A surge of attempts to silence legitimate and thoughtful foreign policy criticism has reached new depths, impugning the loyalty of those who happen to have policy differences with those doing the impugning.
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Impugning the Soviet Union's conduct in World War II was illegal.
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They have certainly avoided impugning the motives of sitting Fed chairs.
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In this context, Trump's words went further than impugning Ford's character.
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" He said of the intelligence impugning Lynch, "It was a Russian forgery.
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Lower than his impugning of a judge because of his Mexican heritage.
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Republicans cried foul -- charging that Warren violated Senate rules against impugning another senator.
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Senators were forbidden from launching personal attacks "impugning" the character of their colleagues.
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At the risk of impugning Mr. Presson, this may not be strict autobiography.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have previously been disciplined for allegedly "impugning" another senator.
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The trick for them is to bash Mr. Putin without impugning Mr. Trump.
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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts out of the debate over Sessions for "impugning" his character.
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I think we can disagree without impugning other people's motives or without being disagreeable.
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But the naysayers continue making their snap judgments, impugning motives, and predicting disastrous outcomes.
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Those include various anatomical references, impugning each other's manhood literally as well as figuratively.
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No, I get that, I'm not impugning all Saudis, but it is the government.
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And people are questioning Trey Gowdy -- they are impugning his integrity, his motive here today.
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Sumner was beaten for allegedly impugning the character of Southern slaveholding colleagues in his speeches.
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And it's not impugning you or any other individual to call into question that process.
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Fireworks also flew when Republicans on the committee accused a Democratic counsel impugning Trump's motives.
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The Massachusetts Democrat was ruled to be in violation of Senate rules for impugning another senator.
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Several pieces seek to interrogate this negative reputation impugning many far south and west Chicago neighborhoods.
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Democrats have spent months impugning Comey's integrity, after all, and most Republicans weren't exactly fans either.
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It is distinctly unimportant when they are impugning voter ID laws meant to prohibit voter fraud.
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Republicans accused Warren of violating Senate rules against impugning another senator, which was upheld by a vote.
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In the past, the Sanders campaign has responded to critiques by impugning the motives of the critics.
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So I don't know — I'm not impugning your motive because you voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives.
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Of course, that has not stopped politicians from impugning the agency when it produces an unfavorable projection.
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And I believe it's important that all of us have this debate without impugning each other's character.
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Maybe the evidence really was insufficient, or maybe they were swayed by the tabloid reports impugning Gutierrez's credibility.
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She will be subject to stonewalling, gaslighting, and the impugning of her character, her motives and her history.
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She will be subject to stonewalling, gaslighting, and the impugning of her character, her motives, and her history.
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Sanders was not impugning the services offered by Planned Parenthood or the work done by the Human Rights Campaign.
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Similarly, if you lose a Supreme Court nomination fight, impugning the court as a whole is no less dangerous.
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Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell swiftly shut Warren down, saying she'd violated rules against impugning other members of the Senate.
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It attacks Trump not by attacking him directly, but by impugning the character of the woman he decided to marry.
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"You're impugning the premises of the democratic system that's relied on peaceful transfers of power for 200 years," Keisling said.
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Any Republican with an ounce of political savvy should understand that Hillary's playbook is all about impugning Donald Trump's character.
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But she is also, in almost every line, funny, poignant, and self-impugning, measuring her pinprick dramas against the cosmos.
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Immediately after Trump's performance in Helsinki impugning the conclusions of the intelligence agencies, Coats put out a statement defending them.
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Did Republican politicians, so big on flag waving and impugning their rivals' patriotism, reject this foreign aid to their cause?
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Mr. McConnell, in a rare step, said Ms. Warren had breached Senate rules by impugning the character of Mr. Sessions.
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Yet Geoffrey Cox, the attorney-general, declared that, although disagreeing with the judges was acceptable, impugning their motives was not.
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First, he had to set some brush fires, impugning the legitimacy of the rule of law — an old dictator's trick.
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Elizabeth Warren and Senate Republicans which ended in her being forced to sit down after she was accused of impugning Sessions.
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" Clinton wrote that Sanders "had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character" because the two Democrats "agreed on so much.
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Impugning the honor of a queen's dead brother would be just the thing, and Cersei has good reason to do so.
