George T. Conway III Quotes

Mary Trump’s ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World‘s Most Dangerous Man’ tells a remarkable story, the broad strokes of which many already knew. Mary Trump offers a tale of what she calls ‘malignant’ family dysfunction, and how it produced a malignantly dysfunctional president.

The president may have the raw constitutional power to, say, squelch an investigation or to pardon a close associate. But if he does so not to serve the public interest, but to serve his own, he surely could be removed from office, even if he has not committed a criminal act.

In essence, Trump thinks everything should be about him, for him, for his benefit and glorification – and he can’t comprehend, and doesn’t care about, anything that isn’t.

Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot – he’s the president of the United States. By virtue of his office, he speaks for the country.

There should be no schools, bridges or statues devoted to Trump. His name should live in infamy, and he should be remembered, if at all, for precisely what he was – not a president, but a blundering cheat.

When he ran a private company, one he owned, Trump could command all its constituent parts to do his bidding and make the rules himself. You’d think by his fourth year in the White House, he would have learned that the presidency doesn’t work that way. But obviously he hasn’t.

The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can’t second-guess them.

If a president makes a reasoned decision about what best serves the nation‘s interests, even if he turns out to be wrong, he has committed no impeachable offense. The Framers didn’t intend, through impeachment, to transform such policy disputes or mistakes into high crimes.

If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes to jail. If he’s president, under a Constitution that refers to impeachment specifically for ‘bribery,’ as well other ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ he should still be removed.

President Trump is treating the judiciary the way he treats the media. But the harm created by these attacks could be far greater.

For Trump, success always has a single father – himself. Failure has a hundred – everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The ‘deep state.’ Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn’t do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.

Trump’s narcissism deadens any ability he might otherwise have had to carry out the duties of a president in the manner the Constitution requires. He’s so self-obsessed, he can only act for himself, not for the nation. It’s why he was impeached, and why he should have been removed from office.

It’s about the principles, it’s about the rule of law. You don’t have to stay silent when you see something that you don’t like that is inconsistent of these timeless principles.

It’s simply not bias for a judge to explain her reasoning in a dissent.

Trump revels in issuing pardons, because that power is essentially absolute.

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation’s highest law enforcement officer.

Trump’s behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.

Trump simply can’t dial down the lying, or turn it off – even, his own attorneys suggest, when false statements may be punished as crimes.

Questions about Trump’s psychological stability have mounted throughout his presidency.

Americans should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be provably a criminal. They should expect a president to comport himself in accordance with the high duties of his office.

A President’s unofficial or non-presidential actions do not affect millions of people.

President Trump, whose businesses and now campaign have left a long trail of unpaid bills behind them, has never discriminated when it comes to stiffing people who work for him.

The electoral calendar is set in stone, by law.

Trump’s attacks against the judiciary reflect his view that only he should be able to decide what he can and cannot do.

It’s also not true that ‘abuse of power‘ is not impeachable, or that a statutory crime is necessary for impeachment.

Trump’s erratic behavior has long been the subject of political criticism, late-night-television jokes, and even speculation about whether it’s part of some incomprehensible, multidimensional strategic game. But it’s relevant to whether he’s fit for the office he holds.

Fiduciaries are people who hold legal obligations of trust, like a trustee of a trust. A trustee must act in the beneficiary’s best interests and not his own. If the trustee fails to do that, the trustee can be removed, even if what the trustee has done is not a crime.

In a case involving his private conduct, a President should be treated like any private citizen. The rule of law requires no more – and no less.

By vesting in the House the ‘sole Power of Impeachment,’ the Constitution makes it wholly the House’s business how to decide whether to impeach a president.

Just as crises can provide a test of anyone’s character, they do so especially with presidents.

Particularly as a supposed ‘conservative,’ Trump ought to know something about the relationship between the federal government and the states.

Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself – not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself.

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.