While some conservatives still believe that the mainstream media, such as CNN, are irrationally against President Trump, I think his actions of late – as if his impeachment and failed but near conviction wasn’t enough – have proven that their reporting has been accurate and fair.
So here’s CNN/Politics‘ Stephen Collinson today:
Joe Biden will be president in 30 days. Until then, the question is how much damage can be done by a vengeful, delusional soon-to-be ex-President swilling conspiracy theories, whose wild anti-democratic instincts are being encouraged by fringe political opportunists.
Donald Trump will retain the awesome powers of the presidency until noon on January 20, and there’s never been a time when he has been subject to as few restraining influences or has had a bigger incentive to cause disruption.
The President is spending day after day in his White House bunker, entertaining crackpot theories about imposing martial law, seizing voting machines and staging an intervention in Congress on January 6 to steal the election from Biden.
Surrounded by the last dead-end loyalists, Trump is flinging lies and political venom like King Lear in a crumbling Twitter kingdom, alarming some staffers about what he will do next.
If you have any doubts, Professor Richardson provides this bit, although I looked at her endnotes and I’m not sure where this information about his empty schedule comes from:
As he descends into the fever swamps, Trump has largely given up any pretense of governing. His public schedule remains empty, and his private meetings appear to focus on how he can stay in office. Today we learned that Russian hackers broke into the email system used by the leadership of the Treasury Department, but the cyberattack from Russia has gone unaddressed except to the extent the president tried to blame the attack on China (although he has made no move to retaliate against China for the attack). He has made little attempt to shepherd any sort of an economic relief bill through Congress. And, most crucially, he is silent about the epidemic that is killing us. As of this evening, more than 18 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus, and at least 319,000 have died.
So here’s the thing: how to corral this President into flying right and at least not deliberately damaging anything more?
I believe this falls on the President-elect and Corporate America.
First, Biden should make arrangements with Corporate America, meaning a quiet conference call with various major entities which may interact with The Trump Organization. Then Biden should call Trump, unofficially, and say,
Hey, Jack! Fly right or The Trump Organization will be strangled into dust.
And then the titans of Corporate America should start calling Trump. The message?
We won’t use your hotels.
We won’t golf on your golf courses.
We won’t buy from you.
We won’t sell to you.
We’ll pressure your allies in the same way, until they agree.
You will be sanctioned.
And this goes for all your children as well.
Forever.
Enough of damaging the United States.
Corporate America depends on a healthy United States to operate, to profit, to let the CEOs pretend they’re great people. It’s time for them to contribute to the country in which they operate, to keep it politically safe.
Because no sane business wants to operate in TrumpLandia.