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They had a blistering fight over email, with each woman impugning the other's integrity, and Ms. Wu stopped working with Kiini.
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Overt impugning of masculinity is still only the most surface level at which ideas about gender play out in strategic thinking.
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This type of negative publicity escalates the disenfranchisement of minority populations in America, impugning their opportunities for gainful employment and respect.
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" Because the two Democratic candidates agree on many things, Clinton said Sanders "had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character.
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And Angelo tries to discredit her too, by impugning her reputation: He left her, he says, because he believed she was promiscuous.
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Absolutely what&aposs the moral of an agent right now who hears the impugning of their motives, that they&aposre horrible people.
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So instead, Trump is lashing out at the debates themselves, impugning them as rigged against him, hedging against whatever is to come.
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He has shown withering disdain for his opponents, constantly impugning their motives even as he testified to the purity of his own.
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Jeff Sessions, in which Warren was reading a 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King that criticized Sessions, because she was impugning Session's character.
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Accurate or not, he says, impugning the character of the other side shuts down the conversation, and with it the potential for compromise.
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Could be, says Comey, who we should say has an ax to grind with the President over firing him and impugning his integrity.
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One can seek to correct the destructive tensions in an official relationship without impugning the stature of either the Register or the Librarian.
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Impugning a professor—not to mention an accomplished defender of the wrongfully convicted, as Shaun King noted—is not something I undertake lightly.
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Just think of President Trump's regular impugning of the loyalty of those who work for the American government, in the F.B.I., for example.
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For example, I noticed once that the last seven letters of IMPUGNING are also the last seven letters of SIGNING UP, reading backward.
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Y., the ranking minority member, accused Gohmert of "impugning the character of the witness" – as if Strzok's credibility and honesty were an irrelevant issue.
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But Republicans accused Warren of violating Senate rules against impugning another senator and voted down party line to bar her from participating any further.
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Senate Republicans invoked a rule against "impugning" a fellow senator during debate to bar Warren from the remainder of the Senate discussion over Sessions.
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Warren was censured earlier this week by a straight party vote for violating an arcane Senate rule against impugning the character of a colleague.
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The last thing progressives should be doing is trash-talking that progress and impugning the motives of people who are fundamentally on their side.
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He also expressed anger that Republicans were impugning the work of Congressional Budget Office Director Keith Hall, even though he was appointed by Republicans.
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"Impugning the integrity of a public servant who has dedicated her career to producing sound analysis for decision makers," Yarmuth said in a statement.
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A downturn could be set off by compromising stories about Mr. Trump himself, possibly those impugning his judgment in starting an international trade war.
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While Republicans rebuked Democrats for impugning big banks by criticizing Wells Fargo's size, several echoed their call for prosecutorial action against former bank leaders.
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So attempts to silence her by impugning her sexual virtue — a time-honored technique for shutting women up — just roll right off her back.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked Rule 19, which prohibits a senator from impugning another while on the floor, accusing Warren of attacking Sessions' character.
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Warren was halted from speaking after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called her out of order -- citing Rule 19 -- for allegedly impugning a fellow senator.
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This comes after a vigorous debate on the floor among Senators that led to the vote that silenced Liz Warren for impugning a fellow Senator.
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That he's fighting back by impugning his critics' motives, stonewalling investigators and carping about the media shouldn't disturb anyone, not if we're being grown-ups.
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Elizabeth Warren clashed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday night after McConnell determined the Massachusetts Democrat had violated a Senate rule against impugning another senator.
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Liberal special interests and the media have reacted to Price's nomination in a predictable manner, by distorting his stellar record in Congress and impugning his character.
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On Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers fired off a blizzard of statements condemning Trump's actions and impugning his motives — several of them alluding to the Watergate era. Sens.
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That spawned a slew of reactionary takes from equally oblivious dipshits defending her and impugning social media mobs and blah blah blah it was the worst.
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Peter Strzok, an F.B.I. agent who helped open the Russia investigation, defended himself against Republicans who seemed devoted to questioning his credibility and impugning his judgment.
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Some conservative commentators, meanwhile, are impugning the patriotism of Vindman, a wounded Iraq War veteran who still carries shrapnel in his body, and other pivotal Democratic witnesses.
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He's not trying to vanquish him at the ballot box by impugning his integrity, and he's not trying to get pressure on him to support an agenda.
