Former President Donald Trump has claimed executive privilege to keep some of his advisors from testifying about his involvement in the January 6 insurrection. Trump is going to try that same tactic to keep former Vice-President Mike Pence from testifying before the Committee or the FBI. If Trump is innocent of any wrong doing then why is he trying to keep people from talking about it?

            If a President stabs someone in the back in the Oval Office and has the Secret Service dispose of the body while his advisors watched should the crime be hidden as in some Hollywood movie? Of course not, because murder is a crime and not something involving foreign or domestic policy. What does either of those reasons have to do with a President committing a crime – like trying to overthrow the government?

            I think when a President commits a crime the rest of America would go to jail for, the President should too. Is trying to overthrow our Constitution and Government any lesser crime? What is Trump so concerned about if he had nothing to do with incitement to riot or the planning and coordination of the insurrection?

            Maybe it is because he allowed it to continue until he was told Vice-President Pence and the other Senators had escaped the mob. President Nixon said “The people need to know their President isn’t a crook” and we need to know how involved President Trump was with the insurrection and other questions, don’t we?

            One of Donald Trump’s most famous and truthful comments was made a few years ago. He said “Anyone who takes the Fifth Amendment is a crook.” When he was interviewed in late August he took the fifth over four hundred times. In his own words, he is a crook.

            His financial guru has been convicted. The guru originally said he wouldn’t testify against anyone. However, to prevent being in prison for the rest of his life he is going to throw two of the Trump kids and perhaps Trump himself under the bus.

            We have all heard Trump call to the Georgia Attorney General asking him to manufacture votes. Many of his sycophants are being questioned about his effort to discredit the election and Georgia Officials.

            His financial lies in New York City and State have put him in court for a civil liability for hundreds of millions in penalties which will put him into criminal court with the State’s Attorney General. E-mails have put his attorneys on trying to change the vote in Georgia in legal jeopardy because they knew he had lost the election.

            Trump’s stealing of records and his attempts to cover it up only placed him in greater legal jeopardy with the FBI. Now the government believes he still has papers that had been in those empty folders shown on TV repeatedly. As of the sixth of October, the FBI believes through an informant more papers are in his New Jersey Mansion.

            He has so many legal problems; the question is which criminal act will put him in court first?

            Over sixty percent of Republicans say they would still vote for Donald Trump if he was indicted for crimes. What has the Republican Party come to if they would like to have a criminal as their President? When he said he could kill somebody in the middle of New York City and still be elected, he and sixty percent of his adopted party are right.

            He has always had a hugely inflated ego. He had lied, conned, and stole for most of his life. When he is committing a crime he puts people in front of him so they are the ones who take the fall. The latest example is having the lawyers sign a legal document stating he no longer had any stolen secret documents. That put the lawyers in jeopardy and not him. Remember, he has a habit of throwing his sycophants under the bus.

            Since being President he started a media company to promote himself, which is making money from the people he conned into investing in it. Now he is negotiating to sell his interest making him alone money.

            Trump’s only thought with any of his endeavors is himself? Why can’t people see his next home should be in a prison and not the White House? What the Republican Party needs is another John McCain and not his former buddy Lindsey Graham.

            Remember the Trump School that swindled hundreds of gullible people? He got to keep some of the money and avoided prison.

            P.T. Barnum is credited with saying “You can fool some of the people all the time, most of the people some of the time and all of the people none of the time.” Until recently Barnum was America’s most famous huckster. Many minor hucksters’ have come and gone. Today the internet is full of hucksters!          

Alex Jones and his info wars have been conning people for a few years while getting his followers to fill his wheelbarrows with money. The lawsuits against him for his lies about the New Town School Shooting have exposed how he fooled some of the people all of the time. The closed primaries show that far right people have fooled enough voters with outright lies they were nominated. Now they have to try to fool most of the voters in a general election.

Sooner or later even the best hucksters have been exposed because the con cannot go on forever. Just like the emperor who was found to have no clothes. Once the façade cracks it shatters quickly. The façade of former President Donald Trump has shattered! The nation’s biggest huckster is being attacked on many different sides which will cause more cracks to happen. He has always stretched out his legal problems until the person or group suing him give up and quit. This time he has no hope of that happening unless he is able to con enough people into putting him into the White House. Even then, his children and companies will have to face the music alone. If he didn’t die in office or is found guilty in an impeachment he will be faced with all the cases again in four years. The Great Huckster not only has no clothes, he is bleeding from a thousand axe chops.

