NorthJersey

If it is not obstruction of justice, it is destruction of justice. It is the blatant attempt to annihilate the underpinnings of the system, to undermine its basic tenets, to destroy its capabilities. Even if President Trump’s actions are ultimately deemed something less than criminal, they are a clear and undeniable indictment of the very essence of his being.

Donald Trump is a bully who neither understood or cared about the limitations of power, about the dictates of law, about the mandates of the process. What we have seen from the moment he took office is a man consumed with self-preservation, motivated solely by self-gratification, inhabiting a universe of his own creation, filled with his own manufactured distortions of reality.

The so-called Mueller's report, redacted or not, can shed but little new light on what we already know to be the one undeniable truth. Donald Trump is a con man, he has been one his entire life, willing to do whatever he must, whatever he can to keep the con going. And whether Congress seeks to impeach Mr. Trump, whether or not the redacted portions of the report ever come to light, there can be no denial that we have all been victims of terrible and unrelenting acts by this president that strike at the very heart of the fabric of our democracy.

Robert S. Nussbaum

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