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 presidents 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 Trumps 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.
"Im draining the Swamp, and the Swamp is trying to fight back," Trump tweeted Wednesday night. "Dont 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.
And this from a bonified “Red Diaper Baby”.
Laugh of the week. Thanks Carl for being such a schmuck.
What exactly, since the early 1970s, has Bernstein done? Resume-wise, this guy has a two-line resume after 1975. And now, the networks drag this guy out?
Trump not as stupid as Nixon
Currently Carl is enmeshed with CNN's mendacity in a self-inflicted stinking web of untruths.
He's just won the latest Lying POS Award.
In a July 27 piece of very fake news Bernstein co-wrote with CNN anchor (and former Obama official) Jim Sciutto and researcher Marshall Cohen, Bernstein declaratively informs us, Contacted by CNN, one of Cohens attorneys, Lanny Davis, declined to comment.(p)That statement is a lie, a proven lie, a bald-faced lie, because we now know for a fact that Lanny Davis did NOT decline to comment. Whats more, Davis was a CNN source for that steaming pile of very fake news.
In other words the anti-Trump Carl Bernstein did not only spread fake news, the anti-Trump Carl Bernstein published a straight-up lie in his fake news, reported something he knew was not true.
Their “insurance policy” has just been exposed for the fraud it was, thanks to John Solomon’s reporting on Ohr’s testimony to Congress, so now they’re getting really desperate.
I hope and pray that truth results in a Red October ending of their “blue wave”!
1. The Hill sucks.
2. " 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. "
The Hill can't punctuate or spell.
3. Bernstein has had far more than his 15 minutes.
3. Bernstein is so ugly he scares children.
That should about do it for now.
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Love to see these two idiots Woodward and Verbatim tarred and feathered.
Bingo!
What about the fitness of members of Congress? You know, Sheila Jackson Lee, Drunk Pat Leahy, Hank ‘Guam’ Johnson, and several other morons?
Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.
Evil idiot.
The left is bat crazy over the fact that under President Trump, African Americans, Latinos and Women are All doing better job wise and with the tax reduction, financially as well. They KNOW that if even 5% more of ANY of these groups vote republican in November, their plans are sunk to take power and to get rid of Trump by fair means or foul.....I heard Diamond and Silk on the Conservative Circus with James T Harris today and I was so fired up! There is a shift going on and let’s not forget Kanye West and his comments either!
Has-been journalist craves the limelight again.
More proof Mueller will not come up with anything. Muellers Dems forwarded this news to the Dems who alerted their lapdog propaganda outlets and now hope to get rid of Trump this way.
Carl Bernstein is a stain on what’s left of “journalism”.
Bring in more clowns
90% of Republicans support Trump.
90%!!!!!!
Nobody is going to impeach him or launch an inquest into his fitness, nor do much of anything else.
Your old game of collapsing POTUS approval in his own party (as you did to Nixon) is OVER!
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