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Cuts to CSIRO climate science, subpoenas of NOAA emails, and impugning the reputations of scientists and their societies does nothing to quench the warming of our planet.
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Clinton argues that Sanders laid the groundwork for Trump's "crooked Hillary" campaign attack by using "innuendo and impugning my character," according to reported excerpts of her book.
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Republicans scrambled to distance themselves from the letter's call for private data like birthdates and partial Social Security numbers without impugning their president's claim or his commission.
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Does even Dar have his limits, particularly when impugning the record of a young man who lost his life engaging in a war that Dar himself supports?
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Let's not risk impugning online free speech by amending Section 230 since federal prosecutors already have the enforcement tools they need to take down the bad actors.
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Not one Republican member on Tuesday voted against the motion to invoke Rule 28500 of the chamber, which prohibits senators from impugning the motives of a colleague.
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Warren clashed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday night after the Kentucky lawmaker determined that the Massachusetts Democrat had violated a Senate rule against impugning another senator.
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Normally, Romney impugning Trump for issues of character while going along with him on policy wouldn't amount to much, but the timing of his criticism may be important.
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And they have a long record they've earned in South Carolina of engaging in this kind of trickery and impugning whoever their opponent is to distract the attention.
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However, it smells of horrendous hypocrisy to exalt one's admiration of a given political office, while overtly impugning the legitimacy of the person assuming the very same office.
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Democratic lawmakers fired off statements condemning the president's actions and impugning his motives, with some alluding to the Watergate era and the scandal surrounding former President Richard Nixon.
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The president has spent weeks impugning Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for pointing out that Mr. Trump is "debasing" the nation.
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Furthermore, he did so by confining his displeasure to the ruling itself and not impugning in any way the character or qualifications of the justices who rendered it.
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The Maine senator took issue in particular with Senate Republicans choosing this moment to invoke a rule against "impugning" another senator when other such moments have passed without consequence.
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In her account of the 2016 campaign "What Happened," Clinton wrote that Sanders "had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character" because they largely agreed on the issues.
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Tuesday night, the Senate voted that Elizabeth Warren had broken Senate rules by impugning U.S. attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions during a speech she gave on the Senate floor.
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You can't tell Mr. Kelly to impose order on the staff while allowing Mr. Bannon to run around D.C. impugning the men and women who stand in his way.
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Warren was banned from speaking on the Senate floor last week after Republicans said she violated a rule against impugning a colleague by reading a letter from Coretta Scott King.
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But after witnessing General Kelly's heartfelt and somber account, we should all be able to agree that impugning his credibility on how best to honor fallen heroes is not appropriate.
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I got dozens of messages impugning my manhood; the mildest of them called me a "soy boy" (a common insult among the alt-right that links soy intake to estrogen).
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In short, I am not sure Trump realizes all this — that impugning climate science and just unleashing coal and oil would be a departure from the last two Republican administrations.
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This, in turn, could affect not only the public's opinion of our employees but also of my husband and his salon, impugning his character and negatively affecting his bottom line.
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McConnell accused Warren of impugning Sessions on the Senate floor -- a violation of Senate rules -- and after a series of procedural votes, she was forced to sit down and stop debating.
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On Saturday, Trump seemed to cast doubt on that assessment by impugning the integrity of former CIA Director John Brennan, former Intelligence Director James Clapper and former FBI Director Jim Comey.
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"Because we agreed on so much, Bernie couldn't make an argument against me in this area on policy, so he had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character," she adds.
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John Cornyn, R-Texas, said after a heated debate and roll call vote that determined Warren had violated Senate Rule 19, that prohibits a senator from impugning another while on the floor.
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" Clinton, in a book that will be released September 12 entitled "What Happened," said Sanders "had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character" because the two Democrats "agreed on so much.
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Warren shot into the spotlight last year after Senate Republicans voted to temporarily block her from speaking from the floor, citing the Senate's rules against impugning the character of a fellow senator.
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It's the classier version of mocking Trump for having small hands, instead impugning his "toughness," as Obama did on Tuesday when asked about Trump's latest accusations that the election will be rigged.
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Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee accused Democratic council Barry Berke of "impugning" Trump during his testimony, marking the latest heated exchange in the hearing.
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Warren's hearing is by no means the only, or even the most egregious, example of the DOJ impugning people of faith whose religious beliefs are at odds with the Trump administration's policy goals.
