The FBI and NSA have said Russia interfered in the 2016 Presidential election in favor of Trump. The same with the 2020. They didn’t do anything with the votes – at least that’s what the FEDs say – directly but they put out thousands of pieces of misinformation disparaging Trump’s opponents. When Trump’s appointees say it was Russia, why does he continue to deny it?

            The Solar Wind cyber intrusion was done by Russia according to all the letter agencies here and in Europe. Why does Trump continue to deny Russia’s involvement? He says China, Iran, or North Korea did it. Why not the truth?

            Why did Trump meet in the White House with two top Russian diplomats with nobody on our side except an interpreter whose notes were destroyed? Only later the interpreter wrote down what she could remember and then got them approved by Trump. Why the secrecy when he meets with Russians and has the room full of people when meeting with others?

            What do they know that has Trump protecting them when they get caught doing something against our country? Is his job to divide our country and destroy our Democracy? If you haven’t wondered then you are one of the grape Kool-Aid crowds.

            Donald J. Trump will go down in history as a poor one-time President when he could have been remembered as a two-timer near the top of the second tier. Why? The lack of management and leadership during the pandemic causing hundreds of thousands of deaths that could have been avoided. In spite of a need to coordinate the response among states by purchasing and distributing personal protective equipment; at first he said he would, then changed his mind, then he would, and finally cast the states against each other.

            He belittled his scientific experts at the daily briefings and made extremely stupid suggestions about how to keep from getting it and how to kill it if they got it. He put a Fox talking head with had no expertise in virus to head the scientists. His example of not wearing a mask caused millions to emulate him causing tens of thousands of them and their families to die.

            Instead of a few thousand dead we have a quarter of the world’s deaths with only 4% of its population. Other leaders which followed his example have met with the same results. Brazil’s leader followed Trump’s example and Brazil is now second in deaths per 100,000.

            Proper leadership as in Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan and Australia are examples of how Trump should have led in the controlling of the pandemic. He claims his people got the vaccine out at Warp speed but many of “His” vaccines are from foreign companies. His efforts in distributing vaccines has been scattered and behind other countries. Those countries with national health services have tested more and faster, secured more vaccines per capita, and have injected it into more people than we have.

            We can only hope Biden’s experienced people will save hundreds of thousands of us from choking to death and long term disabilities.

           Why does Donald J. Trump want so much to stay President of the United States since he has spent so little time working on doing the job? Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution prohibits civil and state laws from applying to a sitting President. On January 21, 2021, he could be hit with subpoenas concerning at least two civil suits and several state crimes for income tax evasion, fraud, perjury, and other crimes he has been avoiding for years.

            Ivanka has already been before a grand jury involving an emoluments type crime and diversion of campaign funds regarding Trump’s D.C. Hotel. He has talked to staff members about pardoning himself and his family. Pardons would protect them from any violation of Federal crimes but not civil and state offenses.

            He had planned to live at his Mar-a-Lago Resort but he had signed an agreement limiting his time there to a few days per year. While the President’s area residents could only complain, now their suit can go forward preventing him from living there. That means Donald and Melania Trump’s votes may have been voting fraud since the club can not be his legal address.

            Since New York City and State want to be first in line, the Trumps will not be staying in their New York Hotel. Since most of Europe, in particular Scotland, will not welcome him, maybe his close connection to Netanyahu – oops, he is trying to stay in power because he has prosecutors waiting for him to leave office, too. Maybe an Arab country without extradition to the United States will be his new home.

            The last five years has been nothing more than a huge con to protect Donald Trump, to a lesser extent, his offspring, and money. Being President enabled him to divert IRS and FBI attention away from him and his activities. The constitution kept New York and other states from indicting him.

                Ivanka Trump has just been questioned in moving money from the campaign to their Washington, D. C. hotel by greatly increasing the price of Trump events at the hotel. That diversion of funds is illegal!

                Trump, Jr. wrote a best seller which surprised people who know him. Even with a ghost writer it allowed the campaign to buy tens of thousands of Junior’s books putting campaign money into Junior’s pocket. That’s illegal, too.

                Why was more money so important to the campaign in the last few months before the election? The family and friends listed as campaign people blew through $800 million on plush resorts, fancy cars, meals, and other luxury expenses having no connection to the campaign. Much of the money was spent at Trump properties. That’s illegal, too.

                The current grift is the fundraising to fight voting fraud. So far they have conned over $2,700 million from his gullible followers. Someone donating money must spend over $5,000 before any money goes toward that baseless effort. Guess where the first $5,000 from each person goes! Now that con IS legal, since you are told!                

Even after he pardons himself and his family for all the Federal offenses, they can still be indicted under the state laws of New York and Florida. High priced lawyers will try to postpone trials and jail time.

            Aside from Trump being a narcissistic, megalomaniac, sociopath, why is he conning his base into giving him money for a legal battle to stay in office? His deceived and gullible base has donated over $200 Million to that deception. Unless they read the fine print, the first $5,000 goes to his campaign to be used to pay off his former campaign debt, and for him and his family to take trips around this country and maybe others under a guise of a campaign expense. Much of the donated money from the last campaign was wasted on buying, not leasing, expensive cars, penthouses, and thousand dollar dinners.

