The president has a love hate affair with the media, especially the print media, but he is still a big fan of Time Magazine — and TIme has featured Mr. Trump on their cover more than 15 times since he began his Presidential campaign time.com/..., Time’s editorial board even selected Trump as their ‘Person of the Year’ in 2016. Mr. Trump has no doubt enjoyed the publicity, even when those Time covers have been less than flattering, they probably stoked his ego and they count towards another one of his record setting quests — to be the most featured person on Time’s cover.
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Fond of imagining himself setting records, DJT still has some real world work to do to catch up with disgraced former President Richard Nixon, who appeared on Time’s cover 35 times. If Trump surpasses that record, we can be confident that he earned the notoriety.
Before the election, Trump’s insatiable vanity couldn’t wait for the inevitable recognition that was sure to come his way — so at one time he had some fantasy 2009 TIme covers printed up lauding his reality TV ‘Apprentice’ stardom and then hung them in his golf resorts, as if they were the real deal www.washingtonpost.com
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Now comes Martin London’s editorial in TIme yesterday — time.com/… — which demands that Congress impeach the apprentice president, if he follows his lawyers advice and decides not to meet with Robert Mueller and his team of investigators.
London lays out the simple conundrum Trump faces — refusing to testify is tantamount to an admission of guilt and that should prompt Congress to impeach. It is up to Trump — agree to be interviewed under oath by Mueller or face impeachment for failing in his constitutional duties
...would President Trump refusing to speak with Mueller be unconstitutional? Would it violate his unique obligation to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”? While there has never been a litigated matter covering this precise situation — at least to my knowledge — the Constitution, the common law and common sense all suggest the answer is “yes.”
Neither London or I think that House action on impeachment of president Trump is likely — not in 2018, with that jiggly jello Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House. Not in this Republican led Congress.
But there is an election in November, after which the impeachment calculus could change completely. A 24 seat shift in the House of Representative changes everything www.washingtonpost.com. If Democrats manage pick up 24 seats in November, Ryan is no longer the Speaker and impeachment becomes a realistic possibility. A Democratic majority in the next Congress is a longshot, it will require an enormous amount of work, but it isn’t impossible.
So, now it is up to Trump — to take his chances under oath in an interview with Mueller or to wait for the new Congress and the possibility of a Democratic majority.
No matter how young or old you are, the November midterms are the most consequential election of your life. The forces of Dark Money and Corporate greed will be hard at work to elect Trump enablers and once again we can be sure that Putin’s thumb will be pressing heavily on the scales.
To counter those monumental forces, no one can afford to sit this election out.
Organize, canvas, speak out, scream from the mountain tops, march in the streets, blog — just don’t go gentle into that good night. Everything hangs in the balance. Truth, honor, justice, peace, prosperity, security, fairness, compassion and 50 years of environmental progress may all be lost - unless we turn this ugly mess around by winning the House in 2018. Do not sit this next one out.