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One place to start would be bringing an end to the loathsome practice of questioning the motivations of our fellow citizens or impugning the patriotism of those with whom we may disagree politically.
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After all, the central plot is set in motion when that young woman, Hero, having become engaged to marry the soldier Claudio, finds herself the victim of a smear campaign impugning her virginity.
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McConnell's interruption of Warren's speech for impugning the motives of Sessions came as she was reading a letter from Coretta Scott King, and took away Warren's right to speak on the Senate floor.
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But for many watching, the standout moments came in the fiery, and occasionally puerile, exchanges between Mr. Cohen, President Donald J. Trump's longtime lawyer, and Republican committee members set on impugning his credibility.
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By impugning their motives, he is undermining public confidence, which was already damaged by Edward Snowden (see article), and which, as with any institution, is essential if they are to go about their duties.
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"In this environment, with the president impugning his character, questioning his integrity, it's incumbent on the military to make clear to everybody in the force that that's not going to be tolerated," Lapan added.
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And by impugning the process, they work to cheapen it — to say that if the rules governing it are mutable, then perhaps the facts presented in a complaint are less than solid as well.
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That's because so much of his campaign, and so much of this convention, has been about impugning the Americanness and legitimacy of the Obamas — and that is just not where the American people are.
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And Stiglitz uses the unfortunate tactic of impugning his adversaries' motives; the troika is not merely wrong, it is guilty of "hypocrisy," of "dishonesty" and of "sheer hypocrisy" — and that's all within two pages.
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If Republicans trafficked in the "same brand of ugly, motive-impugning hysteria" as the Democrats, he argues, they would try to establish a causal relationship between the Affordable Care Act and rising mortality rates.
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That criticism peaked with Tuesday night's rebuke of Ms. Warren, based on an arcane Senate rule that prevents members from impugning the character of a fellow senator, as she read the letter from Mrs.
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Calls for pardons have come after the 10-part documentary series, by the filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, questioned the validity of the convictions while impugning the criminal justice system at virtually every level.
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When Warren took to the lectern to read Coretta Scott King's letter, written in 1986 and accusing Sessions of outright racist bigotry, she was asked to stop, per Senate rules against impugning a fellow senator.
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"You stepped forward and answered the call yet again, knowing full well that you would be subject to the slanderish treatment — the Kavanaugh treatment — that we have seen, of senators impugning your integrity," Cruz said.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts found her catchphrase in February, courtesy of Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, who led a push to formally silence her for impugning a colleague on the Senate floor.
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Elizabeth Warren, one of the Senate's sharpest Democratic voices, was silenced in further debate on Mr. Trump's choice for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, under a little-known provision that bars senators from impugning one another.
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"In this environment, with the president impugning his character, questioning his integrity, it's incumbent on the military to make clear to everybody in the force that that's not going to be tolerated," retired Marine Corps Col.
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" In her speech, she quoted a letter from the late Coretta Scott King, the civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr. Thune said Wednesday that Warren was "impugning the character of a colleague.
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For this, the special counsel will get no thanks from the president, much less an apology from all the two-bit talking heads who spent the past 23 months questioning his motives and impugning his integrity.
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WASHINGTON — Republican senators voted on Tuesday to formally silence a Democratic colleague for impugning a peer, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, by condemning his nomination for attorney general while reading a letter from Coretta Scott King.
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But most destructive of all may be the announcement by Chairman Nunes that he has placed the FBI and DOJ under investigation, impugning and impairing the work of the dedicated professionals trying to keep our country safe.
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New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday said President Rodrigo Duterte had not only resisted calls to end his brutal campaign, but handled criticism by "impugning, harassing, and threatening critics of the government and human rights defenders".
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Pointing out injustice is a civil right, but impugning the whole for a part makes the problems worse and dishonors those who have lived for the values of the red, white and blue and are doing so today.
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" At the same time, he stopped short of impugning Fox News, underscoring the full complement of voices and creative works put out by the parent company as a whole, which includes National Geographic and films like "Deadpool 2.
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You need to rise above what sustained you during your first three years — dividing, misleading and impugning experts and the deep state — and give the country what it so desperately needs and craves now: a science-based plan.
