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Once We Impeach Donald Trump, Then What?
We are still surrounded by his creators
Once the impeachment inquiry became a reality, we knew that the egomaniacal toddler in the White House would promptly denounce the “witch hunt,” and continue the dangerous practice of weaponizing Twitter against targeted individuals and foreign countries.
But after weeks of nonstop harassment from Donald Trump, and his army of fools, directly targeted at high-ranking government officials, and a former ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, who had to endure the intimidation of witness tampering in real time — we can’t help but wonder and worry about what the beginning of another decade will wrought.
The epic disaster of Northern Syria, and the long-range consequences of abandoning the Kurdish forces with the infusion of Vladimir Putin’s partnering with Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is an obvious blemish on the once honorable track record of a draining super power, when it comes to the delicate execution of policies that affect global operations.
But, let’s not get carried away by the sins of the Trump administration and forget how the Obama administration still has to atone for the bloody and very costly mistakes in Syria. The difference between both cases lies in the gross lack of human decency on the part of the GOP’s supreme leader.
