A select committee headed by Adam Schiff is the right way to go.
Rep. Adam Schiff has assumed control of what appears to be the single-most consequential scandal facing Donald Trump’s presidency — and, for the moment, is driving a narrative that could lead to Trump’s impeachment.
It was Schiff’s late-night Friday press release earlier this month that first revealed that a whistleblower had filed an “urgent” and credible complaint against someone in the executive branch. It was Schiff who issued a subpoena and secured testimony from the intelligence community’s top watchdog, who confirmed he had been blocked from providing details to Congress, in apparent violation of the law.
I believe Adam Schiff is the best representative in the House to chair this committee. I believe that Adam more than anyone else that I know can lead this in such a way that the American people will support the impeachment proceedings.
These committee proceedings must convince Republican senators that Trump needs to be removed from office. Having Adam Schiff lead this committee is a very wise choice as I believe he has the ability to get Republicans on board. Without Republican support, it will be exceedingly difficult to remo
During a recent “Ask me Anything” session on Reddit, Tony Schwartz, who was Donald Trump’s ghostwriter for “The Art of the Deal,” issued a similar warning:
I believe deeply that most people are better than their worst behaviors…. I also believe there are some who are simply irredeemable and evil. Scott Peck called them “People of the Lie.” They lack any conscience, as Trump does, and so they’re almost purely evil. Trump is the most purely evil human being I’ve ever met, and also the most insecure.
Why is there such a deep reluctance on so many people’s part —including the leaders of the Democratic Party — to label Donald Trump as evil? How do Donald Trump and his movement reflect deeper problems about the use and abuse of history in America? How strongly do Donald Trump’s concentration camps for nonwhite migrants and refugees echo the evil deeds of the Nazis?
Why is there such a deep reluctance on so many people’s part —including the leaders of the Democratic Party — to label Donald Trump as evil? How do Donald Trump and his movement reflect deeper problems about the use and abuse of history in America? How strongly do Donald Trump’s concentration camps for nonwhite migrants and refugees echo the evil deeds of the Nazis?
In an effort to answer these questions I recently spoke with Susan Neiman, a former philosophy professor at Yale and Tel Aviv universities and now director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany.
Neiman is the author of several books, including “Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy.” Her new book is “Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.”
his conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
Donald Trump and his regime can be reasonably described as evil. The evidence is obvious and overwhelming. Of course, the mainstream American news media will not use that language. Why are they so afraid of those terms?
Donald Trump meets every single criterion for using the word evil — and he keeps meeting it every day. Evil is a word that should be used with caution. I believe that many people, particularly a certain type of liberal centrist, were put off by the way in which George W. Bush was described as being evil. I also argue that Bush is evil and I explored this in my book “Moral Clarity.” Unfortunately, the description of “evil” has been so overused that many people just believe that it is a type of name-calling.
Philosopher and Holocaust expert who literally wrote the book on evil: Trump fits the profile – Alternet.org
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Elizabeth Preza, considered by some to be a philosopher and an expert on the holocaust who in this article compares Hitler and the Nazis to Donald Trump. Her first paragraph lays out her beliefs concerning Donald Trump
"I believe deeply that most people are better than their worst behaviors…. I also believe there are some who are simply irredeemable and evil. Scott Peck called them “People of the Lie.” They lack any conscience, as Trump does, and so they’re almost purely evil. Trump is the most purely evil human being I’ve ever met, and also the most insecure."
This author's article is giving evidence that, "Trump is the most purely evil human being I've ever met and also the most insecure." This is a very harsh assessment of Donald Trump and is an assessment that I agree.
The author's first question needs answers.
Why is there such a deep reluctance on the leaders of the Democratic Party to label Donald Trump as evil?
How do Donald Trump and his movement reflect deeper problems about the use and abuse of history in America?
How strongly do Donald Trump’s concentration camps for nonwhite migrants and refugees echo the evil deeds of the Nazis?
I'm listing a few phrases and sentences from the article.
"Donald Trump meets every single criterion for using the word evil — and he keeps meeting it every day.
"The cruelty, the violence, the greed, the selfishness, the racism, the sexism, the nativism, the bigotry, the destruction, the lying, the assault on reality, the contempt for human dignity and civil rights, rejection of the rule of law and democracy, the summoning and mainstreaming of chaos and nihilism and a panoply of other social pathologies are more than the absence of good. They are evil.
"I believe deeply that most people are better than their worst behaviors…. I also believe there are some who are simply irredeemable and evil. Scott Peck called them “People of the Lie.” They lack any conscience, as Trump does, and so they’re almost purely evil. Trump is the most purely evil human being I’ve ever met, and also the most insecure."
This is Freddie talking!
Without a doubt this is the harshest opinion of Donald Trump I have ever read. This article's purpose was to define Trump and to explain how evil Trump is. The author did that. However, if I were In a formal debate, I would find more sources that gave more reasons and more examples of Trump's behavior to have enough evidence that Donald Trump is evil with no conscience so I would be certain to win a debate that Donald Trump is most evil leader in American history.
Furthermore, there is evidence that indicates that Trump would do as much evil as some horrible leaders have done in the past if Trump had the chance and he needed to do great evil so he could achieve his sinister goals at any specific point in time.
It was chilling to say the least when I read this article that indicates that the US might have a president who might be as evil as Hitler. If so, would Trump do as much evil as Hitler did if Trump got the chance?
The Democrats must come together and once the primaries are over, get behind whoever is the nominee. I'm not sure that the American democracy could survive another four years of Trump. It is imperative that we defeat Trump in 2020 so we never have to find out!e Trump from office.
I wrote my comments before I learned that Ms. Pelosi has officially began the formal impeachment proceedings.