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The question to be answered in the debate on the legislation I am discussing here is whether we can differ about the specifics of how to achieve agreed upon goals without impugning each other's motives or grossly exaggerating differences.
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There is a big difference between directly impugning someone's character – calling one's opponent corrupt, or a liar or a "bad person" – and suggesting (even if insincerely) that one's opponent has been mistaken during much of his or her career.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell inadvertently gave Democrats a new rallying cry when he determined Warren had violated a Senate rule against impugning another senator, Jeff Sessions, during debate on Sessions' nomination to be attorney general in early 2017.
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Trump, for his part, has thus far avoided impugning Vindman's patriotism or suggesting he's some sort of double agent, but on Wednesday morning, Trump posted a tweet complaining that "people that I never even heard of" are testifying about the call.
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But the responses of Facebook and Twitter to Stella's posts are likely to provoke the ire of conservatives, seeing them once again claiming the platforms are impugning their right to free speech, regardless of whether that speech contains threats of violence.
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"It is unfortunate to see that rather than accepting the results, Pat McCrory is going to go down by besmirching Republican election officials (and) by impugning voters," Marc Elias, a lawyer for the Cooper campaign, said in a call with reporters on Friday.
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Unidentified male DNA on the dress could prove that Donald Trump not only knows who I am, but also that he violently assaulted me in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman and then defamed me by lying about it and impugning my character.
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He was counting down the hours to caucus day at every stop ("143 hours" he said at a community center here.) He was blasting Trump as a "gremlin" for impugning the reputation of one of his top Iowa surrogates, Bob Vander Plaats.
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RELATED - Toobin: 'Three words: Obstruction of justice' One likely reason for the split: Demanding answers from Comey allows Republicans to address the issue without impugning Trump, who has still helped them immensely more than any Democrat in the White House would have.
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In separate chapters devoted to women and gun violence, she goes out of her way to bash Sanders by resurrecting critiques she made of him during the primaries — with the intention of painting him as a hypocrite and impugning his own progressive credentials.
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Well, he told TPC – while insulting the institution and impugning its integrity – that transfer pricing driven by high nominal US corporate taxes is responsible for half the U.S. trade deficit, and that cutting these taxes would therefore be a big job creator.
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Instantly, the decision — led by Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, who invoked a rarely enforced rule prohibiting senators from impugning the motives and conduct of a peer — amplified Ms. Warren's message and further inflamed the angry Senate debate over Mr. Sessions' nomination.
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"Impugning the official objective of a formal national security and foreign policy judgment of the president based on campaign trail statements is inappropriate and fraught with intractable difficulties," Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco told the justices in a brief filed in February.
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RELATED: Who voted for and against Sessions Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, was ruled in violation of Senate rules for impugning another senator late Tuesday night after reading a letter from the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., opposing Sessions' 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship.
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Speaking to the over 65 million anxious American voters who did not support the President-elect, Obama pushed for common ground in a national consensus informed by "a common baseline of facts" so that people can disagree without impugning one another's character, patriotism, or citizenship.
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By saying that Wilson gave a "total lie" about the conversation, Trump is impugning the honesty not just of the congresswoman, but also everyone else who has spoken about the affair, including Myeshia Johnson and Cowanda Jones-Johnson (the mother of the fallen soldier).
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The Access Hollywood tape induced a stream of defections from high-level Republicans who had not broken with him over the attack on a war hero's family, the impugning of a judge of Mexican ancestry, or his threats to ban all Muslims from these shores.
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"Unidentified male DNA on the dress could prove that Donald Trump not only knows who I am, but also that he violently assaulted me in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman and then defamed me by lying about it and impugning my character," Carroll said.
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In an era where the leader of the free world is emboldening authoritarians on everything from reneging on human rights to slanderously impugning the press, the onus falls on civil society and the private sector to maintain and promote liberal democratic values at home and abroad.
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The president and his friends in Congress have fought this at every turn, and in doing so have reduced years of bipartisan cooperation on the House Intelligence Committee to rubble while impugning the integrity of the police and intelligence officers who are sworn to protect us.
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And the media's ability to be a referee for fact-checking and lying ... Every time it looked like, "Well all right, this is the end for him, he can't possibly get past calling John McCain, impugning John McCain, that'll be it," over and over and over.
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"Unidentified male DNA on the dress could prove that Donald Trump not only knows who I am, but also that he violently assaulted me in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman and then defamed me by lying about it and impugning my character," Carroll said in a statement Thursday.
