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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRenowned Economist Jeffrey Sachs Rips Trump As A Gibbering, 'Delusional' Threat
He calls for removal of the president using the 25th Amendment.POLITICS 06/01/2018 10:49 pm ET Updated 1 hour ago By Mary Papenfuss
American economist Jeffrey Sachs has written a scathing takedown of President Donald Trump, calling him a delusional, psychopathic threat to the nation and the world.
Much more likely, Trump is just mentally unstable and narcissistic, he added, calling the new announcement of tariffs on exports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union part of a psychopaths trade war.
The real answer is to remove Trump from office using the 25th Amendment to replace him, Sachs concludes.
Trump is unwell and unfit to be president. He is a growing threat to the nation and the world.
The emperor had no clothes. This president has no sense, he concluded.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeffrey-sachs-slams-delusional-psychopathic-trump_us_5b11e510e4b0d5e89e1fc756
Me.
(35,454 posts)Does he still think HRC would be a disaster?
Jeffrey Sachs Blames Hillary Clinton for Our National Security Woes
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Even more dramatically, Sachs places the blame squarely at Hillary Clintons feet when he writes that her record explains much of our current security danger.
https://fpif.org/jeffrey-sachs-blames-hillary-clinton-national-security-woes/
Theres no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong. Her so-called foreign policy experience has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-candidate_b_9168938.html
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Watching stupid bastards that savaged Hillary getting Trump's knife in the back like Comey and this asswipe apparently.
And idiot hog farmers in Iowa as well, all GOP voting idiots!
So who will they vote for in the midterms?
Yeah...
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)PatSeg
(47,770 posts)of the Trump administration to bring out sanity and reason from some. Kind of a snake pit effect.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,501 posts)his Wikipedia page appears to be white-washed of any political affiliation, except for this:
(snip)
He seems convinced both Hillary and Bill are hard-core neocons and even blames Bill in part for the Iraq war.
Makes one wonder who Jeffery would see as his ideal candidate......
Me.
(35,454 posts)he was quite slavish about him. And one has to wonder from where his credibility is garnered, I've seen him on a number of shows and people listen like he has something valuable to say when it's all the same whohaw
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,501 posts)The top economist and Bernie Sanders adviser says if he votes for Clinton it will be done "holding my nose"
30 Jul 2016 08:23 GMT
See: https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/07/jeffrey-sachs-vote-hillary-clinton-160729132226121.html
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In a special interview, we speak to Sanders adviser and leading economist Jeffrey Sachs.
Sachs says both Clinton and Trump are dangerous in their own ways, but he would probably vote for Clinton. I probably will, but if I do, it will be holding my nose, the economist told Mehdi Hasan.
Sachs also comments on the rise of Donald Trump, saying he believes it is fuelled by the same phenomenon that fuelled Brexit, the same phenomenon that is fuelling a lot of anti-immigrant, working-class parties all through Europe.
In some of his post-election interviews, he wished tRump well with some of his goals but didn't call him for all his BS and lies. Now, he seems willing to do that with gusto. WTF?
Why is it that so many of us commoners saw this administration as a certain disaster even before tRump was nominated and yet so many "experts" were willing to give him a free pass and allow him to be elected?
Perhaps it was a fear of populist backlash that might reduced their damned book sales....
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Me.
(35,454 posts)talk about brown nosed arrogance
erronis
(15,470 posts)it seems like it was written by a publicist. Well, isn't that what Sachs is, mainly?
I'm too lazy to run through the revision history to find a bunch of cited links that were removed at some point. I'm sure there is a good way to dig more about this new-found wisdom that seems to be coming from a lot of former "conservative" pundits.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,501 posts)By removing any partisan hints from his bio, that's the best way to insure maximum book sales and attendance at his conferences.
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LisaM
(27,863 posts)He also engineered Bernie's train wreck of a Vatican trip.
Me.
(35,454 posts)and what was the thinking behind it as it never made sense to me.
OnDoutside
(19,987 posts)not fooled
(5,807 posts)Seeing this formerly anti-HRC guy come right out and basically humiliate himself by stating that Door #2 has turned out to be a disaster just shows how bad things are.
Of course, anyone who bothered to inform themselves about donnie's chaotic, racist, failure-ridden and criminal history would have known how all this would turn out. Like the majority who voted for HRC.
Quixote1818
(29,025 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)leaves us with pence. trump may be a moron, but pence is calculating and manipulative.
OnDoutside
(19,987 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,027 posts)But you must have known that. I knew that and I dont have a degree in economics