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Trump loses cool as he's grilled on '60 Minutes' — but CBS cuts it from broadcast
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Disqualifying from what? You think there's some guy running around the White House who is going to hand the President a yellow-card?
Congress has been rubber stamping the Unitary Executive Theory since at least Reagan and Iran-Contra. The courts have been fully Executive-Pilled since Bush. Presidents get to do whatever they fucking want. Nixon was a piece of shit, but he was 100% correct in his assessment of the power of the office.
Disqualifying from public opinion as someone who deserves the role of president. Just like all the other things that he’s done at least five times a day for the past ten years, the fact that he can’t identify someone he just pardoned should clue his followers in to the fact that he’s not capable of doing the job.
The presidency isn't awarded via merit. Who would you even trust to make that judgement? They'd effectively be a kingmaker, making their selection "President-by-Proxy".
Changpeng Zhao is a bitcoin shilling billionaire whose firm was instrumental in laundering Trump-branded cryptocurrency through his World Liberty Financial organization. You can read this denial from two angles.
This is Trump effectively distancing himself from a person he took a massive bribe from. In that case, he's definitely "doing his job" from the perspective of his ultra-orthodox libertarian and paleoconservative supporters. Because the job of the President (really, of everyone, as Objectivism teaches) is to protect the property class and collect a vig as reward.
This is Trump milling through so much minutae on a daily basis that he can't recall particulars of a single action taken a week ago on the spot. At which point, why would any of his supporters be angry at him for looking busy? Nothing about the pardon is unappealing on its face. If he doesn't remember the details, I'm sure any one of his supporters - many of whom are cryptobros or business scammers in their own right - can fill in the gaps.
Either way, the problem you've got with Trump is his policy, not his cognitive ability. He could be a literal Chinese Room or Philosophical Zombie, laundering inputs into outputs without any actual mental inputs, and it wouldn't matter. He pardoned a wealthy financial ally in exchange for a kickback. That's what Presidents (particularly Republicans) have a long history of doing. You're not going to find many people in his base who are angry at him for it.
FFS, he could pardon Ghislaine Maxwell at this point and his base would probably still love him based on how many are pro-pedophilia.