Posted on 09/06/2018 7:36:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein on Thursday called for Congress to hold hearings on President Trump's fitness for office.
"What we need here are, finally, I think, some hearings in which an executive session or open session, those around the president of the United States are questioned about the fitness of Trump to be the president of the United States," Bernstein, a CNN political analyst, said on the network.
Bernstein justified his call by citing excerpts from former reporting partner Bob Woodward's new book and an op-ed from an anonymous senior Trump administration official who argued that the president's actions are "detrimental" to the health of the nation.
Both the book and the op-ed have painted a portrait of an administration that is increasingly at odds with the president's impulses.
"What's really going on here is that Woodward's book, and the contents of what is in the anonymous piece in The New York Times is that those closest to the president of the United States are saying we must save the country from the president," Berstein said.
On Wednesday, a senior Trump administration official wrote an anonymous op-ed in the Times in which they blasted the president's "amorality" and criticized him as anti-trade and anti-democracy.
"The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making," the official wrote, adding that aides work around Trump to make sure his desires are not enforced.
Similarly, Woodward's book, “Fear: Trump in the White House," reported that the White House was having a “nervous breakdown” under Trump, offering various anecdotes of aides trying to blunt decisions by Trump.
Among the anecdotes, former top economic adviser Gary Cohn is reported to have removed paperwork, unnoticed, from Trump’s desk that the president intended to sign to withdraw the U.S. from trade agreements.
Trump and the White House have responded by blasting both Woodward and The New York Times. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called on the anonymous official to resign.
"I’m draining the Swamp, and the Swamp is trying to fight back," Trump tweeted Wednesday night. "Don’t worry, we will win!"
Bernstein's call has been echoed by others, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
"If senior administration officials think the president of the United States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th Amendment," Warren told CNN.
Carl doesn’t have the common sense to shut up.
MSM creates the Fake story and then the Dems try to run with it and fall flat on their face
Look at it their way: literally making up and repeating a bunch of lies about Trump to justify an official investigation worked before, so why not try it again?
I hope they keep it up until the election.
Its all they have.
The days of Woody and Bernie railroading a Republican president out of office are over. Thus the hysteria.
I wonder which prison I would’ve gone to as an Army intelligence analyst if I had stolen documents from a general’s desk?
They can't get over this
If we hold the House and expand our majority in the Senate, I fully expect some on the left will go asymmetrical - to include attempted assassinations and murder raids.
I hope I'm wrong.
They’ll never get used to the loss.
What they want is to take revenge.
Lanny Davis told him so.
The only qualification I am aware of besides Citizenship is the tally of Electoral Votes. I think they are getting desperate. Another populist surge in Nov will all but guarantee Trump till 2025. Don’t be surprised to see the Kitchen Sink go flying by soon.
Manginas are so deeply jealous of Trump, and femmes so secretly moistened by him. Makes ‘em batchit crazy.
Instead of getting mad about this stuff, we should just sit back and enjoy the irony of the fact that Woodward and Bernstein would kill to have Nixon back in the White House, rather than Trump.
Bernstein might want to watch tonight’s rally. Trump made all of them look like the crazy fools they are.
The president has to be at least 35 years old.
I wonder if Bernstein has a clue what Thin Ice he is jumping up & down on?
Got lucky in the Watergate scandal, and milked a whole career off it!
Won’t happen again. We see what this old leftist is trying to do.
The reason? They wanted to spin a intrepid tale of journalistic heroism. The truth was they were willing dupes - stenographic hacks to a disgruntled FBI official who had an axe to grind with Nixon because he got passed over as replacement for J. Edgar Hoover.
Hey Carl Bernstein - we have elections every four years. Maybe phony ‘elites’ think that’s not good enough when their guy loses but that’s how our system of government works.
And here’s the really bad news Bernstein - Trump’s going to be reelected... so you’re gonna have him around a loooong time.
They have the right to impeach for high crimes and misdemeanors. Somehow, I think they would have trouble with proof or votes.
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