Pete Stauber’s President in forty sentences

Shamelessly paraphrased from a NY Times column by David Leonhardt

Sometimes it’s worth stepping back to look at the full picture.

Pete Stauber’s President has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
Pete Stauber’s President urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
Pete Stauber’s President divulged classified information to foreign officials.
Pete Stauber’s President publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
Pete Stauber’s President hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
Pete Stauber’s President encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
Pete Stauber’s President genuflects to murderous dictators.
Pete Stauber’s President has alienated America’s closest allies.
Pete Stauber’s President lied to the American people about his company’s business dealings in Russia.

Pete Stauber’s President tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
Pete Stauber’s President spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
Pete Stauber’s President often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president’s job.
Pete Stauber’s President has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
Pete Stauber’s President has repeatedly denigrated a deceased United States senator who was a war hero.
Pete Stauber’s President insulted a Gold Star family — the survivors of American troops killed in action.
Pete Stauber’s President described a former first lady, not long after she died, as “nasty.”
Pete Stauber’s President described white supremacists as “some very fine people.”
Pete Stauber’s President told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
Pete Stauber’s President made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.
Pete Stauber’s President launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.
Pete Stauber’s President launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as “rapists.”
Pete Stauber’s President has described women, variously, as “a dog,” “a pig” and “horseface,” as well as “bleeding badly from a facelift” and having “blood coming out of her wherever.”
Pete Stauber’s President has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.
Pete Stauber’s President enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.
Pete Stauber’s President waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.
Pete Stauber’s President has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
Pete Stauber’s President has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
Pete Stauber’s President uses a phrase popular with dictators — “the enemy of the people” — to describe journalists.
Pete Stauber’s President attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
Pete Stauber’s President has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.
Pete Stauber’s President said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.
Pete Stauber’s President obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.
Pete Stauber’s President violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent extramarital affairs.
Pete Stauber’s President made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.
Pete Stauber’s President has refused to release his tax returns.
Pete Stauber’s President falsely accused his predecessor of wiretapping him.
Pete Stauber’s President claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.
Pete Stauber’s President has ordered children to be physically separated from their parents.
Pete Stauber’s President has suggested that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Pete Stauber’s President has called America a “hellhole.”

He is the ally of the president of the United States, and he is a threat to virtually everything that the United States should stand for.

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