Tax returns took down Capone. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

I mean, I agree, but I still think it’s right to keep demanding the documents that reveal his hypocrisy.

And the rest of the Republicans are doing everything they can to shield him.

This is the problem right now, and why Trump is winning this war for the actual power in America: people are still dealing with him in civil and normal terms, as if both sides of this fight were operating inside the same boundaries of democracy and public accountability. As this Senator is doing, expecting that such a…

The gif that immediately comes to mind:

You nailed it. I’ve been having flashbacks to the horrible, abusive marriage I left since he took office. My ex was a gaslighter and it leaves you battling to hold on to your sense of what’s real and what isn’t. I feel panicked and short of breath; it’s going to be a long, terrible shlog for our country and everyone…

I feel like Bannon and Conway are smug bastards who are using the Nixon blueprint but think they can “fix” where Nixon “went wrong” and come out of all of this fine. Except I hope they get a huge smack to the face, fired and arrested for all the world to see.

No. Way worse. Don’t get me wrong: Nixon authorized criminal activities while president and was truly a huge dick, but even he maintained the veneer of civility and the rule of law until right at the end, when he completely lost it. Trump is “Nixon wandering drunk in the White House, talking to paintings” right out of…

Much worse today. Trump & Bannon are openly totalitarian fascists, taking advice from our country’s enemy, Russia. THATS BAD

Reminds me of the Al Qaeda plot.

Here’s another fascinating/troubling thought: It’s bizarre, to say the least, that no one around Herr Gropenfuhrer knew, or was willing to tell him, that Nixon tried this, and it didn’t work.

No.

My Venezuelan friend said it’s scarily similar to when Chavez to took over.

It might just be what we need, Trump in full meltdown mode ordering something clearly bonkers and then being defied.

I’m gonna leave this here:

The angrier he gets the worse he’ll be...and he is not happy right now. He is getting it from all sides. I’d enjoy it if it weren’t so terrifying.

Sally Yates wasn’t fired because she was “weak” on border security.

This is some serious dictator shit. Everything he has done and said in the past week has been some SERIOUS dictator shit.

When they do that, they get fired. Apparently.

Trump is hell-bent not only on maintaining his travel ban, but also—crucially—on being obeyed.