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  • Just to be clear, the “diplomatic meltdown” was mainly by Trump and Vance, not Zelenskyy, right?

    Asked whether the U.S. had itself gone back on its commitments by demanding compensation for aid that was freely given, Baumgartner was unequivocal.

    “Be that as it may, (Ukraine has) now twice been ready to sign an agreement and twice backed out at the last second,” Baumgartner said. “And then you had this bizarre descent into public grievance, an argument in the White House in front of the American public, that’s not advantageous to either side.”

    Baumgartner doesn’t even deny that the US is “demanding compensation for aid that was freely given” but he’s upset that Zelenskyy isn’t jumping to pay up.













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    7 days ago

    Trump is arguing that the presidential immunity the Supreme Court invented allows him to do all this, so we might not have gotten here if the constitution didn’t leave room for the court to invent that. And if the 14th Amendment were clearer, Trump wouldn’t have even been able to run in the last election.






  • Trump, his handpicked Cabinet officials, and Musk have also disregarded or openly attacked the other two co-equal branches of government, accusing judges who have moved to halt or limit the new administration’s actions of being Democratic partisans.

    It says Trump and his cronies have disregarded or attacked both other branches, but the article only provides examples related to the judicial branch. What have they done to the legislative branch, besides steal its power without any complaints from the Republicans in charge over there? Bypassing a complicit and complacent Congress doesn’t feel like it’s on the same level as ignoring court orders and threatening to impeach judges.