Some Trump supporters have accused Democrats of calling Donald Trump insensitive or evil.
Let’s consider the facts.
Trump is grossly insensitive and mean. No one can look at how Trump insulted and mocked a disabled journalist in 2015 — and Rep. John and Rep. Debbie Dingell this week — and call that behavior presidential without his or her nose growing like that of Pinnochio. There are also many other examples of Trump’s astoundingly insulting and insensitive behavior.
Trump owes money to some people, specifically people from whom he should not have borrowed money. Unfortunately, he borrowed money from these people because no legitimate US lending institutions and few international lenders — except for Deutsche Bank — would loan him or his businesses money, because he had a financial history of not repaying loans according to the terms under which they were made.
In addition, for years his company laundered money for people. Those creditors and money-laundering clients have an undue amount of power over him and his actions. This makes him unwise, desperate and subject to blackmail and coercion, but not necessarily evil.
Tax Cut
In 2017, Trump argued for and succeeded in getting the House and Senate to pass tax cut legislation that he and his GOP associates said would pay for itself but that won’t come close to doing that. In the last two years the federal budget deficit has exploded — something that should not happen in a time of relative economic prosperity.
Since the tax cut became law, it also has not resulted in annualized or even several quarters of economic growth of 3-4% that Trump promised it would. He is deeply ignorant on economic matters and many other topics, but no one has definitively answered the question of whether he is evil.
Ukraine
This year, he tried to bribe President Zelensky of Ukraine into saying, or more accurately, lying, on CNN that Ukrainian authorities had already or were going to launch an investigation into Hunter and Vice President Joseph Biden in order to receive $400 million in legislatively authorized foreign aid to Ukraine.
But in fact Trump didn’t care if an investigation occurred. He only wanted the Zelensky statement on CNN to create bad publicity for and raise doubts about Biden, Trump’s leading political opponent in the 2020 US election.
Trump released the funds the day after he realized that legislative authorities had been informed of his attempted bribery and were investigating withholding of the funds.
Unfortunately for him, the US Constitution specifically names bribery or attempted bribery as impeachable crimes. After resisting calls for his impeachment for more than a year over smaller matters, House leadership authorized an impeachment inquiry. They did this to gather and examine evidence that might create a case to draft articles of impeachment over the Ukrainian behavior. If the evidence warranted it, the House would vote on impeachment of Trump.
Impeachment
Trump demonstrated a complete lack of cooperation with the inquiry. He would not provide requested documents, testify or allow his associates to provide evidence he had done nothing impeachable.
Despite this, the inquiry yielded enough documentary evidence and first-hand witness testimony to lead the House to conclude that Trump committed impeachable offenses. (The House Judiciary Committee produced a 600+ page report of the evidence.) As a result of the inquiry, the House voted to impeach Trump on two Articles of Impeachment.
It is important to remember that the House impeached Trump after a majority of members spent months avoiding the start of an inquiry to examine evidence for impeachment.
The House and Senate would remove Trump from office were it not for a group of corrupt GOP senators. Those senators have said explicitly that they have no intention of examining evidence or conducting a fair and impartial trial.
The lack of a fair trial is the reason Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi has elected not to send the Articles of Impeachment to the US Senate at this time.
This is where Trump’s corruption has led the United States as of mid-late December 2019.
Is Trump insensitive or evil? Insensitive, definitely. Evil? Possibly — but the jury may never convene on that question.