Words matter. These are the best George T. Conway III Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation’s highest law enforcement officer.
For Trump, it’s always about Trump and only Trump.
President Trump is treating the judiciary the way he treats the media. But the harm created by these attacks could be far greater.
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.
Trump’s lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple truths – have all come home to roost.
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.
Confronted by a skilled examiner, Trump would melt down in minutes. He’d be humiliated, and he knows it – which is why he’s too terrified to give testimony under oath, and why it won’t happen.
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.
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.
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.
Among Donald Trump’s many flaws as president is one that’s as fundamental as any: He simply doesn’t understand his job.
The electoral calendar is set in stone, by law.
Trump revels in issuing pardons, because that power is essentially absolute.
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.
In civil or criminal litigation in a jury case, the only way for a defendant to avoid a trial is for a judge to rule that there was no evidence from which the jury could find for the other side.
A President’s unofficial or non-presidential actions do not affect millions of people.
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.
One of the bad things about bad behavior by politicians (particularly by Donald Trump, because he’s president, but by others as well) is that it not only can encourage bad behavior by politicians of all ideological stripes but also can be cited to justify it.
I think the Republican Party has become something of a personality cult.
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.
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.
As all presidents must, Trump swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and to faithfully execute his office and the laws in accordance with the Constitution. That oath requires putting the national interests above his personal interests.
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.
America promised equality. Its constitution said so. My schoolbooks said so. The country wasn’t perfect, to be sure. But its ideals were. And every day brought us closer to those ideals.
The Framers of the Constitution expected the presidency to be occupied by special individuals, selfless people of the highest character and ability. They intended the Electoral College to be a truly deliberative body, not the largely ceremonial institution it has become today.
The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can’t second-guess them.
If there’s one thing we know about President Trump, it’s that he lies and he cheats. Endlessly. And shamelessly. But still, mostly, incompetently.
I call myself Mr. Kellyanne Conway.
Questions about Trump’s psychological stability have mounted throughout his presidency.
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.
