.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump seems to believe he’s entitled to extra time as president.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 5/7/19, 12:21 AM ET Pelosi suggests Trump would 'poison the public mind' on elections Rachel Maddow reports on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s expressed concerns that Democrats have to win elections against Donald Trump by wide margins to keep him from trying to discredit the elections’ results, a sentiment reminiscent of Michael Cohen’s share tweet email save Embed As Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, settles in for his first full...
It’s easy to see concerns like these as far-fetched, though the president himself, who’s never shown any interest in protecting democratic institutions or the legitimacy of the rule of law, isn’t exactly going out of his way to inspire confidence. Politico noted over the weekend: Trump echoed Falwell’s sentiment in a pair of tweets an hour later, writing online: “Despite the tremendous success that I have had as President, including perhaps the greatest ECONOMY and most successful first two years of any President in history, they have stollen two years of my Presidency that we will never be able to get back.”
Indeed, the weekend’s tweets weren’t entirely unique. In March 2018, Trump praised China’s President Xi Jinping for extending his hold on power. “He’s now president for life,” the Republican said. “President for life… I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.”
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