                As sneaky as that sounds, the real reason is prison sentences for the rest of his life. He might try to throw his kids under the bus, but his signature is on the documents that New York is using to build their case. He can pardon himself (legally questionable), or resign and hope Pence will pardon him like Ford did Nixon. That would create another problem for him. He could only be pardoned from Federal prosecution, not state. When called by the state to testify about broken state laws he would either risk jail by refusing to testify, explain the reason for the pardoning of crimes committed, or face an obstruction of justice sentence (5th amendment can’t be used, as he is pardoned from Federal Crimes committed before the pardon).

                The sentences could be years in a white collar prison and tens of hundreds of millions in fines and penalties. His adult sons and daughters along with some of their friends and employees could go to jail also. He is petrified of January 21, 2021 and the probability of a handful of subpoenas.

            We have been told President Donald Trump will pardon two turkeys in the usual White House Ceremony. Presidents used to pardon one and eat the other but it was upped to both by a recent President.

            With less than sixty days left before being dragged out of the White House kicking and screaming, President Trump will use his pardoning powers to protect many of his advisors and henchmen who have remained loyal to him. AG Barr has kept the FBI from investigating and arresting them. Rudy Giuliani has been warned several times he is working with Russian agents and it’s illegal to do so. Of course the most important one, insiders have said, is income tax fraud and perjury. The question his lawyers are considering is whether he can pardon himself under a blanket pardon or if each crime must be specified. Of course the biggest question is can he pardon himself or must he resign so Vice President Pence can do it.

            Shortly, a whole flock of turkeys will be pardoned for being loyal. However, many of Trump’s federal crimes are also state crimes which he can’t be pardoned for by himself or Pence. Insiders say he can see state police at the White house gates on January 19, 2021.

            The next 69 days will be very interesting in one regard. Who will President Trump pardon for federal crimes committed? The first question is whether he will do something no other President has ever done and pardon himself. Of course he could pull a Nixon and let V-P Pence pardon him by resigning. Trump’s problem isn’t just Federal crimes but multiple states are after him for several crimes and those can only be pardoned by the same governors he ridiculed for years.

            Another would be Rudy Giuliani who has been working with at least one Russian agent. Rudy has been warned several times he is conspiring with a spy against the United States. Because he is Trump’s buddy, the FBI can’t arrest him. January 21 may be his last day of flaunting his importance and protection.

            Some of his secretaries who have stayed rather than quit when ordered to break rules and regulations at his demand, may find themselves on the wrong end of the laws they were supposed to enforce.

            Some of his family continues to commit federal and state crimes in their businesses. We are just now finding out he has been committing perjury and fraud for years. By bluffing and suing people, he has managed to get away with it. Now the curtains have been pulled back and the emperor as no clothes. How many of his family and others will be in a holding cell with him.

            He has been making friends with leaders of countries that we don’t have extradition treaties. Who will be pardoned, arrested or leave the country? Makes the news for the next 69 days of great interest… much more than the depressing Covid 19 death toll he denies.

            I think any of you will find this interesting. Trump has touted his success of stopping the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs. At the end of 2019 we had 164,000 less manufacturing jobs than the end of 2016. Apparently a company must apply to the Commerce Department for permission. Crazy, huh?

            One of the companies applying to move production to Mexico and Canada is injection molder International Automotive Components (IAC). Apparently they had to request to close their plants in Ohio, Kentucky Tennessee and Michigan. They were quickly approved allowing the last of the people to be laid off.

            The most interesting fact: IAC is now owned by a hedge fund. It changed its name from W. L. Ross and Company. They are maximizing profits by closing plants here and moving the production to other countries. This and most hedge funds do what they can to cut costs, sell off parts, or temporarily max revenue before taking it public. Hasn’t gotten interesting yet? How about the fact the majority investor is the current Secretary of Commerce Wilber Ross, the person who approves the loss of American jobs! Drain the Swamp? Ha, Ha!

            Remember the notorious TicTok social media company that the President said was a Chinese espionage threat? He said he would close it down in the United States if it wasn’t sold and if it was, the government would get a commission.

            So what happened to the great TikTok threat? It is owned by Chinese citizen Zhang Yiming. He has sold 20% of it to Wal-Mart and Oracle. The owners of both companies are heavy supporters of Trump’s campaigns. The “Potential” for espionage is going to be increased when their websites and activities are blended into TikTok, not reduced. The Chinese government has said they like the deal.

            Was it a financial drain to Wal-Mart and Oracle to come to Trump’s aide? Absolutely not since TikTok will go public next year and double or triple their investment! It’s always good to have a President pick his friends to get even richer. Do Larry Ellison and the Walton family really need a few billion more? Wasn’t that tax cut for him and them enough?

            With the Chinese, Ellison, the Walton’s, and Trump happy, the fear of spying has disappeared. Even Trump’s easily deceived base didn’t get as excited as he hoped. Was it a con on all of us from the start or just another of Trump’s fantasies?