Trump Tells NY Times the Only Limit On His Power is His ‘Own Morality’: ‘I Don’t Need International Law’
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Via: john-russell • 10 months ago • 22 commentsBy: Ahmad Austin Jr. (Mediaite)
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President Donald Trump told The New York Times this week that he wasn't constrained by international law and that his "own morality" is the only thing by which he abides.
The comments first came to light in a story published Thursday. They were made during a phone interview the day before, which touched on Trump's incursion into Venezuela and potential military action in other countries:
In that interview, Trump explained how his fluid interpretation of international law essentially means only he can limit the power he wields. The New York Times report added:
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: "Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me."
"I don't need international law," he added. "I'm not looking to hurt people."
When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law, Mr. Trump said, "I do." But he made clear he would be the arbiter when such constraints applied to the United States.
"It depends what your definition of international law is," he said.
The topic of international law was thrust to the forefront of national discussion following the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The U.S. handed down various charges related to organized crime, but critics of the move have repeatedly questioned the U.S.'s authority to invade another country and remove its leader.
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to advance a resolution requiring Trump to get congressional approval before taking further action in Venezuela. Five Republicans joined the Senate Democrats, resulting in a furious Truth Social post from the president.
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Bribery , corruption, stupidity and pussy grabbing for everyone ! Hallelujah !
God PLEASE, PLEASE do something to HELP the whole world from that megalomaniac.
I imagine that most of his followers are OK with his not following International law.
But has he said anything about following American law? Has he said anything about whether or not he feels he should follow the U.S. Constitution?
Why would he be concerned? HIs SCotUS will protect him.
And since Trump has no morals, the sky is the limit.
A crime boss in the White House, how special. Republicans should be so proud.
I dont doubt that his own mind, or lack thereof, will stop him, but after how much irreparable harm has been done?
Trump was actually raised around Mafioso so it's no wonder he acts like one.
Imagine that, the snatch grabber is guided by his own sense of morality....
None of the streaming crap on cable/satellite is this bizarre, none of it.
Very Sad.
Somebody prominent here says nothing Trump says matters.
A convenient rationalization.
Well.... He is actually a chronic liar soooooo.
... says the 34 times convicted felon.
Maybe he meant to say mortality.
He doesn't have any morals.
He knows he has no morals because he publicly stated he isn't going to heaven. Only an immoral person would say that, he knows he is a bad guy.
He laughs all the to the bank on the backs of gullible MAGA supporters.
Evangelicals should be insulted (and injured)! Trump patiently waited to tell them after they had given him a second term (with 99.9 percent boundaries of office) about his personal and private morality.
For our part, LIBERALS, have been writing, saying, and expressing this to their stubborn counterparts all along about this very thing!
Questions:
1. If Trump's morality is his own, then how is he discerning and 'listening to' God's/Christian morality?
2. Trump is listening to his own morality. . . it means. . .he is. . . SELF-RIGHTEOUS (righteous in his own eyes/authority). Thus, is Trump (worse than) Pagan?
What's wrong with Paganism?
I wasn't sure of the exact definition of Paganism, so I googled it:
Paganism refers to diverse polytheistic or nature-based spiritual traditions predating major world religions, often involving reverence for nature, ancient mythologies (Greek, Roman, Celtic, Norse), multiple deities, and cycles of the earth , with modern Pagans practicing revitalized forms like Wicca or Druidry .
Historically a label applied by Christians to non-believers, the term is now reclaimed by many who honor pre-Christian European faiths, focusing on natural divinity, personal experience, and community, rather than a single dogma, contrasting with Abrahamic faiths' monotheism.
If Trump has his own (sole) counsel spiritually and otherwise. . .he is definitely not Christian (think: Jesus Christ, son of God). What's wrong with Paganism? Nothing. As long as it is accepted as what it is!
Seems I'm a pagan. Good to know.
I should want to pinch myself, to wake up from some fckd up dream, the shit we are hearing from the president, our president, president Trump, the President of the United States is just Science Fiction material, mental ward worthy, cause just another WOW, from the gift that keeps on settin new depths for a POTUS to go, and it's a really bad joke. Sorta feeling like telling the Republicans who enabled this FCKN Fraud of a Freudian slip of a spineless disc slipped in the ICE breakin, causes are not fake, it 's a made up reality that Noem skullz feel they need to absorb, and from a Noem liar we are once again introduced, asz Trump iz currently awarded the bee leafs of his non truth be leavers,
It is a bit much to take in (a bit too strong for my taste). . . and, overall I get it, nevertheless.
Its possible his power will be more limited after the midterms. (?)