            The Germans in the early 1930s didn’t see where their support of Adolf Hitler would take the world. Hitler said his role model was Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was totalitarian Leader of Italy.

            Why is this important today? Look at who Donald Trump was pals with when he was President and who he is with today. President Trump was pals with XI of China and Putin of Russia. Trump also supported Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and Viktor Orbán of Hungary. All are authoritarian leaders.

            Orban just laid out his plans on how he took control of his country to the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC). They applauded his plans which Trump said they could use here. Donald Trump was the one that got CPAC to invite him to speak. Orban packed his Supreme Court to allow him to take control by controlling who can vote and which votes are counted. His sexist and racist policies are the same ones Trump was starting to openly push in his last year. Some CPAC members are pushing schools to teach history and civics to their radical agendas. This is how the Hitler Youth was formed.

            Just as the Turks, Hungarians, Chinese, Russians, Indians and others have found after voting in their dictators, they have lost their Democracy. Now they and their close supporters have control of the media and the national law reinforcements to make sure opponents are jailed or “lost.” Why can’t millions of Americans see what Trump and CPAC have planned for America?

            What is going on with all the attacks on former President Donald Trump? He just spent six hours in a New York City Room saying he wouldn’t incriminate himself by answering questions. He was forced to do so after a judge directed him to do so. Trump appealed it to the New York District Appeals Court because he had appointed two of them. They agreed with the first judge. He has always said only criminals use the Fifth Amendment to avoid justice.

            The FBI raided his Mar-a-Logo home three days ago with a search warrant signed by another judge he appointed. The FBI Director who directed the work was also his appointee.

            The Republican Attorney General is directing a grand jury into Trump’s effort to overturn the Georgia election of 2020. They are calling many of Trump’s insiders and some Senators and Congressmen who tried to support Trump’s efforts to overturn the results.

            This has been widely reported for years by those present. The former President asked those present why his Generals weren’t as loyal to him as Hitler’s Generals were to him. One person responded by reminding him Hitler’s Generals tried to kill Hitler three times. Trump responded by saying that never happened.

            When reality starts to close in people like Hitler decide to take their own country down with them.

            During Donald Trump’s last year as President, he sent representatives to several states asking if they would put his likeness on a mountain. His first choice was Mount Rushmore since it is a National Park and he had appointed the Interior Secretary. He though that would be enough. It wasn’t! His next choice was Stone Mountain in Georgia. He thought he had been racist enough to be up there with the Confederate Generals. Apparently not enough, because they also declined.

            Then being an extremely deep thinker he saw he had a golf course in Florida. So his team is looking for a suitable location to get his likeness on a prominent mountain. He thinks it should be at least the scale of crazy horse to match his importance. Not having a flair for geography of Florida, or anywhere else he seems unaware that the highest point in Florida is only 345 feet above sea level.

            My last trip to Florida was shortly after Hurricane Andrew. Andrew had devastated the area West of Miami. The debris had been piled in long ridges about 200 to 300 feet high that could be seen for miles. Assuming they are still there, I think I would contribute to have his face put on that waste heap.

            Why was former President Donald Trump’s taking of all those secret documents from the White House so egregious? Some of those documents are so secret that less than one hundred people even know what information is on the sensitive ones. Of course that was before Trump would show them to friends and visitors at parties and meetings.

            The following is the chain of events: Trump’s people included many files of confidential documents in the personal boxes to be moved to Mar-a-Lago. Whether the National Archives found some listing or was told by people who knew he had stolen them necessitating contact with his lawyers. Some documents were turned over. The National Archives were told by someone that more existed. Another meeting got more boxes and signed assurances no more existed. They were then told many more existed so the FBI obtained a search warrant and recovered the rest. Trump now wants to know who in his entourage the leak is.

            Before condemning the Justice Department remember a Chinese spy was caught trying to enter Mar-a-Lago last year. How did she know something was there? Was she the first spy to attempt or was she the first to get caught? How many other people from other countries haven’t succeeded or DID and we don’t know? Those documents, especially the nuclear ones, are worth millions which means international gangs might sell the pictures of those unguarded documents. Of course Trump had been showing them to many people for his ego but there are many financial possibilities for him to use them.

            We have locked many people up for doing less with documents of less importance. As the Attorney General said “No one is above the law.”