I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016, I didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton either, I refuse to pick the lesser of two evils, so I wrote in a candidate. When Donald Trump won, I didn’t wish him ill-will or bad luck, I believe it’s foolish to wish that on any President, but I did state that I thought this presidency would end in disaster and BOOM, here we are, January 7, 2021, a day after one of the worst days in American history.
As I watched yesterday’s events, I was reminded of a book and several articles I read by a reporter named Wayne Barrett. Mr. Barrett was the first investigative reporter to investigate the whole Trump world back in the 70’s and 80’s. His work led to a grand jury indictment of Donald Trump and his father. One of the things he talks about when it comes to Donald Trump is that everything Trump does, every relationship he has, has a transaction tied to it. Trump doesn’t understand doing anything just to be nice, he doesn’t understand kindness and he certainly doesn’t understand patriotism, this should have been clear to folks when he bad-mouthed veterans past and present.
My blood boiled yesterday, the President of the United States incites a riot and an insurrection and a physical assault on the US Capitol and then just sits back and watches the show. While Congress was trying to fulfill their Constitutional duty and affirm the Electoral College vote, Trump is spouting more lies about massive voter fraud and stolen elections that have been disproved by every court in the land. As far as I’m concerned, the President, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Jim Jordan should be in handcuffs today for their acts of sedition but more important, the blood that was spilled yesterday is on all their hands!
Since the election, I’ve had my patriotism questioned, been called un-American, been ask “how can I be a veteran and not support Donald Trump” and been mocked for voting for Joe Biden and I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! To all you MAGA morons and Trump enablers here is my response to you:
He has insulted and alienated the nation’s friends and allies, rendering the democratic world leaderless.
He flirted with repudiating NATO, a mutual defense commitment that has kept the planet free from worldwide war and destruction since the end of World War II, and has done so at a time when Russia has exhibited increasing aggression by occupying territory of neighboring Ukraine, interfering in elections in the United States and Europe, and sending assassins to Britain to poison a former Russian spy.
He has rejected the honorable American presidential tradition of seeking unity and instead has indulged in the politics of division, willfully alienating a large segment of the American electorate while among his own supporters drumming up hatred for and suspicion of others.
He has transformed the White House, which should promote policies based on reality, into the world capital of ignorance, dishonesty and misinformation by reciting verifiable falsehoods, from the size of his inauguration crowd to the direction of a hurricane to the (disproven) prevalence of election fraud.
He has made light of verified Russian assaults on U.S. elections, and at his notorious and shameful Helsinki news conference last year said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own nation’s intelligence agencies. He failed to elicit from the Russian leader an apology for past intervention or a promise not to intervene in other elections. In so doing, he invited further, more comprehensive attacks — and failed in the most basic duty of any U.S. president, which is to protect and defend the United States.
He has demeaned the presidency with foul, angry language hurled at his political adversaries, replacing fireside chats and presidential addresses with cable-TV-fueled, stream-of-consciousness tweets that attack his critics and stoke fear and outrage in his supporters.
He has sullied the office of the presidency by using it to express his personal contempt for people he does not like or who do not support him. The most egregious example may be his treatment of Sen. John McCain, a much-decorated former Vietnam War prisoner whose honor Trump questioned even after McCain’s passing.
Eight heroes stepped forward to testify under oath that the President tried to strong arm a foreign leader to gain dirt on a political opponent. Statesmen, diplomats and a purple heart winner stood up, raised their right hand and testified, all heroes, but not in Trump world. Heroes in his orbit are Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn to name a few, all convicted felons but praised by this moronic President!
In closing, let me just say, I never judge folks by their political affiliation but I’m making an exception here. You MAGA and Trump enablers, feel free to unfriend me, not talk to me or acknowledge me but I will not stand by and allow this president or followers to destroy the country I defended for so long!