Trump to reporter; "I know you're not thinking, you never do" during press meet. - Polidicks

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/01/trump-reporter-insult-854870 After calling on ABC News’ Cecilia Vega for a question, Trump said, “She’s shocked that I picked her. Like in a state of shock.” Vega responded, “I’m not, thank you, Mr. President." "That’s ok. I know you’re not thinking, you never do," Trump replied. “I’m sorry?” Vega asked. When she then tried to ask a question about Kavanaugh, Trump cut her off, asking instead for a question on trade. She eventually complied with a trade query, and Trump returned to her later in the news conference to let her ask her Kavanaugh question. What a cunt.

i think he's got it the wrong way round tbh

Classic projection

Here's the clip. https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1046795868324679682

I just have one question: Why is that exchange, right there, not an impeachable offense sufficient to see him impeached?

You can see Cecilia Vega absorb the unnecessary bullshit she just got thrown at her, suck it up, and decide to continue and do her job regardless. It's such a stark contrast with the baby at the podium who throws a tantrum the moment someone disagrees with him.

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1046800279960719362 Conspiracy theorist president.

OP's picture is so fucking uncomfortable. All the people next to Trump smiling are basically this. http://i.imgur.com/LVouHsH.jpg

Seems to me like he actually misheard her quick "I'm not thank you" as "I'm not thinking"? Still an asshole thing to say though.

Insulting a journalist isn’t a criminal offense, so no, this isn’t impeachment material. It’s just another example in a long line of incidents where Trump behaves like an asshole.

Impeachment never has and likely never will require any sort of crime to have been committed.

Why do we require more professionalism and decorum from your average office worker than from the highest elected position in the country?

When call center drones are more polite and professional than the President. Jerry from cancellations 2020

Dr Ford's testimony before Congress? Not credible at all. But this dude's vague allusions to some shit he saw once? Fuckin. Gold. Standard. Never seen a more truthful guy in my life

The Constitution defines impeachment at the federal level and limits impeachment to "The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States" who may be impeached and removed only for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors"

lmao is he basically saying its ok to be a terrible person?

Money

'or other high crimes and misdemeanors' is the operative part here, yeah. Who determines what that means is literally Congress. I mean, what 'Bribery' even means in this context isn't even defined in the Constitution. Let's delve into it a bit, courtesy the source I'll link at the bottom which you should check out if you find the discussion interesting. James Madison of Virginia successfully argued that an election every four years did not provide enough of a check on a president who was incapacitated or abusing the power of the office. He contended that “loss of capacity, or corruption . . . might be fatal to the republic” if the president could not be removed until the next election. With the convention agreed on the necessity of impeachment, it next had to agree on the grounds. One committee proposed the grounds be “treason, bribery, and corruption.” Another committee was selected to deal with matters not yet decided. This committee deleted corruption and left “treason or bribery” as the grounds. But the committee’s recommendation did not satisfy everyone. George Mason of Virginia proposed adding “maladministration.” He thought that treason and bribery did not cover all the harm that a president might do. He pointed to the English case of Warren Hastings, whose impeachment trial was then being heard in London. Hastings, the first Governor General of Bengal in India, was accused of corruption and treating the Indian people brutally. Madison objected to “maladministration.” He thought this term was so vague that it would threaten the separation of powers. Congress could remove any president it disagreed with on grounds of “maladministration.” This would give Congress complete power over the executive. Mason abandoned “maladministration” and proposed “high crimes and misdemeanors against the state.” The convention adopted Mason’s proposal, but dropped “against the state.” The final version, which appears in the Constitution, stated: “The president, vice-president, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The convention adopted “high crimes and misdemeanors” with little discussion. Most of the framers knew the phrase well. Since 1386, the English parliament had used “high crimes and misdemeanors” as one of the grounds to impeach officials of the crown. Officials accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” were accused of offenses as varied as misappropriating government funds, appointing unfit subordinates, not prosecuting cases, not spending money allocated by Parliament, promoting themselves ahead of more deserving candidates, threatening a grand jury, disobeying an order from Parliament, arresting a man to keep him from running for Parliament, losing a ship by neglecting to moor it, helping “suppress petitions to the King to call a Parliament,” granting warrants without cause, and bribery. Some of these charges were crimes. Others were not. The one common denominator in all these accusations was that the official had somehow abused the power of his office and was unfit to serve.

Erm, I hate Trump as much as anybody here, but that doesn't make sense. If rules on impeachment were that lax, it'd be happening to every president.

The key is, Congress can decide that anything is impeachable. But nobody wants to set the precedent that it's okay to impeach a President for anything but the most severe infractions (such as lying under oath) because they'll have it used against their candidate quickly. Just like the removal of the filibuster was such a terrible idea and the Democrats shouldn't have done it.

It isn't free. It costs you a lot of political power and capital to even attempt it -- and if it's not justifiable then you also have your election and polls to worry about.

I can't recall any president in recent memory treating the press like this though.

Literally go fuck yourself with a cactus, Trump.

There hasn't been a president like this since Jackson, who basically said 'so what if I broke the law? let's see you enforce your impeachment power, Congress'. To his credit, he was impeached -- but then was acquitted by a single vote by a Senate Republican who had remained entirely silent throughout the entire trial. The trial was 3 months long.

That was Johnson, he was bad but the thing started when he violated a blatantly unconstitutional law Congress passed to fuck with him. Jackson did ignore a SCOTUS ruling though.

Ah, yep, sorry. I mixed up my Js there.

He hasn't seen a goddamn thing, and you know he hasn't, because he's not emotionally capable of speaking to or about somebody he doesn't like without pulling every single insult, jab, or imagined sleight he possibly can to wield against them. If Trump knew about any Democratic Senator having been in a "very bad, very compromising position," he'd had blurted it out years ago. This is an extension of his, "I was approached by a crying veteran/police officer/teacher who shook my hand and gave me a hug for making America so great" story -- fabricated bullshit about nobody in particular meant to make himself look better that gets more ludicrous with each retelling.

Oh fuck off you orange chimpanzee in a suit, when have you ever used the power of thought?

He's projecting so hard I can see orange from all the way in Michigan.

There were a few other incidents during the press meeting as well https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1046806447525220352 https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1046807656462086145 All of his bootlickers smirking like shits as well. This guy is in charge of one of the most powerful countries on the planet.