Daily Take: “Only My Own Morality”: Trump’s Chilling Confession Demands Impeachment
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This is not politics: it’s the rise of a strongman. And the Constitution has only one remedy…
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| 1:00.3 | Only my own morality. |
| 1:03.3 | Trump's chilling confession demands impeachment. |
| 1:07.9 | Democrats should be loudly calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump now, run on it in November, |
| 1:13.2 | and then when they take the House actually do it, because what he's doing right now is not norm-breaking or provocative rhetoric, |
| 1:20.2 | or even the oft-quoted Trump being Trump. It's the open assertion of unchecked power, |
| 1:26.6 | limited in his own words, only by his own personal morality. |
| 1:32.4 | Yesterday's shocking interview in the New York Times was decisive. |
| 1:35.8 | That isn't how a president speaks in a constitutional republic. |
| 1:39.5 | Instead, it's a classic example of how a strong man, a wannabe Mussolini or Putin, |
| 1:45.7 | speaks as he tries to reinvent his nation so the law becomes optional when it comes to him, his funkies, and his billionaire |
| 1:52.2 | buddies. When asked if there were any limits on his power, he told the Times reporters, |
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