Oops, that rang an ancient bell.
I'm 77 and have found I have trouble remembering stuff fro time to time.
Lately I've had a senior moment recalling the name of a grocery store I frequent and that it's fried oche that I like with a combo order at Church's Chicken.
If I had a brain, I'd be dangerous. So I think I'll be okay. Uh, did I just write "think?"

It was not hard to figure out that the stories about COVID were largely fraudulent because of the necessity for conformity on talking points. One key aspect of being president is preserving the first amendment. The freedoms of speech and assembly were lost in 2020, and it happened under Trump's watch. While I have voted for myself on multiple occasions, I voted for Rand Paul in the 2016 primary primarily because he is far closer to Objectivism than Trump will ever be. Trump has had his constitutional freedoms highly abridged, and I do praise him for his struggle against that.

Trump was listening to people besides Fauci, too. Some of them like Scott Atlas were right. What Trump didn't know was that Fauci and Luc Montagnier, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for medicine, had been arguing for over a decade.

Trump did fairly well given that the advisors he had, but it wasn't hard to figure out the Chinese and Fauci deceptions. Rand Paul figured it out almost as fast as I did.

Trump is NOT a medical professional

the POTUS needs to listen to what he is told and work with that
he is NOT God

he was given that millions would die
he acted on that

and he actions after, sending aid to New York shows what kind of person he is

Amen

we ain't dead yet

Yup. I'm pretty sure America is on the down-slope of History's roller-coaster of failed Nation States. Next stop - oblivion station.

Chuckle! Yes, and he would only have to clean up after himself. I suspect that most all of the "departments" could be eliminated. Or at least reduced to the maintenance guy.

Hear! Hear! I want the Department of Education to have a total of one employee! - the maintenance guy.

I see you have spotted a few of the culprits -- chuckle! There are MANY others. Just hazarding a guess -- almost ALL of currently "elected" officials and their appointees.
It would indeed apply to all of them. In fact I think that it must. I also think that it would naturally influence government bureaucracies to be kept as small as needed.

He and his son seem to be among the few in D.C. with any integrity.

Yes voluntarily giving up power seems to be a common problem among the elite: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Diane Feinstein, Mitch McConnel, and Joe Biden to name some. All past their prime and unwilling to acknowledge the obvious - their skills were diminished beyond usefulness.

Would your term limits apply to the 3,000,000 Federal Bureaucrats and employees also?

And unfortunately, John Galt is not on the ballot. We must play the cards we are dealt.

If I remember correctly, newbies can't vote up or down until they have received a certain number of up votes (100?).

Had to do the same thing yesterday for someone else for such a nonsensical demotion.
Anyone taking a look at this board can give points if memory serves old dino correctly before becoming a fully posting Gulcher 10-and-a-half years ago.
Can a newbie "-1" to a Gulcher? Don't think I even tried that way back when.

And Ron Paul is still a real gem! Indeed we could use a lot more like him.

As someone whose research is in tissue engineering, I knew about COVID before the rest of you because on Jan. 3, 2020, I saw Charles Lieber, the former chemistry department head at Harvard and inventor of both nanowires and nanowire-based virus detection (and later for SARS 1), being perp walked on the cover of the American Chemical Society's weekly magazine for having helped the Wuhan Institute of Virology start a virus detection capability. This means that Trump should have known by then not only about COVID but that Wuhan was doing research related to it. The arrest of Lieber made national news. Lieber is a prime example of a Dr. Stadler. I had been quoting him in my nanotechnology lecture for 20 years.

By very early April of 2020, I knew that it selectively targeted the ACE-2 receptor and that COVID was genetically modified to have more arginine amino acids and therefore be more likely to make COVID stick better to connective tissue. By then, I was selling an ultraviolet disinfection device. My company was promptly doxxed by search engines for promoting "disinformation". I was right, and the so-called experts were wrong. Although my wife, a nurse, caught COVID not long after that, I didn't catch it until after being forced to take a shot (not a vaccine) in July of 2020. I did not miss a day of my "day job" of being a professor during COVID, but got over it in two or three days not long before university re-started. There was plenty of evidence that Fauci and the Chinese were lying.

The only person in this forum that might know more about COVID is Abaco.

"Should this inability to give up power be considered a mental disorder?"
Since the word "inability" is used I think the answer must be "yes". It indicates that something fundamental is broken. It would literally force the "power wielder's" hand.
All government positions are susceptible to corruption because they necessarily involve the "use of power". Thus I believe term limits must be applied uniformly throughout government (perhaps a maximum of 8 years, like the president). Perhaps these might be a good starting point: 1) Once a government position has been held no further government position may be held, elected or otherwise. 2) Government lobbying is not permitted once a government position has been held. 3) Hired government positions are selected from a qualified candidate list by lot.

what would you have done??

you have been told millions could die if you do nothing

"For the same reason he never insults Bidens voters! Just my guess."

Probably so. There IS a line too far....but it seems only the good guys are willing to not cross it.

While Trump was a far better than average president, he isn't in the same class as George Washington. Trump's handling of COVID was very mixed, especially his listening to Fauci.

As with Nature, Power abhors a vacuum. None of the Above would be immediately seized by all sides as providing a rationale for the formation of their flavor of an Authoritarian State.

but if he had, it'd be immeasurably better than taking a shower with his own pre-teen daughter.

OUCH. Yeah, I think Trump would see that as "Staining her"... For the same reason he never insults Bidens voters! Just my guess.

But yes, I don't think the job is to answer the questions, because this whole "Accepting the outcome" question is a trick. HOW MANY Republicans SWORE they would support whoever one the Primary. And then DENOUNCED Trump. The IDIOT in OHIO comes to mind. My answer. Just tell them what they want to hear. In the end, an EXCEPTION is just that!

George is why I count DJT as only our second-best President.

I agree about the answers he gave, but I think that it's a mistake to believe that every question (as given by the moderators) has to be answered.

The point of the "debate" was to get out the things he (and Biden too, had Biden been sentient) wanted the American people to know, whether or not it answered a direct question by the moderating parties. Why? Because the questions they asked were nothing special, and that format could have been used (whether it was or not) to ask questions that were prejudicial. Actually I don't remember the questions other than the ones you mention.

I do think he missed a HUGE bet when accused of "having sex with a porn star," not mentioning that not only did he not have sex with a porn star, but if he had, it'd be immeasurably better than taking a shower with his own pre-teen daughter.