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"When the transcript of the call was released I'm just going to state it clearly as a Foreign Service officer, to see the impugning of somebody I know to be a serious, committed colleague in the manner that it was done raised alarm bells for me," he said.
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"His knowing mischaracterization of the data -- and his impugning of the ORR federal staff -- was an immoral and indecent insult to all of the career civil servants who are dedicated to ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of the children in the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) program," Hayes added.
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"When the transcript of the call was released -- I'm just going to state it clearly as a foreign service officer -- to see the impugning of somebody I know to be a serious, committed colleague in the manner that it was done raised alarm bells for me," McKinley testified.
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In a brief but scathing speech from the House floor, Representative Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, spoke directly to the president, uttering his name and earning a gentle reprimand from the presiding officer, who reminded her that lawmakers are barred from personally impugning the president or other elected officials.
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"This is not only a direct impugning of the integrity of Director Comey, but a challenge to the general agent population to find and reports all the facts related to the interference of Russia in the general election," former FBI counterterror executive (and VICE contributor) David Gomez wrote me Tuesday evening.
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Mr. McConnell's frustration at Democratic tactics boiled over Tuesday evening when he invoked a rarely used Senate rule to force Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, to end a speech on the grounds she was impugning the integrity of Mr. Sessions, a fellow senator, by criticizing his record on civil rights.
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Now, with Mr. Mandelblit reportedly only weeks away from rendering his decision, Mr. Netanyahu appears to have calculated that there will be an indictment after all — that there is, at last, something — and he has shifted tactics to try to pre-emptively discredit it by impugning the motives of those responsible.
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Yeah, so why do we think that him impugning a judge that no one's ever heard of — by the way, he's a member of an ethnic group that was already was never gonna vote for Trump — is gonna cause him problems in a way that anything else he said isn't gonna hurt him?
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Given that Christie's books have sold more than two billion copies, there's no impugning the taste of her fans, but the fact remains that, in many of her stories, the murder should technically be logged as the second death, the life of the prose having been snuffed out long before that of the victim.
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Thus, among other sources, the information behind the Washington Post report published last month, which shows that Trump himself has made more than 15,400 "false or misleading claims" as president for an average of 15 such claims a day, could inspire a devastating cross examination and also allow compelling testimony from others impugning his truthfulness.
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The most disturbing aspect of this state of affairs is that we can swallow tall tales of unknown provenance that we want to believe, while doubting stories on reputable news sites that we do not want to believe — or impugning the motives of those reputable news sites when they do not publish stories that we want to believe.
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Mr. Trump and his Republican allies have made crime, violence, gangs and societal unrest a centerpiece of their attacks against Democrats in this election, often linking them to causes that have a common racial thread — the policies of liberal leaders in heavily minority cities, illegal immigration and Mr. Trump's continuing campaign impugning the patriotism of professional athletes, many of whom are black.
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Water Cooler In the hours after Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, was silenced by her Republican colleagues for "impugning" a fellow senator by reading aloud a letter Coretta Scott King had written that was critical of Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama (later confirmed as attorney general), thousands of Americans did what they always do: They tapped away at their phones.
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Such a state of affairs inevitably would lead to actions taken by the ruler that are not in the interests of the nation, like dishonoring treaty agreements, abandoning allies, impugning the independent judiciary and the free press, disregarding fundamental rights and liberties of the people, abrogating civic norms and virtues, pursuing acts of personal enrichment and currying favor with foreign despots and authoritarians.
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Ignore that he gets just one day because the Mets, a team Wright was loyal to in every possible way—from taking a discounted extension, to serving as the face of the franchise through the very worst of the Bernie Madoff-related financial issues that plague them to this day—spent weeks publicly impugning the two-year comeback Wright has been authoring, delaying his return.
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As president, he's flouted elementary rules about nepotism and conflict of interest; undermined the independence of the judiciary by impugning judges overseeing cases involving him or his administration; obstructed justice by firing James Comey after he refused to pledge loyalty to him; and arbitrarily limited media access by, for instance, replacing daily White House press briefings with off-camera gaggles where recording is banned.
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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee accused a Democratic counsel offering impeachment evidence of impugning the motives of President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE, the latest round of fireworks in a testy and contentious hearing.
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