A quote from Adam Schiff that is a great assessment of Trump:

[raccoon]

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“Truth matters little to him,
What’s right matters even less,
And decency matters not at all.“

He said this at the close of Trump’s first impeachment trial.

[rainy]

1. The entire speech is called "Midnight in Washington."

It’s worth watching the whole thing. One great speech given during the first impeachment hearing. Here’s an ad based on the speech:

[PatSeg]

10. Such an eloquent speech

and it was used perfectly in that ad.

[Botany]

2. I think this was at the close of the 1st impeachment trial in front of the US Senate and in front

of both the House and Senate despite Mitch McConnell's hamstringing the introduction of
clear evidence of TFG's crimes it was laid out that Trump tried to blackmail and extort
Zelenskyy to produce phony evidence that Joe Biden and his son had committed some kind
of crime and in doing so Trump was helping Putin in his war on the people of Ukraine. And
every single republican in the House and Senate voted to let Trump get away with his shit.

And now despite the ass kicking the GOP took at the polls last November the republicans who
through nothing more then bald faced cheating (gerrymandering and SCOTUS' rulings that let
the gerrymandering stand) are going to rake over the House and try to run a "shit show."

“Truth matters little to THE GOP*,
What’s right matters even less,
And decency matters not at all.“

* BTW one of the best men I have ever known was Ray Shafer Governor of PA and a Republican too.

We need Trump's phone call to Zelenskyy and the full Mueller Report released.

[vlyons]

9. They have no shame

They have no shame, but rather a sense of entitlement.
They have no honor, but rather glee that they got away with something.
They have no sense of decency, but rather an unquenchable desire for more and more money and power.

How does someone live with himself without shame, honor, and decency? To them honor and shame are for suckers.

[raccoon]

11. I stand corrected, thanks to you and others.

[Botany]

12. DU is a wonderful community and i welcome everytime some DUer finds a mistake in my posts

raccoon

[Pachamama]

3. It was actually at the end of the 1st impeachment trial - and sadly the Senate GOP didn't listen to

….the warning and convict him.

And we all have seen what happened since….

[Botany]

4. And here was Mitch after he blocked the senate from seeing the evidence of Trump's crimes

Mitch has known that Trump was "Russian Dirty" since 2015 or 2016.

[bdamomma]

17. Mitch is

"Russian Dirty" also.

[keithbvadu2]

19. Moscow Mitch... not one of his favorite names.

[Meadowoak]

27. looks like one of those post-mortem photos.

[bringthePaine]

5. a just and inspiring public servant! deepest thanks owed

[Javaman]

6. personally, I think tfg does care about the truth...that it doesn't get out. LOL nt

[nightwing1240]

7. Any time I heard the orange bugger call him "Shifty Schiff" I couldn't help laughing

and thinking to myself, that's because he has your number you moron!

Many many thanks for Congressman Schiff!

[keithbvadu2]

20. 'Presidential' Trump calls Congressman Adam Schiff "Little Adam Schitt"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181689164#post34

Adam Schiff on TFG's comments about him

'Presidential' Trump calls Congressman Adam Schiff "Little Adam Schitt"

[nightwing1240]

22. That one too

because as I had said, Congressman Schiff has Rumps number

[Stuart G]

8. K and R...Thanks for posting..The greateset quote about Donald Trump ever!! Repeat:

.....“Truth matters little to him,
What’s right matters even less,
And decency matters not at all.“

[Pepsidog]

13. That closing speech was amazing. Schiff is a natural-born trial attorney. Raskin too.

[rainy]

14. two of our greatest!

[peppertree]

15. To which Repugs basically said: 'Why do you think we love him in the first place!'

"Trump is us, personified!"

[bdamomma]

16. Schiff

is right on all his comments.

[lame54]

18. As a Haiku...

Truth matters little
And decency not at all
What's right matters less

[Higherarky]

29. +11

[republianmushroom]

21. Nailed it

[Evolve Dammit]

23. Excellent summation!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. Trump would gladly admit to all three of those charges, ...

... with a smile and a thumbs-up.

He has zero conscience, zero sense of shame. A complete sociopath. or psychopath I forget the difference.

[keithbvadu2]

26. We had a pretty good discussion on those.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213270897

They are relatively close.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. Thanks for the link. Based on that discussion, I'd say "psychopath". nt

[Genki Hikari]

34. Psychopaths are born

They have poor or no development in key parts of the brain that make them incapable of empathy. They exhibit anti-social behaviors from a very young age, such as extremely violent tantrums, or willfully hurting other children and animals, sometimes even adults. A young child who would physically attack a music teacher for correcting him, or who would throw rocks at a baby? That's a psychopath.

Sociopaths are made. These are people who aren't born with the brain development problems, but who grow up in violent/traumatic situations which curtail or destroy their ability to empathize. Think people who grow up in super-abusive homes, in bad neighborhoods with high levels of violence on a daily basis, or in war zones. Losing empathy is what they resort to not because they want to, necessarily, but as a survival mechanism.

Sociopaths also often know right from wrong, but usually won't care. Psychopaths neither know nor care.

This is a great resource for understanding the differences (video is longish, but quite informative):

[twodogsbarking]

25. And Trump is proud of it all. That is beyond demented.

[Fullduplexxx]

28. Randi plays that on commercial breaks

[Faux pas]

30. Nailed it!

[MustLoveBeagles]

31. K&R

:

[YoshidaYui]

32. nailed it.

[calimary]

35. Yep. Adam Schiff nailed. And poetically, too.