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Interesting Question

27 Sunday Aug 2023

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        A talking head on CNN made an interesting comment about justice. He said “Let’s face it; we aren’t going to put a former president in jail”. It presents an interesting question about security and pension.

            At what point do we stop treating a former president as some kind of untouchable King or Pope? Can they kill someone without consequences? Some misdemeanors carry a 20-year sentence. Former President Donald Trump is accused of committing a crime in Georgia. If he is found guilty what will the judge do? Does house arrest at one of his luxurious properties seem fair to the millions having served behind bars or white collar resort prisons? Would his secret service agents be involved? These questions need to be answered in the next few months. Who will make that decision?

            Another question is whether a former President who commits a crime should receive the $230,000 dollar pension, unlimited healthcare, round-the-clock security involving agents, buildings, hotels, travel, and other costs? Many Representatives and Senators have lost their pensions for some criminal activity.

            Congress should establish some limits on pensions, security, and justice. Would the criminal activity apply only to federal crimes and could state crimes like Georgia’s charges be included?

            Interesting questions and the Constitution prevents any ex-post facto laws so Trump might not be included. Some rules or laws need to be decided upon and planned for the future. The sooner the better. We all agree with Trump saying, “No one is above the law.”

I Am Confused Too

05 Saturday Aug 2023

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        A great saying that is applicable to many situations is “If you aren’t confused then you aren’t paying attention.” I have been paying attention and I am greatly confused.

            Former President Donald Trump has stated many times that “Nobody is above the law” so why does he keep saying he shouldn’t be on trial because he is campaigning?  Six or seven years ago he said “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters.” After both of those statements why does he not want trials to free himself?

            Twice he has said he wants a quick trial so he can campaign. Of course, the longer he is indicted or in a trial, the more money the duped supporters will send him. Another charge which those donations will create is using that campaign money to pay his attorneys. Those attorneys are doing everything they can to delay all the legal proceedings into next year or later.

            His attorneys say he is in trouble because his previous attorneys told him he had won and needed to do everything he could to prove it. He believed them which got him into doing wrong. Trump’s history with lawyers goes back to around forty years. Delay, delay, delay was his first direction and taking their advice was seldom, if ever, taken. Maybe that’s why they have trouble getting paid for their time. His current ones are getting paid up front! He says one thing and tells his attorneys to do differently while conning millions of his followers to give him money!

            I am really confused because I pay attention to what Trump and his lawyers say. When the evidence is overwhelming, the defense is always to delay as long as possible.

Nobody is above the Law

23 Sunday Apr 2023

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        The media keeps talking about Former President Trump’s payment of $130,000 for a tryst with a porn star when that in itself is probably legal. The cover-up was illegal as former President Richard Nixon often said.

            This cover-up involved having his lawyer negotiate the payment, pay it, and then reimburse the lawyer claiming it as a business expense. That is among other rules, regulations, and laws illegal. One report said he paid the reimbursement with several checks making each a count of breaking the law. That is over thirty felonies.

            The New York City indictment pales to his pressuring of the Georgia Attorney General to “Find” enough votes to give him Georgia. In his own words he kept pressuring after the A.G. said he couldn’t do it. That broke so many laws and after the Grand Jury has given its approval to go forward, Trump’s attorneys are just waiting for the boot to fall.

            Other possible cases are the tax frauds in many states concerning the real estate taxes on his buildings. In addition to those frauds are the over evaluations of those properties when getting loans against his supposed equity. Each of those instances is fraud.

            After hanging many of his lawyers out to dry by blaming them for his legal problems or not paying his bills, many offices have declined to represent him. He has to hire second tier offices that require sizeable up-front payments.

            Donald Trump’s own words betray him as he often spoke off script. He also said many times “No person is above the laws.” Neither should a crooked former President!

12 Monday Dec 2022

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Third Party

        He was elected President once and felt his successor had damaged everything he had done as President. He missed being in the White House so he ran again. His party did not want him so he started, with the support of millions, his own party. He got almost one-third of the vote ensuring no party got half the vote. His new party got more votes than his old party and together both parties got more than the winning party.

            Of course the former President was Theodore Roosevelt and his party was the Bull Moose which rapidly died after he left politics. His attempt allowed President William Howard Taft to be easily defeated and put President Woodrow Wilson in the White House.

            Today we have a similar situation with former President Donald Trump wanting to be President again. Millions of people would like for that to happen again but millions more Republicans want someone else. Trump did not use much of his own money in 2022 election for his handpicked candidates.

            The question is will his ego cause him to start his own party to assuage his ego destroying the Republican Party for a few cycles?

            Theodore Roosevelt is rated as the fourth in leadership behind Presidents Lincoln, Washington, and Franklin Roosevelt. Trump is currently ranked fifth from the bottom. Will he just fade away for the good of the Republican Party and the country on his own or will it be while in jail?

Executive Privilege

12 Monday Dec 2022

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        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?

Abetting A Criminal

31 Monday Oct 2022

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            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?

Why Support a Criminal?

15 Saturday Oct 2022

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            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.

Fooling Some

27 Tuesday Sep 2022

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            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.

CPAC Plans

18 Sunday Sep 2022

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            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?

No Loyalty

09 Friday Sep 2022

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            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.

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