a president is so involved in mass corruption. Thus, trump popularity will be put to a great test by at least 75% of Americans and thy will have to decide if they will support the GOP and trump, or if there is a compromise to not vote trump and just support random congressional candidates. If the Dems push hard and make a super strong case, GOP candidates will be forced to either support the gangster mafia or back away and look far more neutral. Of course the trump super computers know this, and the stable super genius playing 3-D blitz chess knows this, so with all the pressure on, the trick will be to find a way to not allow any fragmentation within the GOP party, which probably will require bribes, promises and corruption on a scale that will result in a civil war, pitting the criminally insane versus the rest of America.
Also see: Trump defines the Republican Party brand as president, so if Trump is unpopular, the Republican Party is unpopular, which would likely spell steep electoral losses for the party.
The only way this dynamic changes is if the entire Republican Party apparatus (not just politicians, but also media commentators and surrogates) turns on Trump en masse. But for this to happen, somebody still has to speak up first, and others have to follow.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-republicans-ever-turn-on-trump-itll-happen-all-at-once/