America at the point of no return

In June 2019, President Donald Trump was enjoying a rare time without scandals. He had successfully investigated the investigation of Special Prosecutor Mueller. Muller had to be hired to obey the guidelines of the Justice Department that said the president could not be charged with violating any criminal law. Since Muller had also restricted his review of the secret “agreement to the potential violations of a criminal law, Muller's investigation went to a dead end of pre-priced futility.

Trump celebrated this by offering a rare interview for a broadcaster who was Fox News, to George Stephanopoulos of ABC News. Stephanopoulos asked him what if a foreign government offered something filthy to his opponent in the 2020 presidential race? Would he accept it?

I think you should listen, there's nothing wrong with listening. If someone calls from a country, for example Norway, and says “we have information about your opponent” Oh, I think I'd like to hear it. ”

And:

It's not interference, they've got information [screw on the opponent] I think I'd get it. If I thought there was something wrong, I'd probably follow the FBI if I believed there was something wrong. But if someone comes up with a search for the opponent, then why call him The FBI, when they have agents enough to deal with it. When you go and talk, honestly, to a congresswoman, they do all that, they always do, that's what it is. ”

Don't say we weren't warned. Trump blew it the first time. The lesson he took was to try again.

In the early days of Trump's presidency, his fans suggested that he would improve when he took office the way he learned not to commit corruption.

In June 2017, news came that Trump had asked FBI Director James Comeyt to be gentle with Michael Flynn, his first national security adviser. The president said Paul Ryan's House of Representatives at the time. “He's new to government. So, maybe he's got a good understanding of protocol that sets the relationship between the Justice Department, FBI and White House. ”

We give him time, he seemed to suggest Ryan, and Trump would stop acting like a criminal at the Office Ovale.

Trump got us a whole new conclusion from Ryan: No one will stop me.

The amazing thing about Trump's recent abuse is how many people knew about what he had done. Vice President Mike Pence had personally talked to the president of Ukraine about the importance of “corruption”.

Cabinet chief in charge of the White House, Mick Mulvaney, passed the order to block funds voted by Congress for Ukraine.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo filed statements by Ukrainian officials in what seemed to be attempts to cover Trump from the scandal.

And all of this happened openly. Anyone could see how the money was being withdrawn a few months after Congressers voted for it. Everyone knew Trump's personal emissary, Rudy Giuliani, had travelled to Ukraine to look for shit for former Vice President Joe Biden. Gulian went on television to talk about it!

This is no mystery, it was never a mystery. There was only impunity, as there is impunity.

Trump was never cunning. He committed his secret crimes in front of the public. Trump's bribes were not given by secret men in underground garages. They gather in Pennsylvania Avenue, the luxury hotel bearing Trump's name at the door. Trump doesn't sneak into Republican donations. When Trump called on Russia to avenge his opponent [Hillary] and to send her e-mails to him, he did so on television.

Trump takes advantage of the human tendency to think: “If there's no shame, maybe you're not doing anything wrong.” Normal people are turned back by pathological people, and Trump is the most pathological president in American history.

But we're at the point of no return. Ukraine's case confirms Trump will do anything. Everything. Everything.

He uses people around him who are too spoiled, psychologically weak to resist. So far, gambling has worked out. It's time to reverse.

Taken from The Atlantic, translated and adapted into Albanian Periscopi