US has never had an intellectually challenged president as we have today: Analyst

The United States has never had such an incompetent and “intellectually challenged president as we have today,” according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist. 

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday after President Donald Trump compared his impeachment to being killed by a lynching mob without a proper trial. 

Trump faces an impeachment inquiry in the wake of a recent whistleblower complaint alleging that he asked Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

"So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights," Trump wrote in a Tuesday tweet. "All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching. But we will WIN!"

Hoenig said, “A long time ago Clarence Thomas called his accountability hearing before Congress as he was being confirmed for the Supreme Court a ‘high tech lynching’. Brett Kavanaugh must have had similar feelings when he was being held to account for his alleged raping and harassment of women. Now President Trump is using that word, lynching, to describe the impeachment hearings directed at him. What’s with these Republicans that feel that being held to account for misdeeds is akin to the murder and humiliation of black Americans?”

“Trump does not have a clue what the Constitution requires of Congress when the president is accused, or suspected, of high crimes and misdemeanors. Even though everything the Democrats are doing is ‘by the book’, Trump sees it as a lawless effort to undo his election in 2016. He has felt since the beginning that his victory was likely the most magnificent win any president could have experienced. His use of hyperbole, which lynching is such an example, ironically minimizes nearly everything he does,” he stated.

“And of course it is incredibly offensive, to black Americans, all people with a conscience, and to those who believe in the rule of law. An impeachment is a very serious moment in our country’s history. For the first 199 years we’ve only had one president impeached. Since 1974 we have been through, and going through, three presidents. One was successfully impeached, the other resigned before, and now the process is ongoing,” he noted.

“Trump also believes that this is happening only because, in his mind, the Democrats are going to lose the 2020 election to him and this is their way of removing an obstacle to the White House, being himself,” he said.

“The US has never had such an incompetent, oafish, intellectually challenged president as we have today. Soon enough, even his supporters will be forced to see how dangerous he is to our republic. Not all of his supporters will abandoned this sinking ship, but eventually more and more members of his party in Congress will be looking out for their own best interests, and hopefully the interests of the nation,” he concluded.

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