>Name a president of the United States (or anywhere, why limit it?) and I'll provide you with a corruption scandal that either they were linked to or happened during their tenancy.
How about I throw it back at you and ask you to name a single former President who has been involved in as many deeply serious scandals as Trump?
Can you even identify any scandals involving a Democrat President that even begin to approach the seriousness of the Stormy Daniels affair, the Ukraine affair, his ties to Russia and the assistance his campaign received from Putin, or any of the literally hundreds of major acts of corruption that have taken place under his watch and often at his explicit direction?
Both sides are not the same. No President in history has ever been as openly and completely corrupt as Trump, no political party has ever demonstrated such contempt for the rule of law and the Constitution. This is not business as usual.
the Stormy Daniels affair isn't serious, but if it is, little is known about it. A lot more is know about the Monica Lewinsky affair - I think if the same thing happened in this era it would be treated differently, at the very least the power differential between a POTUS and his aide would might dispel the notion of a simple "affair". Bill still travels with Hillary, and does tours, shaking hands with the fans.
Trumps "ties to Russia" are unproven, resources where spent on investigating it but produced very little (I notice "assistance his campaign received from Putin" could describe both Russian election meddling, and collusion, but in the context of presidential corruption only collusion matters - which is unproven).
Using "seriousness" as a metric needs to be grounded by how proven an allegation is, or else the most extreme allegation automatically wins.
I'm undecided how important the Ukraine affair is. Dem rhetoric "asking a foreign power.." has to be balanced with my own reckoning of the seriousness of things, and I'm just as suspicious the lack of noise around Hunter Biden, or FBI bias which I feel is as important, but under-highlighted because the dems generally control the narrative.
> literally hundreds of major acts of corruption
> no political party has ever demonstrated such contempt for the rule of law and the Constitution
according to who? The press? People constantly fight over interpretations of the constitution, "contempt" always follows from "my particular interpretation [of the constitution]", and I see a lot of contempt of law on the dem side wrt rules considered "unjust" - Do Sanctuary cities follow rule of law?
Trying to twist legal definitions to force state consent for the Equal Rights Amendment (we can extend the time window to allow votes past the deadline, but you can't change your vote if the electorate no longer vote the same as they did in the original window).
Russian oligarchs are the only ones willing to front the money for Trump's projects because his credit is so bad. You think they aren't getting something in return?
> How about I throw it back at you and ask you to name a single former President who has been involved in as many deeply serious scandals as Trump?
Firstly, I would be cautious in an era of big government and vastly more media than previous governments in case of falling prey to the diagnosis fallacy. Regardless, yes, I could.
> Can you even identify any scandals involving a Democrat President that even begin to approach the seriousness of the Stormy Daniels affair, the Ukraine affair, his ties to Russia and the assistance his campaign received from Putin, or any of the literally hundreds of major acts of corruption that have taken place under his watch and often at his explicit direction?
That's easy, Bill Clinton.
> the Stormy Daniels affair
Monica Lewinsky, and that was a far bigger scandal
> the Ukraine affair
Operation Infinite Reach, a war crime if you ask me (and many others). Has Trump committed any war crimes? Bombed any pharmaceutical facilities that produce medicines for some of the most deprived and needy people on the planet?
> his ties to Russia
I can't believe people are still into this one, but lets go for White Water for that one.
> any of the literally hundreds of major acts of corruption
If we're going for rhetoric instead of anything substantial then Christopher Hitchens will always win, though this is one of his more mundane descriptions: "a crooked President and a corrupt and reactionary administration"
I'm old enough to remember before Trump, and I struggle to remember an American president who wasn't mired in scandal, but "Trump bad" must mean it was all nothing much.
How about I throw it back at you and ask you to name a single former President who has been involved in as many deeply serious scandals as Trump?
Can you even identify any scandals involving a Democrat President that even begin to approach the seriousness of the Stormy Daniels affair, the Ukraine affair, his ties to Russia and the assistance his campaign received from Putin, or any of the literally hundreds of major acts of corruption that have taken place under his watch and often at his explicit direction?
Both sides are not the same. No President in history has ever been as openly and completely corrupt as Trump, no political party has ever demonstrated such contempt for the rule of law and the Constitution. This is not business as usual.