It is not a pleasure for this blogger and author to write that President Donald Trump is a traitor to America, having worked with the Russians in 2016 to defeat Hillary Clinton, as made clear in the Mueller Report in 2019, and the Republican controlled Senate Intelligence Committee Report a month ago! So he is as much of a traitor, if not more, than Benedict Arnold during the American Revolution, and some are already calling him “Benedict Donald”!
But also, Donald Trump is a terrorist, inciting and promoting attacks by white nationalists and white supremacists, with such despicable followers of those philosophies murdering people in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Portland, Oregon just in the past few days, and Trump today defending the young man who came across state lines, driven by his mother, and killing two and wounding one in Kenosha!
Trump is attempting to promote a racial war, and caravans of white power people, young toughs who see Trump as their leader, have been looking for trouble and violence, ironically, recently, in mostly white cities (Portland, Seattle, Kenosha) where most demonstrators for Black Lives Matter are WHITES, with some now becoming victims!
Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Joe Biden is promoting reconciliation, and blaming Trump rightfully for claiming that only he, Trump, can overcome so called racial violence and crime, when it has been incited by his supporters going after those who protest police brutality, with most victims being whites!
Black Lives Matter protesters do not bring firearms to their demonstrations, only white supremacists and white vigilantes, encouraged by Trump.
Crime in America had reached a 50 year low before Trump took office, and much of that crime that has occurred now is due to these right wing hatemongers, as well as the human suffering going on in the midst of the Second Great Depression and CoronaVirus Pandemic, along with the growing level of police misconduct against African Americans.
It is amazing that the young man who murdered in Kenosha was not stopped by police for having a firearm being wielded by him, and try to imagine an African American man in the same circumstance!
Trump is sowing chaos in order to try to gain white suburbia and women by fear, but it will not succeed. He even tried to defend today the young man who killed two in Kenosha!
The time of George Wallace in 1968 is back, but it seems clear that Joe Biden will overcome the hate and the chaos, and is still far ahead in public opinion polls, even after the Republican National Convention.
Donald Trump will have to be held to account once he leaves office, as he is the most lawbreaking President in American history by far, much more than Richard Nixon, who looks by comparison to be a “choir boy”!
This is why it’s imperative to get rid of Trump. Vote Blue, y’all!
Why We Still Don’t Know If Trump Is a Russian Asset
The president shut down the counterintelligence investigation. That’s not how an innocent man behaves.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/31/why-we-still-dont-know-if-trump-is-a-russian-asset/
As chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam Schiff is attempting to meet the Supreme Court’s guidelines for gaining access to Donald Trump’s financial records. In a memorandum to committee members on counterintelligence risks posed by the president’s financial ties, he included this footnote:
[Based on the Committee’s review, it does not appear that Special Counsel Mueller issued any grand jury subpoenas to obtain the President’s financial records. The Committee also has reason to believe, based on its oversight work, that the FBI Counterintelligence Division has not investigated counterintelligence risks arising from President Trump’s foreign financial ties.]
That points to a question Schiff has been asking since the Mueller probe was completed in March, 2019. Here’s how he explained it to the Washington Post‘s Philip Bump a few weeks after Mueller wrapped up his work :
[Just as a reminder, this all began as an FBI counterintelligence investigation into whether people around then-candidate Trump were acting as witting or unwitting agents of a foreign power. So it began as a counterintelligence investigation, not as a criminal investigation. Now obviously a criminal case — many criminal cases — were spun off of this but we don’t know what happened to the counterintelligence investigation that James Comey opened.]
Schiff told Bump that once FBI Director James Comey was fired in May 2017, intelligence briefings on this matter ended and he had not been able to determine if the counterintelligence investigation had been closed. Apparently it had, which is what Michael Schmidt just reported in the New York Times.
[The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia…
[L]aw enforcement officials never fully investigated Mr. Trump’s own relationship with Russia, even though some career F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them. Within days, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein curtailed the investigation without telling the bureau, all but ensuring it would go nowhere.]
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said that Rosenstein led him to believe that such a counterintelligence investigation would be handled by Mueller. But sources told Schmidt that “privately, Mr. Rosenstein instructed Mr. Mueller to conduct only a criminal investigation into whether anyone broke the law in connection with Russia’s 2016 election interference.†So when Mueller appeared before congress, he told them that a counterintelligence probe would be under the purview of the FBI.
This should raise even more flags about Rosenstein’s time as acting Attorney General. Not only did he facilitate the firing of James Comey, but it also appears that he did everything he could to ensure the short-circuiting of an investigation into Trump’s financial ties to Russia.
Just to review, it has been well documented that by the 1990s, Trump had run through his inheritance and, due to his business failures, U.S. banks refused to loan him any money. But then all of a sudden, the self-proclaimed “king of debt†went on a buying spree with cash. Both Don, Jr. and Eric made public statements that the Trump Organization was flush with capital from Russia. As Trump biographer, Gwenda Blair, put it: “Trump was on the Titanic heading down. Everyone’s drowning around him. … Suddenly he gets saved. It’s almost like a spaceship landed right next to where he was in the water.†Here’s why that is important:
[“Russian efforts either to recruit somebody as an asset or effectively coerce them into becoming an asset historically typically rely on compromise of either a financial nature or a sexual nature,†said David Kris, a former assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Or some other nature by which they can gain leverage. Either induce somebody voluntarily to cooperate or blackmail them.â€]
In addition to the above, we know that:
*The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election to support Trump.
*The president has not only refused to release his financial records, he has consistently lied about why he hasn’t done so.
*As a counterintelligence investigation was launched, the three FBI officials at the center of the probe—Comey, McCabe, and Strzok—were all fired and smeared.
*While in office, Trump has consistently supported Putin’s foreign policy goals.
All of that evidence demands a counterintelligence investigation into whether the president is acting as a Russian asset and poses threat to this country’s national security. But one way or another, he’s managed to shut down that possibility. That is not how an innocent man behaves.
People’s Indictment of Donald Trump, President of the United States
https://bluevirginia.us/2020/08/peoples-indictment-of-donald-trump-president-of-the-united-states
People’s Indictment of Donald Trump, President of the United States
“After more than 3 1/2 years in office, it is clear that Donald Trump has failed as president. It is equally clear that his continuance in office for another term as president would be disastrous for the United States. The American People here list Mr. Trump’s violations of public trust that disqualify him from continued service as president:
1. He has ordered that children be separated from their parents and kept in cages.
2. He has ordered armed, uniformed federal officers to attack peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights.
3. He has solicited foreign leaders to aid his reelection campaign, resulting in his being impeached by the House of Representatives.
4. He has endangered the lives of American soldiers by ignoring reports that a foreign power had offered bounties for their deaths.
5. He has threatened future generations by withdrawing from the international climate agreement.
6. He delayed – and bungled – dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in tens of thousands of avoidable American deaths.
7. He banned members of an entire major religious group – Muslims – from entering the United States.
8. He rolled back clean water and clean air standards, which will adversely affect the health of many Americans.
9. He is a chronic liar, constantly deceiving the American people.
10. He has carried out a sustained attack against the free press in this country, labeling journalists as “enemies of the people†and describing any reports critical of his actions as “fake news.â€
11. He has weakened long-standing alliances of the United States by treating leaders of our allies with contempt.
12. He courts the favor of tyrannical leaders of nations that threaten the security of the United States.
13-. He has tried to affect the outcome of this year’s election by blocking funding necessary for the U.S. Postal Service to process mail voting.
14. He has used the presidency to increase his personal wealth and that of his family.
15. He has promoted division among the American people.
16. He has encouraged his supporters to boycott an American manufacturer, which threatens the jobs of that company’s employees.
17. He has stated his intention to cut Social Security and Medicare if he is reelected.
18. He failed in his personal diplomacy with Kim Jung-on, resulting in North Korea continuing its development of weapons that threaten the security of the United States.
19. He withdrew the United States from the Iran non-proliferation treaty, giving Iran justification to engage in nuclear research and increase its fissionable material.
20. He has refused to release his tax returns, even going to court to block their release.
21. He allowed coal companies to dump toxic waste in streams, thus endangering the health of Americans.
22. He fired the head of the FBI in an attempt to end the investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
23. He shared classified information with Russian officials.
24. He gave verbal support to white supremacists marching at Charlottesville.
25. He opposes the removal of statues of Confederate officers and supports keeping U.S. Military bases named after them, despite the fact that they engaged in armed rebellion against the United States.
26. He ordered the end of the DACA program making those brought to the United States as children subject to deportation,
27. He withheld federal relief funding for Puerto Rico although it had suffered devastation from two hurricanes.
28. He has entered into tariff wars with China resulting in higher prices for American consumers and loss of markets for American farmers.
29. He publicly accepted Russian President Putin’s denial of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, despite the conclusion of United States intelligence agencies that Russia had, in fact, interfered.
30. He forced a costly government shutdown that lasted more than 30 days in an attempt to coerce the Congress into appropriating additional funds for his border wall.
31. He declared a national emergency along the country’s southern border to get more funding for his border wall than had been provided by the Congress.
32. He directed his subordinates not to cooperate with a lawful congressional investigation, again resulting in his impeachment.
33. He fired agency inspectors general and United States attorneys who were investigating wrongdoing by members of his Administration.
34. He has violated his constitutional mandate to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.â€
35. He deserted Kurdish fighters who had fought on the side of the United States against ISIS.
36. He disbanded a pandemic team formed in the Obama Administration, leaving the United States unprepared to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
37. He worked to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would have deprived millions of Americans with no health insurance.
38. He refuses to reject support from White Supremacists,
39. He has demonstrated disrespect for women, especially women of color.
40. He has failed to act on reports that foreign countries are again interfering in our national elections, thus refusing to protect American sovereignty.
41. He delayed implementing Congressionally mandated sanctions against Russia.
42. He refused to take action when a journalist working for the Washington Post was murdered at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey.
43. He perpetuates the conspiracy theory of the “deep state,†an unidentified cabal of federal officials and employees who supposedly control everything and block all his policies.
44. He has appointed people to high government posts whose only qualification was personal loyalty to him.
45. His lack of a cohesive foreign policy has resulted in the United States losing its traditional leadership role in the world.
46. He has attempted to corrupt the Civil Service, the Foreign Service and the military by insisting that its members be loyal to him rather than to the Constitution and laws of the United States.
47. During his presidency, the national debt has risen by $6.6 trillion, although he promised during the 2016 campaign to eliminate the national debt in eight years.
48. He accused a TV commentator who disagrees with him of murder.
49. He has refused to nominate people to vacancies on the Federal Election Commission so that the election watchdog lacks a quorum to meet.
50. He has debased the level of political debate in this country through disrespect and name-calling of those he opposes.
51. He gave support to the QAnon conspiracy movement, saying “Well I don’t know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much — which I appreciate, . . . I’ve heard these are people that love our country.â€
52. He has used campaign funds to enrich his businesses.
53. He pushed the passage of a tax law that cut taxes for corporations and the super wealthy at the cost of increased annual federal deficits.
54. He ordered that a tall fence be erected in front of the White House that keeps the public from seeing their executive mansion.
55. He has politicized the White House using it for the Republican National Convention.
56. His inflammatory speech and tweeting pushes people to violence.
57. He placed members of his family in high government positions in violation of anti-nepotism rules.
58. He intervened in the review process to get his son-in-law top secret security clearance over the objection of White House counsel.
We urge our fellow citizens to reject Mr. Trump’s request to be reelected to another term as president.“
Why Did Trump Suddenly Visit Walter Reed Medical Center Last November?
Mike Pence was readied to assume the powers of the presidency, but we still don’t know what was ailing Donald Trump.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2014/why-did-trump-suddenly-visit-walter-reed-medical-center-last-november/
Thanks for bringing that over, Former Republican. Perfect list of everything horrible Scrump has done to this country and why we need to get rid of him.
How Ratcliffe and Barr Are Aiding Trump’s Collusion with Putin
Senator Blumenthal has warned that Moscow’s current activities make 2016 look like child’s play.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/09/01/how-ratcliffe-and-barr-are-aiding-trumps-collusion-with-putin/
Trump’s Attack on Booker Would Be Laughable If it Wasn’t So Racist
The president has once again demonstrated that he judges people based on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/09/01/trumps-attack-on-booker-would-be-laughable-if-it-wasnt-so-racist/
Kanye West is on the ballot in Virginia. Numerous media reports have indicated that Republican operatives have helped West try to get on the ballot in other states. They’re obviously trying to take African American votes away from Biden. Folks, absolutely DO NOT throw a third party vote to Kanye.
Darn those ReThugliCONs and their dirty tricks!
This list of 25 impeachable offenses is a bit dated, but adds more examples of malfeasance to the list of horrible things Scrump has done.
https://rootsaction.org/trump-articles-of-impeachment
United States bows out of 170-nation vaccination plan because of Trump’s racism and tantrums
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/1/1974191/-USA-won-t-participate-in-worldwide-vaccine-hunt-because-Donald-Trump-is-a-whining-manbaby
This is why we all need to ensure that Crybaby Donnie he will no longer be President when the vaccine is actually ready for mass production and distribution.