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Trump Is Panicking
The Atlantic ^ | Sept 26, 2019 | David A. Graham

Posted on 09/27/2019 3:25:34 PM PDT by upchuck

When Donald Trump stepped to the dais at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, he had a speech full of sharp lines: swipes at socialism, assertions of nationalism versus globalism, harsh words for Iran. Though Trump doesn’t enjoy delivering scripted remarks, he sounded listless, tired, and bored even by his own standards, struggling through the speech.

The president had a good reason to be distracted. The same morning, he had spoken on the phone with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, trying to stem a growing tide of Democratic demands for his impeachment. According to NBC’s Heidi Przybyla, Trump asked Pelosi whether there was some way they could make a deal. Pelosi said the White House had to release the whistle-blower complaint to Congress, as required by statute. “Tell your people to obey the law,” she said.

After weeks of defiance, Trump seemed to change course. Yesterday afternoon, he announced that the White House would release a transcript of his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Later in the day, Politico’s Nancy Cook reported that the White House would release the whistle-blower complaint to Congress.

It was not enough to satisfy Pelosi. At 5 p.m. yesterday, she stepped before microphones in Washington and announced an “official impeachment inquiry,” with her support, into the president. It’s still unclear what this means materially, but it rattled Trump. At home in Trump Tower, he was stunned, believing that he’d managed to put Pelosi off in their morning conversation, according to CNN.

Chaos is a constant in the Trump administration, but this week there are signs of a far rarer impulse: panic. The indications come in Trump’s demeanor, including the listless speech; a combative, brief press availability with Zelensky at the UN this morning; and a rambling, stream-of-semi-consciousness press availability this afternoon.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: noexcuses

I don’t belive this. I do believe he spoke to the *itch regarding gun control legislation. I do not believe he would trade our 2A rights away in exchange for no impeachment.


41 posted on 09/27/2019 3:45:46 PM PDT by noexcuses
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To: RatRipper
If Congress impeaches Trump and makes it stick, I think they will learn first hand what the 2nd Amendment is really for.

Neighbor woman looking out the window:

"Harve, isn't it much too early for deer season? There must be twenty five guys going by armed to the teeth."

Harve: "Relax, honey. Now where did I store all those extra boxes of ammo?"

42 posted on 09/27/2019 3:47:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: upchuck

43 posted on 09/27/2019 3:47:15 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: Caipirabob

“If anything he is trying to save democrats from themselves....”

He’d be better served letting the Dems crash and burn. We’re headed towards a resolution with these bastards, and the more they suffer the better off everyone will be.


44 posted on 09/27/2019 3:48:37 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: a fool in paradise

He certainly did seem subdued at his UN speech. I don’t think he is panicked though, I think he is probably fed up and tired. I wouldn’t blame him one little bit if he just up and quit but I hope he sticks it out.


45 posted on 09/27/2019 3:50:04 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: RatRipper

CWII


46 posted on 09/27/2019 3:50:38 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: upchuck
Trump Is Panicking

             

47 posted on 09/27/2019 3:52:31 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: madison10

Yep, one more thing Paul Ryan didn’t bother defunding.


48 posted on 09/27/2019 3:53:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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To: upchuck

I don’t know what speech this buffoon was watching, but I saw his speech to the UNGA and it was one of his best.


49 posted on 09/27/2019 3:53:10 PM PDT by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: upchuck

I like it when they spread fear, underestimate Trump, and set their base up for extreme disappointment.


50 posted on 09/27/2019 3:53:59 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: upchuck

51 posted on 09/27/2019 3:54:19 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: BusterDog

...the final movement.
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Unfortunately, not. There is no finality to revolution, sedition and treason. These actors intend to first make the USA into a hellhole and then to take it over and rebuild it in the image of North Korea under their own personal domination.

They will never quit. Indictments, prosecutions, executions will only drive the remnant underground.

We will be fighting them for the rest of our lives, no matter our current ages.

Teach the children well, because they already have.


52 posted on 09/27/2019 3:55:46 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: upchuck

Pure projection.


53 posted on 09/27/2019 3:57:22 PM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: DoughtyOne

...$12 million or so in two days.
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Update: now $15M in 72 hours from 50k NEW Trump donors, per Eric.

$10M ad buy against Biden.


54 posted on 09/27/2019 3:58:06 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: erkelly

No way is he fed up and tired. I think he is hurt to see the leftists hating this country to such an extent

Trump knows that it is not him that they are attacking, it is us. He’s mad and that’s his mad voice. I think. When my late father used to get angry at us kids for bad decisions and he needed to set us straight, he’d get the quiet articulate “we’ve just turned a corner, we’re going to get to the truth” voice

I thought that was what I was seeing.


55 posted on 09/27/2019 3:58:21 PM PDT by stanne
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To: McGruff

Graham looks like a little, old woman.


56 posted on 09/27/2019 4:00:20 PM PDT by madison10
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To: McGruff

He’s missing his hot chocolate and pajamas.


57 posted on 09/27/2019 4:01:13 PM PDT by wintertime (I shun government K-12 teachers.)
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To: upchuck

Lying Democrat scum.


58 posted on 09/27/2019 4:02:14 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: erkelly

...he is probably fed up and tired...
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He had just completed 31 successful one-on-one trade and security negotiations with heads of state, besides everything else on his plate.

He is 3 years younger than me and I marvel at his stamina and fortitude.


59 posted on 09/27/2019 4:02:49 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal

Love it! Thanks for the mention...


60 posted on 09/27/2019 4:03:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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