[ExI] I wish this was fake news

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 02:15:38 UTC 2018


Just two or three years ago I would have said such a suggestion was
ridiculous paranoia but Mr.rump has already shown he is perfectly willing
to engage in activities far outside normal presidential behavior, so I
think we should take this danger seriously.

 John K Clark

I find it very difficult to be against him more than I am now.  So what can
we do?

bill w

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 7:53 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trump recently said it might be a good idea if the USA had a president for
> life just as China does now. Perhaps he was just making a bad joke but I’m
> not sure, perhaps it was a trial balloon. I have always thought the very
> first question reporters should have asked President-elect Trump is if he
> lost in 2020 would he respect the outcome of the election, because he
> famously refused to say he’d do so before the 2016 election. He didn’t lose
> of course so the matter never came up but instead he showed himself to be
> something very rare, a sore winner. He bizarrely said the 2016 election was
> invalid and unfair even though he won. If Trump looses in 2020 can anybody
> really doubt he will call that election unfair and invalid too? And unlike
> the case in 2016 he would now be in a position to do more than just
> verbally complain about the outcome because he is now Commander In Chief
> and has the power to take action. Just two or three years ago I would have
> said such a suggestion was ridiculous paranoia but Mr.rump has already
> shown he is perfectly willing to engage in activities far outside normal
> presidential behavior, so I think we should take this danger seriously.
>
>  John K Clark